El premi Tony a la millor interpretació d'una actriu protagonista en una obra de teatre és un honor lliurat als premis Tony, una cerimònia establerta el 1947 com a premis Antoinette Perry a l'excel·lència en teatre. El premi s'atorga a les actrius per papers principals de qualitat en una obra de Broadway. Tot i que el premi es va lliurar per primera vegada el 1947, no hi va haver candidats anunciats fins al 1956. Hi ha hagut dos empats en aquesta categoria i un de tres.
Guanyadores i nominades
1940s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1947 Ingrid Bergman Joan of Lorraine Mary Grey / Joana d'Arc Helen Hayes Happy Birthday Addie Bemis 1948 Judith Anderson Medea Medea Katharine Cornell Antony and Cleopatra Cleopatra Jessica Tandy A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois 1949 Martita Hunt The Madwoman of Chaillot Countess Aurelia 1950s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1950 Shirley Booth Come Back, Little Sheba Lola Delaney 1951 Uta Hagen The Country Girl Georgie Elgin 1952 Julie Harris I Am a Camera Sally Bowles 1953 Shirley Booth The Time of the Cuckoo Leona Samish 1954 Audrey Hepburn Ondine Ondine 1955 Nancy Kelly The Bad Seed Christine Penmark 1956 Julie Harris The Lark Joana d'Arc Barbara Bel Geddes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt Gladys Cooper The Chalk Garden Mrs. St. Maugham Ruth Gordon The Matchmaker Dolly Gallagher Levi Siobhán McKenna The Chalk Garden Miss Madrigal Susan Strasberg The Diary of Anne Frank Anne Frank 1957 Margaret Leighton Separate Tables Ann Shankland / Sibyl Railton-Bell Florence Eldridge Long Day's Journey into Night Mary Tyrone Rosalind Russell Auntie Mame Mame Dennis Sybil Thorndike The Potting Shed Mrs. Callifer 1958 Helen Hayes Time Remembered The Duchess of Pont-Au-Bronc Wendy Hiller A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan Siobhán McKenna The Rope Dancers Margaret Hyland Eugenie Leontovich The Cave Dwellers The Queen Mary Ure Look Back in Anger Alison Porter Jo Van Fleet Look Homeward, Angel Eliza Gant 1959 Gertrude Berg A Majority of One Bertha Jacoby Claudette Colbert The Marriage-Go-Round Content Lowell Lynn Fontanne The Visit Claire Zachanassian Kim Stanley A Touch of the Poet Sara Melody Maureen Stapleton The Cold Wind and the Warm Ida
1960s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1960 Anne Bancroft The Miracle Worker Annie Sullivan Margaret Leighton Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Claudia McNeil A Raisin in the Sun Lena Younger Geraldine Page Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago Maureen Stapleton Toys in the Attic Carrie Berniers Irene Worth Albertine Prine 1961 Joan Plowright A Taste of Honey Josephine Tallulah Bankhead Midgie Purvis Midgie Purvis Barbara Baxley Period of Adjustment Isabel Haverstick Barbara Bel Geddes Mary, Mary Mary McKellaway 1962 Margaret Leighton The Night of the Iguana Hannah Jelkes Gladys Cooper A Passage to India Mrs. Moore Colleen Dewhurst Great Day in the Morning Phoebe Flaherty Kim Stanley A Far Country Elizabeth von Ritter 1963 Uta Hagen Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Hermione Baddeley The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore Flora Goforth Margaret Leighton Tchin-Tchin Pamela Pew-Pickett Claudia McNeil Tiger, Tiger Burning Bright Mama 1964 Sandy Dennis Any Wednesday Ellen Gordon Elizabeth Ashley Barefoot in the Park Corie Bratter Colleen Dewhurst The Ballad of the Sad Café Amelia Evans Julie Harris Marathon '33 June Havoc 1965 Irene Worth