Tony_Award_for_Best_Featured_Actor_in_a_Play

Tony Award for
Best Featured Actor in a Play
Tony Award for; Best Featured Actor in a Play
	2023 recipient: Brandon Uranowitz
Description	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	Brandon Uranowitz for Leopoldstadt (2023)
Website	www.tonyawards.com

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

Annual acting award given in the United States

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]

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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. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public;^[2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".^[3] Its most recent recipient is Brandon Uranowitz for his performance in Leopoldstadt.

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, Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Mason Marzac in Take Me Out are the only characters to take the award multiple times, all 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.

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Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project
1949 (3rd)
	Arthur Kennedy	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
1951 (5th)
1951 (5th)	Eli Wallach	The Rose Tattoo	Alvaro Mangiacavallo
1952 (6th)
1952 (6th)	John Cromwell	Point of No Return	John Gray
1953 (7th)
1953 (7th)	John Williams	Dial M for Murder	Inspector Hubbard
1954 (8th)
1954 (8th)	John Kerr	Tea and Sympathy	Tom Robinson Lee
1955 (9th)
1955 (9th)	Francis L. Sullivan	Witness for the Prosecution	Sir Wilfrid Robats, Q.C.
1956 (10th)
	Ed Begley	Inherit the Wind	Matthew Harrison Brady	^[4]
	Anthony Franciosa	A Hatful of Rain	Polo Pope
	Andy Griffith	No Time for Sergeants	Will Stockdale
	Anthony Quayle	Tamburlaine the Great	Tamburlaine
	Fritz Weaver	The Chalk Garden	Maitland
1957 (11th)
	Frank Conroy	The Potting Shed	Father William Callifer	^[5]
	Eddie Mayehoff	A Visit to a Small Planet	General Tom Powers
	William Podmore	Separate Tables	Mr. Fowler
	Jason Robards	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone Jr.
1958 (12th)
	Henry Jones	Sunrise at Campobello	Louis McHenry Howe	^[6]
	Sig Arno	Time Remembered	Ferdinand
	Theodore Bikel	The Rope Dancers	Dr. Jacobson
	Pat Hingle	The Dark at the Top of the Stairs	Louis McHenry Howe
	George Relph	The Entertainer	Rubin Flood
1959 (13th)
	Charlie Ruggles	The Pleasure of His Company	Mackenzie Savage	^[7]
	Marc Connelly	Tall Story	Professor Charles Osman
	George Grizzard	The Disenchanted	Shep Stearns
	Walter Matthau	Once More, with Feeling!	Maxwell Archer
	Robert Morse	Say, Darling	Ted Snow
	George C. Scott	Comes a Day	Tydings Glenn

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Film	Ref.
1960 (14th)
	Roddy McDowall	The Fighting Cock	Tarquin Edward Mendigales	^[8]
	Warren Beatty	A Loss of Roses	Kenny
	Harry Guardino	One More River	Pompey
	Rip Torn	Sweet Bird of Youth	Tom Junior
	Lawrence Winters	The Long Dream	Tyree Tucker
1961 (15th)
	Martin Gabel	Big Fish, Little Fish	Basil Smythe	^[9]
	Philip Bosco	The Rape of the Belt	Heracles
	Eduardo Ciannelli	The Devil's Advocate	Aurelio
	George Grizzard	Big Fish, Little Fish	Ronnie Johnson
1962 (16th)
	Walter Matthau	A Shot in the Dark	Benjamin Beaurevers	^[10]
	Godfrey Cambridge	Purlie Victorious	Gitlow Judson
	Joseph Campanella	A Gift of Time	Daniel Stein
	Paul Sparer	Ross	Auda Abu Tayi
1963 (17th)
	Alan Arkin	Enter Laughing	David Kolowitz	^[11]
	Barry Gordon	A Thousand Clowns	Nick Burns
	Paul Rogers	Photo Finish	Reginald Kinsale, Esq.
	Frank Silvera	The Lady of the Carnellias	M. Duval
1964 (18th)
	Hume Cronyn	Hamlet	Polonius	^[12]
	Lee Allen	Marathon '33	Patsy
	Michael Dunn	The Ballad of the Sad Café	Cousin Lyman
	Larry Gates	A Case of Libel	Boyd Bendix
1965 (19th)
	Jack Albertson	The Subject Was Roses	John Cleary	^[13]
	Murray Hamilton	Absence of a Cello	Otis Clifton
	Martin Sheen	The Subject Was Roses	Timmy Cleary
	Clarence Williams III	Slow Dance on the Killing Ground	Randall
1966 (20th)
	Patrick Magee	Marat/Sade	Marquis de Sade	^[14]
	Burt Brinckerhoff	Cactus Flower	Igor
	Larry Haines	Generation	Stan Herman
	Eamon Kelly	Philadelphia, Here I Come!	S. B. O'Donnell
1967 (21st)
	Ian Holm	The Homecoming	Lenny	^[15]
	Clayton Corzatte	The School for Scandal	Charles Surface
	Stephen Elliott	Marat/Sade	Mr. Coulmier
	Sydney Walker	The Wild Duck	Lt. Ekdal
1968 (22nd)
	James Patterson	The Birthday Party	Stanley	^[16]
	Paul Hecht	Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead	The Player
	Brian Murray		Rosencrantz
	John Wood		Guildenstern
1969 (23rd)
	Al Pacino	Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?	Bickham	^[17]
	Richard S. Castellano	Lovers and Other Strangers	Frank
	Tony Roberts	Play It Again, Sam	Dick Christie
	Louis Zorich	Hadrian VII	Cardinal Ragna

