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

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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
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
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
1955	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Nancy Kelly	The Bad Seed	Award winner
1954	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Audrey Hepburn	Ondine	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
1952	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Julie Harris	I Am a Camera	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
1950	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Shirley Booth	Come Back, Little Sheba	Award winner
1949	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Martita Hunt	The Madwoman of Chaillot	Award winner
1948	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Judith Anderson	Medea	Award winner
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
1947	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Ingrid Bergman	Joan of Lorraine	Award winner
1947	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Ingrid Bergman	Joan of Lorraine	Award winner
1947	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Helen Hayes	Happy Birthday	Award winner

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