Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play
| Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play | |
|---|---|
 2019 Recipient: Bryan Cranston for Network | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play |
| Location | New York City |
| Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
| Currently held by | Bryan Cranston for Network (2019) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality leading roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry, an American actress who died in 1946. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."[1] Despite the award first being presented in 1947, there were no nominees announced until 1956.
Winners and nominees[]
indicates the winner
1940s[]
Jose Ferrer in 1952
| Year | Actor | Role | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | |||
| 1947 (1st) |
Jose Ferrer | Cyrano De Bergerac | Cyrano de Bergerac |
| Fredric March | Clinton Jones | Years Ago | |
| 1948 (2nd) |
Henry Fonda | Lt. Roberts | Mister Roberts |
| Paul Kelly | Brigadier General K.C. Dennis | Command Decision | |
| Basil Rathbone | Dr. Austin Sloper | The Heiress | |
| 1949 (3rd) |
Rex Harrison | Henry VIII | Anne of the Thousand Days |
1950s[]
Sidney Blackmer won for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1950
Paul Muni won for Inherit the Wind (1956)
Fredrick March won for Long Day's Journey into Night in 1957
Jason Robards won for The Disenchanted (1959)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | |||
| 1950 4th Tony Awards | |||
| Sidney Blackmer | Doc | Come Back, Little Sheba | |
| 1951 (5th) | |||
| Claude Rains | Rubashov | Darkness at Noon | |
| 1952 (6th) | |||
| José Ferrer | Jim Downs | The Shrike | |
| 1953 (7th) | |||
| Tom Ewell | Richard Sherman | The Seven Year Itch | |
| 1954 (8th) | |||
| David Wayne | Sakini | The Teahouse of the August Moon | |
| 1955 (9th) | |||
| Alfred Lunt | Diensen | Quadrille | |
| 1956 (10th) | |||
| Paul Muni | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | |
| Ben Gazzara | Johnny Pope | A Hatful of Rain | |
| Boris Karloff | Pierre Cauchon | The Lark | |
| Michael Redgrave | Hector | Tiger at the Gates | |
| Edward G. Robinson | The Manufacturer | Middle of the Night | |
| 1957 (11th) | |||
| Fredric March | James Tyrone Sr. | Long Day's Journey into Night | |
| Maurice Evans | King Magnus | The Apple Cart | |
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | Jimmy Broadbent | The Reluctant Debutante | |
| Eric Portman | Mr. Malcolm / Major Pollock | Separate Tables | |
| Ralph Richardson | General St. Pé | The Waltz of the Toreadors | |
| Cyril Ritchard | Kreton | Visit to a Small Planet | |
| 1958 (12th) | |||
| Ralph Bellamy | Franklin D. Roosevelt | Sunrise at Campobello | |
| Richard Burton | Prince Albert | Time Remembered | |
| Hugh Griffith | W.O. Gant | Look Homeward, Angel | |
| Laurence Olivier | Archie | The Entertainer | |
| Anthony Perkins | Eugene Gant | Look Homeward, Angel | |
| Peter Ustinov | The General | Romanoff and Juliet | |
| Emlyn Williams | Himself | A Boy Growing Up | |
| 1959 (12th) | |||
| Jason Robards | Manley Halliday | The Disenchanted | |
| Cedric Hardwicke | Koichi Asano | A Majority of One | |
| Alfred Lunt | Anton Schill | The Visit | |
| Christopher Plummer | Nickles | J.B. | |
| Cyril Ritchard | Biddeford Poole | The Pleasure of His Company | |
| Robert Stephens | George Dillon | Epitaph for George Dillon | |
1960s[]
Zero Mostel won for Rhinoceros (1961)
Paul Scofield won for A Man for All Seasons (1963)
Alec Guinness won for Dylan (1964)
Walter Matthau won for The Odd Couple (1965)
James Earl Jones won for The Great White Hope (1969)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | ||||
| 1960 (14th) | ||||
