Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tony Award Winners

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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1985	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jim Dale	Joe Egg
1985	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jonathan Hogan	As Is
1985	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	John Lithgow	Requiem for a Heavyweight
1986	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Judd Hirsch	I'm Not Rappaport production took place the previous year	Award winner
1986	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Hume Cronyn	The Petition
1986	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ed Harris	Precious Sons
1986	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jack Lemmon	Long Day's Journey Into Night
1987	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	James Earl Jones	Fences	Award winner
1987	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Philip Bosco	You Never Can Tell Production took place the previous year.
1987	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Richard Kiley	All My Sons
1987	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Alan Rickman	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2003	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Brian Dennehy	Long Day's Journey into Night	Award winner
2003	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Brian Bedford	Tartuffe
2003	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Eddie Izzard	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2003	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Paul Newman	Our Town
2003	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Stanley Tucci	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune production took place the previous year
1988	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ron Silver	Speed-the-Plow	Award winner
1988	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Derek Jacobi	Breaking the Code producer, production took place the previous year
1988	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	John Lithgow	M. Butterfly
1988	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Robert Prosky	A Walk in the Woods
1989	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bill Irwin	Largely New York
2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jefferson Mays	I Am My Own Wife production took place the previous year	Award winner
2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Simon Russell Beale	Jumpers
2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Kevin Kline	Henry IV
2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Frank Langella	Match
2004	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Christopher Plummer	King Lear
2005	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bill Irwin	Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Award winner
2005	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Philip Bosco	Twelve Angry Men production took place the previous year
2005	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Billy Crudup	The Pillowman
2005	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	James Earl Jones	On Golden Pond
2005	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Brian F. O'Byrne	Doubt
2006	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Richard Griffiths	The History Boys	Award winner
2006	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ralph Fiennes	Faith Healer
2006	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Zeljko Ivanek	The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2006	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Oliver Platt	Shining City
2006	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	David Wilmot	The Lieutenant of Inishmore
2007	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Frank Langella	Frost/Nixon	Award winner
2007	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Boyd Gaines	Journey's End
2007	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Brian F. O'Byrne	The Coast of Utopia production took place the previous year
2007	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Christopher Plummer	Inherit the Wind
2007	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Liev Schreiber	Talk Radio
2008	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mark Rylance	Boeing-Boeing	Award winner
2008	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ben Daniels	Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2008	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Laurence Fishburne	Thurgood
2008	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Rufus Sewell	Rock 'n' Roll production took place the previous year
2008	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Patrick Stewart	Macbeth
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Geoffrey Rush	Exit the King	Award winner
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jeff Daniels	God of Carnage
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jeff Daniels	God of Carnage
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Raul Esparza	Speed-the-Plow production took place the previous year
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	James Gandolfini	God of Carnage
2009	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Thomas Sadoski	Reasons to Be Pretty
2010	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Denzel Washington	Fences	Award winner
2010	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jude Law	Hamlet
2010	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Alfred Molina	Red
2010	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Liev Schreiber	A View from the Bridge
2010	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Christopher Walken	A Behanding In Spokane
2011	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mark Rylance	Jerusalem	Award winner
2011	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Brian Bedford	The Importance of Being Earnest
2011	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bobby Cannavale	The Motherf**ker with the Hat
2011	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Joe Mantello	The Normal Heart
2011	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Al Pacino	The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
2012	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	James Corden	One Man, Two Guvnors	Award winner
2012	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Death of a Salesman
2012	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	James Earl Jones	Gore Vidal's The Best Man
2012	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Frank Langella	Man and Boy
2012	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	John Lithgow	The Columnist
2013	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tom Hanks	Lucky Guy
2013	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Nathan Lane	The Nance
2013	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tracy Letts	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2013	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	David Hyde Pierce	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2013	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tom Sturridge	Orphans
2014	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Samuel Barnett	Twelfth Night
2014	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bryan Cranston	All the Way	Award winner
2014	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Chris O'Dowd	Of Mice and Men
2014	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mark Rylance	Richard III
2014	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tony Shalhoub	Act One
2015	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Steven Boyer	Hand to God
2015	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bradley Cooper	The Elephant Man
2015	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Ben Miles	Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two
2015	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Bill Nighy	Skylight
2015	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Alex Sharp	The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time	Award winner
1975	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	John Kani	The Island Joint nomination with Winston Ntshona for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island"	Award winner
1975	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Winston Ntshona	The Island Joint nomination with John Kani for "Sizwe Banzi is Dead" and "The Island"	Award winner
1989	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mikhail Baryshnikov	Metamorphosis
2016	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Gabriel Byrne	Long Day's Journey Into Night
2016	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jeff Daniels	Blackbird
2016	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Frank Langella	The Father	Award winner
2016	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tim Pigott-Smith	King Charles III
2016	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mark Strong	Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge
2017	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Denis Arndt	Heisenberg
2017	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Chris Cooper	A Doll's House, Part 2
2017	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Corey Hawkins	Six Degrees of Separation
2017	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Kevin Kline	Present Laughter	Award winner
2017	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jefferson Mays	Oslo
2018	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Andrew Garfield	Angels in America	Award winner
2018	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Tom Hollander	Travesties
2018	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Jamie Parker	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two
2018	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Mark Rylance	Farinelli and The King
2018	Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play	Denzel Washington	The Iceman Cometh

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