OUTSTANDING LEAD ACTRESS

2013

Roslyn Ruff, The Piano Lesson

2012

Sanaa Lathan, By the Way, Meet Vera Stark

2011

Laurie Metcalf, The Other Place

2010

Judith Ivey, The Glass Menagerie

2009

Saldah Arrika Ekulona, Ruined

2008

Elizabeth Franz, The Piano Teacher

2007

Gloria Reuben, Stuff Happens

2006

Lois Smith, The Trip to Bountiful

2005

Cherry Jones, Doubt

2004

Tonya Pinkins, Caroline, or Change

2003

Tovah Feldshuh, Golda’s Balcony

2002

Linda Emond, Homebody/Kabul

2001

Mary-Louise Parker, Proof

2000

Eileen Heckart, The Waverly Gallery

1999

Kathleen Chalfant, Wit

1998

Cherry Jones, Pride’s Crossing

1997

Mary-Louise Parker, How I Learned To Drive

1996

Uta Hagen, Mrs. Klein (play)

Melissa Errico, One Touch of Venus (musical)

1995

Linda Lavin, Death Defying Acts (tie)

Eileen Atkins, Vita & Virginia (tie)

1994

Myra Carter, Three Tall Women

1993

Anna Deavere Smith, Fires in the Mirror

1992*

Eileen Atkins, A Room of One’s Own