Canadian Screen Award for Best Leading Performance in a Drama Series explained

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Lead Performance in a Drama Series is an annual award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television as part of the Canadian Screen Awards program, to honour the best leading performance in a Canadian television comedy series.

It is a merger of the former awards for Best Actor in a Drama Series and Best Actress in a Drama Series, following the academy's announcement in August 2022 that it would start presenting gender-neutral acting awards instead of gendered ones.^[1]

2020s

Year	Actor	Series	Ref
2022 11th Canadian Screen Awards
	Hamza Haq	Transplant	^[2]
	Aml Ameen	The Porter	^[3]
	Jennifer Finnigan	Moonshine
	Laurence Leboeuf	Transplant
	Mayko Nguyen	Hudson & Rex
	John Reardon	Hudson & Rex
	Ronnie Rowe Jr.	The Porter
	Mouna Traoré	The Porter
2023 12th Canadian Screen Awards
	Darla Contois	Little Bird	^[4]
	Victor Garber	Family Law	^[5]
	Hamza Haq	Transplant
	Ellyn Jade	Little Bird
	Laurence Leboeuf	Transplant
	Meredith MacNeill	Pretty Hard Cases
	Adrienne C. Moore	Pretty Hard Cases
	Mayko Nguyen	Hudson & Rex

Notes and References

1. Joseph Pugh, "Canadian Screen Awards switching to gender-neutral performance categories". CBC News, August 25, 2022.
2. https://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/csas-final-night-2023-1.6811617 "The Porter, Sort Of showered in awards on the CSAs' final night"
3. Etan Vlessing, "Canadian Screen Awards: TV Drama ‘The Porter’ Leads With 19 Nominations". The Hollywood Reporter, February 22, 2023.
4. Etan Vlessing, "‘BlackBerry,’ ‘Little Bird’ Dominate Canadian Screen Awards". The Hollywood Reporter, May 31, 2024.
5. Jackson Weaver, "BlackBerry, Sort Of, Little Bird dominate Canadian Screen Award nominations". CBC News, March 6, 2024.