Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
First awarded | 1952 |
Currently held by | Mark Ruffalo, I Know This Much Is True (2020) |
Website | emmys |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Limited Series or Movie (called the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie prior to 2015).
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Year | Actor | Role | Program | Network |
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2020 (72nd) [14] | ||||
Mark Ruffalo | Dominick & Thomas Birdsey | I Know This Much Is True | HBO | |
Jeremy Irons | Adrian Veidt / Ozymandias | Watchmen | HBO | |
Hugh Jackman | Frank Tassone | Bad Education | ||
Paul Mescal | Connell Waldron | Normal People | Hulu | |
Jeremy Pope | Archie Coleman | Hollywood | Netflix | |
2021 (73rd) [15] | ||||
Paul Bettany | Vision | WandaVision | Disney+ | |
Hugh Grant | Jonathan Fraser | The Undoing | HBO | |
Ewan McGregor | Halston | Halston | Netflix | |
Lin-Manuel Miranda | Alexander Hamilton | Hamilton | Disney+ | |
Leslie Odom Jr. | Aaron Burr |
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