This is a list of the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor, presented by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA).
The awards, informally known as the BAFTA TV Awards, have been awarded since 1954. From 1968–1997, the BAFTA TV Awards and the BAFTA Film Awards were presented in one joint ceremony. Since 1998, there have been two separate ceremonies. The film awards are held in February, usually two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards (Oscars) in the United States, while the TV awards are held in late May. The BAFTA TV Awards are also the UK equivalent to the Emmy Awards in the US.
The awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were first presented at the 2010 ceremony.
Winners and nominees
2010s Year Actors Work Character Network 2010(56th) Matthew Macfadyen Criminal Justice Joe Miller BBC One Tom Hollander Gracie! Monty Banks BBC Four Benedict Cumberbatch Small Island Bernard Bligh BBC One Gary Lewis Mo Adam Ingram Channel 4 2011(57th) Martin Freeman Sherlock Dr. John Watson BBC One Brendan Coyle Downton Abbey John Bates ITV Johnny Harris This Is England '86 Michael "Mick" Jenkins Channel 4 Robert Sheehan Misfits Nathan Young E4 2012(58th) Andrew Scott Sherlock Jim Moriarty BBC One Stephen Rea The Shadow Line Gatehouse BBC Two Martin Freeman Sherlock Dr. John Watson BBC One Joseph Mawle Birdsong Jack Firebrace 2013(59th) Simon Russell Beale "Henry IV, Parts I & II": The Hollow Crown Falstaff BBC Two Harry Lloyd The Fear Matty Beckett Channel 4 Stephen Graham Accused Tony BBC One Peter Capaldi The Hour Randall Brown BBC Two 2014(60th) David Bradley Broadchurch Jack Marshall ITV Jerome Flynn Ripper Street Detective Sergeant Bennet Drake BBC One Nico Mirallegro The Village Joe Middleton Rory Kinnear Southcliffe David Whitehead Channel 4 2015(61st) Stephen Rea The Honourable Woman Sir Hugh Hayden-Hoyle BBC Two Adeel Akhtar Utopia Wilson Wilson Channel 4 James Norton Happy Valley Tommy Lee Royce BBC One Ken Stott The Missing Ian Garrett 2016(62nd) Tom Courtenay Unforgotten Eric Slater ITV Ian McKellen The Dresser Norman Channel 4 Anton Lesser Wolf Hall Thomas More BBC Two Cyril Nri Cucumber Lance Sullivan 2017(63rd) Tom Hollander The Night Manager Major "Corky" Lance Corkoran BBC One Daniel Mays Line of Duty Danny Waldron BBC Two Jared Harris The Crown King George VI Netflix John Lithgow Winston Churchill 2018(64th) Brían F. O'Byrne Little Boy Blue Steve Jones ITV Adrian Dunbar Line of Duty Ted Hastings BBC One Anupam Kher The Boy with the Topknot Sathnam's Father BBC Two Jimmi Simpson Black Mirror: USS Callister James "Wally" Walton Netflix 2019(65th) Ben Whishaw A Very English Scandal Norman Josiffe BBC One Alex Jennings Unforgotten Tim Finch ITV Kim Bodnia Killing Eve Konstantin Vasiliev BBC One Stephen Graham Save Me Fabio "Melon" Melonzola Sky Atlantic
2020s Year Actors Work Character Network(s) 2020(66th) Will Sharpe Giri/Haji Rodney Yamaguchi BBC Two Joe Absolom A Confession Christopher Halliwell ITV Josh O'Connor The Crown Charles, Prince of Wales Netflix Stellan Skarsgård Chernobyl Boris Shcherbina HBO / Sky Atlantic 2021(67th) Malachi Kirby Small Axe: Mangrove Darcus Howe BBC One Kunal Nayyar Criminal: UK Sandeep Singh Netflix Tobias Menzies The Crown Prince Philip, Duke of Edinburgh Michael Sheen Quiz Chris Tarrant ITV Rupert Everett Adult Material Carroll Quinn Channel 4 Micheal Ward Small Axe: Lovers Rock Franklyn Cooper BBC One 2022(68th) Matthew Macfadyen Succession Tom Wambsgans HBO / Sky Atlantic Callum Scott Howells It's a Sin Colin "Gladys Pugh" Morris-Jones Channel 4 Omari Douglas Roscoe Babatunde David Carlyle Gregory "Gloria" Finch Nonso Anozie Sweet Tooth Tommy Jepperd Netflix Stephen Graham Time Eric McNally BBC One 2023(69th) Adeel Akhtar Sherwood Andy Fisher BBC One Samuel Bottomley Somewhere Boy Aaron Channel 4 Josh Finan The Responder Marco BBC One Salim Daw The Crown Mohamed Al-Fayed Netflix Jack Lowden Slow Horses River Cartwright Apple TV+ Will Sharpe The White Lotus Ethan Spiller Sky Atlantic 2024(70th) Matthew Macfadyen Succession Tom Wambsgans HBO / Sky Atlantic Amit Shah Happy Valley Faisal Bhatti BBC One Éanna Hardwicke The Sixth Commandment Ben L. Field Harris Dickinson A Murder at the End of the World William "Bill" Farrah Disney+ Jack Lowden Slow Horses River Cartwright Apple TV+ Salim Daw The Crown Mohamed Al-Fayed Netflix 2025(71st) Ariyon Bakare Mr Loverman Morris De La Roux BBC One Damian Lewis Wolf Hall: The Mirror and the Light Henry VIII BBC One Christopher Chung Slow Horses Roddy Ho Apple TV+ Jonathan Pryce David Cartwright McKinley Belcher III Eric Michael Ledroit Netflix Sonny Walker The Gathering Adam Channel 4 2026(72nd) Owen Cooper Adolescence Jamie Miller Netflix Fehinti Balogun Down Cemetery Road Amos Crane Apple TV Paddy Considine MobLand Kevin Harrigan Paramount+ Rafael Mathé The Death of Bunny Munro Bunny Junior Sky Atlantic Joshua McGuire The Gold Douglas Baxter BBC One Ashley Walters Adolescence DI Luke Bascombe Netflix
Superlatives Record Actor Programme Age (in years) Oldest winner Tom Courtenay Unforgotten 79 Oldest nominee Youngest winner Owen Cooper Adolescence 16 Youngest nominee
Actors with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins The following people have won the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor multiple times:
3 wins Matthew Macfadyen
Multiple nominations The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor multiple times:
3 nominations Stephen Graham Matthew Macfadyen
2 nominations Adeel Akhtar Salim Daw Martin Freeman Tom Hollander Jack Lowden Stephen Rea Will Sharpe
Programmes with multiple wins and nominations
Multiple wins
2 awards Sherlock Succession
Multiple nominations
6 nominations The Crown
3 nominations It's a Sin Sherlock
2 nominations Adolescence Happy Valley Line of Duty Slow Horses Succession Unforgotten
References