WhatsOnStage Award for Best Actor in a Play

Award winners

• 2001: Conleth Hill – Stones in His Pockets
• 2002: Alan Rickman – Private Lives
• 2003: Samuel West – Hamlet, RSC at the Barbican
• 2004: Kenneth Branagh – Edmond at the NT Olivier
• 2005: Christian Slater – One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest at the Gielgud
• 2006: Kevin Spacey – Richard II at the Old Vic
• 2007: Kevin Spacey – A Moon for the Misbegotten at the Old Vic
• 2008: Ian McKellen – King Lear, RSC at the New London
• 2009: Kenneth Branagh – Ivanov, Donmar West End at Wyndham’s
• 2010: Jude Law – Hamlet, Donmar West End at Wyndham's
• 2011: David Suchet – All My Sons at the Apollo
• 2012: James Corden – One Man, Two Guvnors at the National, Lyttelton & Adelphi
• 2013: Rupert Everett – The Judas Kiss at Hampstead Adrian Lester – Red Velvet at the Tricycle
• 2014: Daniel Radcliffe – The Cripple of Inishmaan at the Noël Coward
• 2015: David Tennant – Richard II
• 2016: Benedict Cumberbatch - Hamlet
• 2017: Jamie Parker – Harry Potter and the Cursed Child
• 2018: David Tennant – Don Juan in Soho
• 2019: Aidan Turner – The Lieutenant of Inishmore
• 2020: Andrew Scott – Present Laughter