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1940S

1947 '' Patricia Neal '' ('' Another Part Of The Forrest '')

1949 '' Shirley Booth '' ('' Goodbye, My Fancy '')

1950S

1951 '' Maureen Stapleton '' ('' The Rose Tattoo '')

1952 '' Marian Winters '' ('' I Am A Camera '')

1953 '' Beatrice Straight '' ('' The Crucible '')

1954 '' Jo Van Fleet '' ('' The Trip To Bountiful '')

1955 '' Patricia Jessel '' ('' Witness For The Prosecution '')

1956 '' Una Merkel '' ('' The Ponder Heart '')

---'' Diane Cilento '' ('' Tiger At The Gates '')

---'' Anne Jackson '' ('' Middle Of The Night '')

---'' Elaine Stritch '' ('' Bus Stop '')

1957 '' Peggy Cass '' ('' Auntie Mame '')

---'' Anna Massey '' ('' The Reluctant Debutante '')

---'' Beryl Measor '' ('' Separate Tables '')

---'' Mildred Natwick '' ('' The Waltz Of The Toreadors '')

---'' Phyllis Neilson-Terry '' (''Separate Tables'')

---'' Diana Van Der Vlis '' ('' The Happiest Millionaire '')

1958 '' Anne Bancroft '' ('' Two For The Seesaw '')

---'' Brenda De Banzie '' ('' The Entertainer '')

---'' Joan Blondell '' ('' The Rope Dancers '')

---'' Mary Fickett '' ('' Sunrise At Campobello '')

---'' Eileen Heckart '' ('' The Dark At The Top Of The Stairs '')

1959 '' Julie Newmar '' ('' The Marriage-Go-Round '')

---'' Maureen Delany '' ('' God And Kate Murphy '')

---'' Dolores Hart '' ('' The Pleasure Of His Company '')

---'' Nan Martin '' ('' J.B. '')

---'' Bertrice Reading '' ('' Requiem For A Nun '')

1960S

1960 '' Anne Revere '' ('' Toys In The Attic '')

---'' Leora Dana '' ('' The Best Man '')

---'' Jane Fonda '' ('' There Was A Little Girl '')

---'' Sarah Marshall '' ('' Goodbye, Charlie '')

---'' Juliet Mills '' ('' Five Finger Exercise '')

1961 '' Colleen Dewhurst '' ('' All The Way Home '')

---'' Eileen Heckart '' ('' Invitation To A March '')

---'' Tresa Hughes '' ('' The Devil's Advocate '')

---'' Rosemary Murphy '' ('' Period Of Adjustment '')

1962 '' Elizabeth Ashley '' ('' Take Her, She's Mine '')

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---'' Janet Margolin '' ('' Daughter Of Silence '')

---'' Pat Stanely '' ('' Sunday In New York '')

1963 '' Sandy Dennis '' ('' A Thousand Clowns '')

---'' Melinda Dillon '' ('' Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? '')

---'' Alice Ghostley '' ('' The Beauty Part '')

---'' Zohra Lampert '' ('' Mother Courage And Her Children '')

1964 '' Barbara Loden '' ('' After The Fall '')

---'' Rosemary Murphy '' ('' Any Wednesday '')

---'' Kate Reid '' ('' Dylan '')

---'' Diana Sands '' ('' Blues For Mister Charlie '')

1965 '' Alice Ghostley '' ('' The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window '')

---'' Rae Allen '' ('' Traveller Without Luggage '')

---'' Alexandra Berlin '' ('' All In Good Time '')

---'' Carolan Daniels '' ('' Slow Dance On The Killing Ground '')

1966 '' Zoe Caldwell '' ('' Slapstick Tragedy '')

---'' Glenda Jackson '' ('' Marat/Sade '')

---'' Mairin D. O'Sullivan '' ('' Philadelphia, Here I Come! '')

---'' Brenda Vaccaro '' ('' Cactus Flower '')

1967 '' Marian Seldes '' ('' A Delicate Balance '')

---'' Camila Ashland '' ('' Black Comedy '')

---'' Brenda Forbes '' ('' The Loves Of Cass McGuire '')

---'' Maria Tucci '' ('' The Rose Tattoo '')

1968 '' Zena Walker '' ('' Joe Egg '')

---'' Pert Kelton '' ('' Spofford '')

---'' Ruth White '' ('' The Birthday Party '')

---'' Eleanor Wilson '' ('' Weekend '')

1969 '' Jane Alexander '' ('' The Great White Hope '')

---'' Diane Keaton '' ('' Play It Again Sam '')

---'' Lauren Jones '' ('' Does A Tiger Wear A Necktie? '')

---'' Anna Manahan '' ('' Lovers '')

1970S

1970 '' Blythe Danner '' ('' Butterflies Are Free '')

---'' Alice Drummond '' ('' The Chinese And Dr. Fish '')

---'' Eileen Heckart '' (''Butterflies Are Free'')

---'' Linda Lavin '' ('' Last Of The Red Hot Lovers '')

1971 '' Rae Allen '' ('' And Miss Reardon Drinks A Little '')

