Mark Rylance

Mark Rylance
Rylance promoting The BFG at the 2016 Cannes Film Festival
Born	David Mark Rylance Waters (1960-01-18) 18 January 1960 Ashford, Kent, England
Education	University School of Milwaukee Royal Academy of Dramatic Art
Occupation	Actor, theatre director, playwright
Years active	1980–present
Height	5 ft 8 in (173 cm)
Spouse(s)	Claire van Kampen (m. 1989)

David Mark Rylance Waters (born 18 January 1960) is a British actor, theatre director and playwright. He was the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe in London, from 1995 to 2005. His film appearances include Prospero's Books (1991), Angels and Insects (1995), Institute Benjamenta (1996), and Intimacy (2001). Rylance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and the BAFTA Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies (2015). He played the title role in Steven Spielberg's The BFG (2016), a live-action film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl. He will appear in Christopher Nolan's Dunkirk (2017) based on the British evacuation in World War II, and as James Halliday in Spielberg's 2018 film adaptation of Ready Player One.

After training at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, Rylance made his professional debut at the Citizens Theatre, Glasgow in 1980. He went on to win the Olivier Award for Best Actor for Much Ado About Nothing in 1994 and Jerusalem in 2010, and the Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play for Boeing Boeing in 2008 and Jerusalem in 2011. He won a third Tony Award in 2014 for Twelfth Night. On television, he won the BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor for his role as David Kelly in the 2005 Channel 4 drama The Government Inspector and for playing Thomas Cromwell in the 2015 BBC Two miniseries Wolf Hall. For Wolf Hall, he also received Emmy and Golden Globe nominations.

Rylance is a patron of the London International Festival of Theatre. He is also a patron of the London-based charity Peace Direct which supports peacebuilders in areas of conflict, and of the British Stop the War Coalition. In 2016 he was named in the Time 100 list of the most influential people in the world.^[1]

Early life

Rylance was born in Ashford, Kent, to Anne (née Skinner) and David Waters, both English teachers. One of his grandmothers was Irish.^[2] Both his grandfathers were POWs of the Japanese during World War II.^[3] Rylance has a sister named Susannah, an opera singer and author, and a brother, Jonathan, who works as a sommelier.^[4] His parents moved to the United States in 1962, first to Connecticut and then Wisconsin in 1969, where his father taught English at the University School of Milwaukee. Rylance attended this school. He starred in most of the school's plays with the theatre's director, Dale Gutzman, including the lead in a 1976 production of Hamlet,^[5] He played Romeo in the school's production of Romeo and Juliet.

Career

Rylance took the stage name of Mark Rylance because his given name, Mark Waters, was already taken by someone else registered with Equity. He returned to England in 1978; at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art (RADA) in London he trained from 1978–80 under Hugh Cruttwell, and with Barbara Bridgmont at the Chrysalis Theatre School in Balham, London. In 1980, he gained his first professional work at the Glasgow Citizens' Theatre. In 1982 and 1983, he performed with the Royal Shakespeare Company (RSC) in Stratford-upon-Avon and London.

In 1988, Rylance played Hamlet with the RSC in Ron Daniels' production that toured Ireland and Britain for a year. The play then ran in Stratford-upon-Avon. Hamlet toured to the United States for two years. In 1990, Rylance and Claire van Kampen (later his wife) founded "Phoebus' Cart", their own theatre company. The following year, the company staged The Tempest on the road.

Rylance played the lead in Gillies Mackinnon's film The Grass Arena (1991), and won the Radio Times Award for Best Newcomer. In 1993, he starred in Matthew Warchus' production of Much Ado About Nothing at the Queen's Theatre, produced by Thelma Holt. His Benedick won him an Olivier Award for Best Actor. He took the leading role as British weapons expert David Kelly in Peter Kosminsky's The Government Inspector (2005), an award-winning Channel 4 production for which he won the British Academy Television Award for Best Actor in 2005.

In 2007, Rylance performed in Boeing-Boeing in London. In 2008, he reprised the role on Broadway and won Drama Desk and Tony Awards for his performance. In 2009, Rylance won the Critics' Circle Theatre Award Best Actor, 2009 for his role of Johnny Byron in Jerusalem written by Jez Butterworth at the Royal Court Theatre in London.

In 2010, Rylance starred in a revival of David Hirson's verse play La Bête. The play ran first at London's Comedy Theatre before transferring to the Music Box Theatre on Broadway, on 23 September 2010. Also in 2010, he won another Olivier award for best actor in the role of Johnny Byron in Jerusalem at the Apollo Theatre in London. In 2011, he won his second Tony Award for playing the same role in the Broadway production.

