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BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Leading Role
Best Actor in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts (BAFTA) to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actor awards: one for a British...
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Henry Fonda
Henry Jaynes Fonda (May 16, 1905 – August 12, 1982) was an American film and stage actor, best known for his roles as plain-speaking idealists. Fonda's subtle, naturalistic acting style preceded by many years the popularization of method acting....
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Spencer Tracy
Spencer Bonaventure Tracy (April 5, 1900 – June 10, 1967) was an American theatrical and film actor, who appeared in 74 films from 1930 to 1967. In 1999, the American Film Institute named Tracy among the Greatest Male Stars of All Time, ranking 9th...
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Burt Lancaster
Burton Stephen "Burt" Lancaster (November 2, 1913 – October 20, 1994) was an American film actor and star, noted for his athletic physique, distinct smile (which he called "The Grin") and, later, his willingness to play roles that went against his...
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Marlon Brando
Marlon Brando, Jr. (April 3, 1924 – July 1, 2004) was an American actor whose body of work spanned over half a century, a prodegy of Stella Adler, at the Stella Adler Conservatory of Acting which boasts students including Robert DeNiro, Melanie...
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Paul Newman
Paul Leonard Newman (January 26, 1925 — September 26, 2008) was an American actor, film director, entrepreneur, humanitarian, and auto racing enthusiast. He won numerous awards, including an Academy Award for his performance in the 1986 Martin...
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Jack Lemmon
John Uhler "Jack" Lemmon III (February 8, 1925 – June 27, 2001) was an American actor. He starred in more than 60 films including Some Like It Hot, The Apartment, Mister Roberts, Days of Wine and Roses, The Great Race, Irma la Douce, The Odd Couple,...
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Trevor Howard
Trevor Howard (29 September 1913 – 7 January 1988), born Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith, was an English film, stage and television actor.
Trevor Wallace Howard-Smith was born in Cliftonville, Margate, Kent, England, on 29 September, 1913, the only son...
Dirk Bogarde
Sir Dirk Bogarde (28 March 1921 – 8 May 1999) was a British actor and novelist. Initially a matinee star in such films as Doctor in the House (1954) and other Rank Organisation pictures, Bogarde later acted in art house films like Death in Venice ...
Yves Montand
Yves Montand (French pronunciation: [iv mɔ̃ˈtɑ̃]) (13 October 1921 – 9 November 1991) was an Italian-born French actor and singer.
Montand was born Ivo Livi in Monsummano Terme, Italy to Josephine and Giovanni, poor peasants. Montand's family left...
Terence Stamp
Terence Henry Stamp (born 22 July 1938) is an English actor.
Stamp, the eldest of five children, was born in Stepney, London, the son of Ethel Esther (née Perrott) and Thomas Stamp, who was a tugboat captain. His early years were spent in Canal Road...
Albert Finney
Albert Finney, Jr. (born 9 May 1936) is an English actor. Hailed as a "second Olivier" as a young stage actor in the late 1950s, Finney rose to film star fame in the early 1960s. Although his early fame was later tempered by long absences from major...
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Peter Sellers
Richard Henry Sellers, CBE, commonly known as Peter Sellers (8 September 1925 – 24 July 1980) was a British comedian and actor best known for his roles in Dr. Strangelove, as Chief Inspector Clouseau in The Pink Panther film series, as Clare Quilty...
Laurence Olivier
Laurence Kerr Olivier, Baron Olivier, OM (pronounced /ˈlɒrəns ɵˈlɪvieɪ/; 22 May 1907 – 11 July 1989) was an English actor, director, and producer. He was one of the most famous and revered actors of the 20th century, along with his contemporaries...
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Robert Shaw
Robert Archibald Shaw (9 August 1927 – 28 August 1978) was an English stage and film actor and novelist, remembered for his performances in The Sting, From Russia with Love, A Man for All Seasons, the original The Taking of Pelham One Two Three ...
