Laurie Metcalf Wins Third Tony for Death Of A Salesman Broadway
Laurie Metcalf won the 2026 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for death of a salesman broadway, taking the prize for her performance as Linda Loman. The win gives her a third Tony and adds another trophy to a revival that arrived at the Winter Garden Theatre with nine Tony nominations.
Metcalf at Radio City
Metcalf accepted her third career Tony onstage at Radio City Music Hall, and used her speech to point back to the people who shaped her early theater work. “When I was in college, I met six fellow students in the theatre department. We worked really hard to amuse each other, and I still consider them family—and I still draw on lessons that I learned from them,” she said. She added, “And they were Gary Sinise, Moira Harris, Al Wilder, Jeff Perry, Terry Kinney, and John Malkovich.”
Five Other Nominees
The Best Featured Actress in a Play field also included Betsy Aidem, Marylouise Burke, Aya Cash, and June Squibb. Metcalf’s seventh nomination turned into her third Tony, a rare level of consistency in a category where one win can quickly change the standing of a production’s acting ensemble. For this revival, that result keeps the acting profile of Arthur Miller’s play aligned with its larger awards run.
Winter Garden Run
Death of a Salesman officially opened on April 9 at the Winter Garden Theatre after beginning previews on March 6. Joe Mantello directs the production, which stars Nathan Lane as Willy Loman and Metcalf as Linda Loman, with Christopher Abbott, Ben Ahlers, K. Todd Freeman, Jonathan Cake, John Drea, Michael Benjamin Washington, Tasha Lawrence, Jake Silbermann, Joaquin Consuelos, Jake Termine, Karl Green, Katherine Romans, and Mary Neely also in the cast. Scott Rudin, Barry Diller, and Roy Furman are producing.
The revival is scheduled to continue through August 9, giving the production a long Broadway window to convert nine nominations into more wins. Death of a Salesman premiered on Broadway in 1949 and won the Pulitzer Prize and a Tony Award that year, so this run is now carrying both the play’s legacy and the current awards case for a production that has already matched that reputation in nominations.
