Winning a Tony Award is an honor on its own, but some performers are lucky—and of course, talented—enough to receive the coveted award multiple times. From Audra McDonald to Patti LuPone, can you name the performances that earned these stars their first Tony triumphs?
Audra McDonald
Audra McDonald as Carrie Pipperidge in Carousel
Joan Marcus
Harvey Fierstein
Harvey Fierstein as Arnold Beckoff in Torch Song Trilogy (Fierstein also one for Best Play the same year)
Ken Howard
Judith Light
Marc J. Franklin
Judith Light as Silda Grauman in Other Desert Cities
Sutton Foster
Joseph Marzullo/MediaPunch
Sutton Foster as Millie Dillmount in Thoroughly Modern Millie
Joan Marcus
James Earl Jones
James Earl Jones as Jack Jefferson in The Great White Hope
Bryan Cranston
Bryan Cranston as Lyndon B. Johnson in All The Way
Evgenia Eliseeva
Chita Rivera
Chita Rivera as Anna in the Rink
Ken Howard
Laurie Metcalf
Laurie Metcalf as Nora in A Doll's House, Part 2
Brigitte Lacombe
Nathan Lane
Joseph Marzullo/WENN
Nathan Lane as Pseudolus/Prologus in A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
Viola Davis
Featureflash Photo Agency/Shutterstock.com
Viola Davis as Tonya in King Hedley II
Bernadette Peters
Andrew Eccles
Bernadette Peters as Emma in Song and Dance
Kenn Duncan / The New York Public Library
Mark Rylance
Marc Rylance as Robert in Boeing-Boeing
Angela Lansbury
Monica Simoes
Angela Lansbury as Mame Dennis in Mame
Norbert Leo Butz
Norbert Leo Butz as Freddy Benson in Dirty Rotten Scoundrels
Carol Rosegg
Patti LuPone
Axel Dupeux
Patti LuPone as Eva Perón in Evita
Martha Swope/©NYPL for the Performing Arts
Donna Murphy
Donna Murphy as Fosca in Passion