Dustin Hoffman
Dustin Lee Hoffman (born August 8, 1937) is an American actor who has had an active career in film, television, and theatre since 1960. He first drew critical praise for the 1966 Off-Broadway play Eh? for which he won a Theatre World Award and a...
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Warren Beatty
Henry Warren Beatty (pronounced /ˈbeɪti/, BAY-tee , born March 30, 1937) is an American actor, producer, screenwriter and director.
Beatty was born Henry Warren Beaty in Richmond, Virginia's, Bellevue neighborhood. His mother, Kathlyn Corinne (née...
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Alan Bates
Sir Alan Arthur Bates, CBE (17 February 1934 – 27 December 2003) was a British actor of stage, screen and television.
Bates was born in Allestree, Derby, England on 17 February 1934, the eldest of three sons of Florence Mary (née Wheatcroft), a...
Ron Moody
Ron Moody (born Ronald Moodnick; 8 January 1924) is a British actor.
Moody was born in London, England, the son of Kate (née Ogus) and Bernard Moodnick, a studio executive. He is the cousin of the popular director Laurence Moody and actress Clare...
Peter Ustinov
Sir Peter Alexander Ustinov, CBE (pronounced /ˈjuːstɪnɒf/ or /ˈuːstɪnɒf/; 16 April 1921 – 28 March 2004), was a British actor, writer and dramatist.
He was also renowned as a filmmaker, theatre and opera director, director, stage designer,...
Nicol Williamson
Nicol Williamson (born September 14, 1936) is a Scottish-born British actor who was described by English playwright John Osborne as "the greatest actor since Marlon Brando".
Williamson was born in Hamilton, South Lanarkshire, the son of Mary (née...
George C. Scott
George Campbell Scott (October 18, 1927 – September 22, 1999) was an Academy Award-winning American stage and film actor, director, and producer. He was best known for his bravura stage work, as well as his portrayal of General George S. Patton in...
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Peter Finch
Peter Finch (28 September 1916 – 14 January 1977) was a British - born Australian actor. He is best remembered for his role as 'crazed' television anchorman Howard Beale in the film, Network, which earned him a posthumous Academy Award for Best...
Al Pacino
Alfredo James "Al" Pacino (born April 25, 1940) is an American film and stage actor and director. He is best known for his roles as Michael Corleone in The Godfather trilogy, Sonny Wortzik in Dog Day Afternoon, Tony Montana in Scarface, Carlito...
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Robert Redford
Charles Robert Redford Jr. (born August 18, 1936), better known as Robert Redford, is an American film director, actor, producer, businessman, model, environmentalist, philanthropist, and founder of the Sundance Film Festival. He received two Oscars...
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Walter Matthau
Walter John Matthau (October 1, 1920 – July 1, 2000) was an American actor best known for his role as Oscar Madison in The Odd Couple and his frequent collaborations with Odd Couple star Jack Lemmon, as well as his role as Coach Buttermaker in the...
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Michael Douglas
Michael Kirk Douglas (born September 25, 1944) is an American actor and producer, primarily in movies and television. Douglas's first television exposure was that of Karl Malden's young college-educated partner, Insp. Steve Keller, in the 1970s...
Robert De Niro
Robert Mario De Niro, Jr. (born August 17, 1943) is an American actor, director, and producer.
De Niro is well-known for what some people call method acting and portrayals of conflicted, troubled characters and for his enduring collaboration with...
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Sylvester Stallone
Sylvester Gardenzio Stallone (born July 6, 1946), nicknamed Sly Stallone, is an American actor, director, producer and screenwriter. One of the biggest box office draws in the world from the 1970s to the 1990s, Stallone is an icon of machismo and...
William Holden
William Holden (April 17, 1918 – November 12, 1981) was an American film actor.
Holden won the Academy Award for Best Actor in 1954, and the Emmy Award for Best Actor in 1974. One of the top stars of the 1950s, he was named one of the "Top 10 stars...
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Woody Allen
Woody Allen (born Allen Stewart Konigsberg; December 1, 1935) is an American screenwriter, film director, actor, comedian, writer, musician, and playwright.
