This is a list of the winners and nominations of Tony Award for the Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical. The award has been given since 1947, but the nominees who did not win have only been publicly announced since 1956.
Winner and nominees[]
indicates the winner
1940s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1947 1st Tony Awards | |||
| David Wayne | Finian's Rainbow | Og | |
| 1948 – 1949 | N/A | ||
1950s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950 4th Tony Awards | |||
| Myron McCormick | South Pacific | Luther Billis | |
| 1951 5th Tony Awards | |||
| Russell Nype | Call Me Madam | Kenneth Gibson | |
| 1952 6th Tony Awards | |||
| Yul Brynner | The King and I | The King of Siam | |
| 1953 7th Tony Awards | |||
| Hiram Sherman | Two's Company | Various Characters | |
| 1954 8th Tony Awards | |||
| Harry Belafonte | John Murray Anderson's Almanac | Various Characters | |
| 1955 9th Tony Awards | |||
| Cyril Ritchard | Peter Pan | Captain Hook / Mr. Darling | |
| 1956 10th Tony Awards | |||
| Russ Brown | Damn Yankees | Benny Van Buren | |
| Mike Kellin | Pipe Dream | Hazel | |
| Will Mahoney | Finian's Rainbow | Finian McLonergan | |
| Scott Merrill | The Threepenny Opera | Macheath | |
| 1957 11th Tony Awards | |||
| Sydney Chaplin | Bells Are Ringing | Jeff Moss | |
| Robert Coote | My Fair Lady | Colonel Pickering | |
| Stanley Holloway | Alfred P. Doolittle | ||
| 1958 12th Tony Awards | |||
| David Burns | The Music Man | Mayor Shinn | |
| Ossie Davis | Jamaica | Cicero | |
| Cameron Prud'Homme | New Girl in Town | Chris | |
| Iggie Wolfington | The Music Man | Marcellus Washburn | |
| 1959 13th Tony Awards | |||
| Russell Nype (tie) | Goldilocks | George Randolph Brown | |
| Leonard Stone (tie)[1] | Redhead | George Poppett |
1960s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960 14th Tony Awards | |||
| Tom Bosley | Fiorello! | Fiorello La Guardia | |
| Theodore Bikel | The Sound of Music | Captain Georg von Trapp | |
| Howard Da Silva | Fiorello! | Ben Marino | |
| Kurt Kasznar | The Sound of Music | Max Detweiler | |
| Jack Klugman | Gypsy | Herbie | |
| 1961 15th Tony Awards | |||
| Dick Van Dyke | Bye Bye Birdie | Albert Peterson | |
| Dick Gautier | Bye Bye Birdie | Conrad Birdie | |
| Ron Husmann | Tenderloin | Tommy | |
| Clive Revill | Irma La Douce | Bob-Le-Hotu | |
| 1962 16th Tony Awards | |||
| Charles Nelson Reilly | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | Bud Frump | |
| Orson Bean | Subways Are For Sleeping | Charlie Smith | |
| Severn Darden | From the Second City | Performer | |
| Pierre Olaf | Carnival | Jacquot | |
| 1963 17th Tony Awards | |||
| David Burns | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex | |
| Jack Gilford | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Hysterium | |
| Davy Jones | Oliver! | The Artful Dodger | |
| Swen Swenson | Little Me | George Musgrove | |
| 1964 18th Tony Awards | |||
| Jack Cassidy | She Loves Me | Stephen Kodaly | |
| Will Geer | 110 in the Shade | H. C. Curry | |
| Danny Meehan | Funny Girl | Eddie Ryan | |
| Charles Nelson Reilly | Hello, Dolly! | Cornelius Hackl | |
| 1965 19th Tony Awards | |||
| Victor Spinetti | Oh, What a Lovely War! | Various Characters | |
| Jack Cassidy | Fade Out – Fade In | Bryon Prong | |
| James Grout | Half a Sixpence | Chitterlow | |
