Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role 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] Originally called the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic), it was later changed to its current title in 1976. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public. The change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".[2][3]
Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play | |
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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 |
Winners and nominees
1940s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1949 3rd Tony Awards | |||
Arthur Kennedy | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman |
1950s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1950 4th Tony Awards |
N/A | ||
1951 5th Tony Awards | |||
Eli Wallach | The Rose Tattoo | Alvaro Mangiacavallo | |
1952 6th Tony Awards | |||
John Cromwell | Point of No Return | John Gray | |
1953 7th Tony Awards | |||
John Williams | Dial M for Murder | Inspector Hubbard | |
1954 8th Tony Awards | |||
John Kerr | Tea and Sympathy | Tom Robinson Lee | |
1955 9th Tony Awards | |||
Francis L. Sullivan | Witness for the Prosecution | Sir Wilfrid Robats, Q.C. | |
1956 10th Tony Awards | |||
Ed Begley | Inherit the Wind | Matthew Harrison Brady | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Frank Conroy | The Potting Shed | Father William Callifer | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Henry Jones | Sunrise at Campobello | Louis McHenry Howe | |
Sig Arno | Time Remembered | Ferdinand | |
Theodore Bikel | The Rope Dancers | Dr. Jacobson | |
Pat Hingle | The Dark at the Top of the Stairs | Rubin Flood | |
George Relph | The Entertainer | Billy Rice | |
1959 13th Tony Awards | |||
Charlie Ruggles | The Pleasure of His Company | Mackenzie Savage | |
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 |
1960s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1960 14th Tony Awards | |||
Roddy McDowall | The Fighting Cock | Tarquin Edward Mendigales | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Martin Gabel | Big Fish, Little Fish | Basil Smythe | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Walter Matthau | A Shot in the Dark | Benjamin Beaurevers | |
Godfrey Cambridge | Purlie Victorious | Gitlow Judson | |
Joseph Campanella | A Gift of Time | Daniel Stein | |
Paul Sparer | Ross | Auda Abu Tayi | |
1963 17th Tony Awards | |||
Alan Arkin | Enter Laughing | David Kolowitz | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Hume Cronyn | Hamlet | Polonius | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Jack Albertson | The Subject Was Roses | John Cleary | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Patrick Magee | Marat/Sade | Marquis de Sade | |
Burt Brinckerhoff | Cactus Flower | Igor | |
Larry Haines | Generation | Stan Herman | |
Eamon Kelly | Philadelphia, Here I Come! | S. B. O'Donnell | |
1967 21st Tony Awards | |||
Ian Holm | The Homecoming | Lenny | |
Clayton Corzatte | The School for Scandal | Charles Surface | |
Stephen Elliott | Marat/Sade | Mr. Coulmier | |
Sydney Walker | The Wild Duck | Lt. Ekdal | |
1968 22nd Tony Awards | |||
James Patterson | The Birthday Party | Stanley | |
Paul Hecht | Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead | The Player | |
Brian Murray | Rosencrantz | ||
John Wood | Guildenstern | ||
1969 23rd Tony Awards | |||
Al Pacino | Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? | Bickham | |
Richard S. Castellano | Lovers and Other Strangers | Frank | |
Tony Roberts | Play It Again, Sam | Dick Christie | |
Louis Zorich | Hadrian VII | Cardinal Ragna |
1970s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1970 24th Tony Awards | |||
Ken Howard | Child's Play | Paul Reese | |