| Melvyn Douglas | William Russell | The Best Man | ||
| Sidney Poitier | Walter Lee Younger | A Raisin in the Sun | ||
| Jason Robards | Julian Berniers | Toys in the Attic | ||
| George C. Scott | Lt. Col. N. P. Chipman | The Andersonville Trial | ||
| Lee Tracy | Arthur Hockstader | The Best Man | ||
| 1961 (15th) | ||||
| Zero Mostel | John | Rhinocéros | ||
| Hume Cronyn | Jimmie Luton | Big Fish, Little Fish | ||
| Anthony Quinn | Henry II | Becket | ||
| Sam Levene | Dr. Aldo Meyer | The Devil's Advocate | ||
| 1962 (16th) | ||||
| Paul Scofield | Sir Thomas More | A Man for All Seasons | ||
| Fredric March | Angel | Gideon | ||
| John Mills | Aircraftman Ross | Ross | ||
| Donald Pleasence | Davies | The Caretaker | ||
| 1963 (17th) | ||||
| Arthur Hill | George | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Charles Boyer | Lord Pengo | Lord Pengo | ||
| Paul Ford | Harry Lambert | Never Too Late | ||
| Bert Lahr | Various Characters | The Beauty Part | ||
| 1964 (18th) | ||||
| Alec Guinness | Dylan Thomas | Dylan | ||
| Richard Burton | Hamlet | Hamlet | ||
| Albert Finney | Martin Luther | Luther | ||
| Jason Robards | Quentin | After the Fall | ||
| 1965 (19th) | ||||
| Walter Matthau | Oscar Madison | The Odd Couple | ||
| John Gielgud | Julian | Tiny Alice | ||
| Donald Pleasence | Bitos (Robespieere) | Poor Bitos | ||
| Jason Robards | "Erie" Smith | Hughie | ||
| 1966 (20th) | ||||
| Hal Holbrook | Mark Twain | Mark Twain Tonight! | ||
| Patrick Bedford & Donal Donnelly | Gareth O'Donnell | Philadelphia, Here I Come! | ||
| Roland Culver | Pavel Lebedev | Ivanov | ||
| Nicol Williamson | Bill Maitland | Inadmissible Evidence | ||
| 1967 (21st) | ||||
| Paul Rogers | Max | The Homecoming | ||
| Hume Cronyn | Tobias | A Delicate Balance | ||
| Donald Madden | Harold Gorringe | Black Comedy | ||
| Donald Moffat | Laudisi | Right You Are (If You Think You Are) | ||
| Hjalmar Ekdal | The Wild Duck | |||
| 1968 (22nd) | ||||
| Martin Balsam | Various Characters | You Know I Can't Hear You When the Water's Running | ||
| Albert Finney | Bri | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | ||
| Milo O'Shea | Harry C. Leeds | Staircase | ||
| Alan Webb | Tom Garrison | I Never Sang for My Father | ||
| 1969 (23rd) | ||||
| James Earl Jones | Jack Jefferson | The Great White Hope | ||
| Art Carney | Andy Tracey | Lovers | ||
| Alec McCowen | Fr. William Rolfe | Hadrian the Seventh | ||
| Donald Pleasence | Arthur Goldman | The Man in the Glass Booth | ||
1970s[]
Alan Bates won for Butley (1973)
Al Pacino won for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | ||||
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | ||||
| Fritz Weaver | Jerome Malley | Child's Play | ||
| James Coco | Barney Cashman | The Last of the Red Hot Lovers | ||
| Frank Grimes | Young Behan | Borstal Boy | ||
| Stacy Keach | Buffalo Bill | Indians | ||
| 1971 (25th) | ||||
| Brian Bedford | Arnolphe | The School for Wives | ||
| John Gielgud | Harry | Home | ||
| Alec McCowen | Philip | The Philanthropist | ||
| Ralph Richardson | Jack | Home | ||
| 1972 (26th) | ||||
| Cliff Gorman | Lenny Bruce | Lenny | ||
| Tom Aldredge | Ozzie | Sticks and Bones | ||
| Donald Pleasence | Mrs. Artminster | Wise Child | ||
| Jason Robards | Frank Elgin | The Country Girl | ||
| 1973 (27th) | ||||
| Alan Bates | Ben Butley | Butley | ||
| Jack Albertson | Willie Clark | The Sunshine Boys | ||
| Wilfrid Hyde-White | Marquis of Candover | The Jockey Club Stakes | ||
| Paul Sorvino | Phil Romano | That Championship Season | ||
| 1974 (28th) | ||||
| Michael Moriarty | Julian Weston | Find Your Way Home | ||
| Zero Mostel | Leopold Bloom | Ulysses in Nighttown | ||
| Jason Robards | James Tyrone Jr. | A Moon for the Misbegotten | ||