| Jerry Orbach | Guys and Dolls | Sky Masterson | |
| 1966 20th Tony Awards | |||
| Frankie Michaels | Mame | Patrick Dennis | |
| Roy Castle | Pickwick | Sam Weller | |
| John McMartin | Sweet Charity | Oscar | |
| Michael O'Sullivan | It's a Bird...It's a Plane...It's Superman | Dr. Abner Sedgwick | |
| 1967 21st Tony Awards | |||
| Joel Grey | Cabaret | The Master of Ceremonies | |
| Leon Bibb | A Hand Is on the Gate | Performer | |
| Gordon Dilworth | Walking Happy | Tubby Wadlow | |
| Edward Winter | Cabaret | Ernst Ludwig | |
| 1968 22nd Tony Awards | |||
| Hiram Sherman | How Now, Dow Jones | Wingate | |
| Scott Jacoby | Golden Rainbow | Ally | |
| Nikos Kourkoulos | Illya Darling | Tonio | |
| Michael Rupert | The Happy Time | Bibi Bonnard | |
| 1969 23rd Tony Awards | |||
| Ron Holgate | 1776 | Richard Henry Lee | |
| William Daniels | 1776 | John Adams | |
| Larry Haines | Promises, Promises | Dr. Dreyfuss | |
| Edward Winter | J.D. Sheldrake |
1970s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970 24th Tony Awards | |||
| René Auberjonois | Coco | Sebastian Baye | |
| Brandon Maggart | Applause | Buzz Richards | |
| George Rose | Coco | Louis Greff | |
| 1971 25th Tony Awards | |||
| Keene Curtis | The Rothschilds | Various Characters | |
| Charles Kimbrough | Company | Harry | |
| Walter Willison | Two by Two | Japheth | |
| 1972 26th Tony Awards | |||
| Larry Blyden | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Hysterium | |
| Timothy Meyers | Grease | Kenickie | |
| Gene Nelson | Follies | Buddy Plummer | |
| Ben Vereen | Jesus Christ Superstar | Judas Iscariot | |
| 1973 27th Tony Awards | |||
| George S. Irving | Irene | Madame Lucy | |
| Laurence Guittard | A Little Night Music | Count Carl-Magnus Malcolm | |
| Avon Long | Don't Play Us Cheap | David | |
| Gilbert Price | Lost in the Stars | Absalom Kumalo | |
| 1974 28th Tony Awards | |||
| Tommy Tune | Seesaw | David | |
| Mark Baker | Candide | Candide | |
| Ralph Carter | Raisin | Travis Younger | |
| 1975 29th Tony Awards | |||
| Ted Ross | The Wiz | The Cowardly Lion | |
| Tom Aldredge | Where's Charley? | Mr. Spettigue | |
| John Bottoms | Dance with Me | Jimmy Dick II | |
| Doug Henning | The Magic Show | Doug | |
| Gilbert Price | The Night That Made America Famous | Performer | |
| Richard B. Shull | Goodtime Charley | Minguet | |
| 1976 30th Tony Awards | |||
| Sammy Williams | A Chorus Line | Paul San Marco | |
| Robert LuPone | A Chorus Line | Zach | |
| Charles Repole | Very Good Eddie | Mr. Eddie Kettle | |
| Isao Sato | Pacific Overtures | Kayama | |
| 1977 31st Tony Awards | |||
| Lenny Baker | I Love My Wife | Alvin | |
| David Kernan | Side by Side by Sondheim | Performer | |
| Ned Sherrin | Performer | ||
| Larry Marshall | Porgy and Bess | Sportin' Life | |
| 1978 32nd Tony Awards | |||
| Kevin Kline | On the Twentieth Century | Bruce Granit | |
| Steven Boockvor | Working | John Fortune / Marco Camerone | |
| Wayne Cilento | Dancin' | Performer | |
| Rex Everhart | Working | Herb Rosen / Booker Page | |
| 1979 33rd Tony Awards | |||
| Henderson Forsythe | The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas | Sheriff Ed Earl Dodd | |
| Richard Cox | Platinum | Dan Danger | |
| Gregory Hines | Eubie! | Performer | |
| Ron Holgate | The Grand Tour | Colonel Tadeusz Boleslav Stjerbinsky |
1980s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 34th Tony Awards | |||
