Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series

The Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series is one of the annual Independent Spirit Awards to honor an actor who has delivered an outstanding lead performance in a new scripted series.

Independent Spirit Award for Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series
Presented by	Film Independent
First award	Quinta Brunson Abbott Elementary (2022)
Final award	Richard Gadd Baby Reindeer (2024)
Website	filmindependent.org

In 2022, it was announced that the acting categories Best Female Performance in a New Scripted Series and Best Male Performance in a New Scripted Series would be retired and replaced with two gender neutral categories: Best Lead Performance in a New Scripted Series & Best Supporting Performance in a New Scripted Series.^[1]

Winners and nominees

2020s

Year	Nominees	Show	Role	Network
2022 [2]	Quinta Brunson	Abbott Elementary	Janine Teagues	ABC
	Aml Ameen	The Porter	Junior Massey	BET+ / CBC Television
	Mohammed Amer	Mo	Mo Najjar	Netflix
	Bridget Everett	Somebody Somewhere	Sam	HBO
	KaMillion	Rap Sh!t	Mia Knight	HBO Max
	Melanie Lynskey	Yellowjackets	Shauna Shipman	Showtime
	Himesh Patel	Station Eleven	Jeevan Chaudhary	HBO Max
	Sue Ann Pien	As We See It	Violet Wu	Prime Video
	Adam Scott	Severance	Mark Scout	Apple TV+
	Ben Whishaw	This Is Going to Hurt	Adam Kay	AMC+ / BBC One
2023 [3]	Ali Wong	Beef	Amy Lau	Netflix
	Emma Corrin	A Murder at the End of the World	Darby Hart	FX on Hulu
	Dominique Fishback	Swarm	Andrea "Dre" Greene	Prime Video
	Betty Gilpin	Mrs. Davis	Sister Simone	Peacock
	Jharrel Jerome	I'm a Virgo	Cootie	Prime Video
	Zoe Lister-Jones	Slip	Mae Cannon	The Roku Channel
	Bel Powley	A Small Light	Miep Gies	Nat Geo
	Bella Ramsey	The Last of Us	Ellie	HBO
	Ramón Rodríguez	Will Trent	Will Trent	ABC
	Steven Yeun	Beef	Danny Cho	Netflix
2024 [4]	Richard Gadd	Baby Reindeer	Donny Dunn	Netflix
	Brian Jordan Alvarez	English Teacher	Evan Marquez	FX
	Lily Gladstone	Under the Bridge	Cam Bentland	Hulu
	Kathryn Hahn	Agatha All Along	Agatha Harkness	Disney+
	Cristin Milioti	The Penguin	Sofia Falcone	HBO
	Julianne Moore	Mary & George	Mary Villiers	Starz
	Hiroyuki Sanada	Shōgun	Lord Yoshii Toranaga	FX
	Anna Sawai		Toda Mariko
	Andrew Scott	Ripley	Tom Ripley	Netflix
	Julio Torres	Fantasmas	Julio Torres	HBO