Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production

• 1985 Derek Jacobi
  Derek Jacobi
  Sir Derek George Jacobi, CBE is an English actor and film director.A "forceful, commanding stage presence", Jacobi has enjoyed a highly successful stage career, appearing in such stage productions as Hamlet, Uncle Vanya, and Oedipus the King. He received a Tony Award for his performance in...
  
   - Cyrano de Bergerac - The Kennedy Center
  • Charles Adler - Torch Song Trilogy - The Warner Theatre
    Warner Theatre (Washington, D.C.)
    The Warner Theatre is a theater located at 513 13th Street, N.W. in Downtown Washington, D.C.. The basement level is at 1299 Pennsylvania Avenue.-History:...
    
    
  • James Whitmore - Will Rogers, U.S.A. - Ford's Theatre
  • Joe Sears - Greater Tuna - Ford's Theatre
  • Mbongeni Ngema - Woza, Albert! - Arena Stage
    Arena Stage
    Arena Stage is a not-for-profit regional theater based in Southwest Washington, D.C. Its declared mission"is to produce huge plays of all that is passionate, exuberant, profound, deep and dangerous in the American spirit. Arena has broad shoulders and a capacity to produce anything from vast epics...
    
    
  • Percy Mtwa - Woza, Albert! - Arena Stage

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

• 1986 Jason Robards
  Jason Robards
  Jason Nelson Robards, Jr. was an American actor on stage, and in film and television, and a winner of the Tony Award , two Academy Awards and the Emmy Award...
  
   - The Iceman Cometh - American National Theatre
  • Bill Irwin - The Regard of Flight - Arena Stage
  • Keene Curtis - La Cage aux Folles - The National Theatre
  • Patrick Dempsey - Brighton Beach Memoirs - The National Theatre
  • Tommy Tune - My One and Only - The Kennedy Center
  • William L. Petersen - In the Belly of the Beast: Letters From Prison - American National Theatre

Outstanding Lead Actor in a Non-Resident Production

• 1987 Colm Wilkinson
  Colm Wilkinson
  Colm Wilkinson is an Irish tenor, best known for originating the role of Jean Valjean in Les Misérables and for playing the title role in The Phantom of the Opera .Due to his association with these musicals, he reprised the role of...
  
   - Les Misérables - The Kennedy Center
  • Ben Cross
    Ben Cross
    Ben Cross is a British actor of the stage and screen, best known for his portrayal of the British Olympic athlete Harold Abrahams in the 1981 movie Chariots of Fire.-Early life:...
    
     - The Caine Mutiny Court Martial - The Kennedy Center
  • Delroy Lindo - A Raisin in the Sun - The Kennedy Center
  • Edward Duke - Jeeves Takes Charge - Ford's Theatre
  • Joe Sears - Greater Tuna - Ford's Theatre
  • Jonathan Silverman - Broadway Bound - The National Theatre
• 1988 Derek Jacobi - Breaking the Code - The Kennedy Center
  • Ian McKellen
    Ian McKellen
    Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
    
     - Acting Shakespeare - The National Theatre
  • Joel Grey
    Joel Grey
    Joel Grey is an American stage and screen actor, singer, and dancer, best known for his role as the Master of Ceremonies in both the stage and film adaptation of the Kander & Ebb musical Cabaret. He has won the Academy Award, Tony Award and Golden Globe Award...
    
     - Cabaret - The Kennedy Center
  • Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...
    
     - I'm Not Rappaport - The National Theatre
  • Richard Kiley - All My Sons - Ford's Theatre
  • Shay Duffin - Confessions of an Irish Rebel - New Playwrights' Theatre
• 1989 Victor Garber - Wenceslas Square - The Kennedy Center
  • B.D. Wong - M. Butterfly - The National Theatre
  • Brock Peters
    Brock Peters
    Brock Peters was an American actor, best known for playing the role of Tom Robinson in the 1962 film To Kill a Mockingbird...
    
     - Driving Miss Daisy - The Kennedy Center
  • John Lithgow - M. Butterfly - The National Theatre
  • Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn
    Sammy Cahn was an American lyricist, songwriter and musician. He is best known for his romantic lyrics to films and Broadway songs, as well as stand-alone songs premiered by recording companies in the Greater Los Angeles Area...
    
     - Words and Music - Ford's Theatre
  • Tim Curry
    Tim Curry
    Timothy James "Tim" Curry is a British actor, singer, composer and voice actor, known for his work in a diverse range of theatre, film and television productions. He currently resides in Los Angeles, California....
    
