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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Elizabeth Ashley	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Diana Rigg	The Misanthrope
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Maggie Smith	Private Lives
1975	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Liv Ullmann	A Doll's House
1995	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary Alice	Having Our Say
1995	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cherry Jones	The Heiress	Award winner
1995	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eileen Atkins	Indiscretions
1995	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Helen Mirren	A Month in the Country
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Irene Worth	Sweet Bird of Youth	Award winner
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Tovah Feldshuh	Yentl
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	The Royal Family
1976	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lynn Redgrave	Mrs. Warren's Profession
1996	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Zoe Caldwell	Master Class production took place the previous year	Award winner
1996	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Carol Burnett	Moon Over Buffalo production took place the previous year
1996	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	A Delicate Balance
1996	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Elaine Stritch	A Delicate Balance
1966	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	The Lion in Winter	Award winner
1966	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Sheila Hancock	Entertaining Mr. Sloan
1966	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Reid	Slapstick Tragedy
1966	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lee Remick	Wait Until Dark
1967	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Beryl Reid	The Killing of Sister George Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1967	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eileen Atkins	The Killing of Sister George
1967	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Vivien Merchant	The Homecoming
1967	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Murphy	A Delicate Balance
1968	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Zoe Caldwell	The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie	Award winner
1968	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Colleen Dewhurst	More Stately Mansions
1968	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Maureen Stapleton	Plaza Suite
1968	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Dorothy Tutin	Portrait of a Queen
1969	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Julie Harris	Forty Carats Production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1969	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Estelle Parsons	Seven Descents of Myrtle
1969	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Charlotte Rae	Morning, Noon and Night
1969	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Brenda Vaccaro	The Goodbye People
1997	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Janet McTeer	A Doll's House	Award winner
1997	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Julie Harris	The Gin Game
1997	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Shirley Knight	The Young Man From Atlanta
1997	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lia Williams	Skylight production took place the previous year
1998	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Marie Mullen	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Award winner
1998	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jane Alexander	Honour
1998	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Allison Janney	A View From the Bridge production took place the previous year
1998	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Geraldine McEwan	The Chairs
1999	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Judi Dench	Amy's View	Award winner
1999	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Stockard Channing	The Lion in Winter
1999	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Marian Seldes	Ring Round the Moon
1999	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Zoe Wanamaker	Electra
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Julie Harris	The Belle of Amherst production took place the previous year	Award winner
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Colleen Dewhurst	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Production took place the previous year.
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Liv Ullmann	Anna Christie
1977	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Irene Worth	The Cherry Orchard
2000	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jennifer Ehle	The Real Thing	Award winner
2000	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jayne Atkinson	The Rainmaker production took place the previous year
2000	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	Waiting in the Wings production took place the previous year
2000	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cherry Jones	A Moon for the Misbegotten
2000	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Claudia Shear	Dirty Blonde
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Tandy	The Gin Game production took place the previous year	Award winner
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anne Bancroft	Golda production took place the previous year
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anita Gillette	Chapter Two production took place the previous year
1978	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Estelle Parsons	Miss Margarida's Way Production took place the previous year.
2001	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary-Louise Parker	Proof production took place the previous year	Award winner
2001	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Juliette Binoche	Betrayal
2001	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Linda Lavin	The Tale of the Allergist's Wife production took place the previous year
2001	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jean Smart	The Man Who Came to Dinner production took place the previous year
2001	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Leslie Uggams	King Hedley II
1979	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	ConstanceCummings	Wings	Award winner
1979	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Carole Shelley	The Elephant Man	Award winner
1979	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jane Alexander	First Monday in October
1979	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Frances Sternhagen	On Golden Pond
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lindsay Duncan	Private Lives	Award winner
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Burton	Hedda Gabler production took place the previous year
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Linney	The Crucible
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Helen Mirren	Dance of Death production took place the previous year
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mercedes Ruehl	The Goat or Who Is Sylvia?
1980	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Blythe Danner	Betrayal
1980	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Maggie Smith	Night and Day production took place the previous year
1980	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Phyllis Frelich	Children of a Lesser God	Award winner
1980	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anne Twomey	Nuts
1981	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jane Lapotaire	Piaf	Award winner
1981	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Glenda Jackson	Rose
1981	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eva Le Gallienne	To Grandmother's House We Go
1981	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Elizabeth Taylor	The Little Foxes
1982	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Zoe Caldwell	Medea	Award winner
1982	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Katharine Hepburn	The West Side Waltz producer, production took place the previous year.
1982	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Geraldine Page	Agnes of God
1982	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Amanda Plummer	A Taste of Honey
1983	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Tandy	Foxfire producer, production took place the previous year.	Award winner
1983	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kathy Bates	'Night, Mother
1983	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Nelligan	Plenty
1983	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anne Pitoniak	'Night, Mother
1984	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Glenn Close	The Real Thing	Award winner
1984	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	Heartbreak House production took place the previous year.
1984	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Linda Hunt	End of the World
1984	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Nelligan	A Moon for the Misbegotten
1985	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Stockard Channing	Joe Egg	Award winner
1985	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Sinead Cusack	Much Ado About Nothing producer, production took place the previous year
1985	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	Pack of Lies
1985	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Glenda Jackson	Strange Interlude
1986	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lily Tomlin	The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Production took place the previous year	Award winner
1986	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rosemary Harris	Hay Fever Production took place the previous year
1986	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary Beth Hurt	Benefactors Production took place the previous year
1986	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Tandy	The Petition
1987	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Linda Lavin	Broadway Bound Production took place the previous year.	Award winner

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