Tiny Alice Miss Alice Marjorie Rhodes All in Good Time Lucy Fitton Beah Richards The Amen Corner Sister Margaret Alexander Diana Sands The Owl and the Pussycat Doris 1966 Rosemary Harris The Lion in Winter Eleanor of Aquitaine Sheila Hancock Entertaining Mr Sloane Kath Kate Reid Slapstick Tragedy Celeste/Molly Lee Remick Wait Until Dark Susy Hendrix 1967 Beryl Reid The Killing of Sister George Sister George / June Buckridge Eileen Atkins The Killing of Sister George Childie / Alice McNaught Vivien Merchant The Homecoming Ruth Rosemary Murphy A Delicate Balance Claire 1968 Zoe Caldwell The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie Jean Brodie Colleen Dewhurst More Stately Mansions Sara (Melody) Harford Maureen Stapleton Plaza Suite Karen Nash / Murial Tate / Norma Hubley Dorothy Tutin Portrait of a Queen Queen Victoria 1969 Julie Harris Forty Carats Ann Stanley Estelle Parsons The Seven Descents of Myrtle Myrtle Charlotte Rae Morning, Noon and Night Gertrude / Beryl / Filigree Bones Brenda Vaccaro The Goodbye People Nancy (Silverman) Scott
1970s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1970 Tammy Grimes Private Lives Amanda Prynne Geraldine Brooks Brightower Sara Brightower Helen Hayes Harvey Veta Louise Simmons 1971 Maureen Stapleton The Gingerbread Lady Evy Meara Estelle Parsons And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little Catherine Reardon Diana Rigg Abelard and Heloise Heloise Marian Seldes Father's Day Marian 1972 Sada Thompson Twigs Ma / Dorothy / Celia / Emily Eileen Atkins Vivat! Vivat Regina! Elizabeth I Colleen Dewhurst All Over The Mistress Rosemary Harris Old Times Anna 1973 Julie Harris The Last of Mrs. Lincoln Mary Todd Lincoln Jane Alexander 6 Rms Riv Vu Annie Miller Colleen Dewhurst Mourning Becomes Electra Christine Mannon Kathleen Widdoes Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice 1974 Colleen Dewhurst A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan Jane Alexander Find Your Way Home Jacqueline Harrison Julie Harris The Au Pair Man Elizabeth Rogers Madeline Kahn In the Boom Boom Room Chrissy Rachel Roberts The Visit / Chemin de Fer Claire Zachanassian / Francine 1975 Ellen Burstyn Same Time, Next Year Doris Elizabeth Ashley Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt Diana Rigg The Misanthrope Celimene Maggie Smith Private Lives Amanda Prynne Liv Ullmann A Doll's House Nora Helmer 1976 Irene Worth Sweet Bird of Youth Alexandra Del Lago Tovah Feldshuh Yentl Yentl Rosemary Harris The Royal Family Julie Cavendish Lynn Redgrave Mrs. Warren's Profession Vivie Warren 1977 Julie Harris The Belle of Amherst Emily Dickinson Colleen Dewhurst Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Martha Liv Ullmann Anna Christie Anna Christopherson Irene Worth The Cherry Orchard Ranevskaya 1978 Jessica Tandy The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Anne Bancroft Golda Golda Meïr Anita Gillette Chapter Two Jennie Maclaine Estelle Parsons Miss Margarida's Way Miss Margarida 1979 Constance Cummings Wings Emily Stilson Carole Shelley The Elephant Man Madge Kendal Jane Alexander First Monday in October Ruth Loomis Frances Sternhagen On Golden Pond Ethel Thayer