| Mandy Patinkin | Evita | Che | |
| David Garrison | A Day in Hollywood / A Night in the Ukraine | Serge B. Samovar | |
| Harry Groener | Oklahoma! | Will Parker | |
| Bob Gunton | Evita | Juan Perón | |
| 1981 35th Tony Awards | |||
| Hinton Battle | Sophisticated Ladies | Various Characters | |
| Tony Azito | The Pirates of Penzance | Sergeant of Police | |
| Lee Roy Reams | 42nd Street | Billy Lawlor | |
| Paxton Whitehead | Camelot | King Pellinore | |
| 1982 36th Tony Awards | |||
| Cleavant Derricks | Dreamgirls | James "Thunder" Early | |
| Obba Babatundé | Dreamgirls | C.C. White | |
| David Alan Grier | The First | Jackie Robinson | |
| Bill Hutton | Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat | Joseph | |
| 1983 37th Tony Awards | |||
| Charles Coles | My One and Only | Mr. Magix | |
| Harry Groener | Cats | Munkustrap | |
| Stephen Hanan | Bustopher Jones / Asparagus / Growltiger | ||
| Lara Teeter | On Your Toes | Junior | |
| 1984 38th Tony Awards | |||
| Hinton Battle | The Tap Dance Kid | Dipsey | |
| Stephen Geoffreys | The Human Comedy | Homer | |
| Todd Graff | Baby | Danny | |
| Samuel E. Wright | The Tap Dance Kid | William | |
| 1985 39th Tony Awards | |||
| Ron Richardson | Big River | Jim | |
| René Auberjonois | Big River | The Duke | |
| Daniel Jenkins | Huckleberry Finn | ||
| Kurt Knudson | Take Me Along | Sid Davis | |
| 1986 40th Tony Awards | |||
| Michael Rupert | Sweet Charity | Oscar | |
| Christopher d'Amboise | Song and Dance | Joe | |
| John Herrera | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | Neville Landless / Mr. Victor Grinstead | |
| Howard McGillin | John Jasper / Mr. Clive Paget | ||
| 1987 41st Tony Awards | |||
| Michael Maguire | Les Misérables | Enjolras | |
| George S. Irving | Me and My Girl | Sir John Tremayne | |
| Timothy Jerome | Herbert Parchester | ||
| Robert Torti | Starlight Express | Greaseball | |
| 1988 42nd Tony Awards | |||
| Bill McCutcheon | Anything Goes | Moonface Martin | |
| Anthony Heald | Anything Goes | Lord Evelyn Oakleigh | |
| Werner Klemperer | Cabaret | Herr Schultz | |
| Robert Westenberg | Into the Woods | Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf | |
| 1989 43rd Tony Awards | |||
| Scott Wise | Jerome Robbins' Broadway | Various Characters | |
| Bunny Briggs | Black and Blue | Hoofer | |
| Savion Glover | Younger Generation | ||
| Scott Wentworth | Welcome to the Club | Aaron Bates |
1990s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 44th Tony Awards | |||
| Michael Jeter | Grand Hotel | Otto Kringelein | |
| René Auberjonois | City of Angels | Buddy Fiddler / Irwin S. Irving | |
| Kevin Colson | Aspects of Love | George Dillingham | |
| Jonathan Hadary | Gypsy | Herbie | |
| 1991 45th Tony Awards | |||
| Hinton Battle | Miss Saigon | John | |
| Bruce Adler | Those Were the Days | Various Characters | |
| Gregg Burge | Oh, Kay! | Billy Lyes | |
| Willy Falk | Miss Saigon | Chris | |
| 1992 46th Tony Awards | |||
| Scott Waara | The Most Happy Fella | Herman | |
| Bruce Adler | Crazy for You | Bela Zangler | |
| Keith David | Jelly's Last Jam | Chimney Man | |
| Jonathan Kaplan | Falsettos | Jason | |
| 1993 47th Tony Awards | |||
| Anthony Crivello | Kiss of the Spider Woman | Valentin Arregui Paz | |
| Michael Cerveris | The Who's Tommy | Tommy | |