| George C. Scott | Mikhail lvovich Astrov | Uncle Vanya | ||
| Nicol Williamson | Ivan Petrovich Voinitsky | |||
| 1975 (29th) | ||||
| John Kani & Winston Ntshona | Various Characters | Sizwe Banzi Is Dead/The Island | ||
| Jim Dale | Scapino | Scapino! | ||
| Peter Firth | Alan Strang | Equus | ||
| Henry Fonda | Clarence Darrow | Clarence Darrow | ||
| Ben Gazzara | "Erie" Smith | Hughie and Duet | ||
| John Wood | Sherlock Holmes | Sherlock Holmes | ||
| 1976 (30th) | ||||
| John Wood | Henry Carr | Travesties | ||
| Moses Gunn | Benjamin Hurspool | The Poison Tree | ||
| George C. Scott | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | ||
| Donald Sinden | Arthur Wicksteed | Habeas Corpus | ||
| 1977 (31st) | ||||
| Al Pacino | Pavlo Hummel | The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel | ||
| Tom Courtenay | Simon | Otherwise Engaged | ||
| Ben Gazzara | George | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Ralph Richardson | Hirst | No Man's Land | ||
| 1978 (32nd) | ||||
| Barnard Hughes | Da | Da | ||
| Hume Cronyn | Weller Martin | The Gin Game | ||
| Frank Langella | Dracula | Dracula | ||
| Jason Robards | Cornelius Melody | A Touch of the Poet | ||
| 1979 (33rd) | ||||
| Tom Conti | Ken Harrison | Whose Life Is It Anyway? | ||
| Philip Anglim | John Merrick | The Elephant Man | ||
| Jack Lemmon | Scottie Templeton | Tribute | ||
| Alec McCowen | Mark | St. Mark's Gospel | ||
1980s[]
Ian McKellen won for Amadeus (1981)
Jeremy Irons won for The Real Thing (1984)
Derek Jacobi won for Much Ado About Nothing (1985)
James Earl Jones won for Fences (1987)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1980s | ||||
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | ||||
| John Rubinstein | James Leeds | Children of a Lesser God | ||
| Charles Brown | Cephus Miles | Home | ||
| Gerald Hiken | Strider | Strider | ||
| Judd Hirsch | Matt Friedman | Talley's Folly | ||
| 1981 | ||||
| Ian McKellen | Antonio Salieri | Amadeus | ||
| Tim Curry | Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart | Amadeus | ||
| Roy Dotrice | Drumm | A Life | ||
| Jack Weston | Jerry Wexler | The Floating Light Bulb | ||
| 1982 | ||||
| Roger Rees | Nicholas Nickleby | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | ||
| Tom Courtenay | Norman | The Dresser | ||
| Milo O'Shea | Father Tim Farley | Mass Appeal | ||
| Christopher Plummer | Iago | Othello | ||
| 1983 | ||||
| Harvey Fierstein | Arnold Beckoff | Torch Song Trilogy | ||
| Jeffrey DeMunn | Taylor | K2 | ||
| Edward Herrmann | Raymond Brock | Plenty | ||
| Tony Lo Bianco | Eddie | A View from the Bridge | ||
| 1984 | ||||
| Jeremy Irons | Henry | The Real Thing | ||
| Rex Harrison | Captain Shotover | Heartbreak House | ||
| Calvin Levels | Calvin Jefferson | Open Admissions | ||
| Ian McKellen | Himself | Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare | ||
| 1985 | ||||
| Derek Jacobi | Benedick | Much Ado About Nothing | ||
| Jim Dale | Bri | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | ||
| Jonathan Hogan | Rich | As Is | ||
| John Lithgow | Harlan "Mountain" McClintock | Requiem for a Heavyweight | ||
| 1986 | ||||
| Judd Hirsch | Nat | I'm Not Rappaport | ||
| Hume Cronyn | General Sir Edmund Milne | The Petition | ||
| Ed Harris | Fred | Precious Sons | ||
| Jack Lemmon | James Tyrone Sr. | Long Day's Journey into Night | ||
| 1987 | ||||
| James Earl Jones | Troy Maxson | Fences | ||
| Philip Bosco | Waiter | You Never Can Tell | ||
| Richard Kiley | Joe Keller | All My Sons | ||
| Alan Rickman | Le Vicomte de Valmont | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | ||
| 1988 | ||||
| Ron Silver | Charlie Fox | Speed-the-Plow | ||
| Derek Jacobi | Alan Turing | Breaking the Code | ||
