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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
2024 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Amy Ryan Doubt
2024 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sarah Paulson Appropriate Award winner
2024 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Rachel McAdams Mary Jane
2024 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jessica Lange Mother Play
2024 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Betsy Aidem Prayer for the French Republic
2022 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mary-Louise Parker How I Learned to Drive
2022 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Deirdre O'Connell Dana H. Award winner
2022 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ruth Negga Macbeth
2022 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play LaChanze Trouble in Mind
2022 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Gabby Beans The Skin of Our Teeth
2020 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mary-Louise Parker The Sound Inside Award winner
2020 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Audra McDonald Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
2020 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Linney My Name is Lucy Barton
2020 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Joaquina Kalukango Slave Play
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Heidi Schreck What the Constitution Means to Me
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laurie Metcalf Hillary and Clinton
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Janet McTeer Bernhardt/Hamlet
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Elaine May The Waverly Gallery Award winner
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Donnelly The Ferryman
2019 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Annette Bening All My Sons
2018 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Amy Schumer Meteor Shower
2018 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lauren Ridloff Children of a Lesser God
2018 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Condola Rashad Saint Joan
2018 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Glenda Jackson Three Tall Women Award winner
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laurie Metcalf A Doll's House, Part 2 Award winner
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Linney Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sally Field The Glass Menagerie
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jennifer Ehle Oslo
2017 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cate Blanchett The Present
2016 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Michelle Williams Blackbird
2016 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Sophie Okonedo Arthur Miller's The Crucible
2016 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lupita Nyong'o Eclipsed
2016 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laurie Metcalf Misery
2016 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jessica Lange Long Day's Journey Into Night Award winner
2015 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Ruth Wilson Constellations
2015 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Carey Mulligan Skylight
2015 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Elisabeth Moss The Heidi Chronicles
2015 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Helen Mirren The Audience Award winner
2015 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Geneva Carr Hand to God
2014 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Estelle Parsons The Velocity of Autumn
2014 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill Award winner
2014 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cherry Jones The Glass Menagerie
2014 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play LaTanya Richardson Jackson A Raisin in the Sun
2014 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tyne Daly Mothers and Sons
2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cicely Tyson The Trip to Bountiful
2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Holland Taylor Ann
2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kristine Nielsen Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Amy Morton Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2013 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laurie Metcalf The Other Place
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cynthia Nixon Wit
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Linda Lavin The Lyons
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Stockard Channing Other Desert Cities
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tracie Bennett End of the Rainbow
2012 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Nina Arianda Venus in Fur Award winner
2011 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Hannah Yelland Brief Encounter production took place the previous year
2011 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Vanessa Redgrave Driving Miss Daisy
2011 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lily Rabe The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
2011 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Nina Arianda Born Yesterday
2011 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Frances McDormand Good People Award winner
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Viola Davis Fences Award winner
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Valerie Harper Looped
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Linda Lavin Collected Stories
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Linney Time Stands Still
2010 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jan Maxwell The Royal Family producer; production took place the previous year
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jane Fonda 33 Variations
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Marcia Gay Harden God of Carnage Award winner
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Hope Davis God of Carnage
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Janet McTeer Mary Stuart
2009 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Harriet Walter Mary Stuart
2008 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Amy Morton August: Osage County production took place the previous year
2008 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play S. Epatha Merkerson Come Back, Little Sheba
2008 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kate Fleetwood Macbeth
2008 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eve Best The Homecoming production took place the previous year
2008 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Deanna Dunagan August: Osage County production took place the previous year Award winner
2007 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Julie White The Little Dog Laughed production took place the previous year Award winner
2007 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eve Best A Moon for the Misbegotten
2007 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Vanessa Redgrave The Year of Magical Thinking
2007 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Angela Lansbury Deuce
2007 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Swoosie Kurtz Heartbreak House
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cynthia Nixon Rabbit Hole Award winner
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kate Burton The Constant Wife production took place the previous year
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Judy Kaye Souvenir
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lisa Kron Well
2006 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Lynn Redgrave The Constant Wife production took place the previous year
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Cherry Jones Doubt Award winner
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Laura Linney Sight Unseen production took place the previous year
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Mary-Louise Parker Reckless production took place the previous year
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Phylicia Rashad Gem of the Ocean production took place the previous year
2005 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Kathleen Turner Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Tovah Feldshuh Golda's Balcony production took place the previous year
2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Eileen Atkins The Retreat from Moscow production took place the previous year
2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Anne Heche Twentieth Century
2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Swoosie Kurtz Frozen
2004 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Phylicia Rashad A Raisin in the Sun Award winner
2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Vanessa Redgrave Long Day's Journey into Night Award winner
2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Fiona Shaw Medea
2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Clare Higgins Vincent in Brixton
2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Victoria Hamilton A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2003 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Jayne Atkinson Enchanted April
2002 Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play Helen Mirren Dance of Death production took place the previous year

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