Joseph Bova | The Chinese and Dr. Fish | Mr. Lee | |
Dennis King | A Patriot for Me | Baron von Epp | |
1971 25th Tony Awards | |||
Paul Sand | Paul Sills' Story Theatre | Various Characters | |
Ronald Radd | Abelard and Heloise | Gilies de Vannes | |
Donald Pickering | Conduct Unbecoming | Capt. Rupert Harper | |
Ed Zimmermann | The Philanthropist | Donald | |
1972 26th Tony Awards | |||
Vincent Gardenia | The Prisoner of Second Avenue | Harry Edison | |
Douglas Rain | Vivat! Vivat Regina! | William Cecil | |
Lee Richardson | Lord Bothwell | ||
Joe Silver | Lenny | Various Characters | |
1973 27th Tony Awards | |||
John Lithgow | The Changing Room | Kenny Kendal | |
Barnard Hughes | Much Ado About Nothing | Dogberry | |
John McMartin | Don Juan | Sganarelle | |
Hayward Morse | Butley | Joseph Keyston | |
1974 28th Tony Awards | |||
Ed Flanders | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Phil Hogan | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Frank Langella | Seascape | Leslie | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Edward Herrmann | Mrs. Warren's Profession | Frank Gardner | |
Barry Bostwick | They Knew What They Wanted | Joe | |
Gabriel Dell | Lamppost Reunion | Fred Santora | |
Daniel Seltzer | Knock Knock | Cohn | |
1977 31st Tony Awards | |||
Jonathan Pryce | Comedians | Gethin Price | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Lester Rawlins | Da | Drumm | |
Morgan Freeman | The Mighty Gents | Zeke | |
Victor Garber | Deathtrap | Clifford Anderson | |
Cliff Gorman | Chapter Two | Leo Schneider | |
1979 33rd Tony Awards | |||
Michael Gough | Bedroom Farce | Ernest | |
Bob Balaban | The Inspector General | Óssip | |
Joseph Maher | Spokesong | The Trick Cyclist | |
Edward James Olmos | Zoot Suit | El Pachuco |
1980s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1980 34th Tony Awards | |||
David Rounds | Morning's at Seven | Homer Bolton | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Brian Backer | The Floating Light Bulb | Paul Pollack | |
Tom Aldredge | The Little Foxes | Horace Giddens | |
Adam Redfield | A Life | Desmond | |
Shepperd Strudwick | To Grandmother's House We Go | Jared | |
1982 36th Tony Awards | |||
Zakes Mokae | "Master Harold"...and the Boys | Sam | |
Richard Kavanaugh | The Hothouse | Gibbs | |
Edward Petherbridge | The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby | Newman Noggs | |
David Threlfall | Smike | ||
1983 37th Tony Awards | |||
Matthew Broderick | Brighton Beach Memoirs | Eugene Jerome | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Joe Mantegna | Glengarry Glen Ross | Richard Roma | |
Philip Bosco | Heartbreak House | Boss Mangan | |
Robert Prosky | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelly Levene | |
Douglas Seale | Noises Off | Selsdon Mowbray | |
1985 39th Tony Awards | |||
Barry Miller | Biloxi Blues | Arnold Epstein | |
Charles S. Dutton | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Levee | |
William Hurt | Hurlyburly | Eddie | |
Edward Petherbridge | Strange Interlude | Charles Marsden | |
1986 40th Tony Awards | |||
John Mahoney | The House of Blue Leaves | Artie Shaughnessy | |
Peter Gallagher | Long Day's Journey into Night | Edmund Tyrone | |
Charles Keating | Loot | McLeavy | |
Joseph Maher | Truscott | ||
1987 41st Tony Awards | |||
John Randolph | Broadway Bound | Ben | |
Frankie Faison | Fences | Gabriel | |
Jamey Sheridan | All My Sons | Chris Keller | |
Courtney B. Vance | Fences | Cory | |
1988 42nd Tony Awards | |||
BD Wong | M. Butterfly | Song Liling | |
Michael Gough | Breaking the Code | Dillwyn Knox | |
Lou Liberatore | Burn This | Larry | |
Delroy Lindo | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Herald Loomis | |
1989 43rd Tony Awards | |||
Boyd Gaines | The Heidi Chronicles | Peter Patrone | |
