Who Won Featured Actor In A Musical Tony Awards?
From David Wayne ("Finian's Rainbow") in 1947 to Alex Newell ("Shucked") in 2023, the Tony Awards have awarded the Best Featured Actor in a Musical award throughout the years. The Best Featured Actor in a Musical Tony Award is for a non-starring actor in a musical. Hinton Battle has won the Tony for Featured Actor in a Musical three times, most recently for Miss Saigon in 1991.
| 2023 (76th) |
Alex Newell Shucked Other Nominees: Kevin Cahoon (Shucked); Justin Cooley (Kimberly Akimbo); Kevin Del Aguila (Some Like It Hot); Jordan Donica (Camelot) |
| 2022 (75th) |
Jesse Tyler Ferguson Take Me Out Other Nominees: |
| Year | |||
|---|---|---|---|
| 2021 | Danny Burstein | (Moulin Rouge!) |  |
| 2019 | André De Shields | (Hadestown) |  |
| 2018 | Ari'el Stachel | (The Band's Visit) |  |
| 2017 | Gavin Creel | (Hello, Dolly!) |  |
| 2016 | Daveed Diggs | (Hamilton) |  |
| 2015 | Christian Borle | (Something Rotten!) |  |
| 2014 | James Monroe Iglehart | (Aladdin) |  |
| 2013 | Gabriel Ebert | (Matilda The Musical) |  |
| 2012 | Michael McGrath | (Nice Work If You Can Get It) |  |
| 2011 | John Larroquette | (How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying) |  |
| 2010 | Levi Kreis | (Million Dollar Quartet) |  |
| 2009 | Gregory Jbara | (Billy Elliot The Musical) |  |
| 2008 | Boyd Gaines | (Gypsy) |  |
| 2007 | John Gallagher, Jr. | (Spring Awakening) |  |
| 2006 | Christian Hoff | (Jersey Boys) |  |
| 2005 | Dan Fogler | (The 25th Annual Putnam County Spelling Bee) |  |
| 2004 | Michael Cerveris | (Assassins) |  |
| 2003 | Dick Latessa | Hairspray | |
| 2002 | Shuler Hensley | Oklahoma! | |
| 2001 | Gary Beach | The Producers |
| 2000 Boyd Gaines ("Contact") | |
| Other Nominees: Michael Berresse (Kiss Me Kate); Stephen Spinella (James Joyce's The Dead); Lee Wilkof (Kiss Me Kate); Michael Mulheren (Kiss Me Kate) | |
| 1999 Roger Bart ("You're A Good Man Charlie Brown") | |
| Other Nominees: Desmond Richardson (Fosse); Ron Taylor (It Ain't Nothin' But the Blues); Scott Wise (Fosse) | |
| 1998 Ron Rifkin ("Cabaret") | |
| Other Nominees: Gregg Edelman (1776); John McMartin (High Society); Samuel E Wright (The Lion King) | |
| 1997 Chuck Cooper ("The Life") | |
| Other Nominees: Joel Blum (Steel Pier); Andre De Shields (Play On!); Sam Harris (The Life) | |
| 1996 Wilson Jermaine Heredia ("Rent") | |
| Other Nominees: Lewis J Stadlen (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way to the Forum); Brett Tabisel (Big The Musical); Scott Wise (State Fair) | |
| 1995 George Hearn ("Sunset Boulevard") | |
| Other Nominees: Michel Bell (Show Boat); Joel Blum (Show Boat); Victor Trent Cook (Smokey Joe's Cafe) | |
| 1994 Jarrod Emick ("Damn Yankees") | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Aldredge (Passion); Gary Beach (Beauty and the Beast); Jonathan Freeman (She Loves Me) | |
| 1993 Anthony Crivello ("Kiss of the Spider Woman The Musical") | |
| Other Nominees: Michael Cerveris (The Who's Tommy); Gregg Edelman (Anna Karenina); Paul Kandel (The Who's Tommy) | |
| 1992 Scott Waara ("The Most Happy Fella") | |
