20 TV Stars Nominated at the 2024 Tony Awards

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There’s no business like show business — especially when you see an actor on your TV screen and then see the same person live on Broadway the very same day! Television actors often become theater actors and vice versa, and many small-screen stars earned nominations for this year’s 77th Tony Awards.

For example, TV buffs who tune into the Tonys on June 16 on CBS or Paramount+ With Showtime will see two “supreme” witches from American Horror Story: Coven go head to head in the Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category, as Sarah Paulson and Jessica Lange are both nominated. In fact, it was the Great White Way that first brought Paulson and Lange together nearly 20 years ago, when they costarred in a 2005 Broadway revival of Tennessee Williams’ The Glass Menagerie.

Flip through the slides below to see Paulson, Lange, and 18 other television actors up for Tonys this year.

77th Tony Awards, Sunday, June 16, 8/7c, CBS & Paramount+ With Showtime

William Jackson Harper
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William Jackson Harper

Notable TV role(s): Chidi Anagonye in The Good Place, Marcus Watkins in Love Life

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Uncle Vanya

Liev Schreiber
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Liev Schreiber

Notable TV role(s): Ray Donovan in Ray Donovan, Otto Frank in A Small Light

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for Doubt: A Parable

Jeremy Strong
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Jeremy Strong

Notable TV role(s): Kendall Roy in Succession

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Play for An Enemy of the People

Jessica Lange
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Jessica Lange

Notable TV role(s): Various characters in American Horror Story, Joan Crawford in Feud: Bette and Joan

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for Mother Play

Sarah Paulson
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Sarah Paulson

Notable TV role(s): Various characters in American Horror Story and American Crime Story, Nurse Ratched in Ratched

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for Appropriate

Amy Ryan
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Amy Ryan

Notable TV role(s): Beadie Russell in The Wire, Jan Bellows in Only Murders in the Building, Melanie in Sugar

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play for Doubt: A Parable

Jonathan Groff
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Jonathan Groff

Notable TV role(s): Jesse St. James in Glee, Patrick Murray in Looking, Holden Ford in Mindhunter

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical for Merrily We Roll Along

Kelli O’Hara
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Kelli O’Hara

Notable TV role(s): Jackie in 13 Reasons Why, Aurora Fane in The Gilded Age

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Days of Wine and Roses

Gayle Rankin
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Gayle Rankin

Notable TV role(s): Sheila the She-Wolf in GLOW, Emily Dodson in Perry Mason, Alys Rivers in House of the Dragon

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Musical for Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club

Jim Parsons
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Jim Parsons

Notable TV role(s): Sheldon Cooper in The Big Bang Theory and Young Sheldon

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Mother Play

Corey Stoll
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Corey Stoll

Notable TV role(s): Rep. Peter Russo in House of Cards, Ephraim Goodweather in The Strain, Mike Prince in Billions

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actor in a Featured Role in a Play for Appropriate

Quincy Tyler Bernstine
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Quincy Tyler Bernstine

Notable TV role(s): Tameika Washington in Power and Power Book II: Ghost

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Doubt: A Parable

Juliana Canfield
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Juliana Canfield

Notable TV role(s): Beth Deville in Y: The Last Man, Janine Harris in The Calling, Jess Jordan in Succession

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Stereophonic

Celia Keenan-Bolger
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Celia Keenan-Bolger

Notable TV role(s): Mrs. Bruce in The Gilded Age

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Mother Play

Sarah Pidgeon
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Sarah Pidgeon

Notable TV role(s): Leah Rilke in The Wilds, Young Clare in Tiny Beautiful Things

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Stereophonic

Kara Young
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Kara Young

Notable TV role(s): Jones in I’m a Virgo

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Purlie Victorious: A Non-Confederate Romp Through the Cotton Patch

Brandon Victor Dixon
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Brandon Victor Dixon

Notable TV role(s): Terry Silver in Power

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Hell’s Kitchen

Daniel Radcliffe
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Daniel Radcliffe

Notable TV role(s): Various characters in Miracle Workers

Nominated for: Best Performance by an Actress in a Featured Role in a Play for Merrily We Roll Along

Lindsay Mendez
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Lindsay Mendez

Notable TV role(s): Sara Castillo in All Rise

Nominated for: Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in Merrily We Roll Along

Bebe Neuwirth
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Bebe Neuwirth

Notable TV role(s): Lilith Sternin in Cheers and Frasier, Nadine Tolliver in Madam Secretary, Avis DeVoto in Julia

Nominated for: Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical in Cabaret at the Kit Kat Club