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Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

The Tony Award for Best Featured Actor 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."

Winners and nominees
won for Death of a Salesman (1949) won for The Rose Tattoo (1951) won for Inherit the Wind (1956) award winner Charlie Ruggles|alt=A black-and-white photograph of a man in a suit and tie with white hair and a pipe won for The Fighting Cock (1961) won for A Shot in the Dark (1962) won for Enter, Laughing (1963) won for Hamlet (1964) won for The Subject was Roses (1965) award winner Ian Holm|alt=A color photograph of a man in a suit, sitting at a brown desk, holding a pair of glasses won for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969) won for The Prisoner of Second Avenue (1972) won for The Changing Room (1973) , the only person to win the award multiple times, won in 1975 and 2002|alt=A man wearing a white shirt with a grey jacket and circular sunglasses won for Comedians (1977) won for Bedroom Farce (1979) won for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) award winner Joe Mantegna|alt=A man with a black-grey goatee in a black suit with an American flag tie won for The House of Blue Leaves (1986) award winner Laurence Fishburne|alt=A man speaking in a black suit with a pink tie won in 1988. He is the first actor of Asian descent to win this category won for Cat on a Hot Tin Roof (1990) won for Lost in Yonkers (1991) won for Angels in America (1993) award winner Ruben Santiago-Hudson|alt=A man in a brown suit with a black tie standing in front of a white backdrop award winner Denis O'Hare|alt=A man with short, black hair in a brown suit with a blue tie against a white backdrop won for Glengarry Glen Ross (2005) won in 2006 for Faith Healer won for The Coasts of Utopia (2007) won for Red (2010) award winner John Benjamin Hickey|alt=A man with a brown beard, moustache, and hair, wearing a blue and white suit with a grey undershirt won for Lucky Guy (2013) won for Twelfth Night (2014) won for Oslo (2017) won for Angels in America (2018) won for ''A Soldier's Play'' (2020) won for Take Me Out (2022) won for Leopoldstadt (2023) won for Stereophonic (2024) 1940s 1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Most wins==
Most wins
; 2 wins • Frank Langella ==Most nominations==
Character win total
; 2 wins • Phil Hogan from A Moon for the MisbegottenRichard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross • Mason Marzac from Take Me Out ==Character nomination total==
Character nomination total
;4 nominations • Biff Loman from Death of a Salesman ; 3 nominations • Shelley Levene from Glengarry Glen Ross • James Tyrone, Jr. from ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' ; 2 nominations • Homer Bolton from ''Morning's at Seven'' • Horace Giddens from The Little FoxesTorvald Helmer from ''A Doll's House'' • Phil Hogan from A Moon for the Misbegotten • Chris Keller from All My Sons • Darren Lemming from Take Me Out • Larry from Burn This • Lenny from The Homecoming • Mason Marzac from Take Me OutRichard Roma from Glengarry Glen Ross • Edmund Tyrone from ''Long Day's Journey into Night'' • Bynum Walker from ''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'' ==Productions with multiple nominations==
Productions with multiple nominations
boldface=Winner ==Multiple awards and nominations==
Multiple awards and nominations
; Actors who have been nominated multiple times in any acting categories ==Trivia==
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 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, at 21 years old. • Roy Dotrice currently holds the record for the oldest person to ever receive this award, at 77 years old. ==See also==
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