Actor Hurt back in Bafta race

ACTOR John Hurt has been nominated for a TV Bafta for reprising the role of Quentin Crisp – 34 years after he received the award for playing the flamboyant gay writer in The Naked Civil Servant.

By The Newsroom

Published 11th May 2010, 11:56 BST

Updated 11th May 2010, 11:56 BST

Hurt, 70, is up for leading actor against Kenneth Branagh for Wallander, Brendan Gleeson for his portrayal of Winston Churchill in Into The Storm, shown on BBC2 and first-time nominee David Oyelowo for his performance in Small Island on BBC1.

Hurt made his reputation and caused a sensation when he took on the role of the eccentric Quentin Crisp in The Naked Civil Servant in 1975. He took up the part again for An Englishman In New York on ITV1 last year.

The awards will be hosted by Graham Norton and broadcast on BBC1 from the London Palladium on June 6.

Julie Walters has here 13th and 14th Bafta nominations – in the leading actress category – for her role as the late politician Mo Mowlam in the Channel 4 drama Mo, and for her performance in A Short Stay in Switzerland, the BBC1 drama inspired by the story of Dr Anne Turner, who took her own life in Zurich in 2006.