Alumni Awards

The list below represents a selection of the major awards and nominations earned by RADA's alumni over the years. Other awards achieved include Critics Circle Awards, Drama Desk Awards, Off West End awards, National Stage Management Awards, Manchester Theatre Awards, National Television Awards, BBC Audio Drama Awards, and many more.

2018

Sally Hawkins - Best Actress in a Leading Role (The Shape of Water)

2017

Tom Hiddleston - Best Performance by an Actor in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made For Television (The Night Manager) - WINNER

Kenneth Branagh - Best Actor (The Entertainer)

Jamie Parker - Best Actor (Harry Potter and the Cursed Child)

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor (Richard III)

Michelle Terry - Best Actress (Henry V)

2016

Mark Rylance - Best Supporting Actor (Bridge of Spies) - WINNER

Mark Rylance - Leading Actor (Wolf Hall) - WINNER

Ben Whishaw - Leading Actor (London Spy)

Tom Courtenay - Supporting Actor (Unforgotten) - WINNER

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor (The Master Builder / Richard III) - WINNER

Kenneth Branagh - Best Actor (The Entertainer)

James McArdle - Best Actor (Platanov)

O-T Fagbenle - Best Actor (Ma Rainey's Black Bottom)

Kenneth Branagh - Lebedev Award - WINNER

Mark Rylance - Best Supporting Actor in a Motion Picture – Drama, Musical or Comedy (Bridge of Spies)

Kenneth Cranham - Best Actor (The Father) - WINNER

Kenneth Branagh - Best Actor and Best Director (The Winter's Tale)

Adrian Lester - Best Actor (Red Velvet)

Mark Rylance - Best Actor (Farinelli and the King)

Gemma Arterton - Best Actress (Nell Gwyn)

Janet McTeer - Best Actress in a Musical (Gypsy) - WINNER

Jamie Parker - Best Actor in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)

Cynthia Erivo - Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Color Purple) - WINNER

Sophie Okonedo - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (The Crucible)

2015

Mike Leigh - BAFTA Fellowship - WINNER

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor in a Leading Role (The Grand Budapest Hotel as Monsieur Gustave H.)

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (Pride as Hefina Headon)

Gugu Mbatha-Raw - EE Rising Star Award

Ralph Fiennes - Actor in a motion picture, musical or comedy (The Grand Budapest Hotel)

Clive Owen - Actor in a TV series, drama (The Knick)

Robin Soans - Best Male (Visitors at the Bush and Arcola Theatre)

Elliot Griggs - Best Lighting Designer (Pomona at Orange Tree Theatre) - WINNER

Tanya Moodie - Outstanding Achievement in Affiliate Theatre (Intimate Apparel – Park / The Home That Will Not Stand – Tricycle)

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress (Good People – Hampstead / Noël Coward)

Gemma Arterton - Best Actress in a Musical (Made in Dagenham – Aldelphi)

Phoebe Fox - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (A View from the Bridge – Young Vic / Wyndham's)

Lydia Wilson - Best Actress in a Supporting Role (King Charles III – Almeida / Wyndham's)

Richard McCabe - Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (The Audience as PM Harold Wilson) - WINNER

2014

Sally Hawkins - Best Supporting Actress (Blue Jasmine)

Tom Hiddleston - Best Actor (Coriolanus)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Charlie and the Chocolate Factory (Theatre Royal, Drury Lane)) - WINNER

Henry Goodman - Best Actor (The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui (Duchess))

2013

Sally Hawkins - Best Supporting Actress (Blue Jasmine)

Andrea Riseborough - EE Rising Star Award

Ben Whishaw - Leading Actor (The Hollow Crown: Richard II) - WINNER

Adrian Lester - Best Actor (Othello) - WINNER

Matt Leventhall - Best Lighting Design

Joshua Carr - Best Lighting Design

Bertie Carvel - Best Performance by an Actor in Leading Role in a Musical (Matilda)

2012

Tom Hiddleston - EE Rising Star Award

2011

Kenneth Branagh - Best Supporting Actor (My Week With Marilyn)

Janet McTeer - Best Supporting Actress (Albert Nobbs)

Gemma Arterton - EE Rising Star Award

2010

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress (Entertaining Mr Sloane)

Juliet Stevenson - Best Actress (Duet for One)

Mark Rylance - Best Actor (Jerusalem) - WINNER

Sheila Hancock - Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Sister Act)

Douglas Hodge - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (La Cage aux Folles) - WINNER

2009

Margaret Tyzack - Best Actress (The Chalk Garden) - WINNER

David Bradley - Best Actor (No Man’s Land)

Kevin McNally - Best Supporting Performance (Ivanov)

Douglas Hodge - Best Actor in A Musical (La Cage aux Folles) - WINNER

Janet McTeer - Best Actress in a Play (Mary Stuart)