| John Lithgow | Rene Gallimard | M. Butterfly | ||
| Robert Prosky | Andrey Botvinnik | A Walk in the Woods | ||
| 1989 | ||||
| Philip Bosco | Saunders | Lend Me a Tenor | ||
| Mikhail Baryshnikov | Gregor Samsa | Metamorphosis | ||
| Victor Garber | Max | Lend Me a Tenor | ||
| Bill Irwin | The Post-Modern Hoofer | Largely New York | ||
1990s[]
Robert Morse won Tru (1990)
Ralph Fiennes for Hamlet (1995)
Christopher Plummer won for Barrymore (1997)
Brian Dennehy won twice for Death of a Salesman (1999) and Long Days Journey into Night (2003)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1990s | ||||
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | ||||
| Robert Morse | Truman Capote | Tru | ||
| Charles S. Dutton | Boy Willie | The Piano Lesson | ||
| Dustin Hoffman | Shylock | The Merchant of Venice | ||
| Tom Hulce | Lieutenant Daniel Kaffee, USN, JAG Corps | A Few Good Men | ||
| 1991 | ||||
| Nigel Hawthorne | C.S. Lewis | Shadowlands | ||
| Peter Frechette | 2nd Lieutenant Ralph Clark | Our Country's Good | ||
| Tom McGowan | Valere | La Bête | ||
| Courtney B. Vance | Paul | Six Degrees of Separation | ||
| 1992 | ||||
| Judd Hirsch | Eddie | Conversations with My Father | ||
| Alan Alda | Jake | Jake's Women | ||
| Alec Baldwin | Stanley Kowalski | A Streetcar Named Desire | ||
| Brian Bedford | William Charles Macready | Two Shakespearean Actors | ||
| 1993 | ||||
| Ron Leibman | Roy Cohn, et al. | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | ||
| K. Todd Freeman | Jacob Zulu | The Song of Jacob Zulu | ||
| Liam Neeson | Mat Burke | Anna Christie | ||
| Stephen Rea | Edward | Someone Who'll Watch Over Me | ||
| 1994 | ||||
| Stephen Spinella | Prior Walter | Angels in America: Perestroika | ||
| Brian Bedford | Timon | Timon of Athens | ||
| Christopher Plummer | Spooner | No Man's Land | ||
| Sam Waterston | Abraham Lincoln | Abe Lincoln in Illinois | ||
| 1995 | ||||
| Ralph Fiennes | Prince Hamlet | Hamlet | ||
| Brian Bedford | Sganarelle | The Molière Comedies | ||
| Roger Rees | George | Indiscretions | ||
| Joe Sears | Various Characters | A Tuna Christmas | ||
| 1996 | ||||
| George Grizzard | Tobias | A Delicate Balance | ||
| Philip Bosco | George Hay | Moon Over Buffalo | ||
| George C. Scott | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | ||
| Martin Shaw | Lord Goring | An Ideal Husband | ||
| 1997 | ||||
| Christopher Plummer | John Barrymore | Barrymore | ||
| Brian Bedford | Sir Harcourt Courtly | London Assurance | ||
| Michael Gambon | Tom Sergeant | Skylight | ||
| Antony Sher | Stanley | Stanley | ||
| 1998 | ||||
| Anthony LaPaglia | Eddie Carbone | A View from the Bridge | ||
| Richard Briers | Old Man | The Chairs | ||
| John Leguizamo | Himself | Freak | ||
| Alfred Molina | Yvan | Art | ||
| 1999 | ||||
| Brian Dennehy | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | ||
| Brían F. O'Byrne | Valene Connor | The Lonesome West | ||
| Corin Redgrave | Bert "Boss" Whalen | Not About Nightingales | ||
| Kevin Spacey | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | The Iceman Cometh | ||
2000s[]
Jefferson Mays won for I Am My Own Wife in 2004
Richard Griffiths won for The History Boys in 2006
Frank Langella won for Frost/Nixon in 2007
Mark Rylance won for Boeing-Boeing (2008), and Jerusalem (2011)
Geoffrey Rush won for Exit the King in 2009
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2000s | ||||
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | ||||
| Stephen Dillane | Henry | The Real Thing | ||
| Gabriel Byrne | James Tyrone Jr. | A Moon for the Misbegotten | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Austin | True West | ||
| John C. Reilly | Lee | |||
| David Suchet | Antonio Salieri | Amadeus | ||
