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Theatre - Tony Awards
Most Wins for Female Acting in a Play
This list features the female actors that have won the most Best Actress in a Play awards in Tony Awards history.
RANK | ACTRESS | NOMINATIONS | WINS | YEARS |
1 | Julie Harris | 9 | 5 | I Am a Camera (1952), The Lark (1956), Forty Carats (1969), The Last of Mrs. Lincoln (1973), The Belle of Amherst (1977) |
2 | Jessica Tandy | 4 | 3 | A Streetcar Named Desire (1948), The Gin Game (1978), Foxfire (1983) |
3 | Zoe Caldwell | 3 | 3 | The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1968), Medea (1982), Master Class (1996) |
4 | Cherry Jones | 5 | 2 | The Heiress (1995), Doubt (2005) |
5 | Mary-Louise Parker | 5 | 2 | Proof (2001), The Sound Inside (2020) |
6 | Margaret Leighton | 4 | 2 | Separate Tables (1957), The Night of the Iguana (1962) |
7 | Irene Worth | 4 | 2 | Tiny Alice (1965), Sweet Bird of Youth (1976) |
8 | Helen Hayes | 3 | 2 | Happy Birthday (1947), Time Remembered (1958) |
9 | Shirley Booth | 2 | 2 | Come Back, Little Sheba (1950), The Time of the Cuckoo (1953) |
10 | Glenn Close | 2 | 2 | The Real Thing (1984), Death and the Maiden (1992) |
11 | Uta Hagen | 2 | 2 | The Country Girl (1951), Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1963) |
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