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1947 Ingrid Bergman . '' Joan Of Lorraine '' and Helen Hayes . '' Happy Birthday '' (tie)

1948 Judith Anderson . '' Medea '' and Katharine Cornell . '' Antony And Cleopatra '' and Jessica Tandy . '' A Streetcar Named Desire '' (tie)

1949 Martita Hunt . '' The Madwoman Of Chaillot ''

1950 Shirley Booth . '' Come Back, Little Sheba ''

1951 Uta Hagen . '' The Country Girl ''

1952 Julie Harris . '' I Am A Camera ''

1963 Uta Hagen . '' Who's Afraid Of Virginia Woolf? ''

1967 Marian Seldes . '' A Delicate Balance ''

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 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 ''

--- Toyah 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? ''