V · D · MLaurence Olivier Award al miglior attore1976–1990Paul Copley/Alan Howard (1976) · Michael Bryant/Ian McKellen (1977) · Tom Conti/Alan Howard (1978) · Ian McKellen/Warren Mitchell (1979) · Roger Rees/Jonathan Pryce (1980) · Trevor Eve/Daniel Massey(1981) · Ian McDiarmid/Stephen Moore (1982) · Jack Shepherd/Derek Jacobi (1983) · Brian Cox/Ian McKellen (1984) · Antony Sher (1985) · Albert Finney (1986) · Michael Gambon (1987) · David Haig/Brian Cox (1988) · Oliver Ford Davies (1989/1990)1991–2010Ian McKellen (1991) · Nigel Hawthorne (1992) · Robert Stephens (1993) · Mark Rylance (1994) · David Bamber (1995) · Alex Jennings (1996) · Antony Sher (1997) · Ian Holm (1998) · Kevin Spacey (1999) · Henry Goodman (2000) · Conleth Hill (2001) · Roger Allam (2002) · Simon Russell Beale (2003) · Matthew Kelly (2004) · Richard Griffiths (2005) · Brian Dennehy (2006) · Rufus Sewell (2007) · Chiwetel Ejiofor (2008) · Derek Jacobi (2009) · Mark Rylance (2010)2011–presenteRoger Allam (2011) · Benedict Cumberbatch/Jonny Lee Miller (2012) · Luke Treadaway (2013) · Rory Kinnear (2014) · Mark Strong (2015) · Kenneth Cranham (2016) · Jamie Parker (2017) · Bryan Cranston (2018) · Kyle Soller (2019) · Andrew Scott (2020) · Hiran Abeysekera (2022) · Paul Mescal (2023)