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Best Supporting Actor Golden Globe (television) winners
- Ian McKellenIan McKellen came out as gay on BBC radio in 1988, while Parliament weighed Section 28.
- John GielgudJohn Gielgud was arrested months after being knighted. Backstage in Liverpool, he feared he could not face an audience.
- Ed HarrisOn the 21st of March 1999, at the 71st Academy Awards, the actor Ed Harris remained in his seat and did not applaud. The honoree was the director Elia Kazan, who was receiving an Academy Honorary Award. Harris and his wife, the actress Amy…
- Danny DeVitoDanny DeVito walked into an audition for the sitcom Taxi and did something that astonished the people who had created it. He asked them, in blunt language, who had written the script. Then he threw the pages onto the table. That nerve got…
- Robert Downey Jr.Robert Downey Jr. was too big an insurance risk to hire until Mel Gibson paid his insurance bond.
- Paul NewmanAt the 1995 24 Hours of Daytona, Paul Newman was 70 years and eight days old, and his team won its class. That made him the oldest driver to date on a winning team in a major sanctioned race. Newman was best known as a film star, and he…
- Stanley TucciStanley Tucci Jr. gave a college classmate a nickname that the man has carried ever since. The classmate was Irving Rhames, and the nickname was Ving. Tucci handed it over while the two of them studied acting together at a state university…
- John BoyegaJohn Boyega once left his Rise of Skywalker script in a hotel room, and it turned up on eBay.
- Stellan SkarsgårdStellan Skarsgård won the Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actor in 2026 for playing Gustav Borg in the film Sentimental Value. Borg is a filmmaker whose fame belongs to the past. The same performance earned the Swedish actor an Academy…
- William ShatnerWilliam Shatner, the Canadian actor who captained the starship Enterprise as James T. Kirk, once threw a chair out of the Winner's Circle on a television game show. It happened in 1977 on The $10,000 Pyramid. Shatner was trying to steer…
- Rutger HauerRutger Hauer wrote parts of Blade Runner's tears in rain speech the evening before filming. He added its last line.
- Alexander SkarsgårdOn the 31st of January 2026, Alexander Skarsgård stepped onto the stage of Saturday Night Live to host its 1,000th episode, with the rapper Cardi B as musical guest. The Swedish actor, born in 1976, is the son of a celebrated actor, and…
- Hugh LaurieHugh Laurie recorded the audition tape for his most famous role in the bathroom of a hotel in Namibia. It was the only room where the light was good enough. He was in Africa to film The Flight of the Phoenix, and a man named Jacob Vargas…
- Peter DinklageAt the 2012 Golden Globe ceremony, Peter Dinklage stepped up to accept the award for Best Supporting Actor in a series, miniseries or television film. He did not use the moment for a list of thank-yous. He told the room he had been…