Allen's distinctive films, which run the gamut from dramas to screwball sex comedies, have...
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John Travolta
John Joseph Travolta (born February 18, 1954) is an American actor, dancer and singer. He first became known in the 1970s, after appearing on the television series Welcome Back, Kotter and starring in the box office successes Saturday Night Fever...
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Brad Davis
Robert Creel "Brad" Davis (November 6, 1949 – September 8, 1991) was an American actor, best known for his role in the 1978 film Midnight Express.
Born Robert Creel Davis in Tallahassee, Florida to Eugene Davis, a dentist whose career declined due...
Roy Scheider
Roy Richard Scheider (November 10, 1932 – February 10, 2008) was an American actor. He was best known for his role as police chief Martin Brody in Jaws, as choreographer and film director Joe Gideon in All That Jazz, and as detective Buddy Russo in...
John Hurt
John Vincent Hurt, CBE (born 22 January 1940) is an English actor. Hurt initially came to prominence for his role as Richard Rich in the 1966 film A Man for All Seasons, and has since retained a career as a lead and supporting actor of many popular...
Tom Courtenay
Sir Thomas Daniel "Tom" Courtenay (pronounced "Courtney"; born 25 February 1937) is an English actor who came to prominence in the early 1960s with a succession of films including The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (1962), Billy Liar (1963)...
F. Murray Abraham
Fahrid Murray Abraham (in Arabic فريد مراد ابراهيم الاحمد Farīd Murād Ibrāhīm Al-Aḥmad; born October 24, 1939) is an American actor. He became known during the 1980s, after winning the Oscar for Best Actor for his role in Amadeus, and has since...
Sam Waterston
Samuel Atkinson Waterston (born November 15, 1940) is an American actor noted particularly for his portrayal of Jack McCoy on the NBC television series Law & Order. He has also appeared in many feature films.
Waterston, one of four siblings, was...
Haing S. Ngor
Dr. Haing S. Ngor (Traditional Chinese: 吳漢, March 22, 1940 – February 25, 1996) was a Cambodian American physician, actor and author who is best known for winning the 1985 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in the movie The...
Harrison Ford
Harrison
Ford (born July 13, 1942) is an Academy Award-nominated American actor.
He is best known for his performances as the tough, wisecracking space
pilot Han Solo in the Star Wars film series, and the adventurous,
tenacious archaeologist/action...
Victor Banerjee
Victor Bannerjee (Bengali: ভিক্টর ব্যানার্জী, Hindi: विक्टर बैनर्जी, Urdu: وِچتور بانیرجِ), born 15 October 1946 in Calcutta, India, is an Indian actor of Bengali descent, working in Hindi, Bengali and English language films. He has also appeared on...
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Bob Hoskins
Robert William "Bob" Hoskins, Jr. (born October 26, 1942) is an English actor, known for playing Cockney rough diamonds, psychopaths and gangsters, in films such as The Long Good Friday (1980), and Mona Lisa (1986), and lighter roles in Who Framed...
William Hurt
William M. Hurt (born March 20, 1950) is an American actor. He won both the Academy and BAFTA Awards for his work in Kiss of the Spider Woman.
Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., the son of Claire Isabel (née McGill), who worked at Time, Inc., and...
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Paul Hogan
Paul Hogan, AM (born 8 October 1939) is an Australian actor and comedian most famous for his role as Crocodile Dundee, for which he won a Golden Globe award.
Hogan was born in Lightning Ridge, New South Wales and went on to become a painter working...
Sean Connery
Sir Thomas Sean Connery (born August 25, 1930), best known as Sean Connery, is an Academy Award, Golden Globe, and BAFTA Award winning Scottish actor and producer.
He is best known for portraying the character James Bond in cinema, starring in seven...
Gene Hackman
Eugene Allen "Gene" Hackman (born January 30, 1930) is an American actor and currently a novelist.
Hackman has made 80 films. He came to fame in 1967 when his performance as Buck Barrow in Bonnie and Clyde earned him his first Oscar nomination. His...