Steve Mangan - Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Norman Conquests)

2008

Fiona Shaw - Best Actress (Happy Days)

Mark Rylance - Best Actor (Boeing-Boeing)

Tom Hiddleston - Best Newcomer in a Play (Cymbeline) - WINNER

Tom Hiddleston - Best Newcomer in a Play (Othello)

David Dawson - Best Newcomer in a Play (Nicholas Nickleby)

Tanya Ronder - Best New Play (Vernon God Little)

Bertie Carvel - Best Actor in A Musical (Parade)

Henry Goodman - Best Actor in A Musical (Fiddler on the Roof)

Lindsay Posner - Best Musical Revival (Fiddler on the Roof)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Lord of the Rings)

Mark Rylance - Best Actor in a Play (Boeing-Boeing) - WINNER

Eve Best - Best Actress in a Play (The Homecoming)

2007

Tom Wilkinson - Best Supporting Actor (Michael Clayton)

Ben Whishaw - EE Rising Star Award

Eve Best - Best Actress in a Play (Moon For the Misbegotten)

Iain Glen - Best Actor in a Play (The Crucible)

Michael Sheen - Best Actor in a Play (Frost/Nixon)

Sheila Hancock - Best Performance In A Supporting Role In A Musical (Cabaret) - WINNER

Rufus Norris - Outstanding Musical Production (Cabaret)

2006

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Venus)

Eve Best - Best Actress in a Play (Hedda Gabler) - WINNER

Janet McTeer - Best Actress in a Play (Maria Stuart)

David Bradley - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Henry IV)

Anne Reid - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Epitaph for George Dillon)

Douglas Hodge - Best Actor in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor in a Play (Faith Healer)

2005

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor (The Goat)

Ben Whishaw - Best Actor (Hamlet)

Rufus Norris - Best Director (Festen)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (All’s Well That Ends Well)

2004

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress (Vera Drake)

Clive Owen - Best Supporting Actor (Closer)

Sophie Okonedo - Best Supporting Actress (Hotel Rwanda)

Mike Leigh - Best Director (Vera Drake)

Kenneth Branagh - Best Actor (Edmond)

Michael Sheen - Best Actor (Caligula)

Warren Mitchell - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (The Price) - WINNER

2003

Mark Rylance - Best Actor (Twelfth Night)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (A Streetcar Named Desire)

Fiona Shaw - Best Actress in a Play (Medea)

2002

Peter O'Toole - Academy Honorary Award ("whose remarkable talents have provided cinema history with some of its most memorable characters") - WINNER

Alan Rickman - Best Actor (Private Lives)

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor in A Musical (My Fair Lady)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director (Kiss Me Kate)

Alan Bates - Best Actor in a Play (Fortune’s Fool) - WINNER

Alan Rickman - Best Actor in a Play (Private Lives)

2001

Tom Wilkinson - Best Actor (In the Bedroom)

Douglas Hodge - Best Supporting Actor (The Caretaker)

Jason Watkins - Best Supporting Actor (A Servant to Two Masters)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Hamlet)

2000

Albert Finney - Best Supporting Actor (Erin Brockovich)

Ronald Harwood - Best Comedy (Quartet)

Henry Goodman - Best Actor (Merchant of Venice) - WINNER

Michael Sheen - Best Actor (Look Back in Anger)

Estelle Kohler - Best Actress (Winter’s Tale)

Michael Williams - Best Supporting Actor (The Forest)

Peter O'Toole - Outstanding Achievement (Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell) - WINNER

Rosemary Harris - Best Actress in a Play (Waiting in the Wings)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director of a Play (Copenhagen) - WINNER

Sarah Woodward - Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Playbest per (The Real Thing)

Roy Dotrice - Best Performance by a Feature Actor in a Play (Moon for the Misbegotten) - WINNER

1999

Diana Rigg - Best Actress (Britannicus / Phedre)

Iain Glen - Best Actor (Blue Room)

Michael Sheen - Best Supporting Performance (Amadeus)

Sarah Woodward - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Tom & Clem) - WINNER

Janet McTeer - Best Actress (Tumbleweeds)

Siân Phillips - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Marlene)

1998

Ian Holm - Best Actor (King Lear) - WINNER

Paul Rhys - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (King Lear)

Ronald Pickup - Best Performance in a Supporting Role (Amy’s View)

Henry Goodman - Best Actor in a Musical (Chicago)

Siân Phillips - Best Actress in a Musical (Marlene)

James Dreyfus - Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Lady in the Dark) - WINNER

Richard Briers - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (The Chairs)

1997

Anthony Hopkins - Best Supporting Actor (Amistad)

Janet McTeer - Best Actress (A Doll’s House) - WINNER

Diana Rigg - Best Actress (Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf)

