June Squibb is now the oldest Tony Award-nominated performer in history, earning her first nod at 96 years old for Marjorie Prime.<\/p>\n
Squibb is up for Best Featured Actress in a Play for playing Marjorie, an elderly woman whose family hires a robotic version of her late husband to jog her failing memory and provide companionship.<\/p>\n
The record was previously held by Lois Smith, who was 89 when she was nominated for The Inheritance in 2020. Coincidentally, Smith originated the role of Marjorie in the Off-Broadway premiere of Marjorie Prime in 2015.<\/p>\n
Squibb took on the role for the Broadway premiere of Jordan Harrison’s play in fall 2025, directed by Anne Kauffman, who also staged the 2015 production. Her co-star Danny Burstein is also nominated for Best Featured Actor in a Play, and the cast also included Cynthia Nixon and Christopher Lowell.<\/p>\n
The whole cast collectively received the 2026 Drama Desk Ensemble Award for excellence by a group of performers.<\/p>\n
Photo credit: June Squibb in Marjorie Prime on Broadway. (Photo by Joan Marcus)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"June Squibb is now the oldest Tony Award-nominated performer in history, earning her first nod at 96 years…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":220635,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[35],"tags":[75,84,83,9,24,63],"class_list":["post-220634","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-manhattan","tag-manhattan","tag-manhattan-headlines","tag-manhattan-news","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-nyc"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220634","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=220634"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/220634\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/220635"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=220634"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=220634"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=220634"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}