Golden Globe Award for Best Actor – Television Series Drama

Winners

2025	The Pitt	★★★★★★★★	Noah Wyle		HBO Max
2024	Shōgun	★★★★★★★★	Hiroyuki Sanada		FX
2023	Succession	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Kieran Culkin		Sky Atlantic
2022	Yellowstone	★	Kevin Costner		Paramount Network
2021	Succession	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Jeremy Strong		Sky Atlantic
2020	The Crown	★★★★★★★★★★★	Josh O'Connor		Netflix
2019	Succession	★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Brian Cox		Sky Atlantic
2018	Bodyguard	★	Richard Madden		Netflix
2017	This Is Us	★★	Sterling K. Brown		NBC
2016	Goliath	★	Billy Bob Thornton		Amazon Prime Video
2015	Mad Men	★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Jon Hamm		BBC Four
2014	House of Cards	★★	Kevin Spacey		Netflix
2013	Breaking Bad	★★★★★★★★★★★	Bryan Cranston		Netflix
2012	Homeland	★★★★★★★★★★	Damian Lewis		Channel 4
2011	Boss	★	Kelsey Grammer		Starz
2010	Boardwalk Empire	★★	Steve Buscemi		Sky Atlantic
2009	Dexter	★	Michael C. Hall		ITV1
2008	In Treatment	★	Gabriel Byrne		HBO
2007	Mad Men	★★★★★★★★★★★★★	Jon Hamm		BBC Four
2006	House	★★	Hugh Laurie		Five
2005	House	★★	Hugh Laurie		Five
2004	Deadwood	★	Ian McShane		HBO
2003	Without a Trace	★	Anthony LaPaglia		CBS
2002	The Shield	★★★	Michael Chiklis		FX
2001	24	★★★★	Kiefer Sutherland		Fox
2000	The West Wing	★★★★★★★★	Martin Sheen		NBC
1999	The Sopranos	★★★★★★★★★★★★	James Gandolfini		HBO
1998	The Practice	★★★★★	Dylan McDermott		ABC
1997	ER	★★	Anthony Edwards		NBC
1996	The X-Files	★★★★★★	David Duchovny		Fox
1995	NYPD Blue	★★★★★★★★★	Jimmy Smits		ABC
1994	NYPD Blue	★★★★★★★★★	Dennis Franz		ABC
1993	NYPD Blue	★★★★★★★★★	David Caruso		ABC
1992	I'll Fly Away	★★	Sam Waterston		NBC
1991	Quantum Leap	★	Scott Bakula		NBC
1990	Twin Peaks	★★	Kyle MacLachlan		ABC
1989	Wiseguy	★	Ken Wahl		CBS
1988	Beauty and the Beast	★	Ron Perlman		CBS
1987	A Year in the Life	★★	Richard Kiley		NBC
1986	The Equalizer	★	Edward Woodward		CBS
1985	Miami Vice	★	Don Johnson		NBC
1984	Magnum, P.I.	★★	Tom Selleck		CBS
1983	Dynasty	★★★★★	John Forsythe		ABC
1982	Dynasty	★★★★★	John Forsythe		ABC
1981	Hill Street Blues	★★★★★★★★★★	Daniel J. Travanti		NBC
1980	Shōgun	★★★	Richard Chamberlain		NBC
1979	Lou Grant	★★★★★	Ed Asner		CBS
1978	Holocaust	★★	Michael Moriarty		NBC
1977	Lou Grant	★★★★★	Ed Asner		CBS
1976	Captains and the Kings	★	Richard Jordan		NBC
1975	Kojak	★★★	Telly Savalas		CBS
1975	Baretta	★	Robert Blake		ABC
1974	Kojak	★★★	Telly Savalas		CBS
1973	Hawkins	★	James Stewart		CBS
1972	Columbo	★★★	Peter Falk		NBC
1971	Marcus Welby, M.D.	★★	Robert Young		ABC
1970	Mission: Impossible	★★	Peter Graves		CBS
1969	Mannix	★★★	Mike Connors		CBS