Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a 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.

Patricia Neal won the first such award for her portrayal of Regina Hubbard in Lillian Hellman's Another Part of the Forest.

[3] The award was renamed in 1976, when Shirley Knight became the first winner under the new title for her role as Carla in Robert Patrick's Kennedy's Children.

Its most recent recipient is Miriam Silverman for the role of Mavis Parodus Bryson, in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window.

Portrayals of Ruth Younger in A Raisin in the Sun and Mavis Parodus Bryson in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window have won twice.

A black-and-white picture of Patricia Neal in a striped collared shirt
1947 award winner Patricia Neal
Maureen Stapleton won for The Rose Tattoo (1951)
Beatrice Straight won for The Crucible (1953)
Jo Van Fleet won for The Trip to Bountiful (1954)
Una Merkel won for The Ponder Heart (1956)
Anne Bancroft
1958 award winner Anne Bancroft
Julie Newmar won for The Marriage-Go-Round (1959)
Anne Revere won for Toys in the Attic (1960)
Colleen Dewhurst won for All the Way Home (1961)
Sandy Dennis won for A Thousand Clowns (1963)
Barbara Loden in After the Hall (1964)
Alice Ghostley won for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (1965)
Marian Seldes won for A Delicate Balance (1967)
Jane Alexander won for The Great White Hope (1969)
Blythe Danner won for Butterflies Are Free (1970)
Frances Sternhagen won twice The Good Doctor (1974) and The Heiress (1995)
Rita Moreno won for The Ritz (1975)
Shirley Knight won for Kennedy's Children (1976)
A color photograph of Swoosie Kurtz, a woman with blue eyes and brown-red hair, in a green sweater
Two-time award winner Swoosie Kurtz in 1981 and 1986
Mary Alice won for Fences (1987)
Margaret Tyzack won for Lettice and Lovage (1990)
Christine Baranski won twice for The Real Thing (1984) and Rumors (1989)
Debra Monk won for Redwood Curtain (1993)
Audra McDonald in a black dress against a white background
Two-time award winner Audra McDonald
A color headshot of Blair Brown at a microphone
2000 award winner Blair Brown
Viola Davis, wearing a leather jacket, against a black background
2001 award winner Viola Davis
Katie Finneran won for Noises Off (2002)
Frances de la Tour won for The History Boys (2006)
Jennifer Ehle won for The Coast of Utopia (2007)
Angela Lansbury won for Blythe Spirit (2009)
Scarlett Johansson against a light blue background
2010 award winner Scarlett Johansson
Ellen Barkin won for The Normal Heart (2011)
Judith Light won twice for Other Desert Cities (2012) and The Assembled Parties (2013)
Sophie Okonedo won A Raisin' in the Sun (2014)
Annaleigh Ashford won for You Can't Take it With You (2015)
Jayne Houdyshell won for The Humans (2016)
Cynthia Nixon won for The Little Foxes (2017)
Laurie Metcalf won for Three Tall Women (2018
Lois Smith won for The Inheritance (2020)
Miriam Silverman won for The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window (2023)