| Gregg Edelman | Anna Karenina | Constantin Levin | |
| Paul Kandel | The Who's Tommy | Uncle Ernie | |
| 1994 48th Tony Awards | |||
| Jarrod Emick | Damn Yankees | Joe Hardy | |
| Tom Aldredge | Passion | Dr. Tambourri | |
| Gary Beach | Beauty and the Beast | Lumière | |
| Jonathan Freeman | She Loves Me | Headwaiter | |
| 1995 49th Tony Awards | |||
| George Hearn | Sunset Boulevard | Max Von Mayerling | |
| Michel Bell | Show Boat | Joe | |
| Joel Blum | Frank | ||
| Victor Trent Cook | Smokey Joe's Cafe | Various Characters | |
| 1996 50th Tony Awards | |||
| Wilson Jermaine Heredia | Rent | Angel Dumott Schunard | |
| Lewis J. Stadlen | A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum | Senex | |
| Brett Tabisel | Big | Billy | |
| Scott Wise | State Fair | Pat Gilbert | |
| 1997 51st Tony Awards | |||
| Chuck Cooper | The Life | Memphis | |
| Joel Blum | Steel Pier | Buddy Becker | |
| André De Shields | Play On! | Jester | |
| Sam Harris | The Life | Jojo | |
| 1998 52nd Tony Awards | |||
| Ron Rifkin | Cabaret | Herr Schultz | |
| Gregg Edelman | 1776 | Edward Rutledge | |
| John McMartin | High Society | Uncle Willie | |
| Samuel E. Wright | The Lion King | Mufasa | |
| 1999 53rd Tony Awards | |||
| Roger Bart | You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown | Snoopy | |
| Desmond Richardson | Fosse | Various Characters | |
| Ron Taylor | It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues | Various Characters | |
| Scott Wise | Fosse | Various Characters |
2000s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2000 54th Tony Awards | |||
| Boyd Gaines | Contact | Michael Wiley | |
| Michael Berresse | Kiss Me, Kate | Bill Calhoun / Lucentio | |
| Michael Mulheren | Second Man | ||
| Stephen Spinella | James Joyce's The Dead | Freddy Malins | |
| Lee Wilkof | Kiss Me, Kate | First Man | |
| 2001 55th Tony Awards | |||
| Gary Beach | The Producers | Roger DeBris | |
| Roger Bart | The Producers | Carmen Ghia | |
| John Ellison Conlee | The Full Monty | Dave Butatinsky | |
| André De Shields | Noah "Horse" T. Simmons | ||
| Brad Oscar | The Producers | Franz Liebkind | |
| 2002 56th Tony Awards | |||
| Shuler Hensley | Oklahoma! | Jud Fry | |
| Brian d'Arcy James | Sweet Smell of Success | Sidney Falco | |
| Gregg Edelman | Into the Woods | Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf | |
| Marc Kudisch | Thoroughly Modern Millie | Trevor Graydon | |
| Norbert Leo Butz | Thou Shalt Not | Camille Raquin | |
| 2003 57th Tony Awards | |||
| Dick Latessa | Hairspray | Wilbur Turnblad | |
| Michael Cavanaugh | Movin' Out | Piano Man | |
| John Dossett | Gypsy | Herbie | |
| Corey Reynolds | Hairspray | Seaweed J. Stubbs | |
| Keith Roberts | Movin' Out | Tony | |
| 2004 58th Tony Awards | |||
| Michael Cerveris | Assassins | John Wilkes Booth | |
| John Cariani | Fiddler on the Roof | Motel Kamzoil | |
| Raúl Esparza | Taboo | Philip Salon | |
| Michael McElroy | Big River | Jim | |
| Denis O'Hare | Assassins | Charles Guiteau | |
| 2005 59th Tony Awards | |||
| Dan Fogler | The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee | William Barfée | |
| Marc Kudisch | Chitty Chitty Bang Bang | Baron Bomburst | |
| Michael McGrath | Spamalot | Patsy | |
| Matthew Morrison | The Light in the Piazza | Fabrizio Nacarelli | |
| Christopher Sieber | Spamalot | Sir Galahad | |
| 2006 60th Tony Awards | |||
