British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor. The Actor category was split into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor starting in 2010.
British Academy Television Award | |
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2019 Recipient : Benedict Cumberbatch | |
Country | United Kingdom |
Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
First awarded | 1955 |
Currently held by | Benedict Cumberbatch for Patrick Melrose (2019) |
Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
1950s
- 1955 Paul Rogers – unknown
- 1956 Peter Cushing – unknown
- 1957 Michael Gough – unknown
- 1958 Michael Hordern – unknown
- 1959 Donald Pleasence – unknown
1960s
- 1960 Patrick McGoohan – unknown
- 1961 Lee Montague – unknown
- 1962 Rupert Davies in Maigret
- 1963 Harry H. Corbett in Steptoe and Son
- 1964 Alan Badel – unknown
- 1965 Patrick Wymark – unknown
- 1966 Alan Badel – unknown
- 1967 Warren Mitchell in Till Death Us Do Part
- 1968 Eric Porter in The Forsyte Saga
- 1969 Roy Dotrice in Misleading Cases
1970s
1970 Edward Woodward in Callan
1971 Keith Michell in The Six Wives of Henry VIII
1972 John Le Mesurier in Traitor
1973 Anthony Hopkins in War and Peace
1974 Frank Finlay in The Adventures of Don Quixote; Candide; The Death of Adolf Hitler
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1975 Peter Barkworth in Crown Matrimonial
1976 John Hurt in The Naked Civil Servant
1977 Derek Jacobi in I, Claudius
1978 Peter Barkworth in Professional Foul
1979 Edward Fox in Edward and Mrs Simpson
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1980s
1990s
1990 John Thaw as Endeavour Morse in Inspector Morse
1991 Ian Richardson as Francis Urquhart in House of Cards
1992 Robert Lindsay as Michael Murray in G.B.H.
1993 John Thaw as Endeavour Morse in Inspector Morse
1994 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker
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1995 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker
1996 Robbie Coltrane as Dr. Edward "Fitz" Fitzgerald in Cracker
1997 Nigel Hawthorne as Edgar Pascoe in The Fragile Heart
1998 Simon Russell Beale as Kenneth Widmerpool in A Dance to the Music of Time
1999 Tom Courtenay as Roy Southgate in A Rather English Marriage
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2000s
2010s
In 2010, BAFTA split the category into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor. This is the list of BAFTA TV Awards for Leading Actor.
2020s
Year | Actors | Work | Character |
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2020 | Stephen Graham | The Virtues | Joseph Lowery |
Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | |
Takehiro Hira | Giri/Haji | Kenzo Mori | |
Callum Turner | The Capture | Shaun Emery | |
Actors with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
The following people have been awarded the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
4 wins
3 wins
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2 wins
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Multiple nominations
The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
6 nominations
5 nominations
4 nominations
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3 nominations
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2 nominations
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