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John Cleese
John Marwood Cleese (pronounced /ˈkliːz/; born 27 October 1939) is an Academy Award-nominated English actor, comedian, writer, and film producer who is known for being a member of the group of comedians responsible for the sketch show Monty Python's...
Kenneth Branagh
Kenneth Charles Branagh (born 10 December, 1960) is a Northern Irish actor and film director.
Branagh, the second of three children, was born and brought up in Belfast to working class Protestant parents Frances (née Harper) and William Branagh, a...
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Donald Sutherland
Donald McNicol Sutherland, OC (born 17 July, 1935) is a Canadian character actor with a film career spanning over 50 years. He is currently working in the American television series, Dirty Sexy Money. Some of Sutherland's more notable movie roles...
Gérard Depardieu
Gérard Xavier Marcel Depardieu (born 27 December 1948, pronunciation (help·info)) is a French actor. He has won a number of honors including a nomination for an Academy Award for the title role in Cyrano de Bergerac and the Golden Globe award for...
Kevin Costner
Kevin Michael Costner (born January 18, 1955) is an American actor, musician, producer, and director. He has been nominated for three BAFTA (British Academy of Film and Television Arts) Awards, won two Oscars and a Golden Globe Award. Costner's...
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Jeremy Irons
Jeremy John Irons (born 19 September 1948) is an English film, television, and stage actor. He has won the Academy Award, the Tony Award, two Emmy Awards, two Golden Globes, and a Screen Actors Guild Award, in addition to many other awards and...
Philippe Noiret
Philippe Noiret (born 1 October 1930 in Lille – died 23 November 2006 in Paris) was a French film actor.
Noiret's father was in the clothes trade. Philippe was an indifferent scholar and attended several prestigious Paris schools. He failed several...
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Alan Rickman
Alan Sidney Patrick Rickman (born 21 February 1946) is an English actor. Rickman is best known for his performances in film as Hans Gruber in Die Hard and Severus Snape in the Harry Potter film series, as well as extensive stage work. He is also...
Stephen Rea
Stephen Rea (born Graham Rea; 31 October 1946) is an Irish actor, who was nominated for an Academy Award for his lead performance as Fergus in the 1992 film The Crying Game.
Rea was born in Belfast, Northern Ireland, the son of a bus driver. One of...
Liam Neeson
William John "Liam" Neeson, OBE (born 7 June 1952) is an Irish actor, who has been a U.S. citizen since 2009. He is well known for his roles as Oskar Schindler in Schindler's List, Michael Collins in Michael Collins, Qui-Gon Jinn in Star Wars...
Jonathan Pryce
Jonathan Pryce, CBE (born 1 June 1947) is a Welsh stage and film actor/singer. After studying at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art and marrying English actress Kate Fahy in 1974, he began his career as a stage actor in the 1970s. His work in theatre...
Nigel Hawthorne
Sir Nigel Barnard Hawthorne, CBE (5 April 1929 – 26 December 2001) was an English actor, perhaps best remembered for his role as Sir Humphrey Appleby, the Permanent Secretary in the sitcom Yes Minister and the Cabinet Secretary in its sequel, Yes,...
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Hugh Grant
Hugh John Mungo Grant (born 9 September 1960) is an English actor and film producer. He has received a Golden Globe Award, a BAFTA, and an Honorary César. His movies have also earned more than $2.4 billion from 25 theatrical releases worldwide....
Anthony Hopkins
Sir Philip Anthony Hopkins, CBE (born 31 December 1937) is a Welsh film, stage and television actor. Considered to be one of film's greatest living actors, he is known for his portrayal of cannibalistic serial killer Hannibal Lecter in the 1991's...
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Massimo Troisi
Massimo Troisi (19 February 1953 - 4 June 1994) was an Italian actor, film director and poet. He is best known for his role as Mario Ruoppolo in the 1994 film Il Postino.
Troisi was born into a large family in San Giorgio a Cremano, a town near...
