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Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance

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Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance
Silberner Bär/Bester Schauspielerische Leistung in einer Hauptrolle (German)
Rose Byrne 2025 winner
The 2025 recipient: Rose Byrne
Awarded forBest Leading Performance
CountryGermany
Presented byBerlin International Film Festival
First award2021
Currently held byRose Byrne
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025)
Websitewww.berlinale.de

The Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance (German: Silberner Bär/Beste Schauspielerische Leistung in einer Hauptrolle) is an award presented at the Berlin International Film Festival for an outstanding performance in a leading role and chosen by the jury from the films in main competition at the festival.

It was first presented at the 2021 Festival to replace the Best Actor and Best Actress categories.[1] Maren Eggert was the first recipient of this award for her role in I'm Your Man (2021). Rose Byrne is the most recent winner of this award for her performance in If I Had Legs I'd Kick You (2025).

Winners

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Sebastian Stan won for A Different Man (2024).

2020s

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Year Actor Role Title Ref.
2021 Germany Maren Eggert Alma Felser I'm Your Man [2]
2022 Turkey Germany Meltem Kaptan Rabiye Kurnaz Rabiye Kurnaz vs. George W. Bush [3]
2023 Spain Sofía Otero Lucía 20,000 Species of Bees [4]
2024 Romania United States Sebastian Stan Edward A Different Man [5]
2025 Australia Rose Byrne Linda If I Had Legs I'd Kick You [6]

See also

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References

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  1. ^ "Berlinale 2021: Performance Awards Gender-Neutral". Berlinale. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  2. ^ "Awards & Juries 2021". Berlinale. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  3. ^ "Awards & Juries 2022". Berlinale. Retrieved 19 February 2022.
  4. ^ "Awards & Juries 2023". Berlinale. Retrieved 25 February 2023.
  5. ^ "The Prizes of the International Jury". Berlinale. Retrieved 28 February 2024.
  6. ^ "The Prizes of the International Jury". Berlinale. Retrieved 22 February 2025.
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