British Soap Award for Best Newcomer

The British Soap Award for Best Newcomer is an award presented annually by the British Soap Awards. The award is voted for by a panel. EastEnders is the most awarded soap in the category, with nine wins. Emmerdale is the only current soap not to have won a Best Newcomer award; defunct soaps that did not win are Family Affairs and Night and Day. The award is currently held by Hollyoaks actress Isabelle Smith, for her role as Frankie Osborne.

British Soap Award for Best Newcomer
Country	United Kingdom
First award	2000; 25 years ago (2000)
Currently held by	Isabelle Smith, Hollyoaks (2025)
Most awards	EastEnders (9)

Awards and nominees

2000 winner Gary Lucy.

2001 winner Jessie Wallace.

2003 winner Jack McMullen.

2007 winner Kym Marsh.

2008 winner Michelle Keegan.

2010 winner Marc Elliott.

2011 winner Emmett J. Scanlan.

2022 winner Ross Boatman.

2023 nominee Kia Pegg.

2025 nominee Jacob Roberts.

Year	Actor	Role	Soap opera
2000[1]	Gary Lucy	Luke Morgan	Hollyoaks
	Tina O'Brien	Sarah Platt	Coronation Street
2001[2]	Jessie Wallace	Kat Slater	EastEnders
	Martin Delaney	Paul Webb	Family Affairs
2002[3]	Alex Ferns	Trevor Morgan	EastEnders
	Jennie McAlpine	Fiz Brown	Coronation Street
	Gemma Atkinson	Lisa Hunter	Hollyoaks
	Georgina Walker	Jane Harper	Night and Day
2003[4]	Jack McMullen	Josh McLoughlin	Brookside
	Freema Agyeman	Lola Wise	Crossroads
	Shane Richie	Alfie Moon	EastEnders
	Lee Otway	David "Bombhead" Burke	Hollyoaks
2004[5]	Nigel Harman	Dennis Rickman	EastEnders
	Gareth Hale	Doug MacKenzie	Family Affairs
	Wendi Peters	Cilla Brown	Coronation Street
	Luke Tittensor	Daz Eden	Emmerdale
2005[6]	Andrea Green	Sarah Finch	Doctors
	Antony Cotton	Sean Tully	Coronation Street
	Charlie Hardwick	Val Lambert	Emmerdale
	Tracy-Ann Oberman	Chrissie Watts	EastEnders
2006[7]	Charlie Clements	Bradley Branning	EastEnders
	Daniel Anthony	Lex Keavey	Doctors
	Jenna-Louise Coleman	Jasmine Thomas	Emmerdale
	Jessica Fox	Nancy Hayton	Hollyoaks
2007[8]	Kym Marsh	Michelle Connor	Coronation Street
	Martha Howe-Douglas	Donna Parmar	Doctors
	Joseph Gilgun	Eli Dingle	Emmerdale
	Gerard McCarthy	Kris Fisher	Hollyoaks
2008[9]	Michelle Keegan	Tina McIntyre	Coronation Street
	Stephen Lord	Jase Dyer	EastEnders
	Rita Simons	Roxy Mitchell	EastEnders
	Nico Mirallegro	Barry "Newt" Newton	Hollyoaks
2009[10]	Craig Gazey	Graeme Proctor	Coronation Street
	Selina Chilton	Ruth Pearce	Doctors
	Shona McGarty	Whitney Dean	EastEnders
	Jorgie Porter	Theresa McQueen	Hollyoaks
2010[11]	Marc Elliott	Syed Masood	EastEnders
	Sophie Abelson	Cherry Malone	Doctors
	Lyndon Ogbourne	Nathan Wylde	Emmerdale
