The Tony Award for Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role 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." Originally called the Tony Award for Actor, Supporting or Featured (Dramatic), it was later changed to its current title in 1976. Before 1956, nominees' names were not made public. The change was made by the awards committee to "have a greater impact on theatregoers".
Video Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Winners and nominees
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Maps Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play
Wins total
- 2 Wins
- Frank Langella
Nominations total
Character win total
- 2 Wins
- Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
Character nomination total
- 3 Nominations
- Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman
- James Tyrone, Jr. from Long Day's Journey into Night
- 2 Nominations
- Edmund Tyrone from Long Day's Journey into Night
- Homer Bolton from Morning's at Seven
- Horace Giddens from The Little Foxes
- Lenny from The Homecoming
- Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Shelley Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross
- Richard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross
Trivia
- A supporting actor in each of Neil Simon's Eugene trilogy (Brighton Beach Memoirs, Biloxi Blues and Broadway Bound) has taken the Tony.
- Featured actors in both parts of the original production and in the 2018 revival of Tony Kushner's Angels in America: A Gay Fantasia on National Themes series have won the award.
- Matthew Broderick currently holds the record for the youngest person to ever receive this award.
References
External links
- Official Tony Awards website
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