# 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 Coronation Street actress Channique Sterling-Brown, for her role as Dee Dee Bailey.

## Awards and nominees

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

## Wins and nominations by soap

| Soap opera | Wins | Nominations |
| EastEnders | 9 | 12 |
| Coronation Street | 7 | 11 |
| Hollyoaks | 3 | 14 |
| Doctors | 2 | 12 |
| Brookside | 1 | 0 |
| Emmerdale | 0 | 17 |
| Family Affairs | 0 | 2 |
| Crossroads | 0 | 1 |
| Night and Day | 0 | 1 |