8 TV Favorites Nominated for 2019 Tony Awards (PHOTOS)
Jeff Daniels
After winning two Emmys for his roles in Netflix’s Godless and HBO’s The Newsroom, Daniels is up for the Best Actor in a Play award for his role as Atticus Finch in The Newsroom creator Aaron Sorkin’s stage adaptation of To Kill a Mockingbird.
Laura Donnelly
This Northern Irish actress, who played Janet “Jenny” Fraser Murray in the first three seasons of Starz’s Outlander, earned her first Tony nod as a contender in the Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Play category for her role in The Ferryman.
Adam Driver
The alum of HBO’s Girls is also a first-time Tony nominee, nominated for Best Actor in a Play for his performance in Burn This opposite The Americans alum Keri Russell.
Bryan Cranston
Cranston, best known to TV audiences as Walter White in AMC’s Breaking Bad, is up for his second Best Actor in a Play Tony for his role in Network, having previously won the category in 2014 for his role in All the Way.
Santino Fontana
This actor, who played Greg in the first season of The CW’s Crazy Ex-Girlfriend, is in contention for the Tony Award for Best Leading Actor in a Musical for his performance in Tootsie. He was previously nominated in the same category in 2013 for Cinderella.
Laurie Metcalf
Perhaps best known as Jackie Harris in ABC’s Roseanne and The Conners, Metcalf could win her third consecutive Tony, nominated for Best Lead Actress in a Play for playing a fictionalized HRC in Hillary and Clinton. She won a Tony last year for her role in the play Three Tall Women and the year before for A Doll’s House, Part 2.
Ali Stroker
Remember The Glee Project, the Oxygen reality competition for actors aspiring to be on Glee? In addition to introducing TV fans to Blake Jenner and Alex Newell, it also marked the big break for this actress, who’s now the first wheelchair user to earn a Tony nomination, honored for her role in the revival of Oklahoma!.
Ruth Wilson
Fresh off her mysterious and abrupt departure from Showtime’s The Affair — on which she played Alison Lockhart — Wilson is now nominated for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role in King Lear. She previously got a Tony nod in 2015 for her role in Constellations.
The Emmys are still months away, let alone the Golden Globes — so what’s an award-show-obsessed TV buff to do?
Luckily for you, a lot of TV stars have been nominated for the 73rd Tony Awards, after wowing Broadway audiences and critics alike over the past year.
Check out eight of them in this gallery, then tune into CBS on Sunday, June 9, at 8/7c to see which of ’em, if any, take home Tonys. (Bonus: Late Late Show host James Corden will be emceeing the big night!)
