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Tony

HONOR

Awarded since 1947 for "distinguished achievement" in theatre.

"The producers of the Tony Awards received a lot of complaints after the two male songwriters of Hairspray kissed each other on stage. The producers were shocked about the complaints and said, 'We had no idea straight people watched the Tonys'". Conan O'Brien, monologue on Late Night.

Official Website:
http://www.tonyawards.com/

NameOccupationBirthDeathKnown for
Edie Adams
Actor
16-Apr-1925   Lover Come Back
Jane Adams
Actor
1-Apr-1965   Dr. Mel Karnofsky on Frasier
Edward Albee
Playwright
12-Mar-1928   Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Jack Albertson
Actor
16-Jun-1907 25-Nov-1981 The Man on Chico and the Man
Jane Alexander
Actor
28-Oct-1939   The Ring
Jason Alexander
Actor
23-Sep-1959   George Costanza on Seinfeld
Mary Alice
Actor
3-Dec-1941   The Matrix Revolutions
Joan Allen
Actor
20-Aug-1956   Mother in Pleasantville
Judith Anderson
Actor
10-Feb-1897 3-Jan-1992 Rebecca
Alan Arkin
Actor
26-Mar-1934   Catch 22
Elizabeth Ashley
Actor
30-Aug-1939   Take Her, She's Mine
Brooks Atkinson
Critic
28-Nov-1894 14-Jan-1984 New York Times drama critic
René Auberjonois
Actor
1-Jun-1940   Changeling on Star Trek: DS9
Lauren Bacall
Actor
16-Sep-1924   Key Largo
Pearl Bailey
Singer
29-Mar-1918 17-Aug-1990 Appointed by Nixon as Ambassador of Love
Martin Balsam
Actor
4-Nov-1914 13-Feb-1996 A Thousand Clowns
Anne Bancroft
Actor
17-Sep-1931 6-Jun-2005 Mrs. Robinson in The Graduate
Roger Bart
Actor
29-Sep-1962   Stepford Wives remake
Alan Bates
Actor
17-Feb-1934 27-Dec-2003 Basil in Zorba the Greek
Hinton Battle
Singer
29-Nov-1956   Dancer, singer, and choreographer
Gary Beach
Actor
10-Oct-1947   Broadway actor
Brian Bedford
Actor
16-Feb-1935   The School for Wives
Harry Belafonte
Singer/Songwriter
1-Mar-1927   Calypso singer
Ralph Bellamy
Actor
17-Jun-1904 29-Nov-1991 Trading Places
Alan Bennett
Playwright
9-May-1934   The Madness of George III
Leonard Bernstein
Conductor
25-Aug-1918 14-Oct-1990 Conductor, New York Philharmonic
Kelly Bishop
Actor
28-Feb-1944   Emily Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
Ray Bolger
Actor
10-Jan-1904 15-Jan-1987 The Wizard of Oz Scarecrow
Robert Bolt
Playwright
15-Aug-1924 20-Feb-1995 A Man for All Seasons
Shirley Booth
Actor
30-Aug-1898 16-Oct-1992 Come Back, Little Sheba
Philip Bosco
Actor
26-Sep-1930   American character actor
Tom Bosley
Actor
1-Oct-1927   Dad on Happy Days
Barry Bostwick
Actor
24-Feb-1945   Brad in Rocky Horror Picture Show
Charles Boyer
Actor
28-Aug-1899 26-Aug-1978 Four Horsemen of the Apocalypse
Matthew Broderick
Actor
21-Mar-1962   Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Blair Brown
Actor
23-Apr-1946   The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd
Joe E. Brown
Actor
28-Jul-1892 6-Jul-1973 Some Like It Hot
Ruth Brown
Singer
12-Jan-1928 17-Nov-2006 Miss Rhythm
Betty Buckley
Actor
3-Jul-1947   Abby Bradford on Eight Is Enough