Peter Frechette | Eastern Standard | Drew | |
Eric Stoltz | Our Town | George Gibbs | |
Gordon Joseph Weiss | Ghetto | The Dummy |
1990s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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1990 44th Tony Awards | |||
Charles Durning | Cat on a Hot Tin Roof | Big Daddy | |
Rocky Carroll | The Piano Lesson | Lymon | |
Terry Kinney | The Grapes of Wrath | Jim Casy | |
Gary Sinise | Tom Joad | ||
1991 45th Tony Awards | |||
Kevin Spacey | Lost in Yonkers | "Uncle" Louie | |
Adam Arkin | I Hate Hamlet | Gary Peter Lefkowitz | |
Dylan Baker | La Bête | Prince County | |
Stephen Lang | The Speed of Darkness | Lou | |
1992 46th Tony Awards | |||
Laurence Fishburne | Two Trains Running | Sterling | |
Roscoe Lee Browne | Two Trains Running | Holloway | |
Željko Ivanek | Two Shakespearean Actors | John Ryder | |
Tony Shalhoub | Conversations with My Father | Charlie | |
1993 47th Tony Awards | |||
Stephen Spinella | Angels in America: Millennium Approaches | Prior Walter, et al. | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Jeffrey Wright | Angels in America: Perestroika | Norman "Belize" Arriaga, et al. | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
John Glover | Love! Valour! Compassion! | John and James Jeckyll | |
Stephen Bogardus | Love! Valour! Compassion! | Gregory Mitchell | |
Anthony Heald | Perry Sellars | ||
Jude Law | Indiscretions | Michael | |
1996 50th Tony Awards | |||
Ruben Santiago-Hudson | Seven Guitars | Canewell | |
James Gammon | Buried Child | Dodge | |
Roger Robinson | Seven Guitars | Hedley | |
Reg Rogers | Holiday | Ned Seton | |
1997 51st Tony Awards | |||
Owen Teale | A Doll's House | Torvald Helmer | |
Terry Beaver | The Last Night of Ballyhoo | Adolph | |
Biff McGuire | The Young Man from Atlanta | Pete Davenport | |
Brian Murray | The Little Foxes | Oscar | |
1998 52nd Tony Awards | |||
Tom Murphy | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Ray Dooley | |
Brían F. O'Byrne | The Beauty Queen of Leenane | Pato Dooley | |
Sam Trammell | Ah, Wilderness! | Richard Miller | |
Max Wright | Ivanov | Pavel Lebedev | |
1999 53rd Tony Awards | |||
Frank Wood | Side Man | Gene | |
Kevin Anderson | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman | |
Finbar Lynch | Not About Nightingales | Jim Allison | |
Howard Witt | Death of a Salesman | Charley |
2000s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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2000 54th Tony Awards | |||
Roy Dotrice | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Phil Hogan | |
Kevin Chamberlin | Dirty Blonde | Various Characters | |
Daniel Davis | Wrong Mountain | Maurice Montesor | |
Derek Smith | The Green Bird | King Tartaglia | |
Bob Stillman | Dirty Blonde | Various Characters | |
2001 55th Tony Awards | |||
Robert Sean Leonard | The Invention of Love | A. E. Housman, from ages 18 to 26 | |
Charles Brown | King Hedley II | Elmore | |
Larry Bryggman | Proof | Robert Llewellyn | |
Michael Hayden | Judgment at Nuremberg | Oscar Rolfe | |
Ben Shenkman | Proof | Hal Dobbs | |
2002 56th Tony Awards | |||
Frank Langella | Fortune's Fool | Flegont Alexandrovitch Tropatchov | |
Biff McGuire | Morning's at Seven | Theodore Swanson | |
Brian Murray | The Crucible | Deputy-Governor Danforth | |
Sam Robards | The Man Who Had All the Luck | Gustav Eberson | |
Stephen Tobolowsky | Morning's at Seven | Homer Bolton | |
2003 57th Tony Awards | |||
Denis O'Hare | Take Me Out | Mason Marzak | |
Thomas Jefferson Byrd | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Toledo | |
Philip Seymour Hoffman | Long Day's Journey into Night | James Tyrone, Jr. | |
Robert Sean Leonard | Edmund Tyrone | ||
Daniel Sunjata | Take Me Out | Darren Lemming | |