He played Thomas Cromwell in Wolf Hall (2015), BBC Two's adaptation of Hilary Mantel's historical novels Wolf Hall and Bring Up the Bodies.^[6] For his performance, he was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie. Rylance was featured as the castaway on the BBC radio programme Desert Island Discs on 15 February 2015.^[7]

Rylance co-starred in the biographical drama Bridge of Spies, released in October 2015, directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Tom Hanks, Amy Ryan and Alan Alda. The film is about the 1960 U-2 Incident and the arrest and conviction of Soviet spy, Rudolf Abel and the exchange of Abel for U-2 pilot Gary Powers. Rylance plays Abel and has received unanimous universal acclaim for his performance with many critics claiming it as the best performance of 2015. The St. Louis Post-Depatch quoted, "As the deeply principled Donovan, Hanks deftly balances earnestness and humor. And Rylance’s spirited performance is almost certain to yield an Oscar nomination."^[8] David Edelstein from New York cited 'It’s Rylance who keeps Bridge of Spies standing. He gives a teeny, witty, fabulously non-emotive performance, every line musical and slightly ironic — the irony being his forthright refusal to deceive in a world founded on lies."^[9] Rylance won the Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and New York Film Critics Circle Award in the Best Supporting Actor categories, as well as receiving Golden Globe Award and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations, among other wins and nominations.

Rylance played the title role in Spielberg's The BFG, a film adaptation of the children's book by Roald Dahl. Filming took place in 2015, and the film was released in July 2016.^[10] Rylance is to star in Christopher Nolan's 2017 action-thriller Dunkirk based on the British military evacuation of the French city of Dunkirk in 1940 during World War II.^[11] He will appear alongside Tom Hardy, Kenneth Branagh and Harry Styles.^[12]

Shakespeare's Globe

In 1995, Rylance became the first artistic director of Shakespeare's Globe Theatre, a post he held until 2005. Rylance directed and acted in every season, in works by Shakespeare and others, including an all-male production of Twelfth Night, in which he played Olivia, and Richard II in the title role. Under his directorate, new plays were also performed at the Globe, the first being Augustine's Oak (referring to Augustine of Canterbury and Christianisation of Anglo-Saxon England) by Peter Oswald, the writer-in-residence, which was performed in 1999. A second play by Oswald followed in 2002: The Golden Ass or the Curious Man.

In 2005, Oswald's third play written for the Globe was first performed: The Storm, an adaptation of Plautus' comedy Rudens (The Rope) – one of the sources of Shakespeare's The Tempest. Other historical first nights were organised by Rylance while director of the Globe including Twelfth Night performed in 2002 at Middle Temple, to commemorate its first performance there exactly 400 years before, and Measure for Measure at Hampton Court in summer 2004. In 2007, he received a Sam Wanamaker Award together with his wife Claire van Kampen, Director of Music, and Jenny Tiramani, Director of Costume Design, for the founding work during the opening ten years at Shakespeare's Globe. In 2013, Shakespeare's Globe brought two all-male productions to Broadway, starring Rylance as Olivia in Twelfth Night and in the title role in Richard III, for a limited run in repertory. He won his third Tony Award for his performance as Olivia and was nominated for his performance as Richard III.

Shakespeare controversy

On 8 September 2007 Derek Jacobi and Rylance unveiled a Declaration of Reasonable Doubt on the authorship of Shakespeare's work, after the final matinée of The Big Secret Live "I am Shakespeare" Webcam Daytime Chat-Room Show, a play in Chichester.

The actual author of Shakespeare's plays was proposed to be Christopher Marlowe, Francis Bacon, the Earl of Oxford, Edward de Vere or Mary Sidney (Mary Sidney Herbert, Countess of Pembroke). The declaration named 20 prominent doubters of the past, including Mark Twain, Orson Welles, John Gielgud, Charlie Chaplin, Charles Dickens, Ralph Waldo Emerson and actor Leslie Howard, and was made by the Shakespeare Authorship Coalition duly signed online by 300 people to begin new research. Jacobi and Rylance presented a copy of the document to William Leahy, head of English at Brunel University, London.^[13] Rylance wrote (co-conceived by John Dove) and starred in The BIG Secret Live 'I am Shakespeare' Webcam Daytime Chatroom Show (A comedy of Shakespearean identity crisis) which toured England in 2007.

Personal life

Rylance speaking at a rally of the Stop the War Coalition against the war in Syria, London, November 2015

Rylance started dating director, composer and playwright Claire van Kampen in 1987 while working on a production of The Wandering Jew at the National Theatre, and they married in Oxfordshire on 21 December 1989.^[14] Through this marriage, he became a stepfather to her two daughters from a previous marriage, actress Juliet Rylance and filmmaker Nataasha van Kampen. Nataasha died in July 2012 at the age of 28, following which Rylance withdrew from his planned participation in the 2012 Summer Olympics opening ceremony in London and was replaced by Kenneth Branagh.^[15]^[16]

Rylance has been a supporter of the indigenous rights organisation Survival International for many years.^[17] He is the creator and director of "We Are One", a fundraiser that took place at the Apollo Theatre in April 2010. The evening was a performance of tribal prose and poetry from some of the world's leading actors and musicians.

