Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year."[1]
| Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play | |
|---|---|
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play |
| Location | United States New York City |
| Presented by | American Theatre Wing The Broadway League |
| Currently held by | Bertie Carvel for Ink (2019) |
| Website | TonyAwards.com |
Originally called the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic), the award was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.[2] Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public;[3] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".[4] In 1976, when the award's name changed to its current name, Edward Herrmann, portraying Frank Gardner in George Bernard Shaw's Mrs. Warren's Profession, won the award.[5] Its most recent recipient is Bertie Carvel, for the role of Rupert Murdoch, in Ink.[6]
Frank Langella holds the record for having the most wins in this category, with a total of two; he is the only person to win the award more than once. Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross and Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten are the only characters to take the award multiple times, both winning twice. A supporting actor in each of Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy plays (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues, and Broadway Bound) has taken the Tony, whereas featured actors in both parts of Tony Kushner's Angels in America series have also won the award.
Recipients
1940s
Arthur Kennedy won for Death of a Salesman (1949)
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | ||||
| 1949 | Arthur Kennedy | Biff Loman | Death of a Salesman | [2] |
1950s
Eli Wallach won for The Rose Tattoo
Ed Begley won for Inherit the Wind (1956)
Charlie Ruggles won for The Pleasure of His Company (1959)
1960s
Alan Arkin won for Enter Laughing (1962)
Ian Holm won for The Homecoming (1967)
Al Pacino won for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie (1969)
1970s
Ken Howard won for Child's Play (1970)
Frank Langella won for Seascape (1975)
Jonathan Pryce won for Comedians (1977)
1980s
Matthew Broderick won for Bright Beach Memoirs (1983)
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Joe Mantegna won for Glengarry Glen Ross (1984)
John Mahoney won for The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
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B.D. Wong won for M. Butterfly (1988)
1990s
Kevin Spacey won for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Laurence Fishburne won for Two Trains Running (1992)
Jeffrey Wright won for Angels in America (1994)
Ruben Santiago-Hudson won for Seven Guitars (1996
2000s
Langella won his Second Tony Award for Fortune's Fool (2002)
O'Hare won for Take Me Out (2003)
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Schreiber won for Glengarry Glenn Ross (2009)
Ian McDiarmid won for Faith Healer (2006)
Billy Crudup won for Coasts of Utopia (2007)
2010s
Eddie Redmayne won for Red in 2010
Courtney B. Vance won for Lucky Guy in 2013
Mark Rylance won for Twelfth Night in 2014
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Nathan Lane won for Angels in America in 2018
2020s
| Year | Actor | Role | Play | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020s | ||||
| 2020 | Ato Blankson-Wood | Gary | Slave Play | |
| James Cusati-Moyer | Dustin | Slave Play | ||
| David Alan Grier | Sergeant Vernon C. Waters | A Soldier's Play | ||
| John Benjamin Hickey | Henry Wilcox | The Inheritance | ||
| Paul Hilton | Walter Poole/Morgan | The Inheritance | ||
Nominations total
Character win total
- 2 Wins
- Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
Character nomination total
- 3 Nominations
- Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman
- James Tyrone, Jr. from Long Day's Journey into Night
- 2 Nominations
- Chris Keller from All My Sons
- Edmund Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night
- Homer Bolton from Morning's at Seven
- Horace Giddens from The Little Foxes
- Larry from Burn This
- Lenny from The Homecoming
- Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Shelley Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross
- Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
Multiple awards and nominations
Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Trivia
- A supporting actor in each of Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) has taken the Tony.
- Featured actors in both parts of the original production and in the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes series have won the award.
- Matthew Broderick currently holds the record for the youngest person to ever receive this award.
See also
Notes
- The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play was not presented in 1950.
- Paul Sills' Story Theatre consists of ten one-act plays;[27] Sand played as Cowherd in "The Little Peasant", the Rich Peasant in "The Little Peasant", Robber Bridegroom in "The Robber Bridegroom", Turkey Lurkey in "Henny Penny", Clerk in "The Master Thief", Soldier in "The Master Thief", Simpleton in "The Golden Goose", and Hound in "Town Musicians of Bremen".[28]
- Wright played Mr. Lies, Belize, and a member of the Council of Principalities.[51]
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