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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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
2012	Frankenstein	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
1988	Titus Andronicus	Brian Cox
1987	A View from the Bridge	Michael Gambon
1986	Orphans	Albert Finney
1985	Richard III	Antony Sher
1985	Torch Song Trilogy	Antony Sher
1984	Rat in the Skull	Brian Cox
1984	Wild Honey	Ian McKellen
1983	Glengarry Glen Ross	Jack Shepherd
1983	Cyrano de Bergerac	Derek Jacobi
1982	Insignificance	Ian McDiarmid
1982	A Doll's House	Stephen Moore
1981	Children of a Lesser God	Trevor Eve
1981	Man and Superman	Daniel Massey
1980	The Life and Adventures of Nicholas Nickleby	Roger Rees
1980	Hamlet	Jonathan Pryce
1979	Bent	Ian McKellen
1979	Death of a Salesman	Warren Mitchell
1978	Whose Life is it Anyway?	Tom Conti
1978	Coriolanus	Alan Howard
1977	State of Revolution	Michael Bryant
1977	Pillars of the Community	Ian McKellen
1976	For King and Country	Paul Copley
	Henry IV, Part 1 and 2	Alan Howard
	Henry V	Alan Howard

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