nytheatre Starfile
WHAT'S HERE: This page lists some of the well-known stars of stage, screen, and TV currently appearing in shows in New York. Follow the show title links to learn more about them.
Tony Award Winners
- Christine Baranski: Boeing-Boeing
- Best Featured Actress in a Play (1984), The Real Thing
- Best Featured Actress in a Play (1989), Rumors
- Roger Bart: Young Frankenstein
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (1999), You're a Good Man, Charlie Brown
- Victoria Clark: Inner Voices: Solo Musicals
- Best Actress in a Musical (2005), The Light in the Piazza
- Harvey Fierstein: A Catered Affair
- Best Actor in a Play (1983), Torch Song Trilogy
- Best Actor in a Musical (2003), Hairspray
- Laurence Fishburne: Thurgood
- Best Featured Actor in a Play (1992), Two Trains Running
- Sutton Foster: Young Frankenstein
- Best Actress in a Musical (2002), Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Boyd Gaines: Gypsy
- Best Featured Actor in a Play (1988), The Heidi Chronicles
- Best Actor in a Musical (1994), She Loves Me
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (2000), Contact
- John Gallagher, Jr.: Port Authority
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (2007), Spring Awakening
- Harriet Harris: Cry-Baby
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical (2002), Thoroughly Modern Millie
- Shuler Hensley: Young Frankenstein
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (2002), Oklahoma!
- Christian Hoff: Jersey Boys
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (2006), Jersey Boys
- James Earl Jones: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Best Actor in a Play (1969), The Great White Hope
- Best Actor in a Play (1987), Fences
- Nathan Lane: November
- Best Actor in a Musical (1996), A Funny Thing Happened on the Way to the Forum
- Best Actor in a Musical (2001), The Producers
- Linda Lavin: The New Century
- Best Actress in a Play (1987), Broadway Bound
- John Lithgow: John Lithgow: Stories By Heart
- Best Featured Actor in a Play (1973), The Changing Room
- Best Actor in a Musical (2002), Sweet Smell of Success
- Priscilla Lopez: In the Heights
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical (1980), A Day in Hollywood, A Night in the Ukraine
- Patti LuPone: Gypsy
- Best Actress in a Musical (1980), Evita
- Andrea Martin: Young Frankenstein
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical (1993), My Favorite Year
- Debra Monk: Curtains
- Best Featured Actress in a Play (1993), Redwood Curtain
- David Hyde Pierce: Curtains
- Best Actor in a Musical (2007), Curtains
- Faith Prince: A Catered Affair
- Best Actress in a Musical (1992), Guys and Dolls
- Phylicia Rashad: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Best Actress in a Play (2004), A Raisin in the Sun
- Anika Noni Rose: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical (2004), Caroline, or Change
- Mercedes Ruehl: Occupant
- Best Actress in a Play (1991), Lost in Yonkers
- Michael Rupert: Legally Blonde
- Best Featured Actor in a Musical (1986), Sweet Charity
- Stephen Spinella: Spring Awakening
- Best Featured Actor in a Play (1993), Angels in America: Millennium Approaches
- Best Actor in a Play (1994), Angels in America: Perestroika
- Julie White: From Up Here
- Best Actress in a Play (2007), The Little Dog Laughed
- Karen Ziemba: Curtains
- Best Featured Actress in a Musical (2000), Contact
Film Stars
- F. Murray Abraham: Almost an Evening
- Dylan Baker: November
- Morgan Freeman: The Country Girl
- Terrence Howard: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
- Mary Beth Hurt: Top Girls
- Laura Linney: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Miriam Margoyles: Wicked
- Frances McDormand: The Country Girl
- Tony Roberts : Xanadu
- Marisa Tomei: Top Girls
- John Turturro: Endgame
TV Stars
- Max Crumm: Grease
- Tamyra Gray: Rent
- Mark Linn-Baker: Almost an Evening
- Laurie Metcalf: November
- Megan Mullally: Young Frankenstein
- Laura Osnes: Grease
- Sian Phillips: Les Liaisons Dangereuses
- Joan Rivers: Joan Rivers
- Ashley Spencer: Hairspray
- Patrick Stewart: Macbeth
- George Wendt: Hairspray
- Tom Wopat: A Catered Affair
Theatre Stars and Other Celebrities
- Mike Daisey: How Theater Failed America
- Alvin Epstein: Endgame
- Jackie Mason: Jackie Mason--The Ultimate Jew
- Martha Plimpton: Top Girls
- Mark Rylance: Boeing-Boeing
- Elaine Stritch: Endgame
