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Olivier Award Winners for Best Actress

See how many winners of the Olivier Award for Best Actress you can name.
Prior to this award, from 1976 to 1984 (and again in 1988), there was a pair of awards given each year for this general category, one for Actress of the Year in a New Play and the other for Actress of the Year in a Revival.
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Year
Play
Actress
2024
The Picture of Dorian Gray
Sarah Snook
2023
Prima Facie
Jodie Comer
2022
Constellations
Sheila Atim
2020
Death of a Salesman
Sharon D. Clarke
2019
Summer and Smoke
Patsy Ferran
2018
The Ferryman
Laura Donnelly
2017
