The Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play is awarded to the actor who was voted as the best actor in a play, whether a new production or a revival. This Tony Award has been announced since 1947.
1948-1959
- Ben Gazzara (A Hatful of Rain)
- Boris Karloff (The Lark)
- Michael Redgrave (Tiger at the Gates)
- Edward G. Robinson (Middle of the Night)
- Maurice Evans (The Apple Cart)
- Wilfred Hyde-White (The Reluctant Debutante)
- Eric Portman (Separate Tables)
- Ralph Richardson (The Waltz of the Toreadors)
- Cyril Ritchard (A Visit To A Small Planet)
- Richard Burton (Time Remembered)
- Hugh Griffith (Look Homeward, Angel)
- Laurence Olivier (The Entertainer)
- Anthony Perkins (Look Homeward, Angel)
- Peter Ustinov (Romanoff and Juliet)
- Emlyn Williams (A Boy Growing Up)
- Cedric Hardwicke (A Majority of One)
- Alfred Lunt (The Visit)
- Christopher Plummer (J.B.)
- Cyril Ritchard (The Pleasure of His Company)
- Robert Stephens (Epitaph for George Dillon)
1960-1969
- Lee Tracy (The Best Man)
- Jason Robards, Jr., (Toys in the Attic)
- Sidney Poitier (A Raisin in the Sun)
- George C. Scott (The Andersonville Trial)
- Hume Cronyn (Big Fish, Little Fish)
- Sam Levene (The Devil\'s Advocate)
- Anthony Quinn (Becket)
- Fredric March (Gideon)
- John Mills (Ross)
- Donald Pleasence (The Caretaker)
- Charles Boyer (Lord Pengo)
- Paul Ford (Never Too Late)
- Bert Lahr (The Beauty Part)
- Richard Burton (Hamlet)
- Albert Finney (Luther)
- Jason Robards, Jr. (After the Fall)
- John Gielgud (Tiny Alice)
- Donald Pleasence (Poor Bitos)
- Jason Robards (Hughie)
- Roland Culber (Ivanov)
- Donal Donnelly and Patrick Bedford (Philadelphia, Here I Come!)
- Nicol Williamson (Inadmissible Evidence)
- Hume Cronyn (A Delicate Balance)
- Donald Madden (Black Comedy)
- Donald Moffat (Right You Are and The Wild Duck)
- Albert Finney (Joe Egg)
- Milo O\'Shea (Staircase)
- Alan Webb (I Never Sang for My Father)
- Art Carney (Lovers)
- Alec McGowen (Hadrian VII)
- Donald Pleasence (The Man in the Glass Booth)
1970-1979
- James Coco (The Last of the Red Hot Lovers)
- Frank Grimes (Borstal Boy)
- Stacy Keach (Indians)
- John Gielgud (Home)
- Alec McGowen (The Philanthropist)
- Ralph Richardson (Home)
- Tom Aldredge (Sticks and Bones)
- Donald Pleasence (Wise Child)
- Jason Robards (The Country Girl)
- Jack Albertson (The Sunshine Boys)
- Wilfrid Hyde-White (The Jockey Club Stakes)
- Paul Sorvino (That Championship Season)
- Zero Mostel (Ulysses in Nighttown)
- Jason Robards (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
- George C. Scott (Uncle Vanya)
- Nicol Williamson (Uncle Vanya)
- Jim Dale (Scapino)
- Peter Firth (Equus)
- Henry Fonda (Clarence Darrow)
- Ben Gazzara (Hughie and Duet)
- John Wood (Sherlock Holmes)
- Moses Gunn (The Poison Tree)
- George C. Scott(Death of a Salesman)
- Donald Sinden (Habeas Corpus)
- Tom Courtenay (Otherwise Engaged)
- Ben Gazzara (Who\'s Afraid of Virginia Woolf?)