     - Me and My Girl - The National Theatre
• 1990 Charles S. Dutton - The Piano Lesson - The Kennedy Center
  • Avery Brooks - Paul Robeson - The Kennedy Center
  • David Hurst - Incommunicado - The Kennedy Center
  • Jaston Williams - A Tuna Christmas - The Kennedy Center
  • Joe Sears - A Tuna Christmas - The Kennedy Center
  • Tom Hulce
    Tom Hulce
    Thomas Edward "Tom" Hulce is an American actor and theater producer. As an actor, he is perhaps best known for his Oscar-nominated portrayal of Mozart in the movie Amadeus and his role as "Pinto" in National Lampoon's Animal House. Additional acting awards included a total of four Golden Globe...
    
     - A Few Good Men - The Kennedy Center
• 1991 J. Mark McVey - Les Mis rables - The National Theatre
  • Christopher Moore - The Video Store Owner's Significant Other - American Playwrights Theatre
  • E.G. Marshall - Love Letters - The National Theatre
  • Frank McCusker - The Playboy of the Western World - The Kennedy Center
  • Michael Waldron - Lend Me a Tenor - The Kennedy Center
• 1992 Robert Morse - Tru - The Kennedy Center
  • Harry Groener - Crazy for You - The National Theatre
  • Jr.,John Cothran - Two Trains Running - The Kennedy Center
  • Niall Buggy - The Shadow of a Gunman - The Kennedy Center
• 1993 Ian McKellen
  Ian McKellen
  Sir Ian Murray McKellen, CH, CBE is an English actor. He has received a Tony Award, two Academy Award nominations, and five Emmy Award nominations. His work has spanned genres from Shakespearean and modern theatre to popular fantasy and science fiction...
  
   - Richard III - The Kennedy Center
  • Chip Esten - Buddy: The Buddy Holly Story - The Kennedy Center
  • Jonathan Earl Peck - Blood Knot - Arena Stage
  • Stacy Keach
    Stacy Keach
    Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical...
    
     - Solitary Confinement - The Kennedy Center
  • Thomas W. Jones II - The Wizard of Hip (or When in Doubt Slam Dunk) - The Studio Theatre
• 1994 Stacy Keach
  Stacy Keach
  Stacy Keach is an American actor and narrator. He is most famous for his dramatic roles; however, he has done narration work in educational programming on PBS and the Discovery Channel, as well as some comedy and musical...
  
   - The Kentucky Cycle - The Kennedy Center
  • Joel Blum - The World Goes 'Round - The Kennedy Center
  • Lewis J. Stadlen - Guys and Dolls - The Kennedy Center
  • Ron Rifkin - 3 Hotels - The Kennedy Center
  • William H. Macy - Oleanna - The Kennedy Center
• 1995 Raul Aranas - Miss Saigon - The Kennedy Center
  • Charles Cioffi - The Sisters Rosensweig - The Kennedy Center
  • Jaston Williams - The Foreigner - Ford's Theatre
  • Joe Sears - The Foreigner - Ford's Theatre
  • Steve Isaacs - The Who's Tommy - The Kennedy Center
• 1996 Jonathan Hadary - Angels in America, Part 1: Millennium Approaches - The Kennedy Center
  • Colm Wilkinson - "Andrew Lloyd Webber Music of the Night" - The National Theatre
  • Jonathan Hadary - Angels in America, Part 2: Perestroika - The Kennedy Center
  • Juan Chioran - Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical - The National Theatre
  • Kirby Ward - Crazy for You - The Kennedy Center
  • Matthew Broderick
    Matthew Broderick
    Matthew Broderick is an American film and stage actor who, among other roles, played the title character in Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Adult Simba in The Lion King film series, and Leo Bloom in the film and Broadway productions of The Producers.He has won two Tony Awards, one in 1983 for his...
    
     - How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying! - The Kennedy Center
• 1997 Roger Guenveur Smith - A Huey P. Newton Story - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Alex Jennings
    Alex Jennings
    Alex Jennings is an English actor whose roles have included Charles, Prince of Wales in The Queen .-Early years:...
    
     - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Kennedy Center
  • Bruce McIntosh - Fixin' to Die: A Visit to the Mind of Lee Atwater - Church Street Theater
  • Frederick C. Inkley - Disney's Beauty and the Beast - The Kennedy Center
  • Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis
    Jerry Lewis is an American comedian, actor, singer, film producer, screenwriter and film director. He is best known for his slapstick humor in film, television, stage and radio. He was originally paired up with Dean Martin in 1946, forming the famed comedy team of Martin and Lewis...
    
