Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actor in a Supporting Role

See Olivier Awards for more information about the awards and a full list of categories and winners.

The Laurence Olivier Awards are a series of awards presented annually by The Society of London Theatre. They are presented in recognition of achievements in commercial British theatre, most notably plays and musicals in the West End of London, an area commonly referred to as "Theatreland". The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976 and, in 1984 they were renamed in honour of the renowned British actor Lord Olivier. The Olivier Awards are the most prestigious theatrical awards in the United Kingdom and are the UK equivalent of the American Tony Awards.

This list comprises the winners of the now obsolete Best Actor in a Supporting Role category shown in bold. Where possible other nominees will be shown in italics.

• 2002–Toby Jones for The Play What I Wrote
• 2001–Ben Daniels for All My Sons
• 2000–Roger Allam for Money
• 1997–Trevor Eve for Uncle Vanya
• 1995–Ken Stott for Broken Glass
• 1994–Joseph Mydell for Perestroika
• 1993–Julian Glover for Henry IV (Parts 1 and 2)
• 1992–Oleg Menshikov for When She Danced
• 1991–David Bradley for King Lear
• 1986–Paul Jesson for The Normal Heart
• 1984–Edward Petherbridge for Strange Interlude
• 1983–Alan Devlin for A Moon for the Misbegotten
• 1982–David Healy for Guys and Dolls
• 1981–Joe Melia for Good
• 1980–David Threlfall for Nicholas Nickleby
• 1979–Patrick Stewart for Antony and Cleopatra
• 1978–Robert Eddison for Twelfth Night
• 1977–Nigel Hawthorne for Privates on Parade