| Christian Hoff | Jersey Boys | Tommy DeVito | |
| Danny Burstein | The Drowsy Chaperone | Aldolpho | |
| Jim Dale | The Threepenny Opera | Mr. Peachum | |
| Brandon Victor Dixon | The Color Purple | Harpo | |
| Manoel Felciano | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | Tobias Ragg | |
| 2007 61st Tony Awards | |||
| John Gallagher Jr. | Spring Awakening | Moritz Stiefel | |
| Brooks Ashmanskas | Martin Short: Fame Becomes Me | Various Characters | |
| Christian Borle | Legally Blonde | Emmett Forrest | |
| John Cullum | 110 in the Shade | H.C. Curry | |
| David Pittu | LoveMusik | Bertolt Brecht | |
| 2008 62nd Tony Awards | |||
| Boyd Gaines | Gypsy | Herbie | |
| Daniel Breaker | Passing Strange | Youth | |
| Danny Burstein | South Pacific | Luther Billis | |
| Robin de Jesús | In the Heights | Sonny | |
| Christopher Fitzgerald | Young Frankenstein | Igor | |
| 2009 63rd Tony Awards | |||
| Gregory Jbara | Billy Elliot the Musical | Dad | |
| David Bologna | Billy Elliot the Musical | Michael Caffrey | |
| Marc Kudisch | 9 to 5 | Franklin Hart Jr. | |
| Christopher Sieber | Shrek the Musical | Lord Farquaad | |
| Will Swenson | Hair | George Berger |
2010s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 64th Tony Awards | |||
| Levi Kreis | Million Dollar Quartet | Jerry Lee Lewis | |
| Kevin Chamberlin | The Addams Family | Uncle Fester | |
| Robin de Jesús | La Cage aux Folles | Jacob | |
| Christopher Fitzgerald | Finian's Rainbow | Og | |
| Bobby Steggert | Ragtime | Younger Brother | |
| 2011 65th Tony Awards | |||
| John Larroquette | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying | J.B. Biggley | |
| Colman Domingo | The Scottsboro Boys | Mr. Bones | |
| Adam Godley | Anything Goes | Lord Evelyn Oakleigh | |
| Forrest McClendon | The Scottsboro Boys | Mr. Tambo | |
| Rory O'Malley | The Book of Mormon | Elder McKinley / Moroni | |
| 2012 66th Tony Awards | |||
| Michael McGrath | Nice Work If You Can Get It | Cookie McGee | |
| Phillip Boykin | Porgy and Bess | Crown | |
| Michael Cerveris | Evita | Juan Perón | |
| David Alan Grier | Porgy and Bess | Sporting Life | |
| Josh Young | Jesus Christ Superstar | Judas Iscariot | |
| 2013 67th Tony Awards | |||
| Gabriel Ebert | Matilda the Musical | Mr. Wormwood | |
| Charl Brown | Motown: The Musical | Smokey Robinson | |
| Keith Carradine | Hands on a Hardbody | JD Drew | |
| Will Chase | The Mystery of Edwin Drood | John Jasper / Mr. Clive Paget | |
| Terrence Mann | Pippin | King Charles | |
| 2014 68th Tony Awards | |||
| James Monroe Iglehart | Aladdin | The Genie | |
| Danny Burstein | Cabaret | Herr Schultz | |
| Nick Cordero | Bullets Over Broadway | Cheech | |
| Joshua Henry | Violet | Flick | |
| Jarrod Spector | Beautiful: The Carole King Musical | Barry Mann | |
| 2015 69th Tony Awards | |||
| Christian Borle | Something Rotten! | William Shakespeare | |
| Andy Karl | On the Twentieth Century | Bruce Granit | |
| Brad Oscar | Something Rotten! | Nostradamus | |
| Brandon Uranowitz | An American in Paris | Adam Hochberg | |
| Max von Essen | Henri Baurel | ||
| 2016 70th Tony Awards | |||
| Daveed Diggs | Hamilton | Marquis de Lafayette / Thomas Jefferson | |
| Brandon Victor Dixon | Shuffle Along | Eubie Blake | |
| Christopher Fitzgerald | Waitress | Ogie Anhorn | |
| Jonathan Groff | Hamilton | King George III | |