Ellen Burstyn
Actor
7-Dec-1932   Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
Zoe Caldwell
Actor
14-Sep-1933   The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
Len Cariou
Actor
30-Sep-1939   Sweeney Todd
Diahann Carroll
Singer
17-Jul-1935   Claudine
Nell Carter
Actor
13-Sep-1948 23-Jan-2003 Housekeeper on Gimme A Break
Peggy Cass
Actor
21-May-1924 8-Mar-1999 Auntie Mame
Jack Cassidy
Actor
5-Mar-1927 12-Dec-1976 The Eiger Sanction
Gower Champion
Dancer
22-Jun-1921 25-Aug-1980 Show Boat
Stockard Channing
Actor
13-Feb-1944   The First Lady on The West Wing
Kristin Chenoweth
Actor
24-Jul-1968   Annabeth Schott on The West Wing
Glenn Close
Actor
19-Mar-1947   Fatal Attraction
Pauline Collins
Actor
3-Sep-1940   Shirley Valentine
Tom Conti
Actor
22-Nov-1941   American Dreamer
Barbara Cook
Singer
25-Oct-1927   Broadway, TV and cabaret singer and actress
Michael Crawford
Singer
19-Jan-1942   The original Phantom
John Cullum
Actor
2-Mar-1930   Holling Vincoeur on Northern Exposure
Constance Cummings
Actor
15-May-1910 23-Nov-2005 Blithe Spirit
Jim Dale
Actor
15-Aug-1935   Me and My Girl
Blythe Danner
Actor
3-Feb-1943   Futureworld
Viola Davis
Actor
11-Aug-1965   Nurse Peeler on City of Angels
Brian Dennehy
Actor
9-Jul-1938   First Blood
Sandy Dennis
Actor
27-Apr-1937 2-Mar-1992 Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Colleen Dewhurst
Actor
3-Jun-1924 2-Aug-1991 Murphy Brown's mother
Stephen Dillane
Actor
30-Nov-1956   Welcome to Sarajevo
Melvyn Douglas
Actor
5-Apr-1901 4-Aug-1981 Being There
Lindsay Duncan
Actor
7-Nov-1950   Perfect Strangers
Charles Durning
Actor
28-Feb-1923   The Muppet Movie
Fred Ebb
Musician
8-Apr-1935 11-Sep-2004 Top Broadway lyricist
Jennifer Ehle
Actor
29-Dec-1969   Sunshine
Maurice Evans
Actor
3-Jun-1901 12-Mar-1989 Dr. Zaius in Planet of the Apes
Tom Ewell
Actor
29-Apr-1909 12-Sep-1994 The Seven Year Itch
Nanette Fabray
Actor
27-Oct-1920   Caesar's Hour
Harvey Fierstein
Actor
6-Jun-1952   Torch Song Trilogy
Ed Flanders
Actor
29-Dec-1934 22-Feb-1995 Dr. Westphall on St. Elsewhere
Lynn Fontanne
Actor
6-Dec-1887 30-Jul-1983 English-American stage actress
Brian Friel
Playwright
9-Jan-1929   Dancing at Lughnasa
Martin Gabel
Actor
19-Jun-1912 22-May-1986 The First Deadly Sin
Helen Gallagher
Actor
19-Jul-1926   Maeve Ryan on Ryan's Hope
Vincent Gardenia
Actor
7-Jan-1922 9-Dec-1992 Cher's father in Moonstruck
Alice Ghostley
Actor
14-Aug-1926 21-Sep-2007 Bernice Clifton on Designing Women
John Gielgud
Actor
14-Apr-1904 21-May-2000 Prospero's Books
Jackie Gleason
Actor
26-Feb-1916 24-Jun-1987 Ralph Kramden in The Honeymooners
Joanna Gleason
Actor
2-Jun-1950   Crimes and Misdemeanors
John Glover
Actor
7-Aug-1944   Lionel Luthor on Smallville
Edward Gorey
Author
22-Feb-1925 15-Apr-2000 Amphigorey
Cliff Gorman
Actor
13-Oct-1936 5-Sep-2002 Stage actor, Lenny
Joel Grey
Actor
11-Apr-1932   Cabaret
Hugh Griffith
Actor
30-May-1912 14-May-1980 Sheik Ilderim in Ben-Hur
Richard Griffiths
Actor
31-Jul-1947   The History Boys
