British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
| British Academy Television Award | |
|---|---|
 2021 winner Paul Mescal | |
| Country | United Kingdom |
| Presented by | British Academy of Film and Television Arts |
| First awarded | 1955 |
| Currently held by | Paul Mescal for Normal People (2021) |
| Website | http://www.bafta.org/ |
This is a list of the British Academy Television Awards for Best Actor. The Best Actor award was initially given as an "individual honour", without credit to a particular performance, until 1962, when Rupert Davies won for his performance in Maigret. Since 1970, nominees have been announced in addition to the winner. The Actor category was split into Leading Actor and Supporting Actor starting in 2010.
Michael Gambon holds the record of most wins in this category with four, including three consecutive wins, followed by Robbie Coltrane with three, all of them also being consecutive. Benedict Cumberbatch was received the most nominations for this award, with six.
Winners and nominees
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1950s
| Year | Actor |
|---|---|
| 1955 | |
| Paul Rogers | |
| 1956 | |
| Peter Cushing | |
| 1957 | |
| Michael Gough | |
| 1958 | |
| Michael Hordern | |
| 1959 | |
| Donald Pleasence |
1960s
| Year | Actors | Work |
|---|---|---|
| 1960 | ||
| Patrick McGoohan | ||
| 1961 | ||
| Lee Montague | ||
| 1962 | ||
| Rupert Davies | Maigret | |
| 1963 | ||
| Harry H. Corbett | Steptoe and Son | |
| 1964 | ||
| Alan Badel | ||
| 1965 | ||
| Patrick Wymark | ||
| 1966 | ||
| Alan Badel | The Count Of Monte Cristo; Meeting Point; A Couple of Dry Martinis; Not So Much a Programme, More a Way of Life; Famous Gossips | |
| Richard Briers | Simon and Laura; Marriage Lines; Points of View; Present Laughter - Excerpt; Charley's Aunt; To You At Home Today | |
| Ian Carmichael | Simon and Laura; The World of Wooster | |
| Patrick Wymark | The Plane Makers; Crime and Punishment; Once a Jolly Swagman; Malatesta; Sherlock Holmes; I Remember the Battle; Four of Hearts – Tilt | |
| 1967 | ||
| Warren Mitchell | Till Death Us Do Part | |
| 1968 | ||
| Eric Porter | The Forsyte Saga | |
| 1969 | ||
| Roy Dotrice | Brief Lives | |
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
| Year | Actors | Work | Character | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2020 (66th) [1] | ||||
| Jared Harris | Chernobyl | Valery Legasov | Sky Atlantic | |
| Stephen Graham | The Virtues | Joseph Lowery | Channel 4 | |
| Takehiro Hira | Giri/Haji | Kenzo Mori | BBC Two | |
| Callum Turner | The Capture | Shaun Emery | BBC One | |
| 2021 (67th) [2] | ||||
| Paul Mescal | Normal People | Connell Waldron | BBC Three | |
| John Boyega | Small Axe: Red, White and Blue | Leroy Logan | BBC One | |
| Paapa Essiedu | I May Destroy You | Kwame | ||
| Shaun Parkes | Small Axe: Mangrove | Frank Crichlow | ||
| Josh O'Connor | The Crown | Charles, Prince of Wales | Netflix | |
| Waleed Zuaiter | Baghdad Central | Muhsin al-Khafaji | Channel 4 |
Actors with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
The following people have been awarded the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
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4 wins 3 wins |
2 wins
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Multiple nominations
The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Actor multiple times:
References
- ^ Kanter, Jake (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each". Deadline. Retrieved 2020-07-31.
- ^ "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards". www.bafta.org. 2021-04-28. Retrieved 2021-04-28.