Rylance is a patron of the London-based charity Peace Direct which supports grassroots peacebuilders in areas of conflict, and of the British Stop the War Coalition.^[18] He is a member of the Peace Pledge Union, a network of pacifists in the UK. He performed the life and words of Henri, a man living in war-torn eastern Congo, during a presentation in New York City in 2011. He is also patron of The Outside Edge Theatre Company. It works from the perspective of creating theatre and drama with people affected by substance abuse. It provides theatre interventions in drug and alcohol treatment and general community facilities throughout Britain, as well as producing professional public theatre productions that take place in theatres, studio theatres, and art centres.

Rylance became a patron of LIFT (London International Festival of Theatre) in 2013. He said about the festival: "I feel LIFT has done more to influence the growth and adventure of English theatre than any other organisation we have."^[19]

Rylance became patron of the London Bubble "Speech Bubbles" project in 2015. "I found a voice through making theatre and am proud to be the patron of Speech Bubbles, which helps hundreds of children to do the same."^[20]

Filmography

Film

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	The McGuffin	Gavin
1987	Hearts of Fire	Fizz
1991	The Grass Arena	John Healy
1991	Prospero's Books	Ferdinand
1995	Institute Benjamenta	Jakob von Gunten
1995	Angels & Insects	William Adamson
2000	William Shakespeare	Artistic Director	Shakespeare's Globe
2001	Intimacy	Jay
2008	The Other Boleyn Girl	Thomas Boleyn
2011	Blitz	Bruce Roberts
2011	Anonymous	Henry Condell
2013	Days and Nights	Stephen
2015	The Gunman	Cox
2015	Bridge of Spies	Rudolf Abel	Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role London Film Critics' Circle Award for Supporting Actor of the Year New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actor – Motion Picture Nominated—Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Male Actor in a Supporting Role Nominated—Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actor
2016	The BFG	The BFG
2017	Dunkirk		Post-production
2018	Ready Player One	James Halliday	Post-production

Television

Year	Title	Role	Notes
1985	Wallenberg: A Hero's Story	Nikki Fodor
1993	Love Lies Bleeding	Conn
1995	Loving	Charlie Raunce
1995	Hamlet	Hamlet
1997	Henry V	King Henry V
2001	Changing Stages	Himself
2003	Leonardo	Leonardo da Vinci	3 episodes
2003	Richard II	Richard II	Television film
2005	The Government Inspector	David Kelly	Television film British Academy Television Award for Best Actor
2014–present	Bing	Flop (voice)	78 episodes
2015	Wolf Hall	Thomas Cromwell	6 episodes British Academy Television Award for Best Actor Nominated—Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actor in a Movie/Miniseries Nominated—Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie Nominated—Golden Globe Award for Best Miniseries or Television Film

Theatre

Year	Period	Theatrical Performance	Theatrical Character	Theatre of Performance
1981		Desperado Corner	Bazza	Citizens' Theatre, Glasgow
1982		The Tempest	Ariel	(Performing with the RSC)
1989		Hamlet	Hamlet
1989		Romeo and Juliet	Romeo
1991		Hamlet	Hamlet	(performing with the American Repertory Theater)
1991		The Seagull	Treplev	(performing with the American Repertory Theater)
1993		Henry V	Henry V	TFANA, New York
1993		Much Ado About Nothing	Benedick	Queens Theatre
1994		As You Like It	Touchstone	TFANA, New York
1994		True West	Lee/Austin	Donmar Warehouse
1995		Macbeth	Macbeth	Greenwich Theatre
2000		Live x 3	Henry	Royal National Theatre
2007		Boeing Boeing	Robert	Comedy Theatre
2007		I am Shakespeare	Frank	UK tour
2008		Peer Gynt	Peer Gynt	Guthrie Theater, Minneapolis
2008		Boeing Boeing	Robert	Longacre Theatre, NYC
2009	Jul–Aug	Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth	Johnny Byron	Royal Court Theatre
2009	Oct–Dec	Endgame by Samuel Beckett	Hamm	Duchess Theatre
2010	Jan–Apr	Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth	Johnny Byron	Apollo Theatre
	Jun–Aug	La Bete by David Hirson	Valere	Comedy Theatre
	Sept–Feb			Music Box Theatre, Broadway
2011	Sept–Feb			Music Box Theatre, Broadway
	Apr–Aug	Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth	Johnny Byron	Music Box Theatre, Broadway
	Oct–Jan	Jerusalem by Jez Butterworth	Johnny Byron	Apollo Theatre
2012	Nov–Feb 2013	alternating in Richard III and Twelfth Night	Richard III / Olivia	Apollo Theatre
2013	Apr–May	Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins	Ron	Guthrie Theater
2013	Oct–Feb	alternating in Richard III and Twelfth Night	Richard III / Olivia	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2014	Oct–Feb	alternating in Richard III and Twelfth Night	Richard III / Olivia	Belasco Theatre, Broadway
2015	Feb–Mar	Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen	King Philippe V	Sam Wanamaker Playhouse
2015	Sep-Dec	Farinelli and the King by Claire van Kampen	King Philippe V	Duke of York's Theatre
2016	Jan-Feb	Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins	Ron	St. Ann's Warehouse^[21]
2016	Nov–Feb	Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins	Ron	Harold Pinter Theatre
2017	Nov–Feb	Nice Fish by Mark Rylance and Louis Jenkins	Ron	Harold Pinter Theatre

