Ellen Barkin became the first 2011 Tony Award winner for her Broadway debut performance as Dr. Emma Brookner in the current revival of Larry Kramer’s The Normal Heart. Calling her win “the proudest moment in my career,” the movie star-turned-theater actress said, “I am so grateful and humbled,” noting that her role as crusading, wheelchair-bound AIDS doctor "has transformed me as…
SOURCE: Broadway.com at 08:19PM on June 12, 2011