Tony Award za najbolju glavnu glumicu u predstavi

Tony Award za najbolj glavnu žensku ulogu u predstavi (en: Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play) dodeljuje se od 1947. godine, a imena nominovanih glumica, koje nisu dobile nagradu, objavljuju se od 1956.

1940-e

• 1947 Ingrid Bergman, Joan of Lorraine i Helen Hayes, Happy Birthday

• 1948 Judith Anderson, Medea i Katharine Cornell, Antony and Cleopatra i Jessica Tandy, A Streetcar Named Desire

• 1949 Martita Hunt, The Madwoman of Chaillot

1950-e

• 1950 Shirley Booth, Come Back, Little Sheba

• 1951 Uta Hagen, The Country Girl

• 1952 Julie Harris, I Am a Camera

• 1953 Shirley Booth, Time of the Cuckoo

• 1954 Audrey Hepburn, Ondine

• 1955 Nancy Kelly, The Bad Seed

• 1956 Julie Harris, The Lark
  • Barbara Bel Geddes Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Gladys Cooper, The Chalk Garden
  • Ruth Gordon, The Matchmaker
  • Siobhán McKenna, The Chalk Garden
  • Susan Strasberg, The Diary of Anne Frank

• 1957 Margaret Leighton, Separate Tables
  • Florence Eldridge, Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Rosalind Russell, Auntie Mame
  • Sybil Thorndike, The Potting Shed

• 1958 Helen Hayes. Time Remembered
  • Wendy Hiller, A Moon For the Misbegotten
  • Eugenie Leontovich, The Cave Dwellers
  • Siobhán McKenna, The Rope Dancers
  • Mary Ure, Look Back in Anger
  • Jo Van Fleet, Look Homeward Angel

• 1959 Gertrude Berg, A Majority of One
  • Claudette Colbert, The Marriage-Go-Round
  • Lynn Fontanne, The Visit
  • Kim Stanley, A Touch of the Poet
  • Maureen Stapleton, The Cold Wind and the Warm

1960-e

• 1960 Anne Bancroft, The Miracle Worker
  • Margaret Leighton, Much Ado About Nothing
  • Claudia McNeil, A Raisin in the Sun
  • Geraldine Page, Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Maureen Stapleton. Toys in the Attic
  • Irene Worth. Toys in the Attic

• 1961 Joan Plowright, A Taste of Honey
  • Tallulah Bankhead Midgie Purvis
  • Barbara Baxley, Period of Adjustment
  • Barbara Bel Geddes. Mary, Mary

• 1962 Margaret Leighton. The Night of the Iguana
  • Gladys Cooper. A Passage to India
  • Colleen Dewhurst, Great Day in the Morning
  • Kim Stanley, A Far Country

• 1963 Uta Hagen, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Hermione Baddeley, The Milk Train Doesn't Stop Here Anymore
  • Margaret Leighton, Tchin-Tchin
  • Claudia McNeil, Tiger Tiger Burning Bright

• 1964 Sandy Dennis, Any Wednesday
  • Elizabeth Ashley, Barefoot in the Park
  • Colleen Dewhurst, The Ballad of the Sad Café
  • Julie Harris, Marathon '33

• 1965 Irene Worth, Tiny Alice
  • Marjorie Rhodes, All in Good Time
  • Beah Richards, The Amen Corner
  • Diana Sands, The Owl and the Pussycat

• 1966 Rosemary Harris, The Lion in Winter
  • Sheila Hancock, Entertaining Mr. Sloan
  • Kate Reid, Slapstick Tragedy
  • Lee Remick, Wait Until Dark

• 1967 Beryl Reid, The Killing of Sister George
  • Eileen Atkins, The Killing of Sister George
  • Vivien Merchant, The Homecoming
  • Rosemary Murphy, A Delicate Balance

• 1968 Zoe Caldwell, The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • Colleen Dewhurst, More Stately Mansions
  • Maureen Stapleton, Plaza Suite
  • Dorothy Tutin, Portrait of a Queen