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
1970 (24th)
	Ken Howard	Child's Play	Paul Reese	^[18]
	Joseph Bova	The Chinese and Dr. Fish	Mr. Lee
	Dennis King	A Patriot for Me	Baron von Epp
1971 (25th)
	Paul Sand	Paul Sills' Story Theatre	Various Characters^{[note 1]}^[19]	^[20]
	Ronald Radd	Abelard and Heloise	Gilies de Vannes
	Donald Pickering	Conduct Unbecoming	Capt. Rupert Harper
	Ed Zimmermann	The Philanthropist	Donald
1972 (26th)
	Vincent Gardenia	The Prisoner of Second Avenue	Harry Edison	^[21]
	Douglas Rain	Vivat! Vivat Regina!	William Cecil
	Lee Richardson	Vivat! Vivat Regina!	Lord Bothwell
	Joe Silver	Lenny	Various Characters
1973 (27th)
	John Lithgow	The Changing Room	Kenny Kendal	^[22]
	Barnard Hughes	Much Ado About Nothing	Dogberry
	John McMartin	Don Juan	Sganarelle
	Hayward Morse	Butley	Joseph Keyston
1974 (28th)
	Ed Flanders	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Phil Hogan	^[23]
	René Auberjonois	The Good Doctor	Performer
	Douglas Turner Ward	The River Niger	Johnny Williams
	Dick Anthony Williams	What the Wine-Sellers Buy	Rico
1975 (29th)
	Frank Langella	Seascape	Leslie	^[24]
	Larry Blyden	Absurd Person Singular	Sidney
	Leonard Frey	The National Health	Barnet
	Philip Locke	Sherlock Holmes	Professor Moriarty
	George Rose	My Fat Friend	Henry
	Dick Anthony Williams	Black Picture Show	Alexander
1976 (30th)
	Edward Herrmann	Mrs. Warren's Profession	Frank Gardner	^[25]
	Barry Bostwick	They Knew What They Wanted	Joe
	Gabriel Dell	Lamppost Reunion	Fred Santora
	Daniel Seltzer	Knock Knock	Cohn
1977 (31st)
	Jonathan Pryce	Comedians	Gethin Price	^[26]
	Bob Dishy	Sly Fox	Abner Truckle
	Joe Fields	The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel	First Sergeant Tower
	Laurence Luckinbill	The Shadow Box	Brian
1978 (32nd)
	Lester Rawlins	Da	Drumm	^[27]
	Morgan Freeman	The Mighty Gents	Zeke
	Victor Garber	Deathtrap	Clifford Anderson
	Cliff Gorman	Chapter Two	Leo Schneider
1979 (33rd)
	Michael Gough	Bedroom Farce	Ernest	^[28]
	Bob Balaban	The Inspector General	Óssip
	Joseph Maher	Spokesong	The Trick Cyclist
	Edward James Olmos	Zoot Suit	El Pachuco

