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Year	Category	Nominee	Show	Nom
2024	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Amy Ryan	Doubt
2024	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Sarah Paulson	Appropriate
2024	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Rachel McAdams	Mary Jane
2024	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Lange	Mother Play
2024	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Betsy Aidem	Prayer for the French Republic
2022	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary-Louise Parker	How I Learned to Drive
2022	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Deirdre O'Connell	Dana H.	Award winner
2022	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Ruth Negga	Macbeth
2022	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	LaChanze	Trouble in Mind
2022	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Gabby Beans	The Skin of Our Teeth
2020	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary-Louise Parker	The Sound Inside	Award winner
2020	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Audra McDonald	Frankie and Johnny in the Clair de Lune
2020	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Linney	My Name is Lucy Barton
2020	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Joaquina Kalukango	Slave Play
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Heidi Schreck	What the Constitution Means to Me
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laurie Metcalf	Hillary and Clinton
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Janet McTeer	Bernhardt/Hamlet
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Elaine May	The Waverly Gallery	Award winner
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Donnelly	The Ferryman
2019	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Annette Bening	All My Sons
2018	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Amy Schumer	Meteor Shower
2018	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lauren Ridloff	Children of a Lesser God
2018	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Condola Rashad	Saint Joan
2018	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Glenda Jackson	Three Tall Women	Award winner
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laurie Metcalf	A Doll's House, Part 2	Award winner
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Linney	Lillian Hellman's The Little Foxes
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Sally Field	The Glass Menagerie
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jennifer Ehle	Oslo
2017	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cate Blanchett	The Present
2016	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Michelle Williams	Blackbird
2016	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Sophie Okonedo	Arthur Miller's The Crucible
2016	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lupita Nyong'o	Eclipsed
2016	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laurie Metcalf	Misery
2016	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jessica Lange	Long Day's Journey Into Night	Award winner
2015	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Ruth Wilson	Constellations
2015	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Carey Mulligan	Skylight
2015	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Elisabeth Moss	The Heidi Chronicles
2015	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Helen Mirren	The Audience	Award winner
2015	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Geneva Carr	Hand to God
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Estelle Parsons	The Velocity of Autumn
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Audra McDonald	Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill	Award winner
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cherry Jones	The Glass Menagerie
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	LaTanya Richardson Jackson	A Raisin in the Sun
2014	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Tyne Daly	Mothers and Sons
2013	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cicely Tyson	The Trip to Bountiful
2013	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Holland Taylor	Ann
2013	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kristine Nielsen	Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2013	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Amy Morton	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2013	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laurie Metcalf	The Other Place
2012	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cynthia Nixon	Wit
2012	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Linda Lavin	The Lyons
2012	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Stockard Channing	Other Desert Cities
2012	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Tracie Bennett	End of the Rainbow
2012	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Nina Arianda	Venus in Fur	Award winner
2011	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Hannah Yelland	Brief Encounter production took place the previous year
2011	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Vanessa Redgrave	Driving Miss Daisy
2011	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lily Rabe	The Merchant of Venice production took place the previous year
2011	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Nina Arianda	Born Yesterday
2011	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Frances McDormand	Good People	Award winner
2010	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Viola Davis	Fences	Award winner
2010	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Valerie Harper	Looped
2010	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Linda Lavin	Collected Stories
2010	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Linney	Time Stands Still
2010	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jan Maxwell	The Royal Family producer; production took place the previous year
2009	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jane Fonda	33 Variations
2009	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Marcia Gay Harden	God of Carnage	Award winner
2009	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Hope Davis	God of Carnage
2009	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Janet McTeer	Mary Stuart
2009	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Harriet Walter	Mary Stuart
2008	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Amy Morton	August: Osage County production took place the previous year
2008	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	S. Epatha Merkerson	Come Back, Little Sheba
2008	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Fleetwood	Macbeth
2008	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eve Best	The Homecoming production took place the previous year
2008	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Deanna Dunagan	August: Osage County production took place the previous year	Award winner
2007	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Julie White	The Little Dog Laughed production took place the previous year	Award winner
2007	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eve Best	A Moon for the Misbegotten
2007	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Vanessa Redgrave	The Year of Magical Thinking
2007	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Angela Lansbury	Deuce
2007	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Swoosie Kurtz	Heartbreak House
2006	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cynthia Nixon	Rabbit Hole	Award winner
2006	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kate Burton	The Constant Wife production took place the previous year
2006	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Judy Kaye	Souvenir
2006	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lisa Kron	Well
2006	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Lynn Redgrave	The Constant Wife production took place the previous year
2005	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Cherry Jones	Doubt	Award winner
2005	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Laura Linney	Sight Unseen production took place the previous year
2005	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Mary-Louise Parker	Reckless production took place the previous year
2005	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Phylicia Rashad	Gem of the Ocean production took place the previous year
2005	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Kathleen Turner	Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Tovah Feldshuh	Golda's Balcony production took place the previous year
2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Eileen Atkins	The Retreat from Moscow production took place the previous year
2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Anne Heche	Twentieth Century
2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Swoosie Kurtz	Frozen
2004	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Phylicia Rashad	A Raisin in the Sun	Award winner
2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Vanessa Redgrave	Long Day's Journey into Night	Award winner
2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Fiona Shaw	Medea
2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Clare Higgins	Vincent in Brixton
2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Victoria Hamilton	A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
2003	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Jayne Atkinson	Enchanted April
2002	Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play	Helen Mirren	Dance of Death production took place the previous year

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