June Squibb is now the oldest Tony nominee in history. On Tuesday morning, the 2026 Tony Awards nominations were unveiled, and Squibb landed her first nomination — for best actress in a featured role in a play for Marjorie Prime — making history at 96 as the oldest nominee. Lois Smith had held the record at 89 after being nominated (and winning) in 2020 for her turn in The Inheritance . In Marjorie Prime , Squibb plays the title character, an elderly woman battling dementia and memory loss, who uses an AI-generated “Prime” of her late husband, Walter, to help preserve and revisit memories from their life together. (Smith played Marjorie in the original off- Broadway production and 2017 film adaptation opposite Jon Hamm.) Squibb is nominated alongside Laurie Metcalf ( Arthur Miller’s Death of a Salesman ), Aya Cash ( Giant ), Betsy Aidem (Liberation ) and Marylouise Burke ( The Balusters ). The actress made her Broadway debut in 1959 in the original production of Gypsy, playing Electra.…