Trevor Eve - Best Supporting Actor (Uncle Vanya) - WINNER

Robert Lindsay - Best Actor in a Musical (Oliver!) - WINNER

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress in a Musical (Guys and Dolls)

Hugh Ross - Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Passion)

Janet McTeer - Best Actress in a Play (A Doll’s House) - WINNER

1996

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor (The English Patient)

Marianne Jean-Baptiste - Best Supporting Actress (Secrets and Lies)

Mike Leigh - Best Director (Secrets and Lies)

Diana Rigg - Best Actress (Mother Courage)

Adrian Lester - Best Actor in a Musical (Company) - WINNER

Siân Phillips - Best Supporting Actress in a Musical (A Little Night Music)

Ronald Harwood - BBC Play of the Year (Taking Sides)

Harold Pinter - Society’s Special Award - WINNER

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (A Delicate Balance)

1995

Anthony Hopkins - Best Actor (Nixon)

David Bamber - Best Actor (My Night with Reg) - WINNER

Adrian Lester - Best Actor (As You Like It)

Kathryn Hunter - Best Supporting Actress (Pericles)

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor in a MusicalBest (Oliver!)

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Orpheus Descending)

Ralph Fiennes - Best Actor in a Play (Hamlet) - WINNER

1994

Rosemary Harris - Best Supporting Actress (Tom and Viv)

Fiona Shaw - Best Actress (Machinal) - WINNER

Kathryn Hunter - Best Actress (The Skriker)

Diana Rigg - Best Actress (Medea)

Mark Rylance - Best Actor (Much Ado About Nothing) - WINNER

Henry Goodman - Best Actor (Hysteria)

Rosemary Leach - Best Supporting Actress (Separate Tables)

Richard McCabe - Best Supporting Actor (Winter’s Tale)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director of a Musical (City of Angels)

Terry Hands - Best Lighting Design (Tamburlaine)

Henry Goodman - Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (City of Angels)

Adrian Lester - Best Supporting Performance in a Musical (Sweeney Todd)

Diana Rigg - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Medea) - WINNER

1993

Anthony Hopkins - Best Actor (Remains of the Day)

Ralph Fiennes - Best Supporting Actor (Schindlers List)

Albert Finney - Best Actor (The Dresser)

Jane Horrocks - Best Actress (Little Voice)

Kenneth Cranham - Best Actor (An Inspector Calls)

Paul Eddington - Best Actor (No Man’s Land)

Rosemary Harris - Best Supporting Actress (Lost in Yonkers)

Julian Glover - Best Supporting Actor (Henry IV) - WINNER

David Bradley - Best Supporting Actor (Henry IV)

Guy Henry - Best Comedy Performance (The Alchemist)

Robert Lindsay - Best Comedy Performance (Cyrano)

Henry Goodman - Best Actor in a Musical (Assassins) - WINNER

Kenneth Branagh - Observer Award for Outstanding Achievement (Hamlet)

1992

Hugh Whitemore - Best Comedy (It’s Ralph)

Henry Goodman - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Angels in America)

Robert Lindsay - Best Actor (Becket)

Juliet Stevenson - Best Actress (Death and the Maiden) - WINNER

Janet McTeer - Best Actress (Uncle Vanya)

Fiona Shaw - Best Actress (Hedda Gabler)

1991

Anthony Hopkins - Best Actor (Silence of the Lambs) - WINNER

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Wind in the Willows)

Kathryn Hunter - Best Actress (The Visit) - WINNER

Barbara Jefford - Best Actress (Coriolanus)

Richard Briers - Best Comedy Performance (Wind in the Willows)

David Bradley - Best Actor in a Supporting Role (King Lear) - WINNER

Imelda Staunton - Outstanding Performance by an actress in a musical (Into the Woods) - WINNER

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor in a Musical (Miss Saigon) - WINNER

1990

Fiona Shaw - Best Actress (Electra / As You Like It / Good Person of Sichuan) - WINNER

Sheila Hancock - Best Actress (Prin)

Peter O'Toole - Comedy Performance (Jeffrey Bernard is Unwell)

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor in a Musical (Miss Saigon) - WINNER

Paul Pyant - Best Lighting Design (Arcadia)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director of a Play (Lettice and Lovage)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director of a Musical (City of Angels)

1989

Kenneth Branagh - Best Actor (Henry V)

Kenneth Branagh - Best Director (Henry V)

1988

Tom Wilkinson - Best Actor in a Revival (An Enemy of the People)

Estelle Kohler - Best Actress in a Revival (Titus Andronicus / Hello and Goodbye)

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress in a Revival (Uncle Vanya)

Kenneth Branagh - Best Comedy Performance (As You Like It)

