Fences<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\nShe later went on to star in the movie Fences<\/em>, which earned her a Best Supporting Actress Oscar in 2016.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nDenzel Washington<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: William D. Bird\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSpeaking of Fences<\/em>, Denzel Washington also won his Tony Award for the Broadway revival for Best Leading Actor in a Play in 2010. Davis and Washington later starred in the movie together.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nHugh Jackman<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Andres Otero\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nHugh Jackman has also been a triple threat, and his Tony Awards prove it! He won his first award, Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical, for A Boy From Oz<\/em> in 2004. In 2012, Jackman was also honored with a Special Tony Award.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nAlan Cumming<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Kristin Callahan\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nFrom Broadway to Traitors<\/em>! Alan Cumming won the Best Actor in a Musical Tony Award in 1998 for Cabaret<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nCynthia Nixon<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: John Nacion\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSex and the City<\/em> icon Cynthia Nixon has also made quite a splash on Broadway over the years. She\u2019s been nominated four times and won twice, the Best Actress in a Play Award for Rabbit Hole<\/em> in 2006 and Best Featured Actress in a Play for\u00a0The Little Foxes\u00a0<\/em>in 2017.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJames Corden<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Andres Otero\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAnother surprising one to the list! Former talk show host James Corden won his first Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for One Man, Two Guvnors<\/em> in 2012.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nMartin Short<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMartin Short is a Hollywood icon, so it\u2019s so that<\/em> surprising that he\u2019s earned a Tony in his career. He was nominated twice and won\u00a0his first Best Actor in a Musical Tony in 1999 for\u00a0Little Me.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nRalph Fiennes<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: William D. Bird\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nRalph Fiennes performing Hamlet<\/em> is like a Broadway dream come true, right? It seems Tony voters think so! Fiennes won Best Actor in a Play in 1995 for the Shakespeare classic.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJane Krakowski<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gregorio T. Binuya\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nWe know Jane Krakowski best from 30 Rock<\/em>, but she\u2019s shown off her singing chops on the Broadway stage, too! She won Best Featured Actress in a Musical for her role in Nine<\/em> in 2003.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nGlenn Close<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: \u00a9CBS\/Courtesy Everett Collection \/ Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nGlenn Close won an impressive three Tony Awards throughout her career. Her first two were for Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing<\/em> in 1984 and Death and the Maiden<\/em> in 1992. In 1995, she also won Best Actress in a Musical for\u00a0Sunset Boulevard<\/em>, a musical that revived on Broadway in 2025.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nSara Ram\u00edrez<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rob Rich\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nIf you\u2019re a fan of Grey\u2019s Anatomy<\/em>, do you remember when Sara Ram\u00edrez started singing during their musical episode and we couldn\u2019t believe how angelic they sounded? Well, it turns out they have a Tony Award-winning voice. Ram\u00edrez won in 2005 for their role in Spamalot<\/em>.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nBilly Crudup<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Rob Rich\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nThe Morning Show<\/em> star Billy Crudup has made quite a name for himself on Broadway. He\u2019s been nominated for four Tonys over the years and won for the first time for Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for The Coast of Utopia<\/em> in 2007.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJohn Lithgow<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Eli Winston\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJohn Lithgow might be one of the most nominated actors on this list. Lithgow was nominated a total of six times, with two wins for Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Changing Room<\/em> in 1973 and Best Actor in a Musical for Sweet Smell of Success<\/em> in 2002.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJason Alexander<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Derek Storm\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nSeinfeld<\/em>\u2018s Jason Alexander has a Tony Award on his mantle, too! He won for Best Actor in a Musical for\u00a0Jerome Robbins\u2019 Broadway<\/em> in 1989.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nEdward Herrmann & Kelly\u00a0Bishop<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLong before Edward Herrmann and Kelly Bishop became Richard and Emily Gilmore in Gilmore Girls<\/em>, they were Broadway stars and won their first Tony Awards together in 1976.<\/p>\nHerrmann won the Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play Tony for his role in\u00a0Mrs. Warren\u2019s Profession, <\/em>while Bishop won the Best Featured Actress in a Musical Tony for A Chorus Line.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nLiev Schreiber<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Fernando Leon\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nLiev Schreiber is so talented, we think he can do just about anything and succeed. In 2005, he scored the Best Featured Actor in a Play Tony for his role in Glengarry Glen Ross<\/em>.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nCourtney B. Vance<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Andres Otero\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nCourtney B. Vance is another star who you might be surprised is a Tony winner. Vance won his first prize for Best Featured Actor in a Play in Nora Ephron\u2019s\u00a0Lucky Guy.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJessica Lange<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Lev Radin\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAmerican Horror Story<\/em> icon Jessica Lange made her mark on Broadway too! Her first win was in the Best Leading Actress in a Play category for\u00a0Long Day\u2019s Journey into Night\u00a0<\/em>in 2016.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nAl Pacino<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Kristin Callahan\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nAl Pacino is a true movie star, but he has two Tonys to put right next to his Oscar. Pacino first won for Best Supporting or Featured Actor in a Play for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?<\/em> in 1969, then for Best Leading Actor in a Play for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel<\/em> in 1977.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nMatthew Broderick<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Gregorio Binuya\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nMatthew Broderick also has two Tony wins under his belt. He won the Best Featured Actor in a Play Award for Brighton Beach Memoirs<\/em> in 1983, then the Best Actor in a Musical Award in 1995 for\u00a0How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying.<\/em><\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n\n\nJudith Light<\/h2>\n\n\t\t\n\t\t\t\tImage Credit: Andres Otero\/Everett Collection\t\t\t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\nJudith Light has won three Tony Awards throughout her career.<\/p>\n
She won the Best Featured Actress in a Play Award in 2012 for Other Desert Cities,\u00a0<\/em>another Best Featured Actress in a Play Award in 2013 for The Assembled Parties,<\/em> and, lastly, the Isabelle Stevenson Award in 2019 for her advocacy for LGBTQ+ rights and the fight against HIV\/AIDS.<\/p>\n<\/article>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul><\/div>\n<\/div><\/div>\n \u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n \u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.sheknows.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"At the 2026 Tony Awards this Sunday on June 8, a few stars might be taking home their first-ever Tonys. Just to name a few, Rose Byrne as Jane Banbury in Fallen Angels, Carrie Coon as Agnes White in Bug, and Stephanie Hsu as Janet Weiss in Richard O\u2019Brien\u2019s The Rocky Horror Show\u00a0are among the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":2449103,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jnews-multi-image_gallery":[],"jnews_single_post":[],"jnews_primary_category":[],"jnews_social_meta":[],"footnotes":""},"categories":[25177],"tags":[35108,305526,352075],"class_list":["post-2449102","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-celebrities","tag-hugh-jackman","tag-scarlett-johansson","tag-tony-awards"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/06\/Celebrities-You-Might-Not-Know-Are-Tony-Winners.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449102","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2449102"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449102\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2449104,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2449102\/revisions\/2449104"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2449103"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2449102"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2449102"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/celebrity.land\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2449102"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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