| Christopher Jackson | George Washington | ||
| 2017 71st Tony Awards | |||
| Gavin Creel | Hello, Dolly! | Cornelius Hackl | |
| Mike Faist | Dear Evan Hansen | Connor Murphy | |
| Andrew Rannells | Falsettos | Whizzer Brown | |
| Lucas Steele | Natasha, Pierre & The Great Comet of 1812 | Anatole Kuragin | |
| Brandon Uranowitz | Falsettos | Mendel Weisenbachfeld | |
| 2018 72nd Tony Awards | |||
| Ari'el Stachel | The Band's Visit | Haled | |
| Norbert Leo Butz | My Fair Lady | Alfred P. Doolittle | |
| Alexander Gemignani | Carousel | Enoch Snow | |
| Grey Henson | Mean Girls | Damian Hubbard | |
| Gavin Lee | SpongeBob SquarePants | Squidward Tentacles | |
| 2019 73rd Tony Awards | |||
| André De Shields | Hadestown | Hermes | |
| Andy Grotelueschen | Tootsie | Jeff Slater | |
| Patrick Page | Hadestown | Hades | |
| Jeremy Pope | Ain’t Too Proud | Eddie Kendricks | |
| Ephraim Sykes | David Ruffin |
2020s[]
| Year | Actor | Musical | Character |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 74th Tony Awards |
Danny Burstein | Moulin Rouge! The Musical | Harold Zidler |
| Derek Klena | Jagged Little Pill | Nick Healy | |
| Sean Allan Krill | Steve Healy | ||
| Sahr Ngaujah | Moulin Rouge! The Musical | Henri de Toulouse-Lautrec | |
| Daniel J. Watts | Tina: The Tina Turner Musical | Ike Turner |
Multiple winners[]
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Multiple nominees[]
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Character nomination total[]
4 nominations
- Herbie from Gypsy
3 nominations
- Herr Schultz from Cabaret
2 nominations
- Alfred P. Doolittle from My Fair Lady
- Bruce Granit from On the Twentieth Century
- Cinderella's Prince / The Wolf from Into the Woods
- Cornelius Hackl from Hello, Dolly!
- H.C. Curry from 110 in the Shade
- Hysterium from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Jim from Big River
- John Jasper / Mr. Clive Paget from The Mystery of Edwin Drood
- Juan Perón from Evita
- Judas Iscariot from Jesus Christ Superstar
- Lord Evelyn Oakleigh from Anything Goes
- Luther Billis from South Pacific
- Og from Finian's Rainbow
- Oscar from Sweet Charity
- Senex from A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Sporting Life from Porgy and Bess
Productions with multiple nominations[]
- My Fair Lady – Robert Coote and Stanley Holloway
- The Music Man – David Burns (winner) and Iggie Wolfington
- Fiorello! – Tom Bosley (winner) and Howard Da Silva
- The Sound of Music – Theodore Bikel and Kurt Kasznar
- Bye Bye Birdie – Dick Gautier and Dick Van Dyke (winner)
- A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum – David Burns (winner) and Jack Gilford
- Cabaret – Joel Grey (winner) and Edward Winter
- 1776 – William Daniels (refused nomination) and Ronald Holgate (winner)
- Promises, Promises – Larry Haines and Edward Winter
- Coco – René Auberjonois (winner) and George Rose
- A Chorus Line – Robert LuPone and Sammy Williams (winner)
- Side by Side by Sondheim – David Kernan and Ned Sherrin
- Working – Steven Boockvor and Rex Everhart
- Evita – Bob Gunton and Mandy Patinkin (winner)
- Dreamgirls – Obba Babatundé and Cleavant Derricks (winner)
- Cats – Harry Groener and Stephen Hanan
- The Tap Dance Kid – Hinton Battle (winner) and Samuel E. Wright
- Big River – René Auberjonois, Daniel H. Jenkins, and Ron Richardson (winner)
- The Mystery of Edwin Drood – John Herrera and Howard McGillin
