diff --git a/Cargo.toml b/Cargo.toml
index 6b5ee143..6e4bb931 100644
--- a/Cargo.toml
+++ b/Cargo.toml
@@ -94,7 +94,7 @@ sqlite-use-returning-for-3_35 = []
 runtime-async-std = ["sqlx?/runtime-async-std"]
 runtime-async-std-native-tls = ["sqlx?/runtime-async-std-native-tls", "runtime-async-std"]
 runtime-async-std-rustls = ["sqlx?/runtime-async-std-rustls", "runtime-async-std"]
-runtime-actix = []
+runtime-actix = ["sqlx?/runtime-tokio"]
 runtime-actix-native-tls = ["sqlx?/runtime-tokio-native-tls", "runtime-actix"]
 runtime-actix-rustls = ["sqlx?/runtime-tokio-rustls", "runtime-actix"]
 runtime-tokio = ["sqlx?/runtime-tokio"]