Shakespeare's Globe

Along with Rylance's stage performances, he has appeared often at the recreated Shakespeare's Globe in Southwark, London on the South Bank of the River Thames.

Year	Title	Role
1996	The Two Gentlemen of Verona	Proteus
1997	A Chaste Maid in Cheapside	Mr. Allwit
1997	Henry V	Henry V
1998	The Merchant of Venice	Bassanio
1998	The Honest Whore	Hippolito
1999	Antony and Cleopatra	Cleopatra
2000	Hamlet	Hamlet
2001	Cymbeline	Cloten
2002	The Golden Ass	Lucius
2002	Twelfth Night	Olivia
2003	Richard II	Richard II
2004	Measure for Measure	Duke Vincentio
2005	The Tempest	Prospero Stephano Sebastian Alonso
2005	The Storm	Daemones Labrax The Weather
2012	Richard III	Richard III
2012	Twelfth Night	Olivia

Awards and nominations

Main article: List of awards and nominations received by Mark Rylance

Rylance has received numerous nominations and awards for his performances, including wins at the Tony Awards and BAFTA Awards. At the 88th Academy Awards, Rylance won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his portrayal of Rudolf Abel in Bridge of Spies.^[22]

Bibliography

Mark Rylance: Play – A Recollection in Pictures and Words of the First Five Years of Play at Shakespeares's Globe Theatre. Photogr.: Sheila Burnett, Donald Cooper, Richard Kolina, John Tramper. Shakespeare's Globe Publ., London, UK. 2003. ISBN 0-9536480-4-4.
The Wisdom of Shakespeare Series by Peter Dawkins (Foreword by Mark Rylance):
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in As You Like It. I.C. Media Productions, 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-1-X.
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Merchant of Venice. I.C. Media Productions, 1998. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-0-1.
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Julius Caesar. I.C. Media Productions, 1999. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-2-8.
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in The Tempest. I.C. Media Productions, 2000. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-3-6.
The Wisdom of Shakespeare in Twelfth Night. I.C. Media Productions, 2002. Paperback. ISBN 0-9532890-4-4.
Peter Dawkins. The Shakespeare Enigma (Foreword by Mark Rylance). Polair, UK. 2004. Illustrated paperback, 476pp. ISBN 0-9545389-4-3.
John Abbott. Improvisation In Rehearsal (Foreword by Mark Rylance). Nick Hern Books, UK. 2009. Paperback, 256pp. ISBN 978-1-85459-523-2.
Dave Patrick. The View Beyond: Sir Francis Bacon: Alchemy, Science, Mystery (The View Series) (Foreword by Mark Rylance, Ervin Lazslo, Rose Elliot). Deep Books, UK. 2011. Paperback, 288pp. ISBN 978-1-905398-22-5.