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
1980 (34th)
	David Rounds	Morning's at Seven	Homer Bolton	^[29]
	David Dukes	Bent	Horst
	George Hearn	Watch on the Rhine	Kurt Muller
	Earle Hyman	The Lady from Dubuque	Oscar
	Joseph Maher	Night and Day	Geoffrey Carson
1981 (35th)
	Brian Backer	The Floating Light Bulb	Paul Pollack	^[30]
	Tom Aldredge	The Little Foxes	Horace Giddens
	Adam Redfield	A Life	Desmond
	Shepperd Strudwick	To Grandmother's House We Go	Jared
1982 (36th)
	Zakes Mokae	Master Harold...and the Boys	Sam	^[31]
	Richard Kavanaugh	The Hothouse	Gibbs
	Edward Petherbridge	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Newman Noggs
	David Threlfall	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Smike
1983 (37th)
	Matthew Broderick	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Eugene Jerome	^[32]
	Željko Ivanek	Brighton Beach Memoirs	Stanley Jerome
	George N. Martin	Plenty	Leonard Darwin
	Stephen Moore	All's Well That Ends Well	Captain Parolles
1984 (38th)
	Joe Mantegna	Glengarry Glen Ross	Richard Roma	^[33]
	Philip Bosco	Heartbreak House	Boss Mangan
	Robert Prosky	Glengarry Glen Ross	Shelly Levene
	Douglas Seale	Noises Off	Selsdon Mowbray
1985 (39th)
	Barry Miller	Biloxi Blues	Arnold Epstein	^[34]
	Charles S. Dutton	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Levee
	William Hurt	Hurlyburly	Eddie
	Edward Petherbridge	Strange Interlude	Charles Marsden
1986 (40th)
	John Mahoney	The House of Blue Leaves	Artie Shaughnessy	^[35]
	Peter Gallagher	Long Day's Journey into Night	Edmund Tyrone
	Charles Keating	Loot	McLeavy
	Joseph Maher	Loot	Truscott
1987 (41st)
	John Randolph	Broadway Bound	Ben	^[36]
	Frankie R. Faison	Fences	Gabriel Maxson
	Jamey Sheridan	All My Sons	Chris Keller
	Courtney B. Vance	Fences	Cory Maxson
1988 (42nd)
	BD Wong	M. Butterfly	Song Liling	^[37]
	Michael Gough	Breaking the Code	Dillwyn Knox
	Lou Liberatore	Burn This	Larry
	Delroy Lindo	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Herald Loomis
1989 (43rd)
	Boyd Gaines	The Heidi Chronicles	Peter Patrone	^[38]
	Peter Frechette	Eastern Standard	Drew
	Eric Stoltz	Our Town	George Gibbs
	Gordon Joseph Weiss	Ghetto	The Dummy

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Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
1990 (44th)
	Charles Durning	Cat on a Hot Tin Roof	Big Daddy	^[39]
	Rocky Carroll	The Piano Lesson	Lymon
	Terry Kinney	The Grapes of Wrath	Jim Casy
	Gary Sinise	The Grapes of Wrath	Tom Joad
1991 (45th)
	Kevin Spacey	Lost in Yonkers	Louie Kurnitz	^[40]
	Adam Arkin	I Hate Hamlet	Gary Peter Lefkowitz
	Dylan Baker	La Bête	Prince County
	Stephen Lang	The Speed of Darkness	Lou
1992 (46th)
	Laurence Fishburne	Two Trains Running	Sterling	^[41]
	Roscoe Lee Browne	Two Trains Running	Holloway
	Željko Ivanek	Two Shakespearean Actors	John Ryder
	Tony Shalhoub	Conversations with My Father	Charlie
1993 (47th)
	Stephen Spinella	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Prior Walter, et al.	^[42]
	Robert Sean Leonard	Candida	Eugene Marchbanks
	Joe Mantello	Angels in America: Millennium Approaches	Louis Ironson
	Zakes Mokae	The Song of Jacob Zulu	Rev. Zulu/Mr. X, Itshe
1994 (48th)
	Jeffrey Wright	Angels in America: Perestroika	Norman "Belize" Arriaga, et al.	^[43]
	Larry Bryggman	Picnic	Howard Bevans
	David Marshall Grant	Angels in America: Perestroika	Joe Pitt, et al.
	Gregory Itzin	The Kentucky Cycle	Various Characters
1995 (49th)
	John Glover	Love! Valour! Compassion!	John and James Jeckyll	^[44]
	Stephen Bogardus	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Gregory Mitchell
	Anthony Heald	Love! Valour! Compassion!	Perry Sellars
	Jude Law	Indiscretions	Michael
1996 (50th)
	Ruben Santiago-Hudson	Seven Guitars	Canewell	^[45]
	James Gammon	Buried Child	Dodge
	Roger Robinson	Seven Guitars	Hedley
	Reg Rogers	Holiday	Ned Seton
1997 (51st)
	Owen Teale	A Doll's House	Torvald Helmer	^[46]
	Terry Beaver	The Last Night of Ballyhoo	Adolph
	Brian Murray	The Little Foxes	Oscar
	Biff McGuire	The Young Man from Atlanta	Pete Davenport
1998 (52nd)
	Tom Murphy	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Ray Dooley	^[47]
	Brían F. O'Byrne	The Beauty Queen of Leenane	Pato Dooley
	Sam Trammell	Ah, Wilderness!	Richard Miller
	Max Wright	Ivanov	Pavel Lebedev
1999 (53rd)
	Frank Wood	Side Man	Gene	^[48]
	Kevin Anderson	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman
	Finbar Lynch	Not About Nightingales	Jim Allison
	Howard Witt	Death of a Salesman	Charley