---'' Lili Darvas '' ('' Les Blancs '')

---'' Joan Van Ark '' ('' The School For Wives '')

---'' Mona Washbourne '' ('' Home '')

1972 '' Elizabeth Wilson '' ('' Sticks And Bones '')

---'' Cara Duff-MacCormick '' ('' Moonchildren '')

---'' Mercedes McCambridge '' ('' The Love Suicide At Schofield Barracks '')

---'' Frances Sternhagen '' ('' The Sign In Sidney Brustein's Window - Revival '')

1973 '' Leora Dana '' ('' The Last Of Mrs. Lincoln '')

---'' Maya Angelou '' ('' Look Away '')

---'' Katherine Helmond '' ('' The Great God Brown '')

---'' Penelope Windust '' ('' Elizabeth I '')

1974 '' Frances Sternhagen '' ('' The Good Doctor '')

---'' Regina Baff '' ('' Veronica's Room '')

---'' Fionnula Flanagan '' ('' Ulysses In Nighttown '')

---'' Charlotte Moore '' ('' Chemin De Fer '')

---'' Roxie Roker '' ('' The River Niger '')

1975 '' Rita Moreno '' ('' The Ritz '')

---'' Linda Miller '' ('' Black Picture Show '')

---'' Gerladine Page '' ('' Absurd Person Singular '')

---'' Carole Shelley '' (''Absurd Person Singular'')

---'' Elizabeth Spriggs '' ('' London Assurance '')

---'' Frances Sternhagen '' ('' Equus '')

1976 '' Shirley Knight '' ('' Kennedy's Children '')

---'' Mary Beth Hurt '' ('' Trelawny Of The 'Wells' '')

---'' Lois Nettleton '' ('' They Knew What They Wanted '')

---'' Meryl Streep '' ('' 27 Wagons Full Of Cotton '')

1977 '' Trazana Beverley '' ('' For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When The Rainbow Is Enuf '')

---'' Patricia Elliott '' ('' The Shadow Box '')

---'' Rose Gregorio '' (''The Shadow Box'')

---'' Mary McCarty '' ('' Anna Christie '')

1978 '' Ann Wedgeworth '' ('' Chapter Two '')

---'' Starletta DuPois '' ('' The Mighty Gents '')

---'' Swoosie Kurtz '' ('' Tartuffe '')

---'' Marian Seldes '' ('' Deathtrap '')

1979 '' Joan Hickson '' ('' Bedroom Farce '')

---'' Laurie Kennedy '' ('' Man And Superman '')

---'' Susan Littler '' (''Bedroom Farce'')

---'' Mary-Joan Negro '' ('' Wings '')

1980S

1980 '' Dinah Manoff '' ('' I Ought To Be In Pictures '')

---'' Maureen Anderman '' ('' The Lady From Dubuque '')

---'' Pamela Burrell '' ('' Strider '')

---'' Lois De Banzie '' ('' Morning's At Seven '')

1981 '' Swoosie Kurtz '' ('' Fifth Of July '')

---'' Maureen Stapleton '' ('' The Little Foxes '')

---'' Jessica Tandy '' ('' Rose '')

---'' Zoe Wanamaker '' ('' Piaf '')

1982 '' Amanda Plummer '' ('' Agnes Of God '')

---'' Judith Anderson '' ('' Medea '')

---'' Mia Dillon '' ('' Crimes Of The Heart '')

---'' Mary Beth Hurt '' (''Crimes of the Heart'')

1983 '' Judith Ivey '' ('' Steaming '')

---'' Elizabeth Franz '' ('' Brighton Beach Memoirs '')

---'' Roxanne Hart '' ('' Passion '')

---'' Margaret Tyzack '' ('' All's Well That Ends Well '')

1984 '' Christine Baranski '' ('' The Real Thing '')

---'' Jo Henderson '' ('' Play Memory '')

---'' Dana Ivey '' ('' Heartbreak House '')

---'' Deborah Rush '' ('' Noises Off '')

1985 '' Judith Ivey '' ('' Hurlyburly '')

---'' Joanna Gleason '' ('' Joe Egg '')

---'' Theresa Merritt '' ('' Ma Rainey's Black Bottom '')

---'' Sigourney Weaver '' (''Hurlyburly'')

1986 '' Swoosie Kurtz '' ('' The House Of Blue Leaves '')

---'' Stockard Channing '' (''The House of Blue Leaves'')

---'' Bethel Leslie '' ('' Long Day's Journey Into Night '')

---'' Zoe Wanamaker '' ('' Loot '')

1987 '' Mary Alice '' ('' Fences '')

---'' Annette Bening '' ('' Coastal Disturbances '')

---'' Phyllis Newman '' ('' Broadway Bound '')

---'' Carole Shelley '' ('' Stepping Out '')

1988 '' L. Scott Caldwell '' ('' Joe Turner's Come And Gone '')

---'' Kimberleigh Aarn '' (''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'')

---'' Kate Nelligan '' ('' Serious Money '')

