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Olivier Award Winners for Best Actor

See how many winners of the Olivier Award for Best Actor you can name.
From 1976 to 1984 (and again in 1988), there was a pair of awards given each year for this general category, one for Actor of the Year in a New Play and the other for Actor of the Year in a Revival.
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Last updated: April 16, 2024
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Year
Play
Actor
2024
The Motive and the Cue
Mark Gatiss
2023
A Streetcar Named Desire
Paul Mescal
2022
Life of Pi
Hiran Abeysekera
2020
Present Laughter
Andrew Scott
2019
The Inheritance
Kyle Soller
2018
Network
Bryan Cranston
2017
Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
Jamie Parker
2016
The Father
Kenneth Cranham
2015
A View from the Bridge
Mark Strong
2014
Othello
Rory Kinnear
2013
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Luke Treadaway
2012
Frankenstein
Benedict Cumberbatch
Jonny Lee Miller
2011
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
Roger Allam
2010
Jerusalem
Mark Rylance
2009
Twelfth Night
Derek Jacobi
2008
Othello
Chiwetel Ejiofor
2007
Rock 'n' Roll
Rufus Sewell
2006
Death of a Salesman
Brian Dennehy
2005
The History Boys
Richard Griffiths
2004
Of Mice and Men
Matthew Kelly
2003
Uncle Vanya
Simon Russell Beale
2002
Privates on Parade
Roger Allam
2001
Stones in His Pockets
Conleth Hill
2000
The Merchant of Venice
Henry Goodman
1999
The Iceman Cometh
Kevin Spacey
1998
King Lear
Ian Holm
1997
Stanley
Antony Sher
1996
Peer Gynt
Alex Jennings
1995
My Night with Reg
David Bamber
1994
Much Ado About Nothing
Mark Rylance
1993
Henry IV, Parts 1 and 2
Robert Stephens
1992
The Madness of George III
Nigel Hawthorne
1991
Richard III
Ian McKellen
1989/90
Racing Demon
Oliver Ford Davies
1988
Our Country's Good
David Haig
Titus Andronicus
Brian Cox
1987
A View from the Bridge
Michael Gambon
1986
Orphans
Albert Finney
1985
Richard III
Antony Sher
Torch Song Trilogy
1984
Rat in the Skull
Brian Cox
Wild Honey
Ian McKellen
1983
Glengarry Glen Ross
Jack Shepherd
Cyrano de Bergerac
Derek Jacobi
1982
Insignificance
Ian McDiarmid
A Doll's House
Stephen Moore
1981
Children of a Lesser God
Trevor Eve
Man and Superman
Daniel Massey
1980
The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby
Roger Rees
Hamlet
Jonathan Pryce
1979
Bent
Ian McKellen
Death of a Salesman
Warren Mitchell
1978
Whose Life is it Anyway?
Tom Conti
Coriolanus
Alan Howard
1977
State of Revolution
Michael Bryant
Pillars of the Community
Ian McKellen
1976
For King and Country
Paul Copley
Henry IV, Part 1 and 2
Alan Howard
Henry V
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