This is a list of winners and nomination of the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress. The award was first presented in 1947.

Awards and nomination

1940s

1947

- Patricia Neal ? Another Part of the Forest

1949

- Shirley Booth ? Goodbye, My Fancy

1950s

1951

- Maureen Stapleton ? The Rose Tattoo

1952

- Marian Winters ? I Am a Camera

1953

- Beatrice Straight ? The Crucible

1954

- Jo Van Fleet ? The Trip to Bountiful

1955

- Patricia Jessel ? Witness for the Prosecution

1956

- Una Merkel ? The Ponder Heart

• Diane Cilento ? Tiger at the Gates
• Anne Jackson ? Middle of the Night
• Elaine Stritch ? Bus Stop

1957

- Peggy Cass ? Auntie Mame

• Anna Massey ? The Reluctant Debutante
• Beryl Measor ? Separate Tables
• Mildred Natwick ? The Waltz of the Toreadors
• Phyllis Neilson-Terry ? Separate Tables
• Diana Van Der Vlis ? The Happiest Millionaire

1958

- Anne Bancroft ? Two for the Seesaw

• Brenda De Banzie ? The Entertainer
• Joan Blondell ? The Rope Dancers
• Mary Fickett ? Sunrise at Campobello
• Eileen Heckart ? The Dark at the Top of the Stairs

1959

- Julie Newmar ? The Marriage-Go-Round

• Maureen Delany ? God and Kate Murphy
• Dolores Hart ? The Pleasure of His Company
• Nan Martin ? J.B.
• Bertrice Reading ? Requiem for a Nun

1960s

1960

- Anne Revere ? Toys in the Attic

• Leora Dana ? The Best Man
• Jane Fonda ? There Was a Little Girl
• Sarah Marshall ? Goodbye Charlie
• Juliet Mills ? Five Finger Exercise

1961

- Colleen Dewhurst ? All the Way Home

• Eileen Heckart ? Invitation to a March
• Tresa Hughes ? The Devil's Advocate
• Rosemary Murphy ? Period of Adjustment

1962

- Elizabeth Ashley ? Take Her, She's Mine

• Zohra Lampert ? Look: We've Come Through
• Janet Margolin ? Daughter of Silence
• Pat Stanely ? Sunday in New York

1963

- Sandy Dennis ? A Thousand Clowns

• Melinda Dillon ? Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Alice Ghostley ? The Beauty Part
• Zohra Lampert ? Mother Courage and Her Children

1964

- Barbara Loden ? After the Fall

• Rosemary Murphy ? Any Wednesday
• Kate Reid ? Dylan
• Diana Sands ? Blues for Mister Charlie

1965

- Alice Ghostley ? The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window

• Rae Allen ? Traveller Without Luggage
• Alexandra Berlin ? All in Good Time
• Carolan Daniels ? Slow Dance on the Killing Ground

1966

- Zoe Caldwell ? Slapstick Tragedy

• Glenda Jackson ? Marat/Sade
• Mairin D. O'Sullivan ? Philadelphia, Here I Come!
• Brenda Vaccaro ? Cactus Flower

1967

- Marian Seldes ? A Delicate Balance

• Camila Ashland ? Black Comedy
• Brenda Forbes ? The Loves of Cass McGuire
• Maria Tucci ? The Rose Tattoo

1968

- Zena Walker ? Joe Egg

• Pert Kelton ? Spofford
• Ruth White ? The Birthday Party
• Eleanor Wilson ? Week End

1969

- Jane Alexander ? The Great White Hope

• Diane Keaton ? Play It Again Sam
• Lauren Jones ? Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
• Anna Manahan ? Lovers

1970s

1970

- Blythe Danner ? Butterflies Are Free

• Alice Drummond ? The Chinese and Dr. Fish
• Eileen Heckart ? Butterflies Are Free
• Linda Lavin ? The Last of the Red Hot Lovers

1971

- Rae Allen ? And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little

• Lili Darvas ? Les Blancs
• Joan Van Ark ? The School for Wives
• Mona Washbourne ? Home

1972

- Elizabeth Wilson ? Sticks and Bones

• Cara Duff-MacCormick ? Moonchildren
• Mercedes McCambridge ? The Love Suicide at Schofield Barracks
• Frances Sternhagen ? The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window - Revival

