Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play
Award for actors
Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play | |
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Awarded for | Best Male Actor in a Play |
Location | Australia |
Presented by | Live Performance Australia |
Currently held by | Prakash Belawadi for Counting and Cracking (2019) |
Website | HelpmannAwards.com.au |
The Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play is an award presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) (the trade name for the Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA)), an employers' organisation which serves as the peak body in the live entertainment and performing arts industries in Australia. The accolade is handed out at the annual Helpmann Awards, which celebrates achievements in musical theatre, contemporary music, comedy, opera, classical music, theatre, dance and physical theatre.[1] This is a list of winners and nominations for the Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play.
Winners and nominees
Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour.
Year | Actor | Production | Character(s) |
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2001 (1st) | |||
John Gaden | The Unexpected Man | The Man | |
Bille Brown | Troilus and Cressida | Paris | |
Kim Gyngell | 'Art' | Yvan | |
Geoffrey Rush | The Small Poppies | Clint | |
2002 (2nd) | |||
John Bell | Richard III | Richard III | |
Peter Carroll | The Christian Brothers | Unnamed teacher[A] | |
Willem Dafoe | The Hairy Ape | Yank | |
John Stanton | The Tempest | Prospero | |
2003 (3rd) | |||
Colin Friels | Copenhagen | Werner Heisenberg | |
Marcus Graham | The Blue Room | Various characters[B] | |
Benjamin Winspear | Great Expectations | Pip | |
Max Cullen | Waiting for Godot | Estragon (Gogo) | |
2004 (4th) | |||
Darren Gilshenan | The Servant of Two Masters | Truffaldino | |
David Gulpilil | Gulpilil | Himself[C] | |
Frank Gallacher | Frozen | Ralph | |
Paul Blackwell | Night Letters | Robert | |
2005 (5th) | |||
Robert Menzies | Journal of the Plague Year | Daniel Defoe | |
Richard Piper | The Daylight Atheist | Dan Morphett | |
Aaron Pedersen | Eating Ice Cream With Eyes Closed | Macca | |
William Zappa | Death of a Salesman | Willy Loman | |
2006 (6th) | |||
Greg Stone | Stuff Happens | George W. Bush | |
Robert Menzies | Julius Caesar | Marcus Brutus | |
Stephen Dillane | Macbeth | Various characters[D] | |
Marcus Graham | Oedipus the King | Oedipus | |
2007 (7th) | |||
Jefferson Mays | I Am My Own Wife | Charlotte von Mahlsdorf[E] | |
Cameron Goodall | Hamlet | Hamlet | |
John Gaden | The Lost Echo | Tiresias | |
Peter Carroll | The Season At Sarsaparilla | Girlie Pogson | |
2008 (8th) | |||
Richard Roxburgh | Toy Symphony | Roland Henning | |
Geoffrey Rush | Exit the King | King Berenger | |
Marton Csokas | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | George | |
Martin Niedermair | The Tell-Tale Heart | Unnamed[F] | |
2009 (9th) | |||
Ben Winspear | Baghdad Wedding | Salim | |
Colin Moody | Antigone | Creon | |
Greg Stone | Blackbird | Ray | |
Robert Menzies | War of the Roses | Henry IV | |
2010 (10th) | |||
Ewen Leslie | Richard III | King Richard III | |
Paul Blackwell | The Hypochondriac | Argan | |
Toby Schmitz | Ruben Guthrie | Ruben Guthrie | |
Robert Menzies | The End | Dying Man[G] | |
2011 (11th) | |||
Geoffrey Rush | The Diary of a Madman | Poprishchin | |
Richard Roxburgh | Uncle Vanya | Vanya | |
Toby Schmitz | Much Ado About Nothing | Benedick | |
Lucas Stibbard | Boy Girl Wall | Thomas, various[H] | |
2012 (12th) | |||
Paul Capsis | Angela's Kitchen | Various | |
Bille Brown | The Histrionic | Bruscon | |
Jack Charles | Jack Charles v The Crown | Himself | |
Colin Friels | Red | Mark Rothko | |
2013 (13th) | |||
Colin Friels | Death of a Salesman | Bruscon | |
John Bell | Henry 4 | Falstaff | |
Colin Moody | Forget Me Not | Gerry | |
Nathaniel Dean | The Secret River | William Thornhill | |
2014 (14th) | |||
Richard Roxburgh | Waiting for Godot | Estragon | |
Paul Blackwell | Vere (Faith) | Vere | |
Luke Carroll | The Cake Man | Sweet William | |
Denis O'Hare | An Iliad | The Poet | |
2015 (15th) | |||
Hugo Weaving | Endgame | Hamm | |
Peter Carroll | Oedipus Rex | Oedipus | |