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | ||||
| Richard Easton | A. E. Housman, aged 77 | The Invention of Love | ||
| Sean Campion | Jake Quinn | Stones in His Pockets | ||
| Conleth Hill | Charlie Conlon | |||
| Gary Sinise | Randle P. McMurphy | One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest | ||
| Brian Stokes Mitchell | King | King Hedley II | ||
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | ||||
| Alan Bates | Vassily Semyonitch Kuzovkin | Fortune's Fool | ||
| Billy Crudup | John Merrick | The Elephant Man | ||
| Liam Neeson | John Proctor | The Crucible | ||
| Alan Rickman | Elyot Chase | Private Lives | ||
| Jeffrey Wright | Lincoln | Topdog/Underdog | ||
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | ||||
| Brian Dennehy | James Tyrone Sr. | Long Day's Journey into Night | ||
| Brian Bedford | Orgon | Tartuffe | ||
| Eddie Izzard | Bri | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | ||
| Paul Newman | Stage Manager | Our Town | ||
| Stanley Tucci | Johnny | Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune | ||
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | ||||
| Jefferson Mays | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf, et al. | I Am My Own Wife | ||
| Simon Russell Beale | George | Jumpers | ||
| Kevin Kline | Sir John Falstaff | Henry IV | ||
| Frank Langella | Tobi | Match | ||
| Christopher Plummer | King Lear | King Lear | ||
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | ||||
| Bill Irwin | George | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Philip Bosco | Juror #3 | Twelve Angry Men | ||
| Billy Crudup | Katurian | The Pillowman | ||
| James Earl Jones | Norman Thayer Jr. | On Golden Pond | ||
| Brían F. O'Byrne | Father Flynn | Doubt | ||
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | ||||
| Richard Griffiths | Douglas Hector | The History Boys | ||
| Ralph Fiennes | Francis Hardy | Faith Healer | ||
| Željko Ivanek | Lt. Com. Phillip Francis Queeg | The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial | ||
| Oliver Platt | John | Shining City | ||
| David Wilmot | Padraic | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | ||
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | ||||
| Frank Langella | Richard Nixon | Frost/Nixon | ||
| Boyd Gaines | Lieut. Osborne | Journey's End | ||
| Brían F. O'Byrne | Alexander Herzen | The Coast of Utopia | ||
| Christopher Plummer | Henry Drummond | Inherit the Wind | ||
| Liev Schreiber | Barry Champlain | Talk Radio | ||
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | ||||
| Mark Rylance | Robert Lambert | Boeing-Boeing | ||
| Ben Daniels | Le Vicomte de Valmont | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | ||
| Laurence Fishburne | Thurgood Marshall | Thurgood | ||
| Rufus Sewell | Jan | Rock 'n' Roll | ||
| Patrick Stewart | Lord Macbeth | Macbeth | ||
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | ||||
| Geoffrey Rush | King Berenger | Exit the King | ||
| Jeff Daniels | Alan | God of Carnage | ||
| Raúl Esparza | Charlie Fox | Speed-the-Plow | ||
| James Gandolfini | Michael | God of Carnage | ||
| Thomas Sadoski | Greg | reasons to be pretty | ||
2010s[]
Denzel Washington won for Fences (2010)
James Corden won for One Man, Two Guvnors (2012)
Tracy Letts won for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (2013)
Bryan Cranston won for All the Way (2014), and Network (2020)
Kevin Kline won for Present Laughter in 2017
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2010s | ||||
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | ||||
| Denzel Washington | Troy Maxson | Fences | ||
| Jude Law | Hamlet | Hamlet | ||
| Alfred Molina | Mark Rothko | Red | ||