Imelda Staunton - Best Actress in a Musical (Wizard of Oz)

Glenda Jackson - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Macbeth)

1987

Nicholas Woodeson - Best Actor (Sarcophagus / Flight)

Juliet Stevenson - Best Actress (Yerma)

John Woodvine - Best Comedy Performance (The Histories) - WINNER

Geoffrey Hutchings - Best Comedy Performance (Three Men on a Horse)

Imelda Staunton - Most Promising Newcomer (Two Noble Kinsmen / The Rover)

Robert Lindsay - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical (Me and My Girl) - WINNER

Alan Rickman - Best Actor in a Play (Les Liaisons Dangereuses)

1986

Denholm Elliott - Best Supporting Actor (A Room With a View)

Albert Finney - Best Actor (Orphans) - WINNER

Juliet Stevenson - Best Actress (As You Like It / Liaisons Dangereuses / Troilus and Cressida)

Fiona Shaw - Best Supporting Performance (As You Like It / Mephisto)

Janet McTeer - Most Promising Newcomer (Grace of Mary Traverse)

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Hay Fever)

1985

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Pack of Lies)

Glenda Jackson - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Strange Interlude)

Terry Hands - Best Director of a Play (Much Ado About Nothing)

1984

Albert Finney - Best Actor (Under the Volcano)

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Heartbreak House)

Michael Blakemore - Best Director of a Play (Noises Off)

1983

Tom Courtenay - Best Actor (The Dresser)

Lindy Hemming - Best Costume Design (All’s Well That Ends Well)

Margaret Tyzack - Best Actress in a Featured Role in a Play (All’s Well That Ends Well)

1982

Richard Attenborough - Best Director (Gandhi) - WINNER

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (My Favourite Year)

Tom Courtenay - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (The Dresser)

1981

John Gielgud - Best Supporting Actor (Arthur) - WINNER

Ian Holm - Best Supporting Actor (Chariots of Fire)

Roy Dotrice - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (A Life)

Glenda Jackson - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Rose)

1980

John Hurt - Best Actor (The Elephant Man)

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (The Stunt Man)

1979

Alec McCowen - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (St Marks Gospel)

1978

John Hurt - Best Supporting Actor (Midnight Express)

1977

Tom Courtenay - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Otherwise Engaged)

Jonathan Pryce - Best Actor in a Featured Role in a Play (Comedians) - WINNER

1976

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Royal Family)

1975

Glenda Jackson - Best Actress (Hedda)

Diana Rigg - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Misanthrope)

1974

Albert Finney - Best Actor (Murder on the Orient Express)

Rachel Roberts - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Phoenix Rep)

1973

Glenda Jackson - Best Actress (A Touch of Class) - WINNER

Alan Bates - Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Play (Butley) - WINNER

Hayward Morse - Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Play (Butley)

1972

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Ruling Class)

Rosemary Harris - Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play (Old Times)

Harold Pinter - Best Play (Old Times)

1971

Glenda Jackson - Best Actress (Sunday, Bloody Sunday)

1970

Glenda Jackson - Best Actress (Women in Love) - WINNER

1969

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Goodbye Mr Chips)

Anthony Quayle - Best Supporting Actor (Anne of a Thousand Days)

Susannah York - Best Supporting Actress (They Shoot Horses Don’t They)

1968

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Lion in Winter)

Albert Finney - Best Actor in a Play (Luther)

1966

Robert Shaw - Best Supporting Actor (A Man for all Seasons)

1965

Tom Courtenay - Best Supporting Actor (Doctor Zhivago)

Joyce Redman - Best Supporting Actress (Othello)

1964

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Becket)

John Gielgud - Best Supporting Actor (Becket)

Albert Finney - Best Actor in a Play (Day in the Death of Joe Egg)

1963

Albert Finney - Best Actor (Tom Jones)

Rachel Roberts - Best Actress (This Sporting Life)

Hugh Griffith - Best Supporting Actor (Tom Jones)

Joyce Redman - Best Supporting Actress (Tom Jones)

1962

Peter O'Toole - Best Actor (Lawrence of Arabia)

1959

Hugh Griffith - Best Supporting Actor (Ben Hur) - WINNER

1957

Charles Laughton - Best Actor (Witness for the Prosecution)

1951

Vivien Leigh - Best Actress (Streetcar Named Desire) - WINNER

1946

Celia Johnson - Best Actress (Brief Encounter)

Flora Robson - Best Supporting Actress (Saratoga Trunk)

1939

Vivien Leigh - Best Actress (Gone with the Wind) - WINNER

1938

Robert Morley - Best Actor (Marie Antoinette)

1935

Charles Laughton - Best Actor (Mutiny on the Bounty)

1932

Charles Laughton - Best Actor (The Private Life of Henry VIII) - WINNER