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Year Category Nominee Show Nom
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Michael Stuhlbarg Patriots
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeremy Strong An Enemy of the People
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liev Schreiber Doubt
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Leslie Odom, Jr. Purlie Victorious
2024 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play William Jackson Harper Uncle Vanya
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Threlfall Hangmen
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ruben Santiago-Hudson Lackawanna Blues
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Sam Rockwell American Buffalo
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Morse How I Learned To Drive
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Adrian Lester The Lehman Trilogy
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Adam Godley The Lehman Trilogy
2022 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Simon Russell Beale The Lehman Trilogy Award winner
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Blair Underwood A Soldier's Play
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Sturridge Sea Wall/A Life
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Hiddleston Betrayal
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jake Gyllenhaal Sea Wall/A Life
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Andrew Burnap The Inheritance Award winner
2020 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ian Barford Linda Vista
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeremy Pope Choir Boy
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Adam Driver Burn This
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeff Daniels To Kill a Mockingbird
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bryan Cranston Network Award winner
2019 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Paddy Considine The Ferryman
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Denzel Washington The Iceman Cometh
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mark Rylance Farinelli and The King
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jamie Parker Harry Potter and the Cursed Child, Parts One and Two
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Hollander Travesties
2018 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Andrew Garfield Angels in America Award winner
2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jefferson Mays Oslo
2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Kevin Kline Present Laughter Award winner
2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Corey Hawkins Six Degrees of Separation
2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Chris Cooper A Doll's House, Part 2
2017 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Denis Arndt Heisenberg
2016 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mark Strong Arthur Miller's A View from the Bridge
2016 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tim Pigott-Smith King Charles III
2016 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella The Father Award winner
2016 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeff Daniels Blackbird
2016 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Gabriel Byrne Long Day's Journey Into Night
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alex Sharp The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time Award winner
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bill Nighy Skylight
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Miles Wolf Hall, Parts One & Two
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bradley Cooper The Elephant Man
2015 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Steven Boyer Hand to God
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tony Shalhoub Act One
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mark Rylance Richard III
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Chris O'Dowd Of Mice and Men
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bryan Cranston All the Way Award winner
2014 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Samuel Barnett Twelfth Night
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Sturridge Orphans
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Hyde Pierce Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tracy Letts Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Nathan Lane The Nance
2013 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Tom Hanks Lucky Guy
2012 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play John Lithgow The Columnist
2012 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella Man and Boy
2012 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Earl Jones Gore Vidal's The Best Man
2012 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Seymour Hoffman Death of a Salesman
2012 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Corden One Man, Two Guvnors Award winner
2011 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Al Pacino The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
2011 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mark Rylance Jerusalem Award winner
2011 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Bedford The Importance of Being Earnest
2011 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Joe Mantello The Normal Heart
2011 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bobby Cannavale The Motherf**ker with the Hat
2010 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Walken A Behanding In Spokane
2010 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liev Schreiber A View from the Bridge
2010 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Alfred Molina Red
2010 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jude Law Hamlet
2010 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Denzel Washington Fences Award winner
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Thomas Sadoski Reasons to Be Pretty
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Gandolfini God of Carnage
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Raul Esparza Speed-the-Plow production took place the previous year
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeff Daniels God of Carnage
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jeff Daniels God of Carnage
2009 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Geoffrey Rush Exit the King Award winner
2008 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Patrick Stewart Macbeth
2008 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Rufus Sewell Rock 'n' Roll production took place the previous year
2008 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Laurence Fishburne Thurgood
2008 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ben Daniels Les Liaisons Dangereuses
2008 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Mark Rylance Boeing-Boeing Award winner
2007 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Liev Schreiber Talk Radio
2007 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer Inherit the Wind
2007 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian F. O'Byrne The Coast of Utopia production took place the previous year
2007 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Boyd Gaines Journey's End
2007 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella Frost/Nixon Award winner
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play David Wilmot The Lieutenant of Inishmore
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Oliver Platt Shining City
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Zeljko Ivanek The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Ralph Fiennes Faith Healer
2006 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Richard Griffiths The History Boys Award winner
2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian F. O'Byrne Doubt
2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Bill Irwin Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Award winner
2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Philip Bosco Twelve Angry Men production took place the previous year
2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play James Earl Jones On Golden Pond
2005 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Billy Crudup The Pillowman
2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Jefferson Mays I Am My Own Wife production took place the previous year Award winner
2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Simon Russell Beale Jumpers
2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Kevin Kline Henry IV
2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Christopher Plummer King Lear
2004 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Frank Langella Match
2003 Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play Brian Dennehy Long Day's Journey into Night Award winner

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