• 1969 Julie Harris, Forty Carats
  • Estelle Parsons, Seven Descents of Myrtle
  • Charlotte Rea. Morning, Noon and Night'
  • Brenda Vaccaro, The Goodbye People

1970-e

• 1970 Tammy Grimes, Private Lives
  • Geraldine Brooks, Brightower
  • Helen Hayes, Harvey

• 1971 Maureen Stapleton, The Gingerbread Lady
  • Estelle Parsons And Miss Reardon Drinks a Little
  • Diana Rigg, Abelard and Heloise
  • Marian Seldes, Father's Day

• 1972 Sada Thompson, Twigs
  • Eileen Atkins, Vivat! Vivat! Regina!
  • Colleen Dewhurst, All Over
  • Rosemary Harris, Old Times

• 1973 Julie Harris, The Last of Mrs. Lincoln
  • Jane Alexander, 6 Rms Riv Vu
  • Colleen Dewhurst, Mourning Becomes Electra
  • Kathleen Widdoes, Much Ado About Nothing

• 1974 Colleen Dewhurst, A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Jane Alexander, Find Your Way Home
  • Julie Harris, The Au Pair Man
  • Madeline Kahn, Boom Boom Room
  • Rachel Roberts. (nastupi sa New Phoenix Repertory Company)

• 1975 Ellen Burstyn, Same Time, Next Year
  • Elizabeth Ashley, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
  • Diana Rigg, The Misanthrope
  • Maggie Smith, Private Lives
  • Liv Ullmann, A Doll's House

• 1976 Irene Worth, Sweet Bird of Youth
  • Tovah Feldshuh. Yentl
  • Rosemary Harris, The Royal Family
  • Lynn Redgrave, Mrs. Warren's Profession

• 1977 Julie Harris, The Belle of Amherst
  • Colleen Dewhurst, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
  • Liv Ullmann, Anna Christie
  • Irene Worth, The Cherry Orchard

• 1978 Jessica Tandy, The Gin Game
  • Anne Bancroft, Golda
  • Anita Gillette, Chapter Two
  • Estelle Parsons, Miss Margarida's Way

• 1979 Constance Cummings Wings and Carole Shelley The Elephant Man
  • Jane Alexander, First Monday in October
  • Frances Sternhagen, On Golden Pond

1980-e

• 1980 Phyllis Frelich, Children of a Lesser God
  • Blythe Danner, Betrayal
  • Maggie Smith, Night and Day
  • Anne Twomey, Nuts

• 1981 Jane Lapotaire, Piaf
  • Glenda Jackson, Rose
  • Eva Le Gallienne, To Grandmother's House We Go
  • Elizabeth Taylor, The Little Foxes

• 1982 Zoe Caldwell, Medea
  • Katharine Hepburn, The West Side Waltz
  • Geraldine Page, Agnes of God
  • Amanda Plummer, A Taste of Honey

• 1983 Jessica Tandy, Foxfire
  • Kathy Bates, 'Night, Mother
  • Kate Nelligan, Plenty
  • Anne Pitoniak, 'Night, Mother

• 1984 Glenn Close, The Real Thing
  • Rosemary Harris. Heartbreak House
  • Linda Hunt, End of the World
  • Kate Nelligan, A Moon for the Misbegotten

• 1985 Stockard Channing, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  • Sinead Cusack, Much Ado About Nothing
  • Rosemary Harris, Pack of Lies
  • Glenda Jackson, Strange Interlude

• 1986 Lily Tomlin, The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe
  • Rosemary Harris, Hay Fever
  • Mary Beth Hurt, Benefactors
  • Jessica Tandy, The Petition

• 1987 Linda Lavin, Broadway Bound
  • Lindsay Duncan, Les Liaisons Dangereuses
  • Geraldine Page, Blithe Spirit
  • Amanda Plummer, Pygmalion

• 1988 Joan Allen, Burn This
  • Blythe Danner, A Streetcar Named Desire
  • Glenda Jackson, Macbeth
  • Frances McDormand, A Streetcar Named Desire

• 1989 Pauline Collins, Shirley Valentine
  • Joan Allen, The Heidi Chronicles
  • Madeline Kahn, Born Yesterday
  • Kate Nelligan, Spoils of War