References

↑ "Mark Rylance by Steven Spielberg: TIME 100". TIME.com. Retrieved 27 April 2016.
↑ "Mark Rylance: 'I remember bringing food to trees. Like bowls of milk and other things' ". Irish Times. Retrieved 23 March 2016
↑ "Mark Rylance: from Wolf Hall courtier to Steven Spielberg spy". Radio Times. Retrieved 23 March 2016
↑ Cooke, Rachel (30 June 2013). "Mark Rylance: You Have To Move Into The Chaos". The Guardian. Retrieved 1 July 2013.
↑ "The Milwaukee Journal – Google News Archive Search". google.com.
↑ "Wolf Hall". BBC Two. Retrieved 16 February 2015.
↑ BBC Desert Island Discs website "Castaway archive", 15 February 2015.
↑ Wilson, Calvin. "'Bridge of Spies' Spielberg is at his best".
↑ Edelstein, David. "'Bridge of Spies Is a Subtler Kind of Spielberg Movie'".
↑ Siegel, Tatiana (27 October 2014). "Three-Time Tony Winner Mark Rylance Nabs Lead in Steven Spielberg's 'The BFG'". Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ "Mark Rylance to star as Pope in Spielberg film". BBC. 12 April 2016.
↑ McNary, Dave (11 March 2016). "Harry Styles, Fionn Whitehead to Star in Christopher Nolan WW2 Action-Thriller 'Dunkirk'". Variety.
↑ Doran, D'Arcy (8 September 2007). "Coalition aims to expose Shakespeare". USA Today. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ Schulman, Michael (18 November 2013). "Play On". The New Yorker. Retrieved 22 January 2015.
↑ Baker, Richard Anthony (1 August 2012). "Nataasha van Kampen". The Stage.
↑ Brown, Mark (6 July 2012). "Mark Rylance exits from Olympics opening after step-daughter's death". The Guardian.
↑ "We Are One a fundraising evening in aid of Survival International with performance of tribal prose and poetry from leading actors and musicians at Apollo Theatre 18 April". Londontheatre.co.uk. 8 March 2010. Retrieved 9 June 2014.
↑ Stop the War Coalition, "Stop the War Patrons, Officers and Steering Committee", 2016.
↑ LIFT website "Olivier and Tony Winner Mark Rylance announced as LIFT Patron", 23 May 2013.
↑ "Announcing Mark Rylance as the patron of Speech Bubbles". London Bubble. 27 April 2016.
↑ "Nice Fish - St Ann's Warehouse". St Ann's Warehouse. Retrieved 2015-11-02.
↑ "Actor in a Supporting Role". Oscar.go.com. Retrieved 29 February 2016.

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Awards for Mark Rylance

Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor

1936–1950	Walter Brennan (1936) Joseph Schildkraut (1937) Walter Brennan (1938) Thomas Mitchell (1939) Walter Brennan (1940) Donald Crisp (1941) Van Heflin (1942) Charles Coburn (1943) Barry Fitzgerald (1944) James Dunn (1945) Harold Russell (1946) Edmund Gwenn (1947) Walter Huston (1948) Dean Jagger (1949) George Sanders (1950)

1951–1975	Karl Malden (1951) Anthony Quinn (1952) Frank Sinatra (1953) Edmond O'Brien (1954) Jack Lemmon (1955) Anthony Quinn (1956) Red Buttons (1957) Burl Ives (1958) Hugh Griffith (1959) Peter Ustinov (1960) George Chakiris (1961) Ed Begley (1962) Melvyn Douglas (1963) Peter Ustinov (1964) Martin Balsam (1965) Walter Matthau (1966) George Kennedy (1967) Jack Albertson (1968) Gig Young (1969) John Mills (1970) Ben Johnson (1971) Joel Grey (1972) John Houseman (1973) Robert De Niro (1974) George Burns (1975)

1976–2000	Jason Robards (1976) Jason Robards (1977) Christopher Walken (1978) Melvyn Douglas (1979) Timothy Hutton (1980) John Gielgud (1981) Louis Gossett Jr. (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) Haing S. Ngor (1984) Don Ameche (1985) Michael Caine (1986) Sean Connery (1987) Kevin Kline (1988) Denzel Washington (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Jack Palance (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Tommy Lee Jones (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Kevin Spacey (1995) Cuba Gooding Jr. (1996) Robin Williams (1997) James Coburn (1998) Michael Caine (1999) Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present	Jim Broadbent (2001) Chris Cooper (2002) Tim Robbins (2003) Morgan Freeman (2004) George Clooney (2005) Alan Arkin (2006) Javier Bardem (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Christian Bale (2010) Christopher Plummer (2011) Christoph Waltz (2012) Jared Leto (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Mark Rylance (2015)

AACTA International Award for Best Supporting Actor

Robert De Niro (2012) Michael Fassbender (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Mark Rylance (2015)

BAFTA Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

Ian Holm (1968)
Laurence Olivier (1969)
Colin Welland (1970)
Edward Fox (1971)
Ben Johnson (1972)
Arthur Lowe (1973)
John Gielgud (1974)
Fred Astaire (1975)
Brad Dourif (1976)
Edward Fox (1977)
John Hurt (1978)
Robert Duvall (1979)
no award (1980)
Ian Holm (1981)
Jack Nicholson (1982)
Denholm Elliott (1983)
Denholm Elliott (1984)
Denholm Elliott (1985)
Ray McAnally (1986)
Daniel Auteuil (1987)
Michael Palin (1988)
Ray McAnally (1989)
Salvatore Cascio (1990)
Alan Rickman (1991)
Gene Hackman (1992)
Ralph Fiennes (1993)
Samuel L. Jackson (1994)
Tim Roth (1995)
Paul Scofield (1996)
Tom Wilkinson (1997)
Geoffrey Rush (1998)
Jude Law (1999)
Benicio del Toro (2000)
Jim Broadbent (2001)
Christopher Walken (2002)
Bill Nighy (2003)
Clive Owen (2004)
Jake Gyllenhaal (2005)
Alan Arkin (2006)
Javier Bardem (2007)
Heath Ledger (2008)
Christoph Waltz (2009)
Geoffrey Rush (2010)
Christopher Plummer (2011)
Christoph Waltz (2012)
Barkhad Abdi (2013)
J. K. Simmons (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)

