Nominations announced: 6 June 2010
Max Bennett: Claudio in Measure for Measure (Theatre Royal, Plymouth/ Thelma Holt) and Frank in Mrs Warren’s Profession(Theatre Royal, Bath)
Natalie Dew: Celia in As You Like It (Curve, Leicester)
Hedydd Dylan: Eliza Doolittle in Pygmalion (Clwyd)
Mariah Gale: Celia in As You Like It (RSC, Courtyard, Stratford)
Rebecca Hall: Hermione in The Winter’s Tale (Bridge Project at the Old Vic)
Tracy Ifeachor: Rosalind in As You Like It (Curve)
Max Irons: Max Piccolomini in Wallenstein (Minerva, Chichester)
Tunji Kasim: Lucius/Romulus in Julius Caesar (RSC)
Vanessa Kirby: Regina in Ghosts (Octagon, Bolton)
Keira Knightley: Jennifer in The Misanthrope (Comedy)
Jack Laskey: Orlando in As You Like It (Shakespeare’s Globe)
Harry Lloyd: Oswald in Ghosts (Arcola)
John MacMillan: Malcolm in Macbeth (Royal Exchange, Manchester) and Rosencrantz in Hamlet (Donmar at Wyndham’s)
Ruth Negga: Aricia in Phèdre (National)
David Ononokpono: Orlando in As You Like It (Curve)
Henry Pettigrew: Marcellus/Second Gravedigger in Hamlet (Donmar at Wyndham’s)
Prasanna Puwanarajah: Messenger in Thyestes (Arcola)
George Rainsford: Bertram in All’s Well That Ends Well (National)
Sam Swainsbury: Demetrius in A Midsummer Night’s Dream and Salerio in The Merchant of Venice (Propeller)
Ellie Turner: Agnes in The School for Wives (Upstairs at the Gatehouse)
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