Awards & Winners

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

Outer Critics Circle Award

Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play is one of the awards presented at the annual Outer Critics Circle Award ceremony.
Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play is one of the awards presented at the annual Outer Critics Circle Award ceremony.

Check all the winners of Outer Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play presented under Outer Critics Circle Award since 1973 .


Bryan Cranston

Honored for : All The Way

Nominations 2014 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bryan Cranston All The Way
Ian McKellen No Man's Land
Brían F. O'Byrne Outside Mullingar
Mark Rylance Twelfth Night
Tony Shalhoub Act One

Nathan Lane

Honored for : The Nance

Nominations 2013 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nathan Lane The Nance
Tracy Letts Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Tom Hanks Lucky Guy
Shuler Hensley The Whale
David Hyde Pierce Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike

James Corden

Honored for : One Man, Two Guvnors

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Hamish Linklater The School for Lies
Philip Seymour Hoffman Death of a Salesman
Russell Harvard Tribes
Santino Fontana Sons of the Prophet
James Corden One Man, Two Guvnors

Mark Rylance

Honored for : Jerusalem

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Al Pacino The Merchant of Venice
Bobby Cannavale The Motherfucker with the Hat
Joe Mantello The Normal Heart
Mark Rylance Jerusalem
Reed Birney The Dream of the Burning Boy

Denzel Washington

Honored for : Fences

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bill Heck The Orphans' Home Cycle
Christopher Walken A Behanding in Spokane
Denzel Washington Fences
Jude Law Hamlet
Liev Schreiber A View from the Bridge

Geoffrey Rush

Honored for : Exit the King

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bill Irwin Waiting for Godot
Nathan Lane Waiting for Godot
Raúl Esparza Speed-the-Plow
Thomas Sadoski Reasons to Be Pretty
Geoffrey Rush Exit the King

Kevin Kline

Honored for : Cyrano de Bergerac

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Kline Cyrano de Bergerac
Ben Daniels Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Kevin Anderson Come Back, Little Sheba
Patrick Stewart Macbeth

Frank Langella

Honored for : Frost/Nixon

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Langella Frost/Nixon
Brían F. O'Byrne The Coast of Utopia: Voyage","The Coast of Utopia: Shipwreck","The Coast of Utopia: Salvage
Christopher Plummer Inherit the Wind
Liev Schreiber Talk Radio

Gabriel Byrne

Honored for : A Touch of the Poet

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Gabriel Byrne A Touch of the Poet
Željko Ivanek The Caine Mutiny Court-Martial
Ian McDiarmid Faith Healer
David Wilmot The Lieutenant of Inishmore

Brían F. O'Byrne

Honored for : Doubt: A Parable

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Brían F. O'Byrne Doubt: A Parable
Alan Alda Glengarry Glen Ross
Billy Crudup The Pillowman
James Earl Jones On Golden Pond
John Rubinstein Counsellor-At-Law

Frank Langella

Honored for : Match

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Frank Langella Match
Simon Russell Beale Jumpers
Kevin Kline Henry IV
Brían F. O'Byrne Frozen
Richard Thomas The Stendhal Syndrome

Eddie Izzard

Honored for : A Day in the Death of Joe Egg

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Eddie Izzard A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
Jochum ten Haaf Vincent in Brixton
Brian Bedford Tartuffe
Howard W. Overshown Yellowman
Daniel Sunjata Take Me Out

Alan Bates

Honored for : Fortune's Fool

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bill Pullman The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
Alan Bates Fortune's Fool
Ian McKellen Dance of Death
Liam Neeson The Crucible

Richard Easton

Honored for : The Invention of Love

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Richard Easton The Invention of Love
George Grizzard Judgment at Nuremberg
Brian Stokes Mitchell King Hedley II
Donald Sutherland Ten Unknowns
Brian Stokes Mitchell Kiss Me, Kate

Brian Stokes Mitchell

Honored for : Kiss Me, Kate

Kevin Spacey

Honored for : The Iceman Cometh

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Brian Dennehy Death of a Salesman
Kevin Spacey The Iceman Cometh
Corin Redgrave Not About Nightingales
Roger Rees The Uneasy Chair

Anthony LaPaglia

Honored for : A View from the Bridge

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Anthony LaPaglia A View from the Bridge
Michael Emerson Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde
Sam Trammell Ah, Wilderness!
Eli Wallach Visiting Mr. Green

Christopher Plummer

Honored for : Barrymore

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Plummer Barrymore
Frank Langella Present Laughter
David Morse How I Learned to Drive
Antony Sher Stanley

George C. Scott

Honored for : Inherit the Wind

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
George C. Scott Inherit the Wind
Jason Robards Molly Sweeney
Frank Langella The Father
Patrick Stewart The Tempest

Nathan Lane

Honored for : Love! Valour! Compassion!

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nathan Lane Love! Valour! Compassion!

Sam Waterston

Honored for : Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sam Waterston Abe Lincoln in Illinois

Robert Klein

Honored for : The Sisters Rosensweig

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Klein The Sisters Rosensweig
K. Todd Freeman The Song of Jacob Zulu
William H. Macy Oleanna
George C. Scott Wrong Turn at Lungfish

Judd Hirsch

Honored for : Conversations with my Father

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Judd Hirsch Conversations with my Father
Alan Alda Jake's Women
Brian Bedford Two Shakespearean Actors
Roscoe Lee Browne Two Trains Running

Nigel Hawthorne

Honored for : Shadowlands

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Nigel Hawthorne Shadowlands
Len Cariou The Speed of Darkness","Smoke on the Mountain
Stephen Lang The Speed of Darkness
Nicol Williamson I Hate Hamlet

Robert Morse

Honored for : Tru

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Morse Tru
Charles Durning Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Nathan Lane The Lisbon Traviata
Gary Sinise The Grapes of Wrath

Kevin Conway

Honored for : Other People's Money

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kevin Conway Other People's Money

Robert Prosky

Honored for : A Walk in the Woods

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Robert Prosky A Walk in the Woods

Christopher Plummer

Honored for : Play

Nominations 1973 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christopher Plummer Play