BAFTA TV Award for Best Actor

Paul Rogers (1955)
Peter Cushing (1956)
Michael Gough (1957)
Michael Hordern (1958)
Donald Pleasence (1959)
Patrick McGoohan (1960)
Lee Montague (1961)
Rupert Davies (1962)
Harry H. Corbett (1963)
Alan Badel (1964)
Patrick Wymark (1965)
Alan Badel (1966)
Warren Mitchell (1967)
Eric Porter (1968)
Roy Dotrice (1969)
Edward Woodward (1970)
Keith Michell (1971)
John Le Mesurier (1972)
Anthony Hopkins (1973)
Frank Finlay (1974)
Peter Barkworth (1975)
John Hurt (1976)
Derek Jacobi (1977)
Peter Barkworth (1978)
Edward Fox (1979)
Alec Guinness (1980)
Denholm Elliott (1981)
Anthony Andrews (1982)
Alec Guinness (1983)
Alan Bates (1984)
Tim Pigott-Smith (1985)
Bob Peck (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
David Jason (1988)
Ray McAnally (1989)
John Thaw (1990)
Ian Richardson (1991)
Robert Lindsay (1992)
John Thaw (1993)
Robbie Coltrane (1994)
Robbie Coltrane (1995)
Robbie Coltrane (1996)
Nigel Hawthorne (1997)
Simon Russell Beale (1998)
Tom Courtenay (1999)
Michael Gambon (2000)
Michael Gambon (2001)
Michael Gambon (2002)
Albert Finney (2003)
Bill Nighy (2004)
Rhys Ifans (2005)
Mark Rylance (2006)
Jim Broadbent (2007)
Andrew Garfield (2008)
Stephen Dillane (2009)
Kenneth Branagh (2010)
Daniel Rigby (2011)
Dominic West (2012)
Ben Whishaw (2013)
Sean Harris (2014)
Jason Watkins (2015)
Mark Rylance (2016)

Boston Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

1980-2000	Jason Robards (1980) Jack Nicholson (1981) Mickey Rourke (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) John Malkovich (1984) Ian Holm (1985) Dennis Hopper / Ray Liotta (1986) R. Lee Ermey (1987) Dean Stockwell (1988) Danny Aiello (1989) Joe Pesci (1990) Anthony Hopkins (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Ralph Fiennes (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Kevin Spacey (1995) Edward Norton (1996) Kevin Spacey (1997) William H. Macy / Billy Bob Thornton (1998) Christopher Plummer (1999) Fred Willard (2000)

2001-present	Ben Kingsley (2001) Alan Arkin (2002) Peter Sarsgaard (2003) Thomas Haden Church (2004) Paul Giamatti (2005) Mark Wahlberg (2006) Javier Bardem (2007) Heath Ledger (2008) Christoph Waltz (2009) Christian Bale (2010) Albert Brooks (2011) Ezra Miller (2012) James Gandolfini (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Mark Rylance (2015)

Drama Desk Award for Outstanding Actor in a Play

Anthony Hopkins (1975)
John Wood (1976)
Al Pacino (1977)
Barnard Hughes (1978)
Philip Anglim (1979)
John Rubinstein (1980)
Ian McKellen (1981)
Christopher Plummer (1982)
Harvey Fierstein (1983)
Dustin Hoffman (1984)
John Lithgow (1985)
Ed Harris (1986)
James Earl Jones (1987)
Ron Silver (1988)
Philip Bosco (1989)
Nathan Lane (1990)
Ron Rifkin (1991)
Brian Bedford (1992)
Ron Leibman (1993)
Brian Bedford (1994)
Ralph Fiennes (1995)
Frank Langella (1996)
David Morse / Christopher Plummer (1997)
Anthony LaPaglia (1998)
Brian Dennehy (1999)
Stephen Dillane (2000)
Richard Easton (2001)
Alan Bates (2002)
Eddie Izzard (2003)
Kevin Kline (2004)
Brían F. O'Byrne (2005)
Richard Griffiths (2006)
Frank Langella (2007)
Mark Rylance (2008)
Geoffrey Rush (2009)
Liev Schreiber (2010)
Bobby Cannavale (2011)
James Corden (2012)
Tracy Letts (2013)
Bryan Cranston (2014)
Alex Sharp (2015)
Frank Langella (2016)