Tammy Grimes
Actor
30-Jan-1934   The Unsinkable Molly Brown
George Grizzard
Actor
1-Apr-1928 2-Oct-2007 Advise and Consent
Robert Guillaume
Actor
30-Nov-1927   Benson
Uta Hagen
Actor
12-Jun-1919 14-Jan-2004 Renowned thespian and acting teacher
Barbara Harris
Actor
25-Jul-1935   Stage actress ended up in Freaky Friday
Julie Harris
Actor
2-Dec-1925   East of Eden
Rex Harrison
Actor
5-Mar-1908 2-Jun-1990 My Fair Lady
Moss Hart
Playwright
24-Oct-1904 20-Dec-1961 You Can't Take It With You
Nigel Hawthorne
Actor
5-Apr-1929 26-Dec-2001 The Madness of King George
George Hearn
Actor
18-Jun-1934   Broadway musical actor
Eileen Heckart
Actor
29-Mar-1919 31-Dec-2001 Butterflies Are Free
Wilson Jermaine Heredia
Actor
2-Dec-1971   Rent
Edward Herrmann
Actor
21-Jul-1943   Richard Gilmore on Gilmore Girls
Joan Hickson
Actor
5-Aug-1906 17-Oct-1998 Miss Marple
Arthur Hill
Actor
1-Aug-1922 26-Oct-2006 Owen Marshall: Counselor at Law
Judd Hirsch
Actor
15-Mar-1935   Taxi
Al Hirschfeld
Artist
21-Jun-1903 20-Jan-2003 Pen and ink caricaturist
Hal Holbrook
Actor
17-Feb-1925   Mark Twain Tonight
Lena Horne
Singer
30-Jun-1917   Jazz singer, famous for Stormy Weather
Ken Howard
Actor
28-Mar-1944   The White Shadow
Barnard Hughes
Actor
16-Jul-1915 11-Jul-2006 High priest in TRON
Barry Humphries
Actor
17-Feb-1934   Dame Edna
Bill Irwin
Actor
11-Apr-1950   My Blue Heaven
Judith Ivey
Actor
4-Sep-1951   Designing Women
Derek Jacobi
Actor
22-Oct-1938   Claudius on I, Claudius
Michael Jeter
Actor
26-Aug-1952 30-Mar-2003 Evening Shade
Glynis Johns
Actor
5-Oct-1923   Winifred Banks in Mary Poppins
Cherry Jones
Actor
21-Nov-1956   The Heiress
James Earl Jones
Actor
17-Jan-1931   Voice of Darth Vader and CNN
Lila Kedrova
Actor
9-Oct-1918 16-Feb-2000 Zorba the Greek
Patsy Kelly
Actor
12-Jan-1910 24-Sep-1981 Freaky Friday
Arthur Kennedy
Actor
17-Feb-1914 5-Jan-1990 The Man from Laramie
Michael Kidd
Choreographer
12-Aug-1915 23-Dec-2007 Award-winning choreographer
Richard Kiley
Actor
31-Mar-1922 5-Mar-1999 Man of La Mancha
James Kirkwood
Novelist
22-Aug-1924 21-Apr-1989 A Chorus Line
Kevin Kline
Actor
24-Oct-1947   A Fish Called Wanda
Shirley Knight
Actor
5-Jul-1936   Sweet Bird of Youth
Jane Krakowski
Actor
11-Oct-1968   Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal
Swoosie Kurtz
Actor
6-Sep-1944   A Shock to the System
Bert Lahr
Actor
13-Aug-1895 4-Dec-1967 Lion in The Wizard of Oz
Nathan Lane
Actor
3-Feb-1956   The Producers
Frank Langella
Actor
1-Jan-1938   Dracula and Dave
Angela Lansbury
Actor
16-Oct-1925   Murder She Wrote
Jane Lapotaire
Actor
26-Dec-1944   English character actress
Linda Lavin
Actor
15-Oct-1937   Alice
Gertrude Lawrence
Actor
4-Jul-1898 6-Sep-1952 British and Broadway theatre star
Charles Lederer
Screenwriter
31-Dec-1911 5-Mar-1976 His Girl Friday
Ron Leibman
Actor
11-Oct-1937   Kaz
Vivien Leigh
Actor
5-Nov-1913 8-Jul-1967 Gone With The Wind
Margaret Leighton
Actor
26-Feb-1922 13-Jan-1976 The Go-Between
Robert Sean Leonard
Actor
28-Feb-1969   House, M.D.
