Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama

The Australian Film Institute Award for Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama is awarded annually by the Australian Film Institute

Australian Film Institute

The Australian Film Institute was founded in 1958 as a non-profit organisation devoted to developing an active film culture in Australia and fostering engagement between the general public and the Australian film industry...

as part of the awards

Australian Film Institute Awards

The Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts Award, known as the AACTA Award , is an accolade presented annually by the Australian Academy of Cinema and Television Arts . The awards recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry and television industry, including directors,...

in television

Australian Film Institute Television Awards

The Australian Film Institute Television Awards are annual awards presented for excellence in Australian television annually as part of the AFI Awards by the Australian Film Institute. The AFI Awards cover non-feature films, films, television, and special awards...

for excellence in acting

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

in television drama by a guest or supporting actor

Actor

An actor is a person who acts in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio in that capacity...

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The first Award was made in 2000. Prior to 2002, the Award was called Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series. In 2002, the Award name was changed to Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama and two years later, in 2004, the Award was named Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy. A separate comedy Award was established in 2006, and this Award became Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama.

Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series

Year	Winner	Television Drama Series	Episode	Network	Other nominees
2000	Chris Haywood Chris Haywood Chris Haywood is an English-born, Australian-based film and television actor/producer.-Early life:Haywood was born in Billericay, Essex, England. He spent his early childhood in Chelmsford before moving to High Wycombe in Buckinghamshire where he attended High Wycombe Royal Grammar School from...	Stingers Stingers Stingers was an Australian police drama television series. It ran for eight seasons on the Nine Network before it was canceled in late 2004 due to declining ratings and the late timeslot Channel Nine gave the program...	"Men in the Dark"	Nine Network Nine Network The Nine Network , is an Australian television network with headquarters based in Willoughby, a suburb located on the North Shore of Sydney. For 50 years since television's inception in Australia, between 1956 and 2006, it was the most watched television network in Australia...	Aaron Blabey Aaron Blabey Aaron Blabey is an Australian actor, artist and children's writer. He played the title role in the 1995 television drama The Damnation of Harvey McHugh for which he won an Australian Film Institute Award.-History:... - Stingers: "Second Chance" (Nine Network) Daniel Daperis - Stingers: "Forced Perspective" (Nine Network) David Field David Field (actor) David Field is an Australian actor who has appeared on television and in films. Some of the films he appeared in include Chopper, Two Hands and Gettin' Square. His most notable roles are as Keithy in Chopper and as Acko in Two Hands... - Grass Roots: "Late September" (ABC TV ABC1 ABC1 was a United Kingdom based television channel from Disney using the branding of the Disney owned American network, ABC.The channel initially launched exclusively on the British digital terrestrial television platform Freeview on 27 September 2004. On 10 December 2004 it was launched on... )
2001	Gary Day Gary Day (actor) Gary Day is an actor who has appeared in Australian television police drama series, including Homicide and Murder Call.- Television :Day worked as a male model and appeared in several television commercials...	Blue Heelers Blue Heelers Blue Heelers is an Australian police drama series which depicted the lives of police officers stationed at the fictional Mount Thomas police station in a small town in Victoria.- Overview :...	"Part Two: The Poisoned Fruit"	Seven Network Seven Network The Seven Network is an Australian television network owned by Seven West Media Limited. It dates back to 4 November 1956, when the first stations on the VHF7 frequency were established in Melbourne and Sydney.It is currently the second largest network in the country in terms of population reach...	Steve Adams - Something in the Air: "That One Defining Moment" (ABC TV) Travis McMahon - Stingers: "Rich Man's World" (Nine Network) Damian Walshe-Howling Damian Walshe-Howling Damian Walshe-Howling is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama, Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.-Biography:He also starred on Blue Heelers as Constable Adam... - The Secret Life of Us The Secret Life of Us The Secret Life of Us was a television drama series set in the beachside suburb of St Kilda, Melbourne, Australia. The series was produced by Southern Star Entertainment and screened in Australia from 2001 to 2005 on Network Ten and on Channel 4 in the UK... : "State of Limbo" (Network Ten Network Ten Network Ten , is one of Australia's three major commercial television networks. Owned-and-operated stations can be found in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Adelaide and Perth, while affiliates extend the network to cover most of the country... )

Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama

Year	Winner	Television Drama	Episode	Network	Other nominees
2002	Clayton Watson Clayton Watson Clayton Watson is an Australian producer, actor, writer, and director. He grew up in the Australian outback on a sheep station close to Morgan, a small town in South Australia...	Always Greener Always Greener Always Greener was an Australian television drama/comedy series that aired on the Seven Network which followed the fortunes of two families, one from the city and the other from the country, when they decide to switch homes and start a new direction in life for themselves...		Seven Network	Gary Waddell - Bad Cop Bad Cop: "Yesterday's Zero" Tom Long Tom Long (actor) -Early life:Long was born on 3 August 1968 in the United States when his Australian parents were there at the time, and grew up on a farm near Benalla, Victoria... - Heroes' Mountain Angus Grant - MDA MDA (TV series) MDA is an Australian television series that aired between 2002 and 2005 on the Australian Broadcasting Corporation . It concerned the day-to-day operation of legal firm MDA, which specialised in medical defence.-Synopsis:... : "When it rains, it pours" (ABC TV)
2003	John Clayton John Clayton (actor) John Clayton was an Australian actor.He was best known for his television work, with credits including: Division 4, Rush, The Outsiders, Chopper Squad, A Country Practice, The Flying Doctors, E Street, Police Rescue, Blue Heelers, Water Rats, Wildside, Farscape, Grass Roots and All...	Grass Roots	"By-Election"	ABC TV	Francis Greenslade Francis Greenslade Francis Greenslade is an Australian comic actor. He and comedic partner Shaun Micallef appeared on the legal comedy Welcher and Welcher, as well as Full Frontal... - Welcher & Welcher Welcher & Welcher Welcher & Welcher was an Australian sitcom written by and starring Shaun Micallef which aired on the ABC in 2003. The show revolved around a husband and wife run law firm.-Regular Cast:... (ABC TV) Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson Samuel Johnson , often referred to as Dr. Johnson, was an English author who made lasting contributions to English literature as a poet, essayist, moralist, literary critic, biographer, editor and lexicographer... - After the Deluge Damien Richardson Damien Richardson Damien John Richardson is an Irish football manager and former player. He currently has no club attachments, having left Cork City at the end of the 2007 season. Richardson formerly managed Gillingham in England and Cobh Ramblers, Shelbourne and Shamrock Rovers in Ireland.Richardson's father... - The Secret Life Of Us: "The Day No Trumpets Sounded" (Network Ten)

Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy

Year	Winner	Television Drama or Comedy	Episode	Network	Other nominees
2004	Matt Le Nevez Matthew Le Nevez Matthew Le Nevez is an award-winning Australian actor.-Early life :Le Nevez was born in Canberra in 1978 and attended The French-Australian School, Telopea Park School and St Edmund's College, Canberra before accepted into NIDA aged 17...	Marking Time Marking Time Marking Time was an Australian television mini-series, consisting of four one-hour episodes. It first aired on 9 and 10 November 2003 on ABC-TV...		ABC TV	Ray Barrett Ray Barrett Raymond Charles "Ray" Barrett was an Australian actor. He was one of the more popular leading men on British television in the 1960s, where he was best known for his appearances in The Troubleshooters . Back in Australia he was a leading man in many TV series over the years.-Biography:Barrett was... - All Saints: Episode 280 (Seven Network) Glenn Robbins Glenn Robbins Glenn Maxwell Robbins is an Australian comedian, writer and actor.Robbins attended Strathmore Secondary College and graduated in 1975... - Kath & Kim Kath & Kim Kath & Kim is a Logie Award-winning character-driven Australian television situation comedy series. The series was created by, and is written by Jane Turner and Gina Riley who play the title characters: a suburban mother and daughter with a dysfunctional relationship... (ABC TV) Lech Mackiewicz Lech Mackiewicz Lech Mackiewicz is an polish actor, director, playwright; graduate of the National Academy of Theatrical Arts in Cracow , and UTS . He formed Auto Da Fe Theatre Co. in Sydney in 1987... - Marking Time (ABC TV)
2005	Max Cullen Max Cullen Max Cullen is an Australian stage and screen actor. Max has appeared in many Australian films and television series but is best known for his role in the film Spider and Rose and the television series The Flying Doctors and Love My Way.Cullen was born in Wellington, New South Wales...	Love My Way Love My Way Love My Way was a Logie Award winning and critically acclaimed Australian television drama series. It won the AFI award for Best Television Drama Series for each of its three seasons ....	Episode #8	FOX8 FOX8 Fox8 is an Australian cable and satellite channel available on Foxtel, Austar and Optus Television's subscription platforms...	Frank Gallacher - MDA: Episode #12 (ABC TV) Tony Barry Tony Barry Tony Barry is an Australian actor who has performed in 55 feature films and 45 television series, across a four-decade career.-Filmography:He is known for his roles in the 2008 film Australia, Return to Snowy River, Never Say Die, the 1988 film Surfer and The Coca-Cola Kid.After acting in... - Hell Has Harbour Views Hell Has Harbour Views Hell Has Harbour Views is a 2001 novel written by Richard Beasley . The story is set in a corrupt Sydney law firm and follows the protagonist, Hugh Walker, a lawyer who always hoped he would be a defender of the poor and oppressed, until a Sydney law firm dangled an office with a harbour view in... (ABC TV) Steve Bisley Steve Bisley Steve Bisley is an Australian film and television actor, who attended the National Institute of Dramatic Art .-Acting career:... - Hell Has Harbour Views (ABC TV)

Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama

Year	Winner	Television Drama	Episode	Network	Other nominees
2006	Marcus Graham Marcus Graham Marcus Graham is an Australian television and stage actor who has also starred in several films, including Mulholland Drive and Josh Jarman. He was known as a teenage heartthrob in the early 90s while starring in the Australian TV soap E Street as the character "Wheels"...	Blue Heelers		Seven Network	John Waters John Waters (filmmaker) John Samuel Waters, Jr. is an American filmmaker, actor, stand-up comedian, writer, journalist, visual artist, and art collector, who rose to fame in the early 1970s for his transgressive cult films... - All Saints (Seven Network) Luke Carroll Luke Carroll -Television and film:Carroll started out in guest roles in some Australian shows, including The Flying Doctors, Lift Off, The Man from Snowy River, Ocean Girl and Water Rats.... - RAN RAN Remote Area Nurse (TV series) RAN is an Australian television program , filmed entirely on Masig Island in the tropical Torres Strait north of the Cape York Peninsula, the northern-most part of Australia , and the border with Papua New Guinea.This is an important series to Torres Strait Islanders, but also to the... (SBS TV) Aaron Fa'aoso Aaron Fa'aoso Aaron Fa'aoso is an Australian television and film actor. He is of Torres Strait Islander and Tongan descent . His mother is from Saibai Island .-Career:... - RAN (SBS TV)
2007	David Ngoombujarra David Ngoombujarra David Ngoombujarra was an Indigenous Australian actor of the Yamatji people. Born David Bernard Starr in Meekatharra, Western Australia, his acting career spanned over two decades from the 1980s to the present; he won three Australian Film Institute Awards...	The Circuit The Circuit (TV series) The Circuit is an Australian television drama series. The six part first season screened on SBS TV, premiering on 8 July 2007 at , and concluding on 12 August 2007. Season 2 began airing on December 1, 2009....		SBS TV	Mark Priestley Mark Priestley Mark Priestley was an Australian actor. Born in Perth, Western Australia, he graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art with a degree in Performing Arts in 1999. His first big TV break was when he appeared in The Farm in 2000 and met director Kate Woods... - All Saints (Seven Network) Justin Smith - Bastard Boys Bastard Boys Bastard Boys is an Australian television miniseries broadcast on the ABC in 2007. It tells the story of the 1998 Australian waterfront dispute.-Plot:... (ABC TV) Jack Thompson Jack Thompson (actor) Jack Thompson, AM is an Australian actor and one of the major figures of Australian cinema. He was educated at University of Queensland, before embarking on his acting career. In 2002, he was made an honorary member of the Australian Cinematographers Society... - Bastard Boys (ABC TV)
2008	Damian Walshe-Howling Damian Walshe-Howling Damian Walshe-Howling is an Australian actor, best known for his role as Andrew "Benji" Veniamin in the Australian underworld drama, Underbelly, for which he won the Best Supporting or Guest Actor in a Drama Series at the 2008 AFI Awards.-Biography:He also starred on Blue Heelers as Constable Adam...	Underbelly Underbelly (TV series) Underbelly is a 13-part Australian television mini-series that retells the real events of the 1995–2004 gangland war in Melbourne, and is the first series in the larger Underbelly Franchise. It depicts the key players in Melbourne's criminal underworld, including the Carlton Crew and their rival,...	"Wise Monkeys" - Episode #7	Nine Network	Gary Files Gary Files Gary Files was born in Melbourne, Australia and is an Australian-Canadian actor, writer and director who has resided in Australia, Canada, and the United Kingdom. He has lived in Australia since 1976.-Early life:... - Dogstar Dogstar (TV series) Dogstar is an Australian children's animated television program produced by Media World Pictures which first screened on the Nine Network and then Disney Channel Australia. There are 26 episodes in the first series.... : Episode #26 (Nine Network) Taffy Hany - East West 101 East West 101 East West 101 is a critically acclaimed and award-winning drama series airing on the SBS network. The series was produced and created by Steven Knapman & Kris Wyld, the team behind other drama series such as Wildside and White Collar Blue.... : "The Enemy Within" - Episode #1 (SBS TV) Vince Colosimo Vince Colosimo Vincenzo Colosimo is an Australian AFI Award winning stage, television and screen actor. He has worked in both Australia and the United States.-Personal life:... - Underbelly: "The Sorcerer's Apprentice" - Episode #2 (Nine Network)
