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 | |
|---|---|
 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 |
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.
Winners and nominees
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1940s
| Year | Actor | Role(s) | Project | Ref. |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1949 (3rd) | ||||
| Arthur Kennedy | Death of a Salesman | Biff Loman |
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| 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 | Dustin | |||
| John Benjamin Hickey | The Inheritance | Henry Wilcox | ||
| Paul Hilton | 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 | 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 |
Wins total
- 2 wins
Nominations total
Character win total
- 2 wins
- Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
- Mason Marzac from Take Me Out
Character nomination total
Productions with multiple nominations
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- Big Fish, Little Fish - Martin Gabel and George Grizzard.
- The Subject Was Roses - Jack Albertson and Martin Sheen.
- Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead - Paul Hecht, Brian Murray, and John Wood.
- Vivat! Vivat Regina! - Douglas Rain and Lee Richardson.
- The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby - Edward Petherbridge and David Threlfall.
- Brighton Beach Memoirs - Matthew Broderick and Željko Ivanek.
- Glengarry Glen Ross - Joe Mantegna and Robert Prosky.
- Loot - Charles Keating and Joseph Maher.
- The Grapes of Wrath - Terry Kinney and Gary Sinise.
- Two Trains Running - Laurence Fishburne and Roscoe Lee Browne.
- Angels in America: Millennium Approaches - Joe Mantello and Stephen Spinella.
- Angels in America: Perestroika - David Marshall Grant and Jeffrey Wright.
- Love! Valour! Compassion! - Stephen Bogardus, John Glover, and Anthony Heald.
- Seven Guitars - Roger Robinson and Ruben Santiago-Hudson.
- The Beauty Queen of Leenane - Tom Murphy and Brían F. O'Byrne.
- Death of a Salesman - Kevin Anderson and Howard Witt.
- Dirty Blonde- Kevin Chamberlin and Bob Stillman.
- Proof-Larry Bryggman and Ben Shenkman.
- Morning's at Seven - William Biff McGuire and Stephen Tobolowsky.
- Long Day's Journey into Night - Philip Seymour Hoffman and Robert Sean Leonard.
- Take Me Out - Denis O'Hare and Daniel Sunjata.
- Glengarry Glen Ross - Alan Alda, Gordon Clapp, and Liev Schreiber.
- Awake and Sing! - Mark Ruffalo and Pablo Schreiber.
- The Coast of Utopia - Billy Crudup and Ethan Hawke.
- Radio Golf - Anthony Chisholm and John Earl Jelks.
- The Seafarer - Conleth Hill and Jim Norton.
- The Norman Conquests - Stephen Mangan and Paul Ritter.
- Golden Boy - Danny Burstein and Tony Shalhoub.
- Twelfth Night - Paul Chahidi, Stephen Fry, and Mark Rylance.
- Lobby Hero - Michael Cera and Brian Tyree Henry.
- The Inheritance - John Benjamin Hickey and Paul Hilton.
- Slave Play - Ato Blankson-Wood and James Cusati-Moyer.
- Take Me Out - Jesse Tyler Ferguson, Michael Oberholtzer, and Jesse Williams.
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, at the age of 21 years old.
- Roy Dotrice currently holds the record for the oldest person to ever receive this award, at the age of 77 years old.
See also
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Musical
- Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Musical
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Actor in a Play
- Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Featured Performance in a Play
- Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role
- List of Tony Award-nominated productions
Notes
References
External links
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