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British Academy Television Award for Best Actor

British Academy Television Awards · 138 nominations across 31 ceremonies · 31 wins

BAFTA TV Awards 2026 · 2026

Winner Stephen Graham · Adolescence
Nominee Ellis Howard · What It Feels Like for a Girl
Nominee Taron Egerton · Smoke
Nominee James Nelson-Joyce · This City Is Ours
Nominee Matt Smith · The Death of Bunny Munro
Nominee Colin Firth · Lockerbie: A Search for Truth

BAFTA TV Awards 2025 · 2025

Winner Lennie James · Mr Loverman
Nominee Richard Gadd · Baby Reindeer
Nominee Martin Freeman · The Responder
Nominee Toby Jones · Mr Bates vs The Post Office
Nominee David Tennant · Rivals
Nominee Gary Oldman · Slow Horses

BAFTA TV Awards 2024 · 2024

Winner Timothy Spall · The Sixth Commandment
Nominee Kane Robinson · Top Boy
Nominee Steve Coogan · The Reckoning
Nominee Brian Cox · Succession
Nominee Dominic West · The Crown
Nominee Paapa Essiedu · The Lazarus Project

BAFTA TV Awards 2023 · 2023

Winner Ben Whishaw · This Is Going to Hurt
Nominee Gary Oldman · Slow Horses
Nominee Martin Freeman · The Responder
Nominee Cillian Murphy · Peaky Blinders
Nominee Chaske Spencer · The English
Nominee Taron Egerton · Black Bird

BAFTA TV Awards 2022 · 2022

Winner Sean Bean · Time
Nominee Olly Alexander · It's a Sin
Nominee Samuel Adewunmi · You Don't Know Me
Nominee Hugh Quarshie · Stephen
Nominee David Thewlis · Landscapers
Nominee Stephen Graham · Help

BAFTA TV Awards 2021 · 2021

Winner Paul Mescal · Normal People
Nominee Josh O'Connor · The Crown
Nominee Paapa Essiedu · I May Destroy You
Nominee John Boyega · Small Axe
Nominee Shaun Parkes · Small Axe
Nominee Waleed Zuaiter · Baghdad Central

BAFTA TV Awards 2020 · 2020

BAFTA TV Awards 2019 · 2019

Winner Benedict Cumberbatch · Patrick Melrose
Nominee Lucian Msamati · Kiri
Nominee Hugh Grant · A Very English Scandal
Nominee Chance Perdomo · Killed by My Debt

BAFTA TV Awards 2018 · 2018

Winner Sean Bean · Broken
Nominee Jack Rowan · Born to Kill
Nominee Tim Pigott-Smith · King Charles III
Nominee Joe Cole · Hang the DJ (Black Mirror)

BAFTA TV Awards 2017 · 2017

Winner Adeel Akhtar · Murdered by My Father
Nominee Robbie Coltrane · National Treasure
Nominee Babou Ceesay · Damilola, Our Loved Boy
Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch · The Hollow Crown

BAFTA TV Awards 2016 · 2016

Winner Mark Rylance · Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light
Nominee Stephen Graham · This Is England '90
Nominee Ben Whishaw · London Spy
Nominee Idris Elba · Luther

BAFTA TV Awards 2015 · 2015

Winner Jason Watkins · The Lost Honour of Christopher Jefferies
Nominee James Nesbitt · The Missing
Nominee Toby Jones · Marvellous
Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch · Sherlock

BAFTA TV Awards 2014 · 2014

BAFTA TV Awards 2013 · 2013

Winner Ben Whishaw · Richard II
Nominee Toby Jones · The Girl
Nominee Derek Jacobi · Last Tango in Halifax
Nominee Sean Bean · Accused

BAFTA TV Awards 2012 · 2012

Winner Dominic West · Appropriate Adult
Nominee John Simm · Exile
Nominee Joseph Gilgun · This Is England '88
Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch · Sherlock

BAFTA TV Awards 2011 · 2011

BAFTA TV Awards 2010 · 2010

Winner Kenneth Branagh · Wallander
Nominee John Hurt · An Englishman in New York
Nominee Brendan Gleeson · Into the Storm
Nominee David Oyelowo · Small Island

BAFTA TV Awards 2009 · 2009

Winner Stephen Dillane · The Shooting of Thomas Hurndall
Nominee Ken Stott · Hancock and Joan
Nominee Jason Isaacs · The Curse of Steptoe
Nominee Ben Whishaw · Criminal Justice

BAFTA TV Awards 2008 · 2008

Winner Andrew Garfield · Boy A
Nominee Matthew Macfadyen
Nominee Antony Sher · Primo
Nominee Tom Hardy · Stuart: A Life Backwards

BAFTA TV Awards 2007 · 2007

Winner Jim Broadbent · Longford
Nominee Michael Sheen · Kenneth Williams: Fantabulosa!
Nominee John Simm · Life on Mars
Nominee Andy Serkis · Longford

BAFTA TV Awards 2006 · 2006

Winner Mark Rylance · The Government Inspector
Nominee Bernard Hill · A Very Social Secretary
Nominee Rufus Sewell · The Taming of the Shrew
Nominee Denis Lawson · Bleak House

BAFTA TV Awards 2005 · 2005

Winner Rhys Ifans · Not Only But Always
Nominee Michael Sheen · Dirty Filthy Love
Nominee Benedict Cumberbatch · Hawking
Nominee Mark Strong · The Long Firm

BAFTA TV Awards 2004 · 2004

Winner Bill Nighy · State of Play
Nominee Christopher Eccleston · The Second Coming
Nominee Jim Broadbent · The Young Visiters
Nominee David Morrissey · State of Play

BAFTA TV Awards 2003 · 2003

Winner Albert Finney · The Gathering Storm
Nominee Shackleton
Nominee James Nesbitt · Bloody Sunday
Nominee Kenneth Branagh · Conspiracy

BAFTA TV Awards 2002 · 2002

Winner Michael Gambon · Perfect Strangers
Nominee David Suchet · The Way We Live Now
Nominee Alan Bates · Love in a Cold Climate
Nominee Timothy Spall · Vacuuming Completely Nude in Paradise

BAFTA TV Awards 2001 · 2001

BAFTA TV Awards 2000 · 2000

Winner Michael Gambon · Wives and Daughters
Nominee Pete Postlethwaite · Lost for Words
Nominee Timothy Spall · Shooting the Past
Nominee Aidan Gillen · Queer as Folk

BAFTA TV Awards 1999 · 1999

Winner Tom Courtenay · A Rather English Marriage
Nominee Albert Finney · A Rather English Marriage
Nominee Timothy Spall · Our Mutual Friend
Nominee Robert Carlyle · Looking After Jo Jo

BAFTA TV Awards 1998 · 1998

Winner Simon Russell Beale · A Dance to the Music of Time
Nominee Robert Carlyle · Hamish Macbeth
Nominee Derek Jacobi · Breaking the Code
Nominee Tom Wilkinson

BAFTA TV Awards 1997 · 1997

Winner Nigel Hawthorne · The Fragile Heart
Nominee Peter Vaughan · Our Friends in the North
Nominee Albert Finney · Karaoke
Nominee Albert Finney · Cold Lazarus
Nominee Christopher Eccleston · Our Friends in the North

BAFTA TV Awards 1996 · 1996

Winner Robbie Coltrane · Cracker
Nominee Robert Lindsay · Jake's Progress
Nominee Benjamin Whitrow · Pride and Prejudice
Nominee Colin Firth · Pride and Prejudice
Nominee Ian Richardson · The Final Cut