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Tony Award For Best Featured Actress in A Play
The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress 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 actresses for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play. The awards are named after Antoinette Perry , an American actress who died in 1946. 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]
Originally called the "Tony Award for Actress, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic)", Patricia Neal first won the award at the inception of the ceremony for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman 's Another Part of the Forest .[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] The award was renamed in 1976, when Shirley Knight became the first winner under the new title for her role as Carla in Robert Patrick 's Kennedy's Children .[5] Its most recent recipient is Celia Keenan-Bolger , for the role of Scout Finch , in To Kill a Mockingbird .[6]
Six actresses (Christine Baranski , Judith Ivey , Judith Light , Swoosie Kurtz , Audra McDonald , and Frances Sternhagen ) hold the record for most awards in this category, each with a total of two. Portrayals of Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun have won twice, for Audra McDonald and Sophie Okonedo . Supporting actresses in two of three plays in Neil Simon 's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs and Broadway Bound ) were nominated for the Tony, and featured actresses in six parts of August Wilson 's The Pittsburgh Cycle have also been nominated for the award.
Recipients
Win total
2 Wins Nomination total
5 Nominations 4 Nominations 3 Nominations
2 Nominations
Character win total
2 Wins Ruth Younger from A Raisin in the Sun Character nomination total
3 Nominations Brooke Ashton from Noises Off
Honey from Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2 Nominations Bananas Shaughnessy from The House of Blue Leaves
Beneatha Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Beverly from The Shadow Box
Big Mama Pollitt from Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Birdie Hubbard from The Little Foxes
Charlotte from The Real Thing
Hannah Pitt (and others) from Angels in America
Harper Pitt (and others) from Angels in America
Lady Gay Spanker from London Assurance
Lavinia Penniman from The Heiress
Linda Loman from Death of a Salesman
Madge Kendal from The Elephant Man
Maria Merelli from Lend Me a Tenor
Marthy Owen from Anna Christie
Mavis Parodus Bryson from The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window
Ruth Younger from A Raisin in the Sun
Multiple awards and nominations
Actress who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories
Trivia
See also
Notes
^ a b The Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play was not presented in 1948 or 1950.
^ Slapstick Tragedy , written by Tennessee Williams , is a double-bill featuring two one act plays: The Mutilated and The Gnädiges Fräulein ; Caldwell played "Polly" in The Gnädiges Fräulein .[25]
^ Sternhagen plays multiple roles in The Good Doctor ;[34] as described by its author, the play is composed of "sketches, Vaudeville scenes, if you will, written with my non-consenting collaborator, Anton Chekhov ".[35]
^ The Coast of Utopia is broken into three parts. Ehle played Liubov in "Voyage" (part one), Natalie Herzen in "Shipwreck" (part two), and Malwida von Meysenbug in "Salvage" (part three).[68]
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