| Other Nominees: Bruce Adler (Crazy For You); Keith David (Jelly's Last Jam); Jonathan Kaplan (Falsettos) | |
| 1991 Hinton Battle ("Miss Saigon") | |
| Other Nominees: Bruce Adler (Those Were the Days); Gregg Burge (Oh Kay!); Willy Falk (Miss Saigon) | |
| 1990 Michael Jeter ("Grand Hotel The Musical") | |
| Other Nominees: Rene Auberjonois (City of Angels); Kevin Colson (Aspects of Love); Jonathan Hadary (Gypsy) | |
| 1989 Scott Wise ("Jerome Robbins' Broadway") | |
| Other Nominees: Bunny Briggs (Black and Blue); Savion Glover (Black and Blue); Scott Wentworth (Welcome To the Club) | |
| 1988 Bill McCutcheon ("Anything Goes") | |
| Other Nominees: Anthony Heald (Anything Goes); Werner Klemperer (Cabaret); Robert Westenberg (Into the Wood) | |
| 1987 Michael Maguire ("Les Miserables") | |
| Other Nominees: George S Irving (Me and My Girl); Timothy Jerome (Me and My Girl); Robert Torti (Starlight Express) | |
| 1986 Michael Rupert ("Sweet Charity") | |
| Other Nominees: Christopher d'Amboise (Song and Dance); John Herrera (The Mystery of Edwin Drood); Howard McGillin (The Mystery of Edwin Drood) | |
| 1985 Ron Richardson ("Big River") | |
| Other Nominees: Rene Auberjonois (Big River); Daniel H Jenkins (Big River); Kurt Knudson (Take Me Along) | |
| 1984 Hinton Battle ("The Tap Dance Kid") | |
| Other Nominees: Stephen Geoffreys (The Human Comedy); Todd Graff (Baby); Samuel E Wright (The Tap Dance Kid) | |
| 1983 Charles Honi Coles ("My One and Only") | |
| Other Nominees: Harry Groener (Cats); Stephen Hanan (Cats); Lara Teeter (On Your Toes) | |
| 1982 Cleavant Derricks ("Dreamgirls") | |
| Other Nominees: Obba Babtunde (Dreamgirls); David Alan Grier (The First); Bill Hutton (Joseph and the Amazing Technicolor Dreamcoat) | |
| 1981 Hinton Battle ("Sophisticated Ladies") | |
| Other Nominees: Tony Azito (The Pirates of Penzance); Lee Roy Reams (42nd Street); Paxton Whitehead (Camelot) | |
| 1980 Mandy Patinkin ("Evita") | |
| Other Nominees: David Garrison (A Day in Hollywood/A Night in the Ukraine); Harry Groener (Oklahoma); Bob Gunton (Evita) | |
| 1979 Henderson Forsythe ("The Best Little Whorehouse In Texas") | |
| Other Nominees: Richard Cox (Platinum); Gregory Hines (Eubie!); Ron Holgate (The Grand Tour) | |
| 1978 Kevin Kline ("On The Twentieth Century") | |
| Other Nominees: Steven Boockvor (Working); Wayne Cilento (Dancin); Rex Everhart (Working) | |
| 1977 Lenny Baker ("I Love My Wife") | |
| Other Nominees: David Kernan (Side By Side by Sondheim); Larry Marshall (Porgy and Bess); Ned Sherrin (Side By Side by Sondheim) | |
| 1976 Sammy Williams ("A Chorus Line") | |
| Other Nominees: Robert LuPone (A Chorus Line); Charles Repole (Very Good Eddie); Isao Sato (Pacific Overtures) | |
| 1975 Ted Ross ("The Wiz") | |
| Other Nominees: Tom Aldredge (Where's Charley?); John Bottoms (Dance With Me); Douglas Henning (The Magic Show); Gilbert Price (The Night That Made America Famous); Richard B Shull (Goodtime Charley) | |
| 1974 Tommy Tune ("Seesaw") | |
| Other Nominees: Mark Baker (Candide); Ralph Carter (Raisin) | |
