Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play is an honor presented at the Tony Awards, a ceremony established in 1947 as the Antoinette Perry Awards for Excellence in Theatre, to actors for quality supporting roles in a Broadway play.

Honors in several categories are presented at the ceremony annually by the Tony Award Productions, a joint venture of The Broadway League and the American Theatre Wing, to "honor the best performances and stage productions of the previous year.

It was first presented to Arthur Kennedy at the 3rd Tony Awards for his portrayal of Biff Loman in Arthur Miller's Death of a Salesman.

Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public;[2] the change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".

Richard Roma in Glengarry Glen Ross, Phil Hogan in A Moon for the Misbegotten, and Mason Marzac in Take Me Out are the only characters to take the award multiple times, all winning twice.

Arthur Kennedy won for Death of a Salesman (1949)
Eli Wallach won for The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Ed Begley won for Inherit the Wind (1956)
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1959 award winner Charlie Ruggles
Roddy McDowall won for The Fighting Cock (1961)
Walter Matthau won for A Shot in the Dark (1962)
Alan Arkin won for Enter, Laughing (1963)
Hume Cronyn won for Hamlet (1964)
Jack Albertson won for The Subject was Roses (1965)
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1967 award winner Ian Holm
Al Pacino won for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969)
Vincent Gardenia won for The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972)
John Lithgow won for The Changing Room (1973)
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Frank Langella , the only person to win the award multiple times, won in 1975 and 2002
Jonathan Pryce won for Comedians (1977)
Michael Gough won for Bedroom Farce (1979)
Matthew Broderick won for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983)
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1984 award winner Joe Mantegna
John Mahoney won for The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
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1992 award winner Laurence Fishburne
B.D. Wong won in 1988. He is the only actor of Asian descent to win this category
Charles Durning won for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990)
Kevin Spacey won for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
Jeffrey Wright won for Angels in America (1993)
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1996 award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson
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2003 award winner Denis O'Hare
Liev Schreiber won for Glengarry Glen Ross (2005)
Ian McDiarmid won in 2006 for Faith Healer
Billy Crudup won for The Coasts of Utopia (2007)
Eddie Redmayne won for Red (2010)
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2011 award winner John Benjamin Hickey
Courtney B. Vance won for Lucky Guy (2013)
Mark Rylance won for Twelfth Night (2014)
Nathan Lane won for Angels in America (2017)
David Alan Grier won for A Soldier's Play (2020)
Jesse Tyler Ferguson won for Take Me Out (2022)
Brandon Uranowitz won for Leopoldstadt (2023)
Will Brill won for Stereophonic (2024)