2004 58th Tony Awards | |||
Brían F. O'Byrne | Frozen | Ralph Tate | |
Tom Aldredge | Twentieth Century | Matthew Clark | |
Ben Chaplin | The Retreat from Moscow | Jamie Reid | |
Aidan Gillen | The Caretaker | Mick | |
Omar Metwally | Sixteen Wounded | Mahmoud | |
2005 59th Tony Awards | |||
Liev Schreiber | Glengarry Glen Ross | Richard Roma | |
Alan Alda | Glengarry Glen Ross | Shelly Levene | |
Gordon Clapp | Dave Moss | ||
David Harbour | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Nick | |
Michael Stuhlbarg | The Pillowman | Michal | |
2006 60th Tony Awards | |||
Ian McDiarmid | Faith Healer | Teddy Branson | |
Samuel Barnett | The History Boys | David Posner | |
Domhnall Gleeson | The Lieutenant of Inishmore | Davey | |
Mark Ruffalo | Awake and Sing! | Moe Axelrod | |
Pablo Schreiber | Ralph Berger | ||
2007 61st Tony Awards | |||
Billy Crudup | The Coast of Utopia | Vissarion Belinsky | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Jim Norton | The Seafarer | Richard Harkin | |
Bobby Cannavale | Mauritius | Dennis | |
Raúl Esparza | The Homecoming | Lenny | |
Conleth Hill | The Seafarer | Ivan Curry | |
David Pittu | Is He Dead? | Various Characters | |
2009 63rd Tony Awards | |||
Roger Robinson | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Bynum Walker | |
John Glover | Waiting for Godot | Lucky | |
Zach Grenier | 33 Variations | Beethoven | |
Stephen Mangan | The Norman Conquests | Norman | |
Paul Ritter | Reg |
2010s
Year | Actor | Play | Character |
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2010 64th Tony Awards | |||
Eddie Redmayne | Red | Ken | |
David Alan Grier | Race | Henry Brown | |
Stephen Henderson | Fences | Jim Bono | |
Jon Michael Hill | Superior Donuts | Franco | |
Stephen Kunken | ENRON | Andy Fastow | |
2011 65th Tony Awards | |||
John Benjamin Hickey | The Normal Heart | Felix Turner | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Christian Borle | Peter and the Starcatcher | Black Stache | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Courtney B. Vance | Lucky Guy | Hap Hairston | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Mark Rylance | Twelfth Night | Countess Olivia | |
Reed Birney | Casa Valentina | Charlotte | |
Paul Chahidi | Twelfth Night | Maria | |
Stephen Fry | Malvolio | ||
Brian J. Smith | The Glass Menagerie | Jim O'Connor | |
2015 69th Tony Awards | |||
Richard McCabe | The Audience | Harold Wilson | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Reed Birney | The Humans | Erik Blake | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Michael Aronov | Oslo | Uri Savir | |
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 Tony Awards | |||
Nathan Lane | Angels in America | Roy Cohn, et al. | |
Anthony Boyle | Harry Potter and the Cursed Child | Scorpius Malfoy | |
Michael Cera | Lobby Hero | Jeff | |
Brian Tyree Henry | William | ||
David Morse | The Iceman Cometh | Larry Slade | |
2019 73rd Tony Awards | |||
Bertie Carvel | Ink | Rupert Murdoch | |
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 |
Wins total
- 2 Wins
- Frank Langella
Nominations total
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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
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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.
References
- Kirkley, Donald (April 21, 1968). "Operation Frenzy Before the Tony Awards". The Baltimore Sun. Tribune Company. p. T2. Retrieved December 24, 2011. (subscription required)
- Simons, Linda Keir (1994). The Performing Arts: a Guide to the Reference Literature. ABC-CLIO. p. 137. ISBN 978-0-87287-982-9.
- Gelb, Arthur (April 1, 1956). "Popularizing the Tony Awards". The New York Times. The New York Times Company. Retrieved January 14, 2011. (subscription required)