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
2000 (54th)
	Roy Dotrice	A Moon for the Misbegotten	Phil Hogan	^[49]
	Kevin Chamberlin	Dirty Blonde	Various Characters
	Daniel Davis	Wrong Mountain	Maurice Montesor
	Derek Smith	The Green Bird	Tartaglia
	Bob Stillman	Dirty Blonde	Various Characters
2001 (55th)
	Robert Sean Leonard	The Invention of Love	A. E. Housman, ages 18 to 26	^[50]
	Charles Brown	King Hedley II	Elmore
	Larry Bryggman	Proof	Robert
	Michael Hayden	Judgment at Nuremberg	Oscar Rolfe
	Ben Shenkman	Proof	Hal
2002 (56th)
	Frank Langella	Fortune's Fool	Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov	^[51]
	Brian Murray	The Crucible	Deputy-Governor Danforth
	William Biff McGuire	Morning's at Seven	Theodore Swanson
	Sam Robards	The Man Who Had All the Luck	Gustav Eberson
	Stephen Tobolowsky	Morning's at Seven	Homer Bolton
2003 (57th)
	Denis O'Hare	Take Me Out	Mason Marzac	^[52]
	Thomas Jefferson Byrd	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Toledo
	Philip Seymour Hoffman	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone Jr.
	Robert Sean Leonard	Long Day's Journey into Night	Edmund Tyrone
	Daniel Sunjata	Take Me Out	Darren Lemming
2004 (58th)
	Brían F. O'Byrne	Frozen	Ralph	^[53]
	Tom Aldredge	Twentieth Century	Matthew Clark
	Ben Chaplin	The Retreat from Moscow	Jamie
	Aidan Gillen	The Caretaker	Mick
	Omar Metwally	Sixteen Wounded	Mahmoud
2005 (59th)
	Liev Schreiber	Glengarry Glen Ross	Richard Roma	^[54]
	Alan Alda	Glengarry Glen Ross	Shelly Levene
	Gordon Clapp	Glengarry Glen Ross	Moss
	David Harbour	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?	Nick
	Michael Stuhlbarg	The Pillowman	Michael
2006 (60th)
	Ian McDiarmid	Faith Healer	Teddy	^[55]
	Samuel Barnett	The History Boys	Posner
	Domhnall Gleeson	The Lieutenant of Inishmore	Davey
	Mark Ruffalo	Awake and Sing!	Moe Axelrod
	Pablo Schreiber	Awake and Sing!	Ralph Berger
2007 (61st)
	Billy Crudup	The Coast of Utopia	Vissarion Belinsky	^[56]
	Anthony Chisholm	Radio Golf	Elder Joseph Barlow
	Ethan Hawke	The Coast of Utopia	Michael Bakunin
	John Earl Jelks	Radio Golf	Sterling Johnson
	Stark Sands	Journey's End	Lieut. Raleigh
2008 (62nd)
	Jim Norton	The Seafarer	Richard Harkin	^[57]
	Bobby Cannavale	Mauritius	Dennis
	Raúl Esparza	The Homecoming	Lenny
	Conleth Hill	The Seafarer	Ivan Curry
	David Pittu	Is He Dead?	Various Characters
2009 (63rd)
	Roger Robinson	Joe Turner's Come and Gone	Bynum Walker	^[58]
	John Glover	Waiting for Godot	Lucky
	Zach Grenier	33 Variations	Beethoven
	Stephen Mangan	The Norman Conquests	Norman
	Paul Ritter	The Norman Conquests	Reg