Alan Jay Lerner
Playwright
31-Aug-1918 14-Jun-1986 An American in Paris
Hal Linden
Actor
20-Mar-1931   Barney Miller
Cleavon Little
Actor
1-Jun-1939 22-Oct-1992 Blazing Saddles
June Lockhart
Actor
25-Jun-1925   Mom on Lassie, Lost in Space
Alfred Lunt
Actor
12-Aug-1892 3-Aug-1977 American stage actor
Patti LuPone
Actor
21-Apr-1949   Won Tony for Evita
David Mamet
Author
30-Nov-1947   Glengarry Glen Ross
Barry Manilow
Singer/Songwriter
17-Jun-1943   I Write The Songs
Dinah Manoff
Actor
25-Jan-1958   Ordinary People
Joe Mantegna
Actor
13-Nov-1947   The Godfather Part III
Fredric March
Actor
31-Aug-1897 14-Apr-1975 The Best Years of Our Lives
Jackie Mason
Comic
9-Jun-1934   The World According to Me!
Walter Matthau
Actor
1-Oct-1920 1-Jul-2000 Messy half of the Odd Couple
Audra McDonald
Actor
3-Jul-1970   A Raisin in the Sun
Terrence McNally
Playwright
3-Nov-1939   Frankie and Johnny
Janet McTeer
Actor
8-May-1961   Tumbleweeds
Idina Menzel
Singer
30-May-1971   Rent
Una Merkel
Actor
10-Dec-1903 2-Jan-1986 Summer and Smoke
Ethel Merman
Singer
16-Jan-1908 15-Feb-1984 There's No Business Like Show Business
Bette Midler
Singer
1-Dec-1945   Ol' Red Hair
Jason Miller
Actor
22-Apr-1939 13-May-2001 The Exorcist
Roger Miller
Country Musician
2-Jan-1936 25-Oct-1992 King of the Road
Liza Minnelli
Musician
12-Mar-1946   Cabaret
Brian Stokes Mitchell
Actor
31-Oct-1957   Jackpot Johnson on Trapper John, MD
Thomas Mitchell
Actor
11-Jul-1892 17-Dec-1962 Gerald O'Hara in Gone with the Wind
Zakes Mokae
Actor
5-Aug-1935   The Serpent and the Rainbow
Dudley Moore
Actor
19-Apr-1935 27-Mar-2002 Arthur
Rita Moreno
Actor
11-Dec-1931   West Side Story, Electric Company
Michael Moriarty
Actor
5-Apr-1941   ADA on Law & Order
Robert Morse
Actor
18-May-1931   How to Succeed in Business
Zero Mostel
Actor
28-Feb-1915 8-Sep-1977 A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Donna Murphy
Actor
7-Mar-1959   The King and I
Bebe Neuwirth
Actor
31-Dec-1958   Dr. Lilith Sternin-Crane on Cheers
Julie Newmar
Actor
16-Aug-1933   Me-ow! The first Catwoman
Fayard Nicholas
Dancer
20-Oct-1914 24-Jan-2006 Tapdancer, The Nicholas Brothers
Mike Nichols
Film Director
6-Nov-1931   Primary Colors
Cynthia Nixon
Actor
9-Apr-1966   Miranda Hobbes on Sex and the City
Trevor Nunn
Theater Director
14-Jan-1940   Royal Shakespeare Company, 1968-86
Jerry Orbach
Actor
20-Oct-1935 28-Dec-2004 Lennie Briscoe from Law & Order
Mary-Louise Parker
Actor
2-Aug-1964   Fried Green Tomatoes
Mandy Patinkin
Actor
30-Nov-1952   Dead Like Me
Arthur Penn
Film Director
27-Sep-1922   Penn & Teller Get Killed
Bernadette Peters
Actor
28-Feb-1948   The Jerk, It Runs in the Family
David Hyde Pierce
Actor
3-Apr-1959   Niles on Frasier
Joan Plowright
Actor
28-Oct-1929   Enchanted April
Amanda Plummer
Actor
23-Mar-1957   Pulp Fiction
David Rabe
Playwright
10-Mar-1940   Sticks and Bones
Sara Ramirez
Actor
31-Aug-1975   Dr. Callie Torres on Grey's Anatomy
John Randolph
Actor
1-Jun-1915 24-Feb-2004 Prizzi's Honor
Phylicia Rashad
Actor
19-Jun-1948   Claire Huxtable on The Cosby Show
Vanessa Redgrave
Actor
30-Jan-1937   Julia
Roger Rees
Actor
5-May-1944   Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Charles Nelson Reilly
