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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series

Name every actor that has received a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series. Before 1965, award for Comedy and Drama was the same. They are regrouped in this one.
Yellow indicates a performance as a guest performer, before the category's creation
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Year
TV Show
Answer
2023
Succession
Kieran Culkin
2022
Squid Game
Lee Jung-Jae
2021
The Crown
Josh O'Connor
2020
Succession
Jeremy Strong
2019
Pose
Billy Porter
2018
The Americans
Matthew Rhys
2017
This Is Us
Sterling K. Brown
2016
Mr. Robot
Rami Malek
2015
Mad Men
Jon Hamm
2014
Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston
2013
The Newsroom
Jeff Daniels
2012
Homeland
Damian Lewis
2011
Friday Night Lights
Kyle Chandler
2010
Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston
2009
Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston
2008
Breaking Bad
Bryan Cranston
2007
Boston Legal
James Spader
2006
24
Kiefer Sutherland
2005
Boston Legal
James Spader
2004
The Practice
James Spader
2003
The Sopranos
James Gandolfini
2002
The Shield
Michael Chiklis
2001
The Sopranos
James Gandolfini
2000
The Sopranos
James Gandolfini
1999
NYPD Blue
Dennis Franz
1998
Homicide: Life on the Street
Andre Braugher
1997
NYPD Blue
Dennis Franz
1996
NYPD Blue
Dennis Franz
1995
Chicago Hope
Mandy Patinkin
1994
NYPD Blue
Dennis Franz
1993
Picket Fences
Tom Skerritt
1992
Road to Avonlea
Christopher Lloyd
1991
Gabriel's Fire
James Earl Jones
1990
Columbo
Peter Falk
1989
In the Heat of the Night
Carroll O'Connor
Year
TV Show
Answer
1988
A Year in the Life
Richard Kiley
1987
Moonlighting
Bruce Willis
1986
St. Elsewhere
William Daniels
1985
St. Elsewhere
William Daniels
1984
Magnum, P.I.
Tom Selleck
1983
St. Elsewhere
Ed Flanders
1982
Hill Street Blues
Daniel J. Travanti
1981
Hill Street Blues
Daniel J. Travanti
1980
Lou Grant
Ed Asner
1979
Kaz
Ron Leibman
1978
Lou Grant
Ed Asner
1977
The Rockford Files
James Garner
1976
Columbo
Peter Falk
1975
Baretta
Robert Blake
1974
Kojak
Telly Savalas
1973
The Waltons
Richard Thomas
1972
Columbo
Peter Falk
1971
The Bold Ones: The Senator
Hal Holbrook
1970
Marcus Wilby, M.D.
Robert Young
1969
Judd, for the Defense
Carl Betz
1968
I Spy
Bill Cosby
1967
I Spy
Bill Cosby
1966
I Spy
Bill Cosby
1965
5 differents actors and actress
1964
The Dick Van Dyke Show
Dick Van Dyke
1963
The Defenders
E.G. Marshall
1962
The Defenders
E.G. Marshall
1961
Perry Mason
Raymond Burr
1960
The Untouchables
Robert Stack
1959
Perry Mason
Raymond Burr
1958
Father Knows Best
Robert Young
1957
Father Knows Best
Robert Young
1956
The Phil Silvers Show
Phil Silvers
1955
Make Room for Daddy
Danny Thomas
1954
The Colgate Comedy Hour
Donald O'Connor
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