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Timothy Spall Beats Brian Cox, Dominic West & Steve Coogan To Win Leading Actor For ‘The Sixth Commandment’ — BAFTA TV Awards


Timothy Spall beat Dominic West, Brian Cox and Steve Coogan to win the BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actor.

Timothy Spall has won the BAFTA TV Award for Leading Actor this evening, beating out top-name competition. Spall emerged as the winner ahead of Brian Cox for Succession, Dominic West for The Crown, Kane Robinson for Top Boy, Papa Essiedu for The Lazarus Project and Steve Coogan for The Reckoning. It starred Spall as university lecturer, Peter Farquhar, who was manipulated and eventually murdered by his former student and lodger, Ben Field, who was played by Éanna Hardwicke, nominated earlier today in the Best Supporting Actor category.

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