SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Tamil
{{Short description|Tamil-language media award}}
{{Use dmy dates|date=September 2019}}
{{Use Indian English|date=September 2019}}
{{Infobox award
| name = SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Tamil
| awarded_for = Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Tamil film
| presenter = Vibri Media Group
| country = India
| year = 2012
| holder = Vikram
Ponniyin Selvan: II (2023)
| website = [http://Siima.in/ SIIMA Tamil]
|awardname=SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Tamil|total_awarded=|established=2012||total_recipients=|most_wins=Dhanush (5)|most_nominations=Dhanush (9)|image=Vikram at Iru Mugan Success Meet.jpg|image caption=The 2023 recipient: Vikram}}
SIIMA Award for Best Actor – Tamil is presented by Vibri media group as part of its annual South Indian International Movie Awards, for best acting done by an actor in Tamil films. The award was first given in 2012 for films released in 2011.
Superlatives
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| width="250" |Most awards | width="150" |Dhanush | 5 awards |
| Most nominations
|9 Nominations |
| rowspan="2"|Youngest winner
|rowspan="2"|Age 28 |
| Sivakarthikeyan for Ethir Neechal |
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|Oldest winner |Age 68 |
- Dhanush and Sivakarthikeyan have also won the SIIMA Critics Award for Best Actor – Tamil.
Winners
Nominations
- 2011: Dhanush – Aadukalam
- Vikram – Deiva Thirumagal
- Suriya – 7aum Arivu
- Ajith Kumar – Mankatha
- Vishal – Avan Ivan
- 2012: Dhanush – 3
- Vijay Sethupathi – Pizza
- Vijay – Thuppakki
- Vishnu – Neerparavai
- Suriya – Maattrraan
- 2013: Sivakarthikeyan – Ethir Neechal
- Dhanush – Mariyaan
- Kamal Haasan – Vishwaroopam
- Suriya – Singam II
- Vishal – Pandiya Naadu
- 2014: Dhanush – Velaiilla Pattadhari
- Vijay – Kaththi
- Karthi – Madras
- Siddharth – Jigarthanda
- Vijay Sethupathi – Pannaiyarum Padminiyum
- 2015: Vikram – I
- Dhanush – Anegan
- Jayam Ravi – Thani Oruvan
- Lawrence Raghavendra – Kanchana 2
- Vijay Sethupathi – Orange Mittai
- 2016: Sivakarthikeyan – Remo
- Karthi – Thozha
- Suriya – 24
- Vijay – Theri
- Vikram – Iru Mugan
- 2017: Sivakarthikeyan – Velaikkaran
- Karthi – Theeran Adhigaaram Ondru
- Vishal – Thupparivaalan
- Vijay – Mersal
- Vijay Sethupathi – Vikram Vedha
- 2018: Dhanush – Vada Chennai
- Vijay – Sarkar
- Karthi – Kadaikutty Singam
- Jayam Ravi – Adanga Maru
- Vijay Sethupathi – 96
- 2019: Dhanush – Asuran
- Vijay – Bigil
- Karthi – Kaithi
- Ajith Kumar – Viswasam
- Sivakarthikeyan – Namma Veettu Pillai
- Vijay Sethupathi – Super Deluxe
- 2020: Suriya – Soorarai Pottru
- Udhayanidhi Stalin – Psycho
- Jiiva – Gypsy
- RJ Balaji – Mookuthi Amman
- Shantanu Bhagyaraj – Paava Kadhaigal
- 2021: Sivakarthikeyan – Doctor & Silambarasan – Maanaadu
- Arya – Sarpatta Parambarai
- Dhanush – Karnan
- Suriya – Jai Bhim
- Vijay – Master
- 2022: Kamal Haasan – Vikram
- Dhanush – Thiruchitrambalam
- R. Madhavan – Rocketry: The Nambi Effect
- Silambarasan – Vendhu Thanindhathu Kaadu
- Vikram – Mahaan & Ponniyin Selvan: I