◆ Trending: Five Scots who have won a Bafta TV Award, including Robbie Coltrane
The nominations for the 2024 Bafta Television Awards were recently revealed, with the ceremony taking place on Sunday, May 12
There’s plenty of Scottish interest, with Brian Cox, Jack Lowden, David Tennant and Lorraine Kelly all nominated. If they win they’ll join other Scots, including these five multiple winners.
Armando Iannucci:
Scottish satirist Armando Iannucci has won two Television Bafta Awards 12 years apart; Best Comedy in 1998 as part of the writing team behind I’m Alan Partridge and Best Situational comedy in 2010 with political comedy The Thick of It took . Iannucci has also won five Bafta Scotland Awards.
Robbie Coltrane: Muchmissed Harry Potter actor Robbie Coltrane is the only Scot to have won a hat-trick of Television Baftas. He took the Best Actor gong in three consecutive years for crime drama Cracker in 1994, 1995 and 1996.
Annette Crosbie: Best known for her role in sitcom One Foot in the Grave (for which co-star Richard Wilson won two Bafta Awards in 1992 and 1994), she won the Best Actress Television Bafta twice. The first was in 1971 for playing Catherine of Aragon in The Six Wives of Henry VIII, and the second for playing Queen Victoria in Edward the Seventh.
Rory Bremner: The Edinburgh-born Scottish impressionist’s Rory Bremner, Who Else? won back-to-back Baftas for Best Comedy Performance in 1995 and 1996. He’s also won three Royal Television Society Awards and two British Comedy Awards.
Stanley Baxter: He won the Bafta for Light Entertainment Artist in 1960 and the prize for Light Entertainment Performance in 1975 for The Stanley Baxter Moving Picture Show. Now 97, he was recently honoured with the BAFTA Scotland Award for Outstanding Contribution.