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Teen Choice Award for Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor

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Record originEnglish Wikipedia
Text licenseCC BY-SA 4.0
Source revisionJul 21, 2026
Entity authorityQ17011125 ↗
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The following is a list of Teen Choice Award winners and nominees for Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor. The award was first introduced (along with Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actress and Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Show) in 2010. Paul Wesley was the first recipient of the award.

The Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor has been won by Ian Somerhalder the most times, with four wins. Somerhalder and Wesley are the most nominated actors with seven nominations each, both actors for The Vampire Diaries.

The current winner as Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor is Jared Padalecki for Supernatural (2019).

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This entry incorporates text from “Teen Choice Award for Choice Sci-Fi/Fantasy TV Actor” on English Wikipedia. Contributors are listed in the page history. Text is available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 License. Selected authority identifiers and statements are retrieved from Wikidata under CC0; their references and qualifiers remain part of the verification path.