     - Damn Yankees - The Kennedy Center
  • Ntare Mwine
    Ntare Mwine
    Ntare Guma Mbaho Mwine, is an American-Ugandan stage and film actor, playwright, photographer and documentarian.-Background:Mwine was born in New Hampshire to Ugandan parents in 1967. His father was a Harvard Law School-educated attorney...
    
     - Nomathemba - The Kennedy Center
• 1998 Derick K. Grant - Bring in 'da Noise, Bring in 'da Funk - The National Theatre
  • Ezra Knight - The Darker Face of the Earth - The Kennedy Center and Crossroads Theatre Company
  • Gregory Henderson - Whirlwind! - Turnip Theatre Company and Jay Harris at Church Street Theater
  • Jaston Williams - A Tuna Christmas - The Warner Theatre
  • Joe Sears - A Tuna Christmas - The Warner Theatre
  • John Scherer - By Jeeves - The Kennedy Center and the Goodspeed Opera House
• 1999 Alex Jennings - Hamlet - The Kennedy Center
  • Alton Fitzgerald White - Ragtime - The National Theatre
  • Dan Hiatt - Picasso at the Lapin Agile - Ford's Theatre
  • Jeremy Kushnier - Footloose - The Kennedy Center
  • Michael Rupert - Ragtime - The National Theatre
• 2000 Norbert Leo Butz - Cabaret - The Warner Theatre
  • Bill Irwin - Fool Moon - The Kennedy Center
  • Charles Durning
    Charles Durning
    Charles Durning is an American actor. With appearances in over 100 films, Durning's memorable roles include police officers in the Oscar-winning The Sting and crime drama Dog Day Afternoon , along with the comedies Tootsie, To Be Or Not To Be and The Best Little Whorehouse in Texas, the last two...
    
     - The Gin Game - The Kennedy Center
  • David Shiner - Fool Moon - The Kennedy Center
  • Jaston Williams - Red, White and Tuna - The Kennedy Center
  • Joe Sears - Red, White and Tuna - The Kennedy Center
• 2001 Marc Wolf - Another American: Asking and Telling - The Studio Theatre
  • Jack Willis - Art - The Kennedy Center
  • Little John Nee - The Derry Boat - The Keegan Theatre
  • Stephen Bogardus - James Joyce's The Dead - The Kennedy Center
  • Terace Jones - Fosse - The National Theatre
  • Tyler Perry
    Tyler Perry
    Tyler Perry is an American actor, director, playwright, entrepreneur, screenwriter, producer, author, and songwriter. Perry wrote and produced many stage plays during the 1990s and early 2000s. In 2005, he released his first film, Diary of a Mad Black Woman...
    
     - I Can Do Bad All By Myself - The Warner Theatre
• 2002 Jason Watkins - A Servant of Two Masters - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Brian Stokes Mitchell - King Hedley II - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Ethan Sandler - Fully Committed - Ford's Theatre
  • Matt Rippy
    Matt Rippy
    Matt Rippy, is an American actor, born in Houston, Texas. He is most known for his role as the 'real' Captain Jack Harkness in Torchwood in 2006...
    
     - The Compleat Works of Wm. Shakespeare (Abridged) - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Ron Campbell - The Thousandth Night - MetroStage
• 2003 Brian Stokes Mitchell - Man of La Mancha - The National Theatre
  • John Epperson - Lypsinka! The Boxed Set - The Studio Theatre
  • Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch
    Judd Hirsch is an American actor most known for playing Alex Rieger on the television comedy series Taxi, John Lacey on the NBC series Dear John, and Alan Eppes on the CBS series Numb3rs.-Early life and education:...
    
     - I'm not Rappaport - Ford's Theatre
  • Justin Bond - Kiki & Herb in Pardon Our Appearance - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Len Cariou - Copenhagen - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Touring Production

• 1985 Diane Fratantoni - Cats - The National Theatre
  • Kaye Ballard - Hey, Ma ... Kaye Ballard - The Kennedy Center
  • Lenka Peterson - Quilters - The Kennedy Center
  • Sally Struthers - The Odd Couple - The National Theatre
  • Sinéad Cusack
    Sinéad Cusack
    Sinéad Moira Cusack is an Irish stage, television and film actress. She has received two Tony Award nominations: once for Best Leading Actress in Much Ado About Nothing , and again for Best Featured Actress in Rock 'n' Roll .-Background:...
    
