Winners / Actress (Leading Role - Play)

Sarah Snook

Sarah Paulson

Jodie Comer

Deirdre O'Connell

Mary-Louise Parker

Elaine May

Glenda Jackson, Edward Albee's Three Tall Women

Laurie Metcalf, A Doll's House, Part 2

Jessica Lange, Long Day's Journey Into Night

Helen Mirren, The Audience

Audra McDonald, Lady Day at Emerson's Bar & Grill

Cicely Tyson, The Trip to Bountiful

Nina Arianda, Venus in Fur

Frances McDormand, Good People

Viola Davis, Fences

Marcia Gay Harden, God of Carnage

Deanna Dunagan, August: Osage County

Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed

Cynthia Nixon, Rabbit Hole

Cherry Jones, Doubt

Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun

Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey into Night

Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives

Mary-Louise Parker, Proof

Jennifer Ehle, The Real Thing

Judi Dench, Amy's View

Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane

Janet McTeer, A Doll's House

Zoe Caldwell, Master Class

Cherry Jones, The Heiress

Diana Rigg, Medea

Madeline Kahn, The Sisters Rosensweig

Glenn Close, Death and the Maiden

Mercedes Ruehl, Lost in Yonkers

Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage

Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine

Joan Allen, Burn This

Linda Lavin, Broadway Bound

Lily Tomlin, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe

Stockard Channing, Joe Egg

Glenn Close, The Real Thing

Jessica Tandy, Foxfire

Zoe Caldwell, Medea

Jane Lapotaire, Piaf

Phyllis Frelich, Children of a Lesser God

Constance Cummings, Wings

Carole Shelley, The Elephant Man

Jessica Tandy, The Gin Game

Julie Harris, The Belle of Amherst

Irene Worth, Sweet Bird of Youth

Ellen Burstyn, Same Time, Next Year

Colleen Dewhurst, A Moon for the Misbegotten

Julie Harris, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln

Sada Thompson, Twigs

Maureen Stapleton, The Gingerbread Lady

Tammy Grimes, Private Lives - Revival

Julie Harris, Forty Carats

Zoe Caldwell, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie

Beryl Reid, The Killing of Sister George

Rosemary Harris, The Lion in Winter

Irene Worth, Tiny Alice

Sandy Dennis, Any Wednesday

Uta Hagen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Margaret Leighton, The Night of the Iguana

Joan Plowright, A Taste of Honey

Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker

Gertrude Berg, A Majority of One

Helen Hayes, Time Remembered

Margaret Leighton, Separate Tables

Julie Harris, The Lark

Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed

Audrey Hepburn, Ondine

Shirley Booth, Time of the Cuckoo

Julie Harris, I Am a Camera

Uta Hagen, The Country Girl

Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba

Martita Hunt, The Madwoman of Chaillot

Judith Anderson, Medea

Katharine Cornell, Antony and Cleopatra

Jessica Tandy, A Streetcar Named Desire

Ingrid Bergman, Joan of Lorraine

Helen Hayes, Happy Birthday