Drama League's Distinguished Performance Award

1935–1955	Katharine Cornell (1935) Helen Hayes (1936) Maurice Evans (1937) Cedric Hardwicke (1938) Raymond Massey (1939) Paul Muni (1940) Paul Lukas (1941) Judith Evelyn (1942) Alfred Lunt (1943) Lynn Fontanne (1944) Mady Christians (1945) Louis Calhern (1946) Ingrid Bergman (1947) Judith Anderson (1948) Robert Morley (1949) Grace George (1950) Claude Rains (1951) Julie Harris (1952) Shirley Booth (1953) Josephine Hull (1954) Viveca Lindfors (1955)

1956–1976	David Wayne (1956) Eli Wallach (1957) Ralph Bellamy (1958) Cyril Ritchard (1959) Jessica Tandy (1960) Hume Cronyn (1961) Paul Scofield (1962) Charles Boyer (1963) Alec Guinness (1964) John Gielgud (1965) Richard Kiley (1966) Rosemary Harris (1967) Zoe Caldwell (1968) Alec McCowen (1969) James Stewart (1970) Anthony Quayle (1971) Eileen Atkins / Claire Bloom (1972) Alan Bates (1973) Christopher Plummer (1974) John Wood (1975) Eva Le Gallienne (1976)

1977–1997	Tom Courtenay (1977) Frank Langella (1978) Frances Sternhagen (1979) Roy Scheider (1980) Ian McKellen (1981) Milo O'Shea (1982) Edward Herrmann / Kate Nelligan (1983) Jeremy Irons (1984) Derek Jacobi (1985) Bernadette Peters (1986) James Earl Jones (1987) John Lithgow (1988) Pauline Collins (1989) Robert Morse (1990) Stockard Channing (1991) Glenn Close (1992) Stephen Rea (1993) Sam Waterston (1994) Cherry Jones (1995) Uta Hagen (1996) Charles Durning / Bebe Neuwirth (1997)

1998–present	Brian Stokes Mitchell (1998) Kathleen Chalfant (1999) Eileen Heckart (2000) Mary-Louise Parker / Gary Sinise (2001) Liam Neeson (2002) Harvey Fierstein (2003) Hugh Jackman (2004) Norbert Leo Butz (2005) Christine Ebersole (2006) Liev Schreiber (2007) Patti LuPone (2008) Geoffrey Rush (2009) Alfred Molina (2010) Mark Rylance (2011) Audra McDonald (2012) Nathan Lane (2013) Neil Patrick Harris (2014) Chita Rivera (2015) Lin-Manuel Miranda (2016)

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor

Antony Sher (1985)
Albert Finney (1986)
Michael Gambon (1987)
Oliver Ford Davies (1989/1990)
Ian 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)
Roger Allam (2011)
Benedict Cumberbatch and Jonny Lee Miller (2012)
Luke Treadaway (2013)
Rory Kinnear (2014)
Mark Strong (2015)
Kenneth Cranham (2016)

London Film Critics' Circle Award for Supporting Actor of the Year

Kenneth Branagh (2011) Philip Seymour Hoffman (2012) Barkhad Abdi (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Mark Rylance (2015)

National Society of Film Critics Award for Best Supporting Actor

1967–1980	Gene Hackman (1967) Seymour Cassel (1968) Jack Nicholson (1969) Chief Dan George (1970) Bruce Dern (1971) Eddie Albert / Joel Grey (1972) Robert De Niro (1973) Holger Löwenadler (1974) Henry Gibson (1975) Jason Robards (1976) Edward Fox (1977) Richard Farnsworth / Robert Morley (1978) Frederic Forrest (1979) Joe Pesci (1980)

1981–2000	Robert Preston (1981) Mickey Rourke (1982) Jack Nicholson (1983) John Malkovich (1984) John Gielgud (1985) Dennis Hopper (1986) Morgan Freeman (1987) Dean Stockwell (1988) Beau Bridges (1989) Bruce Davison (1990) Harvey Keitel (1991) Gene Hackman (1992) Ralph Fiennes (1993) Martin Landau (1994) Don Cheadle (1995) Martin Donovan / Tony Shalhoub (1996) Burt Reynolds (1997) Bill Murray (1998) Christopher Plummer (1999) Benicio del Toro (2000)

2001–present	Steve Buscemi (2001) Christopher Walken (2002) Peter Sarsgaard (2003) Thomas Haden Church (2004) Ed Harris (2005) Mark Wahlberg (2006) Casey Affleck (2007) Eddie Marsan (2008) Paul Schneider / Christoph Waltz (2009) Geoffrey Rush (2010) Albert Brooks (2011) Matthew McConaughey (2012) James Franco (2013) J. K. Simmons (2014) Mark Rylance (2015)

