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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
1947 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine Award winner
1990 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Geraldine James The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
1990 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mary-Louise Parker Prelude to a Kiss
1990 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kathleen Turner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
1950 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba Award winner
1951 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Uta Hagen The Country Girl Production took place the previous year Award winner
1952 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris I Am a Camera Award winner
1953 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Shirley Booth Time of the Cuckoo Production took place the previous year Award winner
1954 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Audrey Hepburn Ondine Award winner
1955 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Nancy Kelly The Bad Seed Award winner
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris The Lark Award winner
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Barbara Bel Geddes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Production took place the previous year
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Gladys Cooper The Chalk Garden
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ruth Gordon The Matchmaker
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Siobhan McKenna The Chalk Garden
1956 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Susan Strasberg The Diary of Anne Frank
1957 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Margaret Leighton Separate Tables Award winner
1957 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Florence Eldridge Long Day's Journey Into Night
1957 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame
1957 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sybil Thorndike The Potting Shed
1948 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Judith Anderson Medea Award winner
1991 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mercedes Ruehl Lost in Yonkers Award winner
1991 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Stockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation production took place the previous year
1991 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris Lucifer's Child
1991 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cherry Jones Our Country's Good
1970 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tammy Grimes Private Lives Award winner
1970 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Geraldine Brooks Brightower
1970 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Helen Hayes Harvey
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Helen Hayes Time Remembered Award winner
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Wendy Hiller A Moon For the Misbegotten
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eugenie Leontovich The Cave Dwellers
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Siobhan McKenna The Rope Dancers
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mary Ure Look Back In Anger
1958 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jo Van Fleet Look Homeward, Angel
1959 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Gertrude Berg A Majority of One Award winner
1959 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Claudette Colbert The Marriage-Go-Round Production took place the previous year.
1959 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lynn Fontanne The Visit
1959 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kim Stanley A Touch of the Poet
1947 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine Award winner
1959 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Maureen Stapleton The Cold Wind and the Warm
1947 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Helen Hayes Happy Birthday Award winner
1971 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Maureen Stapleton The Gingerbread Lady Award winner
1971 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Estelle Parsons And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
1971 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Diana Rigg Abelard and Heloise
1971 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Marian Seldes Father's Day
1948 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Katharine Cornell Antony and Cleopatra Award winner
1948 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jessica Tandy A Streetcar Named Desire Award winner
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Margaret Leighton Much Ado About Nothing Production took place the previous year.
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Claudia McNeil A Raisin in the Sun Production took place the previous year.
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Geraldine Page Sweet Bird of Youth
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Maureen Stapleton Toys in the Attic
1960 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Irene Worth Toys in the Attic
1992 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Glenn Close Death and the Maiden Award winner
1992 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Alexander The Visit
1992 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Stockard Channing Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
1992 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Judith Ivey Park Your Car in Harvard Yard production took place the previous year
1961 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Joan Plowright A Taste of Honey Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1961 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tallulah Bankhead Midgie Purvis
1961 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Barbara Baxley Period of Adjustment
1961 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Barbara Bel Geddes Mary, Mary
1972 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sada Thompson Twigs Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eileen Atkins Vivat! Vivat Regina! Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Colleen Dewhurst All Over Award winner
1972 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Rosemary Harris Old Times Award winner
1962 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Margaret Leighton The Night of the Iguana Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1962 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Gladys Cooper A Passage to India
1962 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Colleen Dewhurst Great Day in the Morning
1962 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kim Stanley A Far Country
1963 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Uta Hagen Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1963 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Hermione Baddeley The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
1963 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Margaret Leighton Tchin-Tchin
1963 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Claudia McNeil Tiger Tiger Burning Bright
1949 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Martita Hunt The Madwoman of Chaillot Award winner
1973 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Award winner
1973 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Alexander 6 Rms Riv Vu
1973 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Colleen Dewhurst Mourning Becomes Electra
1973 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kathleen Widdoes Much Ado About Nothing
1993 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Madeline Kahn The Sisters Rosensweig Award winner
1993 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Alexander The Sisters Rosensweig
1993 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lynn Redgrave Shakespeare for my Father
1993 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Natasha Richardson Anna Christie
1994 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Diana Rigg Medea Award winner
1994 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Nancy Marchand Black Comedy production took place the previous year
1994 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Joan Rivers Sally Marr...and Her Escorts
1994 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Anna Deavere Smith Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992
1964 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sandy Dennis Any Wednesday Award winner
1964 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Elizabeth Ashley Barefoot in the Park
1964 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Colleen Dewhurst The Ballad of the Sad Cafe
1964 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris Marathon '33
1965 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Irene Worth Tiny Alice Production took place the previous year. Award winner
1965 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Marjorie Rhodes All in Good Time
1965 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Beah Richards The Amen Corner
1965 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Diana Sands The Owl and the Pussycat Production took place the previous year.
1974 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Colleen Dewhurst A Moon for the Misbegotten Award winner
1974 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie Harris The Au Pair Man
1974 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Madeline Kahn Boom Boom Room
1974 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Alexander Find Your Way Home
1974 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Rachel Roberts The Visit
1975 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ellen Burstyn Same Time, Next Year Award winner

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