Theater geeks have known for years that these actors were award-winning stage performers, and it's time for many of us to show them the respect they deserve!
1. Scarlett Johansson, Best Featured Actress in a Play for A View from the Bridge (2010)
2. Viola Davis, Best Featured Actress in a Play for King Hedley II (2001) and Best Actress in a Play for Fences (2010)
3. Kelly Bishop, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for A Chorus Line (1976)
4. Edward Herrmann, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Mrs. Warren's Profession (1976)
5. Phylicia Rashad, Best Actress in a Play for A Raisin in the Sun (2004)
6. Judith Light, Best Featured Actress in a Play for Other Desert Cities (2012) and The Assembled Parties (2013)
7. Maggie Smith, Best Actress in a Play for Lettice and Lovage (1990)
8. Ralph Fiennes, Best Actor in a Play for Hamlet (1995)
9. Bebe Neuwirth, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Sweet Charity (1986) and Best Actress in a Musical for Chicago (1997)
10. David Hyde Pierce, Best Actor in a Musical for Curtains (2007)
11. John Mahoney, Best Featured Actor in Play for The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
12. Mary-Louise Parker, Best Actress in a Play for Proof (2001)
13. Jane Krakowski, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Nine (2003)
14. Martin Short, Best Actor in a Musical for Little Me (1999)
15. Jason Alexander, Best Actor in a Musical for Jerome Robbins' Broadway (1989)
16. James Corden, Best Actor in a Play for One Man, Two Guvnors (2012)
17. Laurence Fishburne, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Two Trains Running (1992)
18. Ian McKellen, Best Actor in a Play for Amadeus (1981)
19. James Earl Jones, Best Actor in a Play for The Great White Hope (1969) and Fences (1987)
20. Eddie Redmayne, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Red (2010)
21. Glenn Close, Best Actress in a Play for The Real Thing (1984) and Death and the Maiden (1992); and Best Actress in a Musical for Sunset Boulevard (1995)
22. Amanda Plummer, Best Featured Actress in a Play for Agnes of God (1982)
23. Jeffrey Wright, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Angels in America (1994)
24. Matthew Broderick, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Brighton Beach Memoirs (1983) and Best Actor in a Musical Best How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1995)
25. Cynthia Nixon, Best Actress in a Play for Rabbit Hole (2006)
26. Kevin Spacey, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Lost in Yonkers (1991)
27. Michael Moriarty, Best Actor in a Play for Find Your Way Home (1974)
28. Jerry Orbach, Best Actor in a Musical for Promises, Promises (1969)
29. BD Wong, Best Featured Actor in a Play for M. Butterfly (1988)
30. Bryan Cranston, Best Actor in a Play for All the Way (2014)
31. Madeline Kahn, Best Actress in a Play for The Sisters Rosensweig (1993)
32. Sara Ramirez, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Spamalot (2005)
33. Christine Baranski, Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Real Thing (1984) and Rumors (1989)
34. Alan Cumming, Best Actor in a Musical for Cabaret (1998)
35. Mandy Patinkin, Best Actor in a Musical for Evita (1980)
36. Robert Morse, Best Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (1962) and Best Actor in a Play for Tru (1990)
37. Hugh Jackman, Best Actor in a Musical for The Boy From Oz (2004)
38. Liev Schreiber, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Glengarry Glen Ross (2005)
39. Robert Sean Leonard, Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Invention of Love (2001)
40. Denis O'Hare, Best Featured Actor in a Play for Take Me Out (2003)
41. John Lithgow, Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Changing Room (1973) and Best Actor in a Musical for Sweet Smell of Success (2002)
42. Denzel Washington, Best Actor in a Play for Fences (2010)
43. Marcia Gay Harden, Best Actress in a Play for God of Carnage (2009)
44. Catherine Zeta-Jones, Best Actress in a Musical for A Little Night Music (2010)
45. Frances McDormand, Best Actress in a Play for Good People (2011)
46. Kevin Kline, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for On the Twentieth Century (1978)
47. Ellen Barkin, Best Featured Actress in a Play for The Normal Heart (2011)
48. Anika Noni Rose, Best Featured Actress in a Musical for Caroline, or Change (2004)
49. Idina Menzel, Best Actress in a Musical for Wicked (2004)
50. Billy Crudup, Best Featured Actor in a Play for The Coast of Utopia (2007)
51. Lily Tomlin, Best Actress in a Play for The Search for Signs of Intelligent Life in the Universe (1986)
52. John Larroquette, Best Featured Actor in a Musical for How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying (2011)
53. Joan Allen, Best Actress in a Play for Burn This (1988)
54. Nathan Lane, Best Actor in a Musical for A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum and The Producers (2001 )
55. Julie White, Best Actress in a Play for The Little Dog Laughed (2007)
56. Stockard Channing, Best Actress in a Play for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg (1985)
57. Swoosie Kurtz, Best Featured Actress in a Play for Fifth of July (1981) and The House of Blue Leaves (1986)
58. Whoopi Goldberg, Tony Award as a producer of the musical Thoroughly Modern Millie (2002)