1990-e

• 1990 Maggie Smith, Lettice and Lovage
  • Geraldine James, The Merchant of Venice
  • Mary-Louise Parker, Prelude to a Kiss
  • Kathleen Turner, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof

• 1991 Mercedes Ruehl, Lost in Yonkers
  • Stockard Channing, Six Degrees of Separation
  • Julie Harris, Lucifer's Child
  • Cherry Jones, Our Country's Good

• 1992 Glenn Close, Death and the Maiden
  • Jane Alexander, The Visit
  • Stockard Channing, Four Baboons Adoring the Sun
  • Judith Ivey, Park Your Car in Harvard Yard

• 1993 Madeline Kahn, The Sisters Rosensweig
  • Jane Alexander, The Sisters Rosensweig
  • Lynn Redgrave, Shakespeare For My Father
  • Natasha Richardson, Anna Christie

• 1994 Diana Rigg, Medea
  • Nancy Marchand, Black Comedy
  • Joan Rivers, Sally Marr and Her Escorts
  • Anna Deavere Smith, Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992

• 1995 Cherry Jones, The Heiress
  • Mary Alice, Having Our Say
  • Eileen Atkins, Indiscretions
  • Helen Mirren, A Month in the Country

• 1996 Zoe Caldwell, Master Class
  • Carol Burnett, Moon Over Buffalo
  • Rosemary Harris, A Delicate Balance
  • Elaine Stritch, A Delicate Balance

• 1997 Janet McTeer, A Doll's House
  • Julie Harris, The Gin Game
  • Shirley Knight, The Young Man From Atlanta
  • Lia Williams, Skylight

• 1998 Marie Mullen, The Beauty Queen of Leenane
  • Jane Alexander, Honour
  • Allison Janney, A View From the Bridge
  • Geraldine McEwan, The Chairs

• 1999 Judi Dench, Amy's View
  • Stockard Channing, The Lion in Winter
  • Marian Seldes, Ring Round the Moon
  • Zoe Wanamaker, Electra

2000-e

• 2000 Jennifer Ehle, The Real Thing
  • Jayne Atkinson, The Rainmaker
  • Rosemary Harris, Waiting in the Wings
  • Cherry Jones, A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Claudia Shear, Dirty Blonde

• 2001 Mary-Louise Parker, Proof
  • Juliette Binoche, Betrayal
  • Linda Lavin, The Tale of the Allergist's Wife
  • Jean Smart, The Man Who Came to Dinner
  • Leslie Uggams, King Hedley II

• 2002 Lindsay Duncan, Private Lives
  • Kate Burton, Hedda Gabler
  • Laura Linney, The Crucible
  • Helen Mirren, Dance of Death
  • Mercedes Ruehl, The Goat or Who is Sylvia

• 2003 Vanessa Redgrave, Long Day's Journey Into Night
  • Jayne Atkinson, Enchanted April
  • Victoria Hamilton, A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
  • Clare Higgins, Vincent in Brixton
  • Fiona Shaw, Medea

• 2004 Phylicia Rashad, A Raisin in the Sun
  • Eileen Atkins, The Retreat From Moscow
  • Tovah Feldshuh, Golda's Balcony
  • Anne Heche, Twentieth Century
  • Swoosie Kurtz, Frozen

• 2005 Cherry Jones, Doubt
  • Laura Linney, Sight Unseen
  • Mary-Louise Parker, Reckless
  • Phylicia Rashad, Gem of the Ocean
  • Kathleen Turner, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

• 2006 Cynthia Nixon, Rabbit Hole
  • Kate Burton, The Constant Wife
  • Judy Kaye, Souvenir
  • Lisa Kron, Well
  • Lynn Redgrave, The Constant Wife

• 2007 Julie White, The Little Dog Laughed
  • Eve Best, A Moon for the Misbegotten
  • Swoosie Kurtz, Heartbreak House
  • Angela Lansbury, Deuce
  • Vanessa Redgrave, The Year of Magical Thinking