- Ralph Richardson (No Man\'s Land)
- Hume Cronyn (The Gin Game)
- Frank Langella (Dracula)
- Jason Robards (A Touch of the Poet)
- Philip Anglim (The Elephant Man)
- Jack Lemmon (Tribute)
- Alec McCowen (St. Mark\'s Gospel)
1980-1989
- Charles Brown (Home)
- Gerald Hiken (Strider)
- Judd Hirsch (Talley\'s Folly)
- Tim Curry (Amadeus)
- Roy Dotrice (A Life)
- Jack Weston (The Floating Light Bulb)
- Tom Courtenay (The Dresser)
- Milo O\'Shea (Mass Appeal)
- Christopher Plummer (Othello)
- Jeffrey DeMunn (K2)
- Edward Herrmann (Plenty)
- Tony Lo Bianco (A View from the Bridge)
- Calvin Levels (Open Admissions)
- Rex Harrison (Heartbreak House)
- Ian McKellen (Ian McKellen Acting Shakespeare)
- Jim Dale (Joe Egg)
- Jonathan Hogan (As Is)
- John Lithgow (Requiem for a Heavyweight)
- Hume Cronyn (The Petition)
- Ed Harris (Precious Sons)
- Jack Lemmon (Long Day\'s Journey Into Night)
- Philip Bosco (You Never Can Tell)
- Richard Kiley (All My Sons)
- Alan Rickman (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)
- Derek Jacobi (Breaking the Code)
- John Lithgow (M. Butterfly)
- Robert Prosky (A Walk in the Woods)
- Mikhail Baryshnikov (Metamorphosis)
- Victor Garber (Lend Me a Tenor)
- Bill Irwin (Largely New York)
1990-1999
- Charles S. Dutton (The Piano Lesson)
- Dustin Hoffman (The Merchant of Venice)
- Tom Hulce (A Few Good Men)
- Peter Frechette (Our Country\'s Good)
- Tom McGowan (La Bête)
- Courtney B. Vance (Six Degrees of Separation)
- Alan Alda (Jake\'s Women)
- Alec Baldwin (A Streetcar Named Desire)
- Brian Bedford (Two Shakespearean Actors)
- K. Todd Freeman (The Song of Jacob Zulu)
- Liam Neeson (Anna Christie)
- Stephen Rea (Someone Who\'ll Watch Over Me)
- Brian Bedford (Timon of Athens)
- Christopher Plummer (No Man\'s Land)
- Sam Waterston (Abe Lincoln in Illinois)
- Brian Bedford (The Moliere Comedies)
- Roger Rees (Indiscretions)
- Joe Sears (A Tuna Christmas)
- Philip Bosco (Moon Over Buffalo)
- George C. Scott (Inherit the Wind)
- Martin Shaw (An Ideal Husband)
- Brian Bedford (London Assurance)
- Michael Gambon (Skylight)
- Antony Sher (Stanley)
- Richard Briers (The Chairs)
- John Leguizamo (Freak)
- Alfred Molina (\'Art\')
- Brian F. O\'Byrne (The Lonesome West)
- Corin Redgrave (Not About Nightingales)
- Kevin Spacey (The Iceman Cometh)
2000-2009
- Gabriel Byrne (A Moon for the Misbegotten)
- Philip Seymour Hoffman (True West)
- John C. Reilly (True West)
- David Suchet (Amadeus)
- Seán Campion (Stones in His Pockets)
- Conleth Hill (Stones in His Pockets)
- Brian Stokes Mitchell (King Hedley II)
- Gary Sinise (One Flew Over the Cuckoo\'s Nest)
- Billy Crudup, The Elephant Man
- Liam Neeson, The Crucible
- Alan Rickman, Private Lives
- Jeffrey Wright, Topdog/Underdog
- Brian Bedford, Tartuffe
- Eddie Izzard, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Paul Newman, Our Town
- Stanley Tucci, Frankie and Johnny in the Claire de Lune
- Simon Russell Beale, Jumpers
- Kevin Kline, Henry IV
- Frank Langella, Match
- Christopher Plummer, King Lear
- Philip Bosco, Twelve Angry Men
- Billy Crudup, The Pillowman
- James Earl Jones, On Golden Pond
- Brían F. O\'Byrne, Doubt
- Ralph Fiennes, Faith Healer
- Željko Ivanek, The Caine Mutiny Court Martial
- Oliver Platt, Shining City
- David Wilmot, The Lieutenant of Inishmore
- Boyd Gaines, Journey\'s End
- Brían F. O\'Byrne, The Coast of Utopia
- Christopher Plummer, Inherit the Wind
- Liev Schreiber, Talk Radio
Winners with Multiple Tony Awards for Leading Actor in a Play
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