New York Film Critics Circle Award for Best Supporting Actor

Satellite Award for Best Actor – Miniseries or Television Film

Alan Rickman (1996)
Gary Sinise (1997)
Delroy Lindo (1998)
William H. Macy (1999)
James Woods (2000)
Richard Dreyfuss (2001)
William H. Macy (2002)
James Woods (2003)
Jamie Foxx (2004)
Jonathan Rhys Meyers (2005)
Bill Nighy (2006)
David Oyelowo (2007)
Paul Giamatti (2008)
Brendan Gleeson (2009)
Al Pacino (2010)
Jason Isaacs (2011)
Benedict Cumberbatch (2012)
Michael Douglas (2013)
Mark Ruffalo (2014)
Mark Rylance (2015)

Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play

José Ferrer / Fredric March (1947)
Henry Fonda / Paul Kelly / Basil Rathbone (1948)
Rex Harrison (1949)
Sidney Blackmer (1950)
Claude Rains (1951)
José Ferrer (1952)
Tom Ewell (1953)
David Wayne (1954)
Alfred Lunt (1955)
Paul Muni (1956)
Fredric March (1957)
Ralph Bellamy (1958)
Jason Robards, Jr. (1959)
Melvyn Douglas (1960)
Zero Mostel (1961)
Paul Scofield (1962)
Arthur Hill (1963)
Alec Guinness (1964)
Walter Matthau (1965)
Hal Holbrook (1966)
Paul Rogers (1967)
Martin Balsam (1968)
James Earl Jones (1969)
Fritz Weaver (1970)
Brian Bedford (1971)
Cliff Gorman (1972)
Alan Bates (1973)
Michael Moriarty (1974)
John Kani and Winston Ntshona (1975)
John Wood (1976)
Al Pacino (1977)
Barnard Hughes (1978)
Tom Conti (1979)
John Rubinstein (1980)
Ian McKellen (1981)
Roger Rees (1982)
Harvey Fierstein (1983)
Jeremy Irons (1984)
Derek Jacobi (1985)
Judd Hirsch (1986)
James Earl Jones (1987)
Ron Silver (1988)
Philip Bosco (1989)
Robert Morse (1990)
Nigel Hawthorne (1991)
Judd Hirsch (1992)
Ron Leibman (1993)
Stephen Spinella (1994)
Ralph Fiennes (1995)
George Grizzard (1996)
Christopher Plummer (1997)
Anthony LaPaglia (1998)
Brian Dennehy (1999)
Stephen Dillane (2000)
Richard Easton (2001)
Alan Bates (2002)
Brian Dennehy (2003)
Jefferson Mays (2004)
Bill Irwin (2005)
Richard Griffiths (2006)
Frank Langella (2007)
Mark Rylance (2008)
Geoffrey Rush (2009)
Denzel Washington (2010)
Mark Rylance (2011)
James Corden (2012)
Tracy Letts (2013)
Bryan Cranston (2014)
Alex Sharp (2015)
Frank Langella (2016)

Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play

1949–1975	Arthur Kennedy (1949) Eli Wallach (1951) John Cromwell (1952) John Williams (1953) John Kerr (1954) Francis L. Sullivan (1955) Ed Begley (1956) Frank Conroy (1957) Henry Jones (1958) Charlie Ruggles (1959) Roddy McDowall (1960) Martin Gabel (1961) Walter Matthau (1962) Alan Arkin (1963) Hume Cronyn (1964) Jack Albertson (1965) Patrick Magee (1966) Ian Holm (1967) James Patterson (1968) Al Pacino (1969) Ken Howard (1970) Paul Sand (1971) Vincent Gardenia (1972) John Lithgow (1973) Ed Flanders (1974) Frank Langella (1975)

1976–2000	Edward Herrmann (1976) Jonathan Pryce (1977) Lester Rawlins (1978) Michael Gough (1979) David Rounds (1980) Brian Backer (1981) Zakes Mokae (1982) Matthew Broderick (1983) Joe Mantegna (1984) Barry Miller (1985) John Mahoney (1986) John Randolph (1987) B. D. Wong (1988) Boyd Gaines (1989) Charles Durning (1990) Kevin Spacey (1991) Laurence Fishburne (1992) Stephen Spinella (1993) Jeffrey Wright (1994) John Glover (1995) Ruben Santiago-Hudson (1996) Owen Teale (1997) Tom Murphy (1998) Frank Wood (1999) Roy Dotrice (2000)

2001–present	Robert Sean Leonard (2001) Frank Langella (2002) Denis O'Hare (2003) Brían F. O'Byrne (2004) Liev Schreiber (2005) Ian McDiarmid (2006) Billy Crudup (2007) Jim Norton (2008) Roger Robinson (2009) Eddie Redmayne (2010) John Benjamin Hickey (2011) Christian Borle (2012) Courtney B. Vance (2013) Mark Rylance (2014) Richard McCabe (2015) Reed Birney (2016)

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