Logie Award for Most Popular Actor

Logie Award for Most Popular Actor
CountryAustralia
Presented byTV Week
First awarded1977
Currently held bySam Neill (2023)
Most awardsPaul Cronin and Martin Sacks (5)
Websitewww.tvweeklogieawards.com.au

The Silver Logie for Most Popular Actor is an award presented annually at the Australian TV Week Logie Awards. The award recognises the popularity of an actor in an Australian program.

It was first awarded at the 19th Annual TV Week Logie Awards, held in 1977 when the award category was originally called Most Popular Australian Lead Actor.[1] It was later renamed Most Popular Actor and briefly Best Actor (2016–2017).[2] For the 2018 ceremony, the award category name was reverted to Most Popular Actor.[3]

The winner and nominees of Most Popular Actor are chosen by the public through an online voting survey on the TV Week website.[4] Paul Cronin and Martin Sacks hold the record for the most wins, with five each, followed by Grant Dodwell, Craig McLachlan and Hugh Sheridan with three wins each.

  1. ^ Cite error: The named reference 1977 Logies was invoked but never defined (see the help page).
  2. ^ Knox, David (16 November 2015). "Voting opens for 2016 Logie Awards". TV Tonight. Retrieved 16 November 2015.
  3. ^ Knox, David (5 March 2018). "Voting opens for 2018 Logie Awards". TV Tonight. Retrieved 5 March 2018.
  4. ^ Knox, David (5 December 2011). "Logie 2012 voting opens". TV Tonight. Retrieved 26 January 2015.