- Me and My Girl – George S. Irving and Timothy Jerome
- Anything Goes – Anthony Heald and Bill McCutcheon (winner)
- Black and Blue – Bunny Briggs and Savion Glover
- Miss Saigon – Hinton Battle (winner) and Willy Falk
- The Who's Tommy – Michael Cerveris and Paul Kandel
- Show Boat – Michel Bell and Joel Blum
- The Life – Chuck Cooper (winner) and Sam Harris
- Fosse – Desmond Richardson and Scott Wise
- Kiss Me, Kate – Michael Berresse, Michael Mulheren and Lee Wilkof
- The Full Monty – John Ellison Conlee and André DeShields
- The Producers – Roger Bart, Gary Beach (winner) and Brad Oscar
- Hairspray – Dick Latessa (winner) and Corey Reynolds
- Movin' Out – Michael Cavanaugh and Keith Roberts
- Assassins – Michael Cerveris (winner) and Denis O'Hare
- Monty Python's Spamalot – Michael McGrath and Christopher Sieber
- Billy Elliot the Musical – David Bologna and Gregory Jbara (winner)
- The Scottsboro Boys – Colman Domingo and Forrest McClendon
- The Gershwins' Porgy and Bess – Phillip Boykin and David Alan Grier
- An American in Paris – Brandon Uranowitz and Max von Essen
- Something Rotten! – Christian Borle (winner) and Brad Oscar
- Hamilton – Daveed Diggs (winner), Jonathan Groff, and Christopher Jackson
- Falsettos – Andrew Rannells and Brandon Uranowitz
- Ain't Too Proud – Jeremy Pope and Ephraim Sykes
- Hadestown – André De Shields (winner) and Patrick Page
Multiple awards and nominations[]
Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories[]
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Other statistics[]
- There was one tie in the history of this category, in 1959.[2]
- The role of Herbie, in Gypsy, holds the record for most nominations in this category, with four:
- 1960 – Jack Klugman
- 1990 – Jonathan Hadary
- 2003 – John Dossett
- 2008 – Boyd Gaines (winner)
- Hinton Battle remains the most successful performer in the history of this category with a perfect score of three wins in three nominations. Scott Wise, René Auberjonois, Michael Cerveris, and André De Shields have also attained three nominations each, but have only been victorious once. Gregg Edelman, Marc Kudisch, Danny Burstein, and Christopher Fitzgerald also received three nominations, although they have never won and are this category's biggest "losers." Coincidentally, Edelman and Kudisch were nominated and lost to Shuler Hensley in 2002.
- There has never been a consecutive winner in this category. There have been, though, some consecutive nominations. Jack Cassidy was consecutively nominated in 1964 and 1965, while Bruce Adler achieved the same honor in 1991 and 1992. Cassidy won in 1964, for his portrayal of Steve Kodaly, in She Loves Me.
- The record for the longest span between wins is held by Hiram Sherman, whose wins for Two's Company, in 1953, and How Now, Dow Jones, in 1968, are set apart by 15 years.
- The record for the longest span between nominations is held by John McMartin, whose nominations for Sweet Charity, in 1966, and High Society, in 1998, are set apart by 32 years. McMartin never won a Tony Award in this category.
- The oldest winner in this category is Dick Latessa who was 73 when he won for Hairspray in 2003. The youngest winner is Frankie Michaels who won for Mame in 1966 at age 11.
- ↑ " Redhead Awards" ibdb.com, retrieved March 17, 2017
- ↑ "Tony Trivia" tonyawards.com, retrieved March 19, 2017