Trivia
- The lead role of George in Edward Albee's Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? has earned the Tony Award for the two different actors who have performed the character:
- 1963 – Arthur Hill
- 2005 – Bill Irwin
- Other male roles have produced multiple Tony Award winners: Henry in Tom Stoppard's The Real Thing
- 1984 – Jeremy Irons
- 2000 – Stephen Dillane
- James Tyrone, Sr., in Eugene O'Neill's Long Day's Journey into Night
- 1957 – Fredric March
- 2003 – Brian Dennehy
- Troy Maxson in August Wilson's Fences
- 1987 – James Earl Jones
- 2010 – Denzel Washington
- In addition, Stephen Spinella won the Tony Award in 1994 for Angels in America: Perestroika one year after winning the award for Best Featured Actor in a Play for the same character in Angels in America: Millennium Approaches.
- Actors have won Tony Awards for both Best Actor in a Play and Best Actor in a Musical for playing Cyrano de Bergerac: Jose Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac and Christopher Plummer in Cyrano.
- The youngest winner in this acting category was Harvey Fierstein (age 31). The oldest was Frank Langella (age 69).
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