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
2010 (64th)
	Eddie Redmayne	Red	Ken	^[59]
	David Alan Grier	Race	Henry Brown
	Stephen Henderson	Fences	Jim Bono
	Jon Michael Hill	Superior Donuts	Franco
	Stephen Kunken	Enron	Andy Fastow
2011 (65th)
	John Benjamin Hickey	The Normal Heart	Felix Turner	^[60]
	Mackenzie Crook	Jerusalem	Ginger
	Billy Crudup	Arcadia	Bernard Nightingale
	Arian Moayed	Bengal Tiger at the Baghdad Zoo	Musa
	Yul Vázquez	The Motherfucker with the Hat	Cousin Julio
2012 (66th)
	Christian Borle	Peter and the Starcatcher	Black Stache	^[61]
	Michael Cumpsty	End of the Rainbow	Anthony
	Tom Edden	One Man, Two Guvnors	Alfie
	Andrew Garfield	Death of a Salesman	Biff Loman
	Jeremy Shamos	Clybourne Park	Karl/Steve
2013 (67th)
	Courtney B. Vance	Lucky Guy	Hap Hairston	^[62]
	Danny Burstein	Golden Boy	Tokio
	Richard Kind	The Big Knife	Marcus Hoff
	Billy Magnussen	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike	Spike
	Tony Shalhoub	Golden Boy	Mr. Bonaparte
2014 (68th)
	Mark Rylance	Twelfth Night	Countess Olivia	^[63]
	Reed Birney	Casa Valentina	Charlotte
	Paul Chahidi	Twelfth Night	Maria
	Stephen Fry	Twelfth Night	Malvolio
	Brian J. Smith	The Glass Menagerie	Jim O'Connor
2015 (69th)
	Richard McCabe	The Audience	Harold Wilson	^[64]
	Matthew Beard	Skylight	Edward Sergeant
	K. Todd Freeman	Airline Highway	Sissy Na Na
	Alessandro Nivola	The Elephant Man	Frederick Treves
	Nathaniel Parker	Wolf Hall Parts One & Two	Henry VIII
	Micah Stock	It's Only a Play	Gus P. Head
2016 (70th)
	Reed Birney	The Humans	Erik Blake	^[65]
	Bill Camp	The Crucible	Reverend John Hale
	David Furr	Noises Off	Gary Lejeune
	Richard Goulding	King Charles III	Prince Harry
	Michael Shannon	Long Day's Journey into Night	James Tyrone Jr.
2017 (71st)
	Michael Aronov	Oslo	Uri Savir	^[66]
	Danny DeVito	The Price	Gregory Solomon
	Nathan Lane	The Front Page	Walter Burns
	Richard Thomas	The Little Foxes	Horace Giddens
	John Douglas Thompson	Jitney	Jim Becker
2018 (72nd)
	Nathan Lane	Angels in America	Roy Cohn, et al.	^[67]
	Anthony Boyle	Harry Potter and the Cursed Child	Scorpius Malfoy
	Michael Cera	Lobby Hero	Jeff
	Brian Tyree Henry	Lobby Hero	William
	David Morse	The Iceman Cometh	Larry Slade
2019 (73rd)
	Bertie Carvel	Ink	Rupert Murdoch	^[68]
	Robin de Jesús	The Boys in the Band	Emory
	Gideon Glick	To Kill a Mockingbird	Dill Harris
	Brandon Uranowitz	Burn This	Larry
	Benjamin Walker	All My Sons	Chris Keller

Year	Actor	Role(s)	Project	Ref.
2020 (74th)
	David Alan Grier	A Soldier's Play	Sergeant Vernon C. Waters	^[69]
	Ato Blankson-Wood	Slave Play	Gary
	James Cusati-Moyer	Slave Play	Dustin
	John Benjamin Hickey	The Inheritance	Henry Wilcox
	Paul Hilton	The Inheritance	Walter Poole/Morgan
2022 (75th)
	Jesse Tyler Ferguson	Take Me Out	Mason Marzac	^[70]
	Alfie Allen	Hangmen	Mooney
	Chuck Cooper	Trouble in Mind	Sheldon Forrester
	Ron Cephas Jones	Clyde's	Montrellous
	Michael Oberholtzer	Take Me Out	Shane Mungitt
	Jesse Williams	Take Me Out	Darren Lemming
2023 (76th)
	Brandon Uranowitz	Leopoldstadt	Ludwig Jakobovicz / Nathan Fischbein	^[71]
	Jordan E. Cooper	Ain't No Mo'	Peaches
	Samuel L. Jackson	August Wilson's The Piano Lesson	Doaker Charles
	Arian Moayed	A Doll's House	Torvald Helmer
	David Zayas	Cost of Living	Eddie