Actor
13-Jan-1931 25-May-2007 Flamboyant Match Game panelist
Ann Reinking
Dancer
10-Nov-1949   Broadway dancer
Natasha Richardson
Actor
11-May-1963   Widows' Peak
Ron Rifkin
Actor
31-Oct-1939   Arvin Sloane on Alias
Diana Rigg
Actor
20-Jul-1938   Mrs. Peel
Chita Rivera
Actor
23-Jan-1933   Anita in West Side Story on Broadway
Jason Robards
Actor
26-Jul-1922 26-Dec-2000 All The President's Men
Jerome Robbins
Choreographer
11-Oct-1918 29-Jul-1998 West Side Story
Richard Rodgers
Composer
28-Jun-1902 30-Dec-1979 Rodgers and Hammerstein
Paul Rogers
Actor
22-Mar-1917   British stage actor
Diana Ross
Singer
26-Mar-1944   Dominion over The Supremes
Ted Ross
Actor
30-Jun-1934 3-Sep-2002 Cowardly Lion in The Wiz
Rosalind Russell
Actor
4-Jun-1907 28-Nov-1976 Auntie Mame
Aaron Russo
Film/TV Producer
14-Feb-1943 24-Aug-2007 Libertarian filmmaker
Gene Saks
Theater Director
8-Nov-1921   The Odd Couple
Lea Salonga
Singer
22-Feb-1971   Miss Saigon
Paul Sand
Actor
5-Mar-1935   The Hot Rock
Liev Schreiber
Actor
4-Oct-1967   Actor, voiceover talent
Paul Scofield
Actor
21-Jan-1922 19-Mar-2008 A Man For All Seaons
Sidney Sheldon
Author
11-Feb-1917 30-Jan-2007 Annie Get Your Gun
Martin Short
Comic
26-Mar-1950   SNL and Primetime Glick
Neil Simon
Playwright
4-Jul-1927   The Odd Couple
Alexis Smith
Actor
8-Jun-1921 9-Jun-1993 Here Comes the Groom
Maggie Smith
Actor
28-Dec-1934   Prof. McGonagall in Harry Potter
Kevin Spacey
Actor
26-Jul-1959   The Usual Suspects
Stephen Spinella
Actor
11-Oct-1956   Love! Valour! Compassion!
Maureen Stapleton
Actor
21-Jun-1925 13-Mar-2006 Won an Oscar for playing Emma Goldman
Frances Sternhagen
Actor
13-Jan-1930   Misery
Barbra Streisand
Singer
24-Apr-1942   You Don't Bring Me Flowers
Elaine Stritch
Actor
2-Feb-1925   Two's Company
Jessica Tandy
Actor
7-Jun-1909 11-Sep-1994 Driving Miss Daisy
Twyla Tharp
Dancer
1-Jul-1941   Choreographer
Lynne Thigpen
Actor
22-Dec-1948 12-Mar-2003 Godspell
Lily Tomlin
Actor
1-Sep-1939   Laugh-In
Tommy Tune
Dancer
28-Feb-1939   6'6" Broadway dancer
Leslie Uggams
Actor
25-May-1943   Roots
Dick Van Dyke
Actor
13-Dec-1925   The Dick Van Dyke Show
Jo Van Fleet
Actor
30-Dec-1914 10-Jun-1996 East of Eden
Ben Vereen
Actor
10-Oct-1946   Jesus Christ Superstar
Eli Wallach
Actor
7-Dec-1915   The Magnificent Seven
Ray Walston
Actor
2-Dec-1914 1-Jan-2001 My Favorite Martian
Wendy Wasserstein
Playwright
18-Oct-1950 30-Jan-2006 The Heidi Chronicles
David Wayne
Actor
30-Jan-1914 9-Feb-1995 The Andromeda Strain
Fritz Weaver
Actor
19-Jan-1926   Fail Safe
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Composer
22-Mar-1948   Responsible for various musicals
Tennessee Williams
Playwright
26-Mar-1911 25-Feb-1983 The Glass Menagerie
August Wilson
Playwright
27-Apr-1945 2-Oct-2005 The Piano Lesson
Elizabeth Wilson
Actor
4-Apr-1921   The Graduate
Marissa Jaret Winokur
Actor
2-Feb-1973   Hairspray
B. D. Wong
Actor
24-Oct-1960   Oz, Law & Order: SVU
John Wood
Actor
1930   Dr. Falken in WarGames
Irene Worth
Actor
23-Jun-1916 10-Mar-2002 Lost in Yonkers
Jeffrey Wright
Actor
7-Dec-1965   Basquiat


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