---'' Kimberly Scott '' (''Joe Turner's Come and Gone'')

1989 '' Christine Baranski '' ('' Rumors '')

---'' Joanne Camp '' ('' The Heidi Chronicles '')

---'' Tovah Feldshuh '' ('' Lend Me A Tenor '')

---'' Penelope Ann Miller '' ('' Our Town '')

1990S

1990 '' Margaret Tyzack '' ('' Lettice And Lovage '')

---'' Polly Holliday '' ('' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof '')

---'' S. Epatha Merkerson '' ('' The Piano Lesson '')

---'' Lois Smith '' ('' The Grapes Of Wrath '')

1991 '' Irene Worth '' ('' Lost In Yonkers '')

---'' Amelia Campbell '' ('' Our Country's Good '')

---'' Kathryn Erbe '' ('' The Speed Of Darkness '')

---'' J. Smith-Cameron '' (''Our Country's Good'')

1992 '' Brid Brennan '' ('' Dancing At Lughnasa '')

---'' Rosaleen Linehan '' (''Dancing at Lughnasa'')

---'' Cynthia Martells '' ('' Two Trains Running '')

---'' Dearbhla Molloy '' (''Dancing at Lughnasa'')

1993 '' Debra Monk '' ('' Redwood Curtain '')

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---'' Marcia Gay Harden '' (''Angels in America: Millennium Approaches'')

---'' Anne Meara '' ('' Anna Christie '')

1994 '' Jane Adams '' ('' An Inspector Calls '')

---'' Debra Monk '' ('' Picnic '')

---'' Jeanne Paulsen '' ('' The Kentucky Cycle '')

---'' Anne Pitoniak '' (''Picnic'')

1995 '' Frances Sternhagen '' ('' The Heiress '')

---'' Suzanne Bertish '' ('' The Moliere Comedies '')

---'' Cynthia Nixon '' ('' Indiscretions '')

---'' Mercedes Ruehl '' ('' The Shadow Box '')

1996 '' Audra McDonald '' ('' Master Class '')

---'' Viola Davis '' ('' Seven Guitars '')

---'' Michele Shay '' (''Seven Guitars'')

---'' Lois Smith '' ('' Buried Child '')

1997 '' Lynne Thigpen '' ('' An American Daughter '')

---'' Helen Carey '' ('' London Assurance '')

---'' Dana Ivey '' ('' The Last Night Of Ballyhoo '')

---'' Celia Weston '' (''The Last Night of Ballyhoo'')

1998 '' Anna Manahan '' ('' The Beauty Queen Of Leenane '')

---'' Enid Graham '' ('' Honour '')

---'' Linda Lavin '' ('' The Diary Of Anne Frank '')

---'' Julyana Soelistyo '' ('' Golden Child '')

1999 '' Elizabeth Franz '' ('' Death Of A Salesman '')

---'' Claire Bloom '' ('' Electra '')

---'' Samantha Bond '' ('' Amy's View '')

---'' Dawn Bradfield '' ('' The Lonesome West '')

2000S

2000 '' Blair Brown '' ('' Copenhagen '')

---'' Frances Conroy '' ('' The Ride Down Mt. Morgan '')

---'' Amy Ryan '' ('' Uncle Vanya '')

---'' Helen Stenborg '' ('' Waiting In The Wings '')

---'' Sarah Woodward '' ('' The Real Thing '')

2001 '' Viola Davis '' ('' King Hedley II '')

---'' Johanna Day '' ('' Proof '')

---'' Penny Fuller '' ('' Neil Simon's The Dinner Party '')

---'' Marthe Keller '' ('' Judgment At Nuremberg '')

---'' Michele Lee '' ('' The Tale Of The Allergist's Wife '')

2002 '' Katie Finneran '' ('' Noises Off '')

---'' Kate Burton '' ('' The Elephant Man '')

---'' Elizabeth Franz '' ('' Morning's At Seven '')

---'' Estelle Parsons '' (''Morning's at Seven'')

---'' Frances Sternhagen '' (''Morning's at Seven'')

2003 '' Michele Pawk '' ('' Hollywood Arms '')

---'' Christine Ebersole '' ('' Dinner At Eight '')

---'' Linda Emond '' ('' Life (x) 3 '')

---'' Kathryn Meisle '' ('' Tartuffe '')

---'' Marian Seldes '' (''Dinner at Eight'')

2004 '' Audra McDonald '' ('' A Raisin In The Sun '')

---'' Essie Davis '' ('' Jumpers '')

---'' Sanaa Lathan '' (''A Raisin in the Sun'')

---'' Margo Martindale '' ('' Cat On A Hot Tin Roof '')

---'' Daphne Rubin-Vega '' ('' Anna In The Topics '')

2005 '' Adriane Lenox '' ('' Doubt '')

---'' Mireille Enos '' ('' Edward Albee's Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? '')

---'' Heather Goldenhersh '' (''Doubt'')

---'' Dana Ivey '' ('' The Rivals '')

---'' Amy Ryan '' ('' A Streetcar Named Desire '')