1973

- Leora Dana ? The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

• Maya Angelou ? Look Away
• Katherine Helmond ? The Great God Brown
• Penelope Windust ? Elizabeth I

1974

- Frances Sternhagen ? The Good Doctor

• Regina Baff ? Veronica's Room
• Fionnula Flanagan ? Ulysses in Nighttown
• Charlotte Moore ? Chemin de Fer
• Roxie Roker ? The River Niger

1975

- Rita Moreno ? The Ritz

• Linda Miller ? Black Picture Show
• Geraldine Page ? Absurd Person Singular
• Carole Shelley ? Absurd Person Singular
• Elizabeth Spriggs ? London Assurance
• Frances Sternhagen ? Equus

1976

- Shirley Knight ? Kennedy's Children

• Mary Beth Hurt ? Trelawny of the 'Wells'
• Lois Nettleton ? They Knew What They Wanted
• Meryl Streep ? 27 Wagons Full of Cotton/A Memory of Two Mondays

1977

- Trazana Beverley ? For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf

• Patricia Elliott ? The Shadow Box
• Rose Gregorio ? The Shadow Box
• Mary McCarty ? Anna Christie

1978

- Ann Wedgeworth ? Chapter Two

• Starletta DuPois ? The Mighty Gents
• Swoosie Kurtz ? Tartuffe
• Marian Seldes ? Deathtrap

1979

- Joan Hickson ? Bedroom Farce

• Laurie Kennedy ? Man and Superman
• Susan Littler ? Bedroom Farce
• Mary-Joan Negro ? Wings

1980s

1980

- Dinah Manoff ? I Ought to be in Pictures

• Maureen Anderman ? The Lady from Dubuque
• Pamela Burrell ? Strider
• Lois de Banzie ? Morning's at Seven

1981

- Swoosie Kurtz ? Fifth of July

• Maureen Stapleton ? The Little Foxes
• Jessica Tandy ? Rose
• Zoë Wanamaker ? Piaf

1982

- Amanda Plummer ? Agnes of God

• Judith Anderson ? Medea
• Mia Dillon ? Crimes of the Heart
• Mary Beth Hurt ? Crimes of the Heart

1983

- Judith Ivey ? Steaming

• Elizabeth Franz ? Brighton Beach Memoirs
• Roxanne Hart ? Passion
• Margaret Tyzack ? All's Well That Ends Well

1984

- Christine Baranski ? The Real Thing

• Jo Henderson ? Play Memory
• Dana Ivey ? Heartbreak House
• Deborah Rush ? Noises Off

1985

- Judith Ivey ? Hurlyburly

• Joanna Gleason ? Joe Egg
• Theresa Merritt ? Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
• Sigourney Weaver ? Hurlyburly

1986

- Swoosie Kurtz ? The House of Blue Leaves

• Stockard Channing ? The House of Blue Leaves
• Bethel Leslie ? Long Day's Journey Into Night
• Zoë Wanamaker ? Loot

1987

- Mary Alice ? Fences

• Annette Bening ? Coastal Disturbances
• Phyllis Newman ? Broadway Bound
• Carole Shelley ? Stepping Out

1988

- L. Scott Caldwell ? Joe Turner's Come and Gone

• Kimberleigh Aarn ? Joe Turner's Come and Gone
• Kate Nelligan ? Serious Money
• Kimberly Scott ? Joe Turner's Come and Gone

1989

- Christine Baranski ? Rumors

• Joanne Camp ? The Heidi Chronicles
• Tovah Feldshuh ? Lend Me a Tenor
• Penelope Ann Miller ? Our Town

1990s

1990

- Margaret Tyzack ? Lettice and Lovage

• Polly Holliday ? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• S. Epatha Merkerson ? The Piano Lesson
• Lois Smith ? The Grapes of Wrath

1991

- Irene Worth ? Lost in Yonkers

• Amelia Campbell ? Our Country's Good
• Kathryn Erbe ? The Speed of Darkness
• J. Smith-Cameron ? Our Country's Good

1992

- Brid Brennan ? Dancing at Lughnasa

• Rosaleen Linehan ? Dancing at Lughnasa
• Cynthia Martells ? Two Trains Running
• Dearbhla Molloy ? Dancing at Lughnasa

1993

- Debra Monk ? Redwood Curtain

• Kathleen Chalfant ? Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• Marcia Gay Harden ? Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
• Anne Meara ? Anna Christie