     - Cyrano de Bergerac - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

• 1986 Barbara E. Robertson
  Barbara Robertson
  Barbara Robertson is an American actress and singer. She is currently playing the role of "Jan the Unnamed" for the American Theatre Company's Pre-Broadway Chicago production of "Yeast Nation". Recently she played the role of Mame at the Drury Lane Theatre....
  
   - Kabuki Medea - American National Theatre
  • Barbara Cook
    Barbara Cook
    Barbara Cook is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide and The Music Man among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter...
    
     - Barbara Cook—A Broadway Evening - Ford's Theatre
  • Laurie Metcalf
    Laurie Metcalf
    Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as Jackie Harris on the ABC sitcom Roseanne, Mary Cooper on The Big Bang Theory, the voice of Mrs. Davis in the Toy Story film series and as Debbie Salt in Scream 2...
    
     - Coyote Ugly - American National Theatre
  • Sandy Duncan
    Sandy Duncan
    Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan is an American singer, dancer and actress of stage and television, recognized through a blonde, pixie cut hairstyle and perky demeanor...
    
     - My One and Only - The Kennedy Center
  • Zoe Caldwell
    Zoe Caldwell
    Zoe Caldwell, OBE is an Australian-born actress.-Early life:She was born as Ada Caldwell in Melbourne, Australia and was raised in the suburb of Balwyn in Yongala Street. Her father, Edgar, was a plumber and her mother, Zoe, was a taxi dancer. Caldwell's mother, Zoe, had a Peugeot of 1950 vintage...
    
     - Lillian - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Lead Actress in a Non-Resident Production

• 1987 Linda Lavin
  Linda Lavin
  Linda Lavin is an American singer and actress. She is best known for playing the title character in the sitcom Alice and for her Broadway performances.After acting as a child, Lavin joined the Compass Players in the late 1950s...
  
   - Broadway Bound - The National Theatre
  • Esther Rolle
    Esther Rolle
    Esther Rolle was an American actress. She was perhaps best known for her portrayal of Florida Evans on the CBS television sitcom Maude and its spin-off series Good Times.-Biography:...
    
     - A Raisin in the Sun - The Kennedy Center
  • Rosemary Harris
    Rosemary Harris
    Rosemary Ann Harris is an English actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. Throughout her career she has been nominated for an Academy Award, a BAFTA Award and has won a Golden Globe, an Emmy, a Tony Award, an Obie, and five Drama Desk Awards.-Early life:Harris was born in...
    
     - Hay Fever - The Kennedy Center
  • Sharon Brown
    Sharon Brown (actress)
    Sharon Brown is an American actress of stage, film and television.She was born in New York City, New York, and is the daughter of actor Johnny Brown, who portrayed Nathan Bookman on the 1970s sitcom Good Times...
    
     - Dreamgirls - The National Theatre
  • Teresa Burrell - Queenie Pie - The Kennedy Center
• 1988 Ann Guilbert - The Immigrant: A Hamilton County Album - Arena Stage
  • Alyson Reed - Cabaret - The Kennedy Center
  • Colleen Dewhurst
    Colleen Dewhurst
    Colleen Rose Dewhurst was a Canadian-American actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." In her autobiography, Dewhurst wrote: "I had moved so quickly from one Off-Broadway production to the next that I was known, at one point, as the 'Queen of Off-Broadway'...
    
     - My Gene - The Kennedy Center
  • Donna McKechnie - Sweet Charity - The National Theatre
  • Sandra Reaves-Phillips - The Great Ladies of Blues & Jazz - Arena Stage
• 1989 Lily Tomlin
  Lily Tomlin
  Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin is an American actress, comedienne, writer, and producer. Tomlin has been a major force in American comedy since the late 1960's when she began a career as a stand up comedian and became a featured performer on television's Laugh-in...
  
   - The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe - The Kennedy Center
  • Dana Ivey - Wenceslas Square - The Kennedy Center
  • Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    Julia Ann "Julie" Harris is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame...
    
     - Driving Miss Daisy - The Kennedy Center
  • Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn
    Madeline Kahn was an American actress. Kahn was known primarily for her comedic roles in films such as Paper Moon, Young Frankenstein, Blazing Saddles, What's Up, Doc?, and Clue.-Early life:...
    
     - Born Yesterday - The National Theatre
  • Tina Fabrique - Abyssinia - Arena Stage
• 1990 Nan Martin - The Road to Mecca - The Kennedy Center
  • Margo Martindale - Steel Magnolias - The Kennedy Center
  • Nancy Marchand
    Nancy Marchand
    Nancy Marchand was an American actress, whose career encompassed both stage and screen. She appeared in various theatre productions throughout the early 1950s, before being offered roles on film and television....
    