1980s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1980 Phyllis Frelich Children of a Lesser God Sarah Norman Blythe Danner Betrayal Emma Maggie Smith Night and Day Ruth Carson Anne Twomey Nuts Claudia Draper 1981 Jane Lapotaire Piaf Édith Piaf Glenda Jackson Rose Rose Eva Le Gallienne To Grandmother's House We Go Grandie Elizabeth Taylor The Little Foxes Regina Giddens 1982 Zoe Caldwell Medea Medea Katharine Hepburn The West Side Waltz Margaret Mary Elderdice Geraldine Page Agnes of God Mother Miriam Ruth Amanda Plummer A Taste of Honey Josephine 1983 Jessica Tandy Foxfire Annie Nations Kathy Bates 'night, Mother Jessie Cates Kate Nelligan Plenty Susan Traherne Anne Pitoniak 'night, Mother Thelma Cates 1984 Glenn Close The Real Thing Annie Rosemary Harris Heartbreak House Hesione Hushabye Linda Hunt End of the World Audrey Wood Kate Nelligan A Moon for the Misbegotten Josie Hogan 1985 Stockard Channing A Day in the Death of Joe Egg Sheila Sinéad Cusack Much Ado About Nothing Beatrice Rosemary Harris Pack of Lies Barbara Jackson Glenda Jackson Strange Interlude Nina Leeds 1986 Lily Tomlin The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe Various Characters Rosemary Harris Hay Fever Judith Bliss Mary Beth Hurt Benefactors Sheila Jessica Tandy The Petition Elizabeth Milne 1987 Linda Lavin Broadway Bound Kate Jerome Lindsay Duncan Dangerous Liaisons Marquise de Merteuil Geraldine Page Blithe Spirit Madame Arcati Amanda Plummer Pygmalion Eliza Doolittle1988 Joan Allen Burn This Anna Mann Blythe Danner A Streetcar Named Desire Blanche DuBois Glenda Jackson Macbeth Lady Macbeth Frances McDormand A Streetcar Named Desire Stella Kowalski 1989 Pauline Collins Shirley Valentine Shirley Valentine Joan Allen The Heidi Chronicles Heidi Holland Madeline Kahn Born Yesterday Emma 'Billie' Dawn Kate Nelligan Spoils of War Elise
1990s Any Actriu Obra Personatge 1990 Maggie Smith Lettice and Lovage Lettice Douffet Geraldine James The Merchant of Venice Portia Mary-Louise Parker Prelude to a Kiss Rita Boyle Kathleen Turner Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Maggie Pollitt 1991 Mercedes Ruehl Lost in Yonkers Bella Kurnitz Stockard Channing Six Degrees of Separation Ouisa Kittredge Julie Harris Lucifer's Child Karen Blixen Cherry Jones Our Country's Good Liz Morden / Reverend Johnson 1992 Glenn Close Death and the Maiden Paulina Salas Escobar Jane Alexander The Visit Claire Zachanassian Stockard Channing Four Baboons Adoring the Sun Penny McKenzie Judith Ivey Park Your Car in Harvard Yard Kathleen Hogan 1993 Madeline Kahn The Sisters Rosensweig Gorgeous Teitelbaum Jane Alexander The Sisters Rosensweig Sara Goode Lynn Redgrave Shakespeare for My Father Lynn Redgrave Natasha Richardson Anna Christie Anna Christopherson 1994 Diana Rigg Medea Medea Anna Deavere Smith Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 Various Characters Nancy Marchand Black Comedy Sophie The White Liars Mrs. Furnival Joan Rivers Sally Marr...and her escorts Sally Marr 1995 Cherry Jones The Heiress Catherine Sloper Mary Alice Having Our Say Bessie Delany Eileen Atkins Indiscretions Léonie Helen Mirren A Month in the Country Natalia Petrovna 1996 Zoe Caldwell Master Class Maria Callas Carol Burnett Moon Over Buffalo Charlotte Hay Rosemary Harris A Delicate Balance Agnes Elaine Stritch Claire 1997 Janet McTeer A Doll's House Nora Helmer Julie Harris The Gin Game Fonsia Dorsey Shirley Knight The Young Man From Atlanta Lily Dale Kidder Lia Williams Skylight Kyra Hollis 1998 Marie Mullen The Beauty Queen of Leenane Maureen Folan Jane Alexander Honour Honor Allison Janney A View from the Bridge Beatrice Carbone Geraldine McEwan The Chairs Old Woman 1999 Judi Dench Amy's View Esme Allen Stockard Channing The Lion in Winter Eleanor of Aquitaine Marian Seldes Ring Round the Moon Madame Desmermortes Zoë Wanamaker Electra Electra
2000s