| 1973 George S Irving ("Irene") | |
| Other Nominees: Laurence Guittard (A Little Night Music); Avon Long (Don't Play Us Cheap); Gilbert Price (Lost In the Stars) | |
| 1972 Larry Blyden ("A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum") | |
| Other Nominees: Timothy Myers (Grease); Gene Nelson (Follies); Ben Vereen (Jesus Chris Superstar) | |
| 1971 Keene Curtis ("The Rothschilds") | |
| Other Nominees: Charles Kimbrough (Company); Walter Willison (Two By Two) | |
| 1970 Rene Auberjonois ("Coco") | |
| Other Nominees: Brandon Maggart (Applause); George Rose (Coco) | |
| 1969 Ronald Holgate ("1776") | |
| Other Nominees: A Larry Haine (Promises Promises); Edward Winter (Promises Promises) | |
| 1968 Hiram Sherman ("How Now Dow Jones") | |
| Other Nominees: Scott Jacoby (Golden Rainbow); Nikos Kourkoulos (Illya Darling); Mike Rupert (The Happy Time) | |
| 1967 Joel Grey ("Cabaret") | |
| Other Nominees: Leon Bibb (A Hand Is On the Gate); Gordon Dilworth (Walking Happy); Edward Winter (Cabaret) | |
| 1966 Frankie Michaels ("Mame") | |
| Other Nominees: Roy Castle (Pickwick); John McMartin (Sweet Charity); Michael O'Sullivan (Superman) | |
| 1965 Victor Spinetti ("Oh What A Lovely War") | |
| Other Nominees: Jack Cassidy (Fade Out Fade In); James Grout (Half A Sixpence); Jerry Orbach (Guys and Dolls) | |
| 1964 Jack Cassidy ("She Loves Me") | |
| Other Nominees: Will Geer (110 In the Shade); Danny Meehan (Funny Girl); Charles Nelson Reilly (Hello Dolly) | |
| 1963 David Burns ("A Funny Thing Happened On The Way To The Forum") | |
| Other Nominees: Jack Gilford (A Funny Thing Happened On the Way To The Forum); David Jones (Oliver!); Swen Swenson (Little Me) | |
| 1962 Charles Nelson Reilly ("How To Succeed In Business Without Really Trying") | |
| Other Nominees: Orson Bean (Subways Are For Sleeping); Severn Darden (From the Second City); Pierre Olaf (Carnival) | |
| 1961 Dick Van Dyke ("Bye Bye Birdie") | |
| Other Nominees: Clive Revill (Irma La Douce); Dick Gautier (Bye Bye Birdie); Ron Husmann (Tenderloin) | |
| 1960 Tom Bosley ("Fiorello!") | |
| Other Nominees: Theodore Bikel (The Sound of Music); Kurt Kasznar (The Sound of Music); Howard Da Silva (Fiorello!); Jack Klugman (Gypsy) | |
| 1959 Russell Nype ("Goldilocks") | |
| Other Nominees: Leonard Stone (Redhead) | |
| 1958 David Burns ("The Music Man") | |
| Other Nominees: Ossie Davis (Jamaica); Cameron Prud'homme (New Girl In Town); Iggie Wolfington (The Music Man) | |
| 1957 Sydney Chaplin ("Bells Are Ringing") | |
| Other Nominees: Robert Coote (My Fair Lady); Stanley Holloway (My Fair Lady) | |
| 1956 Russ Brown ("Damn Yankees") | |
| Other Nominees: Mike Kellin (Pipe Dream); Will Mahoney (Finian's Rainbow); Scott Merrill (The Threepenny Opera) | |
| 1955 Cyril Ritchard ("Peter Pan") | |
| 1954 Harry Belafonte ("John Murray Anderson's Almanac") | |
| 1953 Hiram Sherman ("Two's Company") | |
| 1952 Yul Brynner ("The King and I") | |
| 1951 Russell Nype ("Call Me Madam") | |
| 1950 Myron McCormick ("South Pacific") | |
| 1949 NO AWARD | |
| 1948 NO AWARD | |
| 1947 David Wayne ("Finian's Rainbow") | |