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British Academy Television Award for Best Supporting Actor

Annual award for performance in television

Summary

Annual award for performance in television

Field	Value
name	British Academy Television Award
presenter	British Academy of Film and Television Arts
country	United Kingdom
year	2010
holder	Ariyon Bakare for Mr Loverman (2025)
website	http://www.bafta.org/

The British Academy Television Awards are given out by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA). They are informally known as the BAFTA TV Awards. They 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, two weeks ahead of the Academy Awards (Oscars) in America, while the Television awards are held in late May. The BAFTA TV Award is the UK equivalent to the Emmy Award in the United States.

The awards for Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress were first presented at the 2010 ceremony.

Winners and nominees

[[Tom Courtenay]] won for ''[[Unforgotten]]'' in 2016

[[Will Sharpe]] won for ''[[Giri/Haji]]'' (2020)

2010s

Year	Actors	Work	Character
**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
**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 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

Superlatives

Record	Actor	Programme	Age (in years)
Oldest winner	Tom Courtenay	Unforgotten	79
Oldest nominee
Youngest winner	Malachi Kirby	Small Axe : Mangrove	30
Youngest nominee	Samuel Bottomley	Somewhere Boy	21

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 Awards

2 awards

Sherlock
Succession

Multiple Nominations

6 nominations

The Crown

3 nominations

It's a Sin
Sherlock

2 nominations

Happy Valley
Line of Duty
Slow Horses
Succession
Unforgotten

References

Kanter, Jake. (2020-07-31). "BAFTA TV Awards Winners: Night Of Surprises, As 'Chernobyl' & 'The End Of The F***ing World' Take Two Prizes Each".
(2021-04-28). "BAFTA TV 2021: Nominations for the Virgin Media British Academy Television Awards and British Academy Television Craft Awards".
(30 March 2022). "Bafta TV awards 2022: full list of nominations".
Ritman, Alex. (22 March 2023). "BAFTA TV Awards: 'This is Going to Hurt,' 'The Responder' Lead Pack of Nominees". [[The Hollywood Reporter]].
(14 May 2023). "Bafta TV awards 2023: the full list of winners". Guardian.
(20 March 2024). "BAFTA TV Awards 2024: Nominations".
Richardson, Hollie. (27 March 2025). "Bafta TV awards 2025 nominations: full list". [[The Guardian]].
(May 11, 2025). "Bafta TV awards 2025: the full list of winners".

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