	Bronagh Waugh	Cheryl Brady	Hollyoaks
2011[12]	Emmett J. Scanlan	Brendan Brady	Hollyoaks
	Paula Lane	Kylie Turner	Coronation Street
	Ricky Norwood	Arthur "Fatboy" Chubb	EastEnders
	Pauline Quirke	Hazel Rhodes	Emmerdale
2012[13]	Natalie Gumede	Kirsty Soames	Coronation Street
	Lu Corfield	Freya Wilson	Doctors
	Jamie Foreman	Derek Branning	EastEnders
	Gemma Oaten	Rachel Breckle	Emmerdale
2013[14]	Joseph Thompson	Dr. Paul Browning	Hollyoaks
	Marc Baylis	Rob Donovan	Coronation Street
	Ian Midlane	Al Haskey	Doctors
	Khali Best	Dexter Hartman	EastEnders
	Laura Norton	Kerry Wyatt	Emmerdale
2014[15]	Maddy Hill	Nancy Carter	EastEnders
	Amy Kelly	Maddie Heath	Coronation Street
	Michael Parr	Ross Barton	Emmerdale
	Charlie Clapham	Freddie Roscoe	Hollyoaks
2015[16]	Jessica Regan	Niamh Donoghue	Doctors
	Sean Ward	Callum Logan	Coronation Street
	Davood Ghadami	Kush Kazemi	EastEnders
	Ryan Hawley	Robert Sugden	Emmerdale
	Twinnie-Lee Moore	Porsche McQueen	Hollyoaks
2016[17]	Bonnie Langford	Carmel Kazemi	EastEnders
	Shayne Ward	Aidan Connor	Coronation Street
	Bharti Patel	Ruhma Hanif	Doctors
	Isobel Steele	Liv Flaherty	Emmerdale
	Duayne Boachie	Zack Loveday	Hollyoaks
2017[18]	Rob Mallard	Daniel Osbourne	Coronation Street
	Ritu Arya	Megan Sharma	Doctors
	Zack Morris	Keegan Baker	EastEnders
	Sally Dexter	Faith Dingle	Emmerdale
	Duncan James	Ryan Knight	Hollyoaks
2018[19]	Lorraine Stanley	Karen Taylor	EastEnders
	Nicola Thorp	Nicola Rubinstein	Coronation Street
	Reis Bruce	Austin Lonsdale	Doctors
	Andrew Scarborough	Graham Foster	Emmerdale
	Lauren McQueen	Lily McQueen	Hollyoaks
2019[20]	Alexandra Mardell	Emma Brooker	Coronation Street
	Bethan Moore	Izzie Torres	Doctors
	Ricky Champ	Stuart Highway	EastEnders
	James Moore	Ryan Stocks	Emmerdale
	Tylan Grant	Brooke Hathaway	Hollyoaks
2022[21]	Ross Boatman	Harvey Monroe	EastEnders
	Paddy Bever	Max Turner	Coronation Street
	Ross McLaren	Luca McIntyre	Doctors
	Darcy Grey	Marcus Dean	Emmerdale
	Matthew James-Bailey	Ethan Williams	Hollyoaks
2023[22]	Channique Sterling-Brown	Dee Dee Bailey	Coronation Street
	Kia Pegg	Scarlett Kiernan	Doctors
	Aaron Thiara	Ravi Gulati	Eastenders
	William Ash	Caleb Miligan	Emmerdale
	Anya Lawrence	Vicky Grant	Hollyoaks
2025[23]	Isabelle Smith	Frankie Osborne	Hollyoaks
	Jacob Roberts	Kit Green	Coronation Street
	Laura Doddington	Nicola Mitchell	EastEnders
	Shebz Miah	Kammy Hadiq	Emmerdale

Wins and nominations by soap

Soap opera	Wins	Nominations[a]
EastEnders	9	13
Coronation Street	7	12
Hollyoaks	4	14
Doctors	2	12
Brookside	1	0
Emmerdale	0	18
Family Affairs	0	2
Crossroads	0	1
Night and Day	0	1

Notelist

1. These nominations did not result in a win.