1994

- Jane Adams ? An Inspector Calls

• Debra Monk ? Picnic
• Jeanne Paulsen ? The Kentucky Cycle
• Anne Pitoniak ? Picnic

1995

- Frances Sternhagen ? The Heiress

• Suzanne Bertish ? The Molière Comedies
• Cynthia Nixon ? Indiscretions
• Mercedes Ruehl ? The Shadow Box

1996

- Audra McDonald ? Master Class

• Viola Davis ? Seven Guitars
• Michele Shay ? Seven Guitars
• Lois Smith ? Buried Child

1997

- Lynne Thigpen ? An American Daughter

• Helen Carey ? London Assurance
• Dana Ivey ? The Last Night of Ballyhoo
• Celia Weston ? The Last Night of Ballyhoo

1998

- Anna Manahan ? The Beauty Queen of Leenane

• Enid Graham ? Honour
• Linda Lavin ? The Diary of Anne Frank
• Julyana Soelistyo ? Golden Child

1999

- Elizabeth Franz ? Death of a Salesman

• Claire Bloom ? Electra
• Samantha Bond ? Amy's View
• Dawn Bradfield ? The Lonesome West

2000s

2000

- Blair Brown ? Copenhagen

• Frances Conroy ? The Ride Down Mt. Morgan
• Amy Ryan ? Uncle Vanya
• Helen Stenborg ? Waiting in the Wings
• Sarah Woodward ? The Real Thing

2001

- Viola Davis ? King Hedley II

• Johanna Day ? Proof
• Penny Fuller ? Neil Simon's The Dinner Party
• Marthe Keller ? Judgment at Nuremberg
• Michele Lee ? The Tale of the Allergist's Wife

2002

- Katie Finneran ? Noises Off

• Kate Burton ? The Elephant Man
• Elizabeth Franz ? Morning's at Seven
• Estelle Parsons ? Morning's at Seven
• Frances Sternhagen ? Morning's at Seven

2003

- Michele Pawk ? Hollywood Arms

• Christine Ebersole ? Dinner at Eight
• Linda Emond ? Life (x) 3
• Kathryn Meisle ? Tartuffe
• Marian Seldes ? Dinner at Eight

2004

- Audra McDonald ? A Raisin in the Sun

• Essie Davis ? Jumpers
• Sanaa Lathan ? A Raisin in the Sun
• Margo Martindale ? Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
• Daphne Rubin-Vega ? Anna in the Tropics

2005

- Adriane Lenox ? Doubt

• Mireille Enos ? Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
• Heather Goldenhersh ? Doubt
• Dana Ivey ? The Rivals
• Amy Ryan ? A Streetcar Named Desire

2006

- Frances de la Tour ? The History Boys

• Tyne Daly ? Rabbit Hole
• Jayne Houdyshell ? Well
• Alison Pill ? The Lieutenant of Inishmore
• Zoë Wanamaker ? Awake and Sing!

2007

- Jennifer Ehle ? The Coast of Utopia

• Xanthe Elbrick ? Coram Boy
• Dana Ivey ? Butley
• Jan Maxwell ? Coram Boy
• Martha Plimpton ? The Coast of Utopia

2008

- Rondi Reed ? August: Osage County

• Sinead Cusack ? Rock 'n' Roll
• Mary McCormack ? Boeing Boeing
• Laurie Metcalf ? November
• Martha Plimpton ? Top Girls

Award records

Wins

• Christine Baranski (2)
• Judith Ivey (2)
• Swoosie Kurtz (2)
• Audra McDonald (2)
• Frances Sternhagen (2)

Nominations

• Frances Sternhagen (5)
• Dana Ivey (4)
• Elizabeth Franz (3)
• Eileen Heckhart (3)
• Swoosie Kurtz (3)
• Marian Seldes (3)
• Zoë Wanamaker (3)
• Christine Baranski (2)

• Leora Dana (2)
• Viola Davis (2)
• Rae Allen (2)
• Alice Ghostley (2)
• Mary Beth Hurt (2)
• Judith Ivey (2)
• Zohra Lampert (2)
• Linda Lavin (2)
• Anna Manahan (2)

• Audra McDonald (2)
• Debra Monk (2)
• Rosemary Murphy (2)
• Martha Plimpton (2)
• Amy Ryan (2)
• Carole Shelley (2)
• Lois Smith (2)
• Maureen Stapleton (2)
• Margaret Tyzack (2)

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