Youngest Tony Award winners ever span from an eleven-year-old featured actor to a twenty-six-year-old leading play champion. This six-slide guide ranks every major competitive age record the American Theatre Wing still recognizes.

Frankie Michaels was eleven years and forty-two days old when Mame won him Best Featured Actor in a Musical in 1966. He remains the youngest competitive Tony Award winner ever — a record unchanged for nearly six decades.

Daisy Eagan was eleven and a half when The Secret Garden earned her Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1991. She is the youngest woman ever to win a competitive Tony — second overall on the youngest Tony Award winners ever board.

Trent Kowalik, David Alvarez, and Kiril Kulish jointly won Best Actor in a Musical for Billy Elliot in 2009. Kowalik at fourteen is the youngest leading musical actor among youngest Tony Award winners ever category leaders.

Alex Sharp won Best Actor in a Play for The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time at age twenty-six in 2015. He is the youngest winner ever in that leading category on the youngest Tony Award winners ever list.