| Liev Schreiber | Eddie Carbone | A View from the Bridge | ||
| Christopher Walken | Carmichael | A Behanding in Spokane | ||
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | ||||
| Mark Rylance | Johnny "Rooster" Byron | Jerusalem | ||
| Brian Bedford | Lady Bracknell | The Importance of Being Earnest | ||
| Bobby Cannavale | Jackie | The Motherfucker with the Hat | ||
| Joe Mantello | Ned Weeks | The Normal Heart | ||
| Al Pacino | Shylock | The Merchant of Venice | ||
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | ||||
| James Corden | Francis Henshall | One Man, Two Guvnors | ||
| James Earl Jones | President Art Hockstader | The Best Man | ||
| Philip Seymour Hoffman | Willy Loman | Death of a Salesman | ||
| Frank Langella | Gregor Antonescu | Man and Boy | ||
| John Lithgow | Joseph Alsop | The Columnist | ||
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | ||||
| Tracy Letts | George | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | ||
| Tom Hanks | Mike McAlary | Lucky Guy | ||
| Nathan Lane | Chauncey Miles | The Nance | ||
| David Hyde Pierce | Vanya | Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike | ||
| Tom Sturridge | Phillip | Orphans | ||
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | ||||
| Bryan Cranston | Lyndon B. Johnson | All the Way | ||
| Samuel Barnett | Viola | Twelfth Night | ||
| Chris O'Dowd | Lennie Small | Of Mice and Men | ||
| Mark Rylance | Richard III | Richard III | ||
| Tony Shalhoub | Moss Hart / Barnett Hart / George S. Kaufman | Act One | ||
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | ||||
| Alex Sharp | Christopher Boone | The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time | ||
| Steven Boyer | Jason / Tyrone | Hand to God | ||
| Bradley Cooper | John Merrick | The Elephant Man | ||
| Ben Miles | Thomas Cromwell | Wolf Hall Parts One & Two | ||
| Bill Nighy | Tom Sergeant | Skylight | ||
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | ||||
| Frank Langella | Andre | The Father | ||
| Gabriel Byrne | James Tyrone Sr. | Long Day's Journey into Night | ||
| Jeff Daniels | Ray Brooks | Blackbird | ||
| Tim Pigott-Smith | King Charles III | King Charles III | ||
| Mark Strong | Eddie Carbone | A View from the Bridge | ||
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | ||||
| Kevin Kline | Garry Essendine | Present Laughter | ||
| Denis Arndt | Alex Priest | Heisenberg | ||
| Chris Cooper | Torvald Helmer | A Doll's House, Part 2 | ||
| Corey Hawkins | Paul | Six Degrees of Separation | ||
| Jefferson Mays | Terje Rød-Larsen | Oslo | ||
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | ||||
| Andrew Garfield | Prior Walter, et al. | Angels in America | ||
| Tom Hollander | Henry Carr | Travesties | ||
| Jamie Parker | Harry Potter | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | ||
| Mark Rylance | Philip V of Spain | Farinelli and the King | ||
| Denzel Washington | Theodore "Hickey" Hickman | The Iceman Cometh | ||
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | ||||
| Bryan Cranston | Howard Beale | Network | ||
| Paddy Considine | Quinn Carney | The Ferryman | ||
| Jeff Daniels | Atticus Finch | To Kill a Mockingbird | ||
| Adam Driver | Pale | Burn This | ||
| Jeremy Pope | Pharus Jonathan Young | Choir Boy | ||
2020s[]
| Year | Actor | Role | Play |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 74th Tony Awards | |||
| Ian Barford | Wheeler | Linda Vista | |
| Andrew Burnap | Toby Darling | The Inheritance | |
| Jake Gyllenhaal | Abe | Sea Wall/A Life | |
| Tom Hiddleston | Robert | Betrayal | |
| Tom Sturridge | Alex | Sea Wall/A Life | |
| Blair Underwood | Captain Richard Davenport | A Soldier's Play |
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