Tony Award / Best Supporting Actress
All actresses who have appeared in plays and musicals on Broadway in New York during the year can be nominated for the Tony Award / Best Supporting Actress . The Tony Award for best performance in a female supporting role in a play went to:
1947-1949
- 1947: Patricia Neal (in Another Part of the Forrest )
- 1948: No award given
- 1949: Shirley Booth (in Goodbye, My Fancy )
1950-1959
- 1950: No award given
- 1951: Maureen Stapleton (in The Tattooed Rose )
- 1952: Marian Winters (in I Am a Camera )
- 1953: Beatrice Straight (in witch hunt )
- 1954: Jo Van Fleet (in The Trip to Bountiful )
- 1955: Patricia Jessel ( witness for the prosecution )
- 1956: Una Merkel (in The Ponder Heart )
- 1957: Peggy Cass (in Auntie Mame )
- 1958: Anne Bancroft (in Two For The Seesaw )
- 1959: Julie Newmar (in The Marriage-Go-Round )
1960-1969
- 1960: Anne Revere (in Toys in the Attic )
- 1961: Colleen Dewhurst (in All the Way Home )
- 1962: Elizabeth Ashley (in Take Her, She's Mine )
- 1963: Sandy Dennis (in A Thousand Clowns )
- 1964: Barbara Loden (in After the Fall )
- 1965: Alice Ghostley (in The Sign in Sidney Brustein's Window )
- 1966: Zoe Caldwell (in Slapstick Tragedy )
- 1967: Marian Seldes (in A Delicate Balance )
- 1968: Zena Walker (in Joe Egg )
- 1969: Jane Alexander (in The Great White Hope )
1970-1979
- 1970: Blythe Danner (in Butterflies Are Free )
- 1971: Rae Allen (in And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little )
- 1972: Elizabeth Wilson (in Sticks and Bones )
- 1973: Leora Dana (in The Last of Mrs. Lincoln )
- 1974: Frances Sternhagen (in The Good Doctor )
- 1975: Rita Moreno (in The Ritz )
- 1976: Shirley Knight (in Kennedy's Children )
- 1977: Trazana Beverley (in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow is Enuf )
- 1978: Ann Wedgeworth (in Chapter Two )
- 1979: Joan Hickson (in Bedroom Farce )
1980-1989
- 1980: Dinah Manoff (in I Ought to be in Pictures )
- 1981: Swoosie Kurtz (in Fifth of July )
- 1982: Amanda Plummer (in Agnes of God )
- 1983: Judith Ivey (in Steaming )
- 1984: Christine Baranski (in The Real Thing )
- 1985: Judith Ivey (in Hurlyburly )
- 1986: Swoosie Kurtz (in The House of Blue Leaves )
- 1987: Mary Alice (in Fences )
- 1988: L. Scott Caldwell (in Joe Turner's Come and Gone )
- 1989: Christine Baranski (in Rumors )
1990-1999
- 1990: Margaret Tyzack (in Lettice and Lovage )
- 1991: Irene Worth (in Lost in Yonkers )
- 1992: Brid Brennan (in Dancing at Lughnasa )
- 1993: Debra Monk (in Redwood Curtain )
- 1994: Jane Adams (in An Inspector Calls )
- 1995: Frances Sternhagen (in The Heiress )
- 1996: Audra McDonald (in Master Class )
- 1997: Lynne Thigpen (in An American Daughter )
- 1998: Anna Manahan (in The Beauty Queen of Leenane )
- 1999: Elizabeth Franz (in Death of a Salesman )
2000-2009
- 2000: Blair Brown (in Copenhagen )
- 2001: Viola Davis (in King Hedley II )
- 2002: Katie Finneran (in Noises Off )
- 2003: Michele Pawk (in Hollywood Arms )
- 2004: Audra McDonald (in A Raisin in the Sun )
- 2005: Adriane Lenox (in Doubt )
- 2006: Frances de la Tour (in The History Boys )
- 2007: Jennifer Ehle (in The Coast of Utopia )
- 2008: Rondi Reed (in August: Osage County )
- 2009: Angela Lansbury (in Blithe Spirit )
Since 2010
- 2010: Scarlett Johansson (in A View From the Bridge )
- 2011: Ellen Barkin (in The Normal Heart )
- 2012: Judith Light (in Other Desert Cities )
- 2013: Judith Light (in The Assembled Parties )
- 2014: Sophie Okonedo (in A Raisin in the Sun )
- 2015: Annaleigh Ashford (in You Can't Take It With You )
- 2016: Jayne Houdyshell (in The Humans )