2009	Damian De Montemas Damian De Montemas Damian De Montemas is an Australian actor who plays Brian Alexander on Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities and Jason Kennedy in the first two series of The Secret Life Of Us....	Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities is a 13-part Australian television mini-series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the marijuana trade centred around the New South Wales town of Griffith. The timeline of the series is the years between 1976 and 1987. Underbelly: A Tale of Two Cities...	"The Brotherhood" - Episode #11	Nine Network	Bille Brown Bille Brown Bille Brown, AM is an Australian Shakespearean actor and acclaimed writer of plays.Brown was born in Biloela, Queensland and studied drama at the University of Queensland where he received and Honorary Doctorate of Letters... - 3 Acts of Murder (ABC1) Jeremy Lindsay Taylor Jeremy Lindsay Taylor Jeremy Lindsay Taylor is an Australian actor. He finished his education at Newington College in 1991 and graduated with a Bachelor of Arts degree, with a major in drama and sociology, from the University of Newcastle... - False Witness False Witness False Witness is an Australian television mini-series produced by Screentime Australia for the Australian subscription television channel UK.TV... : Episode #2 (UKTV UKTV UKTV is a digital cable and satellite television network, formed through a joint venture between BBC Worldwide, a commercial subsidiary of the British Broadcasting Corporation, and Scripps Networks Interactive, spun off from The E.W Scripps Company in 2008... ) Richard Roxburgh Richard Roxburgh Richard Roxburgh is an Australian actor who has starred in many Australian films and has appeared in supporting roles in a number of Hollywood productions, usually as villains.-Early life:... - False Witness: Episode #2 (UKTV)
2010	Damien Garvey	Underbelly: The Golden Mile Underbelly: The Golden Mile Underbelly: The Golden Mile is a 13-part Australian television mini-series loosely based on real events that stemmed from the nightclub scene of the Sydney suburb of Kings Cross. The timeline of the series is the years between 1988 and 1999. it primarily depicts the running of Kings Cross and the...	"Hurt on Duty" - Episode #10	Nine Network	Rhys Muldoon Rhys Muldoon Rhys Muldoon is an Australian actor, writer and director who has worked extensively in film, television, theatre and radio.-Television:... - Lockie Leonard: "Snake Hide Oil" - Episode #11 (Nine Network) John Waters John Waters (actor) John Russell Waters is a film, theatre and television actor and musician best known in Australia, to where he moved in 1968... - Offspring Offspring (TV series) Offspring is an Australian television comedy-drama series which premiered on Network Ten in Australia on 15 August 2010. Offspring is centred around 30-something obstetrician Nina Proudman and her family, as they navigate the chaos of modern life... (Network Ten) Ben Winspear - My Place My Place "My Place" is the first single by the rapper Nelly from his album Suit. It features Jaheim. It was released as a double A-side with "Flap Your Wings" in the UK and New Zealand. The song is about inviting a girl over to Nelly's house. It reached #4 both on the U.S... : "1968 Sofia" - Episode #5 (ABCTV)

Best Performance by an Actor in a Guest Role in a Television Drama Series

Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama

Best Actor in a Supporting or Guest Role in a Television Drama or Comedy

Best Guest or Supporting Actor in Television Drama

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