     - The Cocktail Hour - The Kennedy Center
  • S. Epatha Merkerson - The Piano Lesson - The Kennedy Center
  • Tyne Daly
    Tyne Daly
    Tyne Daly is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Mary Beth Lacey in the television series Cagney & Lacey and as Maxine Gray in the television series Judging Amy. She is also known for her role as Alice Henderson in television series Christy...
    
     - Gypsy - The Kennedy Center
• 1991 Cheryl Lynn Bruce - From the Mississippi Delta - Arena Stage
  • Colleen Dewhurst - Love Letters - The National Theatre
  • Jacqueline Williams - From the Mississippi Delta - Arena Stage
  • Roma Downey
    Roma Downey
    Roma Downey is an actress, singer, and producer, from Derry, Northern Ireland. She is best known as Tess's angel/employee, Monica, the main character of the TV series Touched by an Angel. She is also the wife of television producer, Mark Burnett.-Early life:Downey was born and raised in Derry...
    
     - The Playboy of the Western World - The Kennedy Center
  • Sally Mayes
    Sally Mayes
    -Biography:Born in Livingston, Texas, Mayes began her career as a rock and jazz singer in Houston. She made her Broadway debut in April 1989 as Winona Shook in Cy Coleman's Welcome to the Club. For her performance she won a Theatre World Award. This was followed by her appearance in the original...
    
     - Closer Than Ever - Arena Stage
  • Sybil Walker - From the Mississippi Delta - Arena Stage
• 1992 Mercedes Ruehl
  Mercedes Ruehl
  Mercedes J. Ruehl is an American theater, television and film actor.-Personal life:Ruehl was born in Jackson Heights, Queens, New York City, the daughter of Mercedes J., a school teacher, and Vincent Ruehl, an FBI agent. She was raised Catholic. Her father was of German and Irish descent and her...
  
   - Lost in Yonkers - The National Theatre
  • Cynthia Martells - Two Trains Running - The Kennedy Center
  • Jodi Benson - Crazy for You - The National Theatre
  • Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    Julia Ann "Julie" Harris is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame...
    
     - Lucifer's Child - The Kennedy Center
  • Teri Bibb - The Phantom of the Opera - The Kennedy Center
• 1993 Julie Harris
  Julie Harris
  Julia Ann "Julie" Harris is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame...
  
   - Lettice & Lovage - The National Theatre
  • Charlotte Cornwell
    Charlotte Cornwell
    -Life and career:Cornwell was born in Marylebone, London, England, the daughter of Ronald Cornwell. She is the half-sister of spy novelist John le Carré . She describes him as "the best brother a girl could have"...
    
     - Richard III - The Kennedy Center
  • Linda Balgord
    Linda Balgord
    Linda Balgord is an American Broadway actress and singer, most notable for playing Norma Desmond in the 1996 US tour of Andrew Lloyd Webber's hit musical Sunset Boulevard, being the last actress to portray Grizabella in the original Broadway run of Cats and originating the role of Queen Elizabeth I...
    
     - Aspects of Love - The Kennedy Center
  • Melody Kay - The Secret Garden - The Kennedy Center
  • Roberta Maxwell - Lettice & Lovage - The National Theatre
  • Vanita Harbour - Once on This Island - The Kennedy Center
• 1994 Debra Monk - 3 Hotels - The Kennedy Center
  • Lorna Luft
    Lorna Luft
    Lorna Luft is an American television, stage, and film actress and singer. She is the daughter of singer and actress Judy Garland and Sid Luft, and the half-sister of singer and actress Liza Minnelli.-Biography:...
    
     - Guys and Dolls - The Kennedy Center
  • Marlo Thomas
    Marlo Thomas
    Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas is an American actress, producer, and social activist known for her starring role on the TV series That Girl . She also serves as National Outreach Director for St. Jude Children's Research Hospital...
    
     - Six Degrees of Separation - The National Theatre
  • Melissa Errico - My Fair Lady - The National Theatre
  • Valerie Wright - The World Goes 'Round - The Kennedy Center
• 1995 Eileen Atkins - A Room of One's Own - Arena Stage
  • Caroline Aaron - The Sisters Rosensweig - The Kennedy Center
  • Jennifer C. Paz - Miss Saigon - The Kennedy Center
  • Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Redgrave
    Lynn Rachel Redgrave, OBE was an English actress.A member of the well-known British family of actors, Redgrave trained in London before making her theatrical debut in 1962...
    