Hunter Page-Lochard | Brothers Wreck | Ruben | |
Steve Rodgers | Eight Gigabytes of Hardcore Pornography | ||
2016 (16th) | |||
Mark Leonard Winter | Birdland | Paul | |
Pacharo Mzembe | Prize Fighter | Isa | |
Richard Roxburgh | The Present | Mikhail Platonov | |
Dan Spielman | The Blind Giant is Dancing | Allen Fitzgerald | |
2017 (17th) | |||
Mark Coles Smith | The Drover's Wife | Yadaka | |
Jason Chong | Chimerica | Zhang Lin | |
Colin Friels | Faith Healer | Francis Hardy | |
Jason Klarwein | Once in Royal David's City | Will Drummond | |
2018 (18th) | |||
Hugo Weaving | The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui | Arturo Ui | |
Toby Schmitz | Thyestes | Atreus | |
John Bell AO | The Father | André | |
Daniel Monks | The Real and Imagined History of the Elephant Man | Joseph Merrick | |
2019 (19th)[4][5] | |||
Prakash Belawadi | Counting and Cracking | Apah | |
Wayne Blair | The Long Forgotten Dream | Jeremiah Tucker | |
Kelton Pell | Summer of the Seventeenth Doll | Roo | |
Amer Hlehel | TAHA | Taha Muhammad Ali |
See also
Notes
- A^ : The character in The Christian Brothers is known as the "unnamed elderly Christian Brothers’ teacher"[6]
- B^ : In The Blue Room Marcus Graham portrayed the male characters: Fred, Anton, Charles, Robert, Malcolm.[7]
- C^ : Gulpilil is an autobiographical stage production, where David Gulpilil played himself.[8]
- D^ : Macbeth was performed by Stephen Dillane as a one man show, who portrayed over thirty of the characters in the play.[9]
- E^ : Jefferson Mays portrayed an additional forty characters in I Am My Own Wife.[10]
- F^ : The character in The Tell-Tale Heart does not have a name.[11]
- G^ : Robert Menzies' character in The End doesn't have a name and is known simply as Dying Man.[12]
- H^ : Lucas Stibbard plays the lead roles of Thomas and Alethea, and various other characters in Boy Girl Wall.[13]
References
- ^ "Helpmann Awards - About". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia (LPA). Archived from the original on 12 January 2012. Retrieved 31 December 2012.
- ^ "Nominees". Helpmann Awards. Live Performance Australia. Archived from the original on 6 December 2008. Retrieved 3 October 2011.
- ^ "Australian Web Archive 2001 Helpmann Awards Nominees". Australian Entertainment Industry Association (AEIA). Australian Web Archive. Archived from the original on 17 July 2003. Retrieved 4 October 2011.
- ^ "2019 Nominees and Winners | Helpmann Awards". www.helpmannawards.com.au. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ "2019 Helpmann Awards Act II presented". Limelight. Retrieved 16 July 2019.
- ^ Erika Zimmer (26 October 2001). "Remembered horrors of a religious education". World Socialist Web Site. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ "Sigrid Thornton - The Blue Room". SigridThornton.com. Archived from the original on 27 November 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ "David Gulpilil - Biography". DavidGulpilil.com. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Rebecca Baillie (16 February 2002). "One-man Macbeth divides audience". ABC Online. Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ "I Am My Own Wife - Who's Who". IAmMyOwnWife.com. Archived from the original on 9 August 2011. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Bron Batten (21 November 2010). "The Tell-Tale Heart – Malthouse Theatre". Australian Stage Online. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Jason Blake (20 April 2010). "The End". Smh.com.au. Fairfax Media. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
- ^ Bree Hadley (16 September 2011). "Boy Girl Wall 4 Lucas Stibbard". The Australian. News Limited. Retrieved 6 October 2011.
External links
- The official Helpmann Awards website
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Helpmann Award for Best Male Actor in a Play
- John Gaden (2001)
- John Bell (2002)
- Colin Friels (2003)
- Darren Gilshenan (2004)
- Robert Menzies (2005)
- Greg Stone (2006)
- Jefferson Mays (2007)
- Richard Roxburgh (2008)
- Ben Winspear (2009)
- Ewen Leslie (2010)
- Geoffrey Rush (2011)
- Paul Capsis (2012)
- Colin Friels (2013)
- Richard Roxburgh (2014)
- Hugo Weaving (2015)
- Mark Leonard Winter (2016)
- Mark Coles Smith (2017)
- Hugo Weaving (2018)
- Prakash Belawadi (2019)