2010 Tony Awards: Scarlett Johansson Wins 'Featured Actress in a Play'

The American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were held at Radio City Music Hall on Sunday, June 13, 2010 and broadcast on the CBS Television Network. For more information visit tonyawards.com.

Nominations in 26 competitive categories for the American Theatre Wing's 64th Annual Antoinette Perry "Tony"® Awards were announced on May 4, 2010 by Broadway Star Lea Michele and Tony Award Nominee Jeff Daniels.

The Antoinette Perry "Tony" Awards are bestowed annually on theatre professionals for distinguished achievement. The Tony is one of the most coveted awards in the entertainment industry and the annual telecast is considered one of the most prestigious programs on television.

To view the complete list of 2010 Tony Award winners, click here.

BroadwayWorld Congratulates
Scarlett Johansson
2010 Tony Award Winner
'Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play'

Scarlett Johansson ("Catherine" in A View from the Bridge) Scarlett Johansson is honored to be making her Broadway debut in A View From the Bridge. Four-time Golden Globe nomin ee and BAFTA winner, Johansson received rave reviews and a Best Actress Award at the Venice Film Festival for her starring role in Lost in Translation. A New York native, Johansson made her professional acting debut at the age of eight off-Broadway in Sophistry. Film credits include: Manny & Lo, (Independent Spirit Award nomination), Robert Redford's The Horse Whisperer, Ghost World (Toronto Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress Award), The Other Boleyn Girl, The Spirit, The Man Who Wasn't There, In Good Company, A Love Song for Bobby Long, Match Point, Girl with a Pearl Earring, The Island, The Black Dahlia, The Prestige, and The Nanny Diaries. Johansson recently starred in He's Just Not That Into You and Vicky Cristina Barcelona and will next be seen in Iron Man 2.

'Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play'
2010 Tony Award Nominees

Maria Dizzia ("Mrs. Daldry" in In the Next Room or the Vibrator Play)
LCT: debut. Off-Broadway: The Drunken City, Eurydice, The Wooden Breeks, Pullman Car Hiawatha, Apparition, Alice the Magnet, Cause for Alarm, Gone Missing. Regional: Young Jean Lee's Theater Company, Williamstown, Yale Rep, Baltimore Center Stage, Dallas Theater Center, Berkeley Rep, La Jolla Playhouse, Geva Theatre, ASF, Shakespeare Santa Cruz. TV: "Fringe," "Smith," "Law & Order," "Law & Order: CI." Film: Rachel Getting Married, Kiddie Ride, Love and Other Impossible Pursuits, A New York Thing. Associate artist with The Civilians. MFA, UCSD.

RoseMary Harris ("Fanny Cavendish" in The Royal Family)
RoseMary Harris was born in England but brought up in India. She graduated from RADA with the Bancroft Gold Medal when she was directed by Mary Duff in The Heiress.

Her first job in the London theatre was understudying and looking after Nellie the greyhound in The Gay Dog at the Piccadilly Theatre. She then made her London debut in the The Seven Year Itch having already starred in Moss Hart's Climate of Eden on Broadway. Following a season at the Bristol Old Vic playing Elizabeth Proctor in the British premier of The Crucible she joined the London Old Vic to play Desedemona opposite Richard Burton in Othello followed by Cressida in Tyrone Guthrie's production of Troilus and Cressida.

When Ellis Rabb formed APA in 1960 she joined the Company and appeared in productions of works by Shakespeare, Shaw, Sheridan, Chekhov, Isben, Wilde, Pirandello and Kaufman and Hart at the Lyceum Theatre on Broadway. She also played the title role in Peter Pan.

In 1962 she appeared in Laurence Olivier's Company at the Chichester Festival Theatre for their first season in the The Broken Heart and Chances and returned the following year for Uncle Vanya. In 1964 she joined the National Theatre to play Ophelia opposite Peter O'Toole in Laurence Olivier's inaugural production of Hamlet followed by IIyena in his production of Uncle Vanya. In 1967 she created the part of Eleanor of Aquitane in The Lion in Winter on Broadway for which she won a Tony Award and in 1969 she was awarded the Evening Standard Award for Best Actress for her performance in Plaza Suite. In 1970 she appeared opposite Jack Lemmon in Idiot’s Delight at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, in 1971 she played Anna in Peter Hall's production of Old Times on Broadway, 1973 she played Blanche in A Streetcar Named Desire and Portia in the The Merchant of Venice at the Lincoln Centre Repertory Theatre directed by Ellis Rabb, in 1975 she played Julie Cavendish in The Royal Family on Broadway, 1980 she played Madame Arkadina in The Seagull at The Public Theater in New York followed by Three Sisters and New York Idea at the Brooklyn Academy Of Music, in 1982 she appeared in All My Sons in the West End in Heartbreak House with Rex Harrison and Diana Rigg at the Haymarket playing Ariadne Utterwood.

She appeared in Heartbreak House on Broadway, again with Rex Harrison but in this production she played Hesione Hushabye. She then played Barbara Jackson in Pack of Lies on Broadway. In 1985 she spent six weeks at Oxford University lecturing to American drama students after which she returned to Broadway to play Judith Bliss in Hayfever. In July 1986 she opened at the National Theatre in The Petition with John Mills which then transferred to the Wyndhams Theatre. In 1987, she appeared in The Best of Friends at the Apollo Theater co-starring with Sir John Gielgud and Ray McNally. In 1989, she starred in Steel Magnolias with Miranda Richardson at the Lyric. She starred in the Lyric Hammersmith's production of In the Summerhouse. In 2002, she starred in a highly acclaimed run of Edward Albee's All Over at the Roundabout in NYC.

Her numerous television credits include “Notorious Woman” in which she played George Sand for which she was awarded an Emmy for best actress. She was awarded Golden Globe for her portrayal of Berte Weiss. She also appeared in a television special entitled “The Chisholms” in which she co-starred with Robert Preston and “To the Lighthouse” adapted from Virginia Wolf's novel where she played Mrs. Ramsey. She also was in “Strange Interlude.” She then completed a BBC play, “Summer Day's Dream” with Sir John Geilgud, directed by Christopher Morahan.

Her films include “The Boys from Brazil” with Greogory Peck and Laurence Olivier, “Beau Brummel,” “A Flea in her Ear,” “The Shiralee,” “The Ploughman's Lunch,” “Sunshine,” “Tom and Viv,” “Being Julia,””Spider-Man 1, 2 and 3” and most recently “Before The Devil Knows Your’re Dead” directed by Sidney Lumet.

She still lectures regularly at Oxford University and is married to the novelist John Ehle and they have a daughter Jennifer who is also an actress [“Possession 2002”]."

Jessica Hecht ("Beatrice" in A View from the Bridge)
Broadway: Brighton Beach Memoirs, Julius Caesar, After the Fall, The Last Night of Ballyhoo. Off-Broadway: Make Me (Atlantic), Howard Katz (Roundabout), The House in Town (Lincoln Center), Flesh & Blood (NYTW), The Fourth Sister (Vineyard), Plunge and Lobster Alice (Playwrights Horizons), Stop Kiss (Public Theater), A Midsummer Night's Dream  (Theatre for a New Audience). Williamstown Theatre Festival: The Torchbearers, The Three Sisters, Blithe Spirit, The Autumn Garden, Top Girls, Light Up the Sky, The Most Fabulous Story Ever Told. Film: Whatever Works, Dan in Real Life, Starting Out in the Evening, The Forgotten, Sideways, The Grey Zone; upcoming: 25/8, The Winning Season, Helena From the Wedding. TV: Eleventh Hour, Breaking Bad, ER, The Jury, Law & Order x three, Friends, The Single Guy, Homicide, Seinfeld.

Jan Maxwell ("Maria" in Lend Me a Tenor)
Broadway: The Royal Family, Coram Boy (Tony, Drama Desk nominatons), Chitty Chitty Bang Bang (Drama Desk Award, Tony and Outer Critics Circle nominations), Sixteen Wounded (Drama Desk nomination), A Doll's House (OCC Nom), The Sound of Music (OCC Nom), The Dinner Party (OCC Award), Brian Friel's Dancing At Lughnasa, and City of Angels. Off-Broadway: Howard Barker's Scenes From An Execution (Drama Desk nom.) and Camille (Potomac Theatre Project/NYC), Anton Dudley's Substitution, Entertaining Mr. Sloane (Drama Desk, OCC nom.), Tina Howe's translation of Ionesco's The Bald Soprano (Atlantic Theatre), Jules Feiffer's A Bad Friend (Lincoln Center), Israel Horovitz's My Old Lady (Lortel Award, Drama Desk nom), Opening Doors (Carnegie Hall), Alan Ayckbourn's House and Garden (MTC), The Seagull (Kennedy Center). TV: PBS  AIDS: Canging the Rules,  Law & Order,  Gossip Girl. Special thanks: Will Maxwell-Lunney.

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