     - Shakespeare for My Father - Ford's Theatre
  • Suzanne Burden
    Suzanne Burden
    Suzanne Burden is a British actress.A graduate of RADA, she has appeared on television, and occasionally in films, since the early 1980s. Her best known television work is probably as Esther Summerson in Bleak House...
    
     - The Winter's Tale - The Kennedy Center
• 1996 Zoe Caldwell
  Zoe Caldwell
  Zoe Caldwell, OBE is an Australian-born actress.-Early life:She was born as Ada Caldwell in Melbourne, Australia and was raised in the suburb of Balwyn in Yongala Street. Her father, Edgar, was a plumber and her mother, Zoe, was a taxi dancer. Caldwell's mother, Zoe, had a Peugeot of 1950 vintage...
  
   - Master Class
  Master Class
  Master Class is a play by Terrence McNally, with incidental music by Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, and Vincenzo Bellini.The play originally was staged by the Philadelphia Theatre Company and the Mark Taper Forum. After twelve previews, the Broadway production, directed by Leonard Foglia, opened...
  
  - The Kennedy Center
  • Beverly Ward - Crazy for You - The Kennedy Center
  • Carol Channing
    Carol Channing
    Carol Elaine Channing is an American singer, actress, and comedienne. She is the recipient of three Tony Awards , a Golden Globe and an Oscar nomination...
    
     - Hello, Dolly! - The Kennedy Center
  • Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera
    Chita Rivera is an American actress, dancer, and singer best known for her roles in musical theater. She is the first Hispanic woman to receive a Kennedy Center Honors award...
    
     - Kiss of the Spider Woman, The Musical - The National Theatre
  • Marian Seldes
    Marian Seldes
    Marian Hall Seldes is an American stage, film, radio, and television actress whose career has spanned six decades and who was elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.-Life and career:...
    
     - Three Tall Women - The Kennedy Center
• 1997 Lizan Mitchell - Having Our Say - The Kennedy Center
• Micki Grant - Having Our Say - The Kennedy Center
  • Cee-Cee Harshaw - Nomathemba - The Kennedy Center
  • Irene Molloy - Whistle Down the Wind - The National Theatre
  • Uta Hagen
    Uta Hagen
    Uta Thyra Hagen was a German-born American actress and drama teacher. She originated the role of Martha in the 1963 Broadway premiere of Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? by Edward Albee...
    
     - Mrs. Klein - The Kennedy Center
  • Valerie Wright - Damn Yankees - The Kennedy Center
• 1998 Anna Deavere Smith - Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 - Ford's Theatre
  • Simone - Rent - The National Theatre
  • Belle Calaway - Chicago - The National Theatre
  • Jasmine Guy
    Jasmine Guy
    Jasmine Guy is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is best known for her starring role as Whitley Gilbert in the television sitcom A Different World.-Biography:...
    
     - Chicago - The National Theatre
  • LisaGay Hamilton - Valley Song - The Kennedy Center and the Mark Taper Forum
• 1999 Jane Lapotaire - All is True, or, the Famous History of the Life of King Henry VIII - The Kennedy Center
  • B.J. Crosby - Dreamgirls - The Kennedy Center
  • Darlesia Cearcy - Ragtime - The National Theatre
  • Joanne Pearce - Cymbeline - The Kennedy Center
  • Rebecca Eichenberger - Ragtime - The National Theatre
• 2000 Angelica Torn - Side Man - The Kennedy Center
  • Bernadette Peters
    Bernadette Peters
    Bernadette Peters is an American actress, singer and children's book author from Ozone Park, Queens, New York. Over the course of a career that has spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in solo concerts and recordings...
    
     - Annie Get Your Gun - The Kennedy Center
  • Erin Dilly - Martin Guerre - The Kennedy Center
  • Julie Harris
    Julie Harris
    Julia Ann "Julie" Harris is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards, three Emmy Awards and a Grammy Award, and was nominated for an Academy Award. In 1994, she was awarded the National Medal of Arts. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame...
    
     - The Gin Game - The Kennedy Center
  • Teri Hatcher
    Teri Hatcher
    Teri Lynn Hatcher is an American actress, writer, and presenter. She is known for her television roles as Susan Mayer on the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and Lois Lane on the ABC comedy-drama series Lois & Clark: The New Adventures of Superman...
    
     - Cabaret - The Warner Theatre
• 2001 Judith Light
  Judith Light
  Judith Ellen Light is an American actress. Her television roles include Karen Wolek on the soap opera One Life to Live, Angela Bower on the sitcom Who's the Boss?, Claire Meade on ABC's TV series Ugly Betty and Judge Elizabeth "Liz" Donnelly on Law & Order Special Victims Unit.-Early life:Light...
  
   - Wit - The Kennedy Center
  • Eloise Laws - It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues - The Kennedy Center
  • Faith Prince - James Joyce's The Dead - The Kennedy Center
  • Gretha Boston - It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues - The Kennedy Center
  • Reva Rice - Fosse - The National Theatre
• 2002 Jodi Capeless - Late Nite Catechism - Phoenix Productions
  • Anna Friel
    Anna Friel
    Anna Louise Friel is an English actress. She rose to fame in the UK as Beth Jordache on the Channel 4 soap Brookside.-Early life:...
    
     - Lulu - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Claudia Shear - dirty BLONDE - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Pauline Turner - Mill on the Floss - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Rachel York - Kiss Me, Kate - John F. Kennedy Center
• 2003 Sarah Jones - Surface Transit - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Alice Ripley - Tell Me on a Sunday - The Kennedy Center
  • Barbara Cook
    Barbara Cook
    Barbara Cook is an American singer and actress who first came to prominence in the 1950s after starring in the original Broadway musicals Candide and The Music Man among others, winning a Tony Award for the latter...
    
     - Mostly Sondheim - The Kennedy Center
  • Mariette Hartley
    Mariette Hartley
    Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley is an American character actress.-Personal life:Hartley was born in Weston, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Ickes “Polly” , a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive. Her maternal grandfather was psychologist John B...
    
     - Copenhagen - The Kennedy Center
  • Paulette Ivory - Aida - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Touring Production

• 1985 Estelle Getty - Torch Song Trilogy - The Warner Theatre
  • Clarence Fountain - The Gospel at Colonus - Arena Stage
  • Frank Olivier - Sugar Babies - The Warner Theatre
  • Pete Postlethwaite
    Pete Postlethwaite
    Peter William "Pete" Postlethwaite, OBE, was an English stage, film and television actor.After minor television appearances including in The Professionals, Postlethwaite's first success came with the film Distant Voices, Still Lives in 1988. He played a mysterious lawyer, Mr...
    
     - Cyrano de Bergerac - The Kennedy Center
  • Sal Mistretta - Cats - The National Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Touring Production or Prior to New York

• 1986 Barnard Hughes - The Iceman Cometh - American National Theatre
  • Charles "Honi" Coles - My One and Only - The Kennedy Center
  • Donald Moffat - The Iceman Cometh - American National Theatre
  • Larry Larson - Tent Meeting - The Kennedy Center
  • Lisa Waltz - Brighton Beach Memoirs - The National Theatre

Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Non-Resident Production

• 1990 Stephen Lang - A Few Good Men - The Kennedy Center
  • Carole Cook - Steel Magnolias - The Kennedy Center
  • Holland Taylor - The Cocktail Hour - The Kennedy Center
  • Kandis Chappell - Rumors - The National Theatre
  • Rocky Carroll - The Piano Lesson - The Kennedy Center
  • Tracy Katz - Into the Woods - The Kennedy Center

Outstanding Supporting Performer in a Non-Resident Production

• 1987 Frances Ruffelle - Les Mis rables - The Kennedy Center
  • Andrew Polk - Biloxi Blues - The National Theatre
  • Jason Alexander - Broadway Bound - The National Theatre
  • Martine Allard - The Tap Dance Kid - The Warner Theatre
  • Randy Graff - Les Mis rables - The Kennedy Center
• 1988 Jamey Sheridan - All My Sons - Ford's Theatre
  • Ed Hall - Joe Turner's Come and Gone - Arena Stage
  • Michael Gough
    Michael Gough
    Michael Gough was an English character actor who appeared in over 150 films. He is perhaps best known to international audiences for his roles in the Hammer Horror films from 1958, and for his recurring role as Alfred Pennyworth in all four movies of the Burton/Schumacher Batman franchise,...
    
     - Breaking the Code - The Kennedy Center
  • Regina Resnik - Cabaret - The Kennedy Center
  • Richard McMillan - The Mikado - The Kennedy Center
• 1989 Bruce Norris - Wenceslas Square - The Kennedy Center
  • Erick Devine - Me and My Girl - The National Theatre
  • Fannie Green - Abyssinia - Arena Stage
  • Queen Esther Marrow - Harlem Suite - The Warner Theatre
  • Stephen Root - Driving Miss Daisy - The Kennedy Center
• 1991 Mark Baker - Grand Hotel: The Musical - The Kennedy Center
  • David Kelly - The Playboy of the Western World - The Kennedy Center
  • Drew Eshelman - Les Mis rables - The National Theatre
  • Letta Mbulu - Sheila's Day - Ford's Theatre
  • Ron Holgate - Lend Me a Tenor - The Kennedy Center
  • Susan Tilson - Les Mis rables - The National Theatre
• 1992 Roscoe Lee Browne - Two Trains Running - The Kennedy Center
  • Irene Worth
    Irene Worth
    Irene Worth, CBE was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the English and American theatre. -Early life:...
    
     - Lost in Yonkers - The National Theatre
  • Mark Harelick - The Heidi Chronicles - The Kennedy Center
  • Pauline Flanagan - The Shadow of a Gunman - The Kennedy Center
  • Rainn Wilson - Two Gentlemen of Verona - Arena Stage
  • Robert Curtis Brown - The Heidi Chronicles - The Kennedy Center
• 1994 Jacob (Tuck) Milligan - The Kentucky Cycle
  The Kentucky Cycle
  The Kentucky Cycle is a series of nine one-act plays by Robert Schenkkan that explores American mythology, particularly the mythology of the West, through the intertwined histories of three fictional families struggling over a portion of land in the Cumberland Plateau...
  
  - The Kennedy Center
  • Jeanne Paulsen - The Kentucky Cycle - The Kennedy Center
  • Lillian Garrett-Groag
    Lillian Garrett-Groag
    Lillian Garrett-Groag is an American playwright, theatre director, and actor. Her plays include The Ladies of the Camellias, The Magic Fire, and The White Rose -Theatre career:...
    
     - The Kentucky Cycle - The Kennedy Center
  • Paxton Whitehead - My Fair Lady - The National Theatre
• 1997 Desmond Barrit - A Midsummer Night's Dream - The Kennedy Center
  • Andrea McArdle - State Fair - The Kennedy Center
  • Joseph Shabalala - Nomathemba - The Kennedy Center
  • Laila Robins - Mrs. Klein - The Kennedy Center
  • Scott Wise - State Fair - The Kennedy Center
• 1998 L. Scott Caldwell - Proposals - The Kennedy Center
  • Obba Babatund - Chicago - The National Theatre
  • Stephan Alexander - Rent - The National Theatre
  • Trazana Beverley - The Darker Face of the Earth - The Kennedy Center and Crossroads Theatre Company
  • Tsai Chin - Golden Child - The Kennedy Center
• 1999 Guy Henry - Cymbeline - The Kennedy Center
  • David Ryall
    David Ryall
    David Ryall is an English actor who has appeared on British television since the 1970s. He has had leading roles in Lytton's Diary and Goodnight Sweetheart, as well as memorable roles in Dennis Potter's The Singing Detective and Andrew Davies's adaptation of To Play the King and The Final Cut, the...
    
    - Hamlet - The Kennedy Center
  • Derbhle Crotty - Hamlet - The Kennedy Center
  • Tom Plotkin - Footloose - The Kennedy Center
  • Tony Todd - The Captain's Tiger - The Kennedy Center
• 2000 Dick Latessa - Cabaret - The Warner Theatre
  • Anthony Evans - Inspiration - Ford's Theatre
  • Marcus Chait - Titanic: A New Musical - The Kennedy Center
  • Michael Arnold - Martin Guerre - The Kennedy Center
  • Michael Mastro - Side Man - The Kennedy Center
• 2001 Alice Cannon - James Joyce's The Dead - The Kennedy Center
  • "Mississippi" Charles Bevel - It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues - The Kennedy Center
  • Len Cariou - The Dinner Party - The Kennedy Center
  • Penny Fuller - The Dinner Party - The Kennedy Center
  • Sean McCourt - It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues - The Kennedy Center
• 2002 Tom Riis Farrell - dirty BLONDE - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Charles Brown - King Hedley II - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Michael Matus - Mill on the Floss - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Nancy Anderson - Kiss Me, Kate - John F. Kennedy Center
  • Stephen McKinley Henderson - King Hedley II - John F. Kennedy Center
• 2003 Kelli Fournier - Aida - The Kennedy Center
  • Carol Woods - The Full Monty - The National Theatre
  • Cleavant Derricks - The Full Monty - The National Theatre
  • Kenny Mellman - Kiki & Herb in Pardon Our Appearance - Woolly Mammoth Theatre Company
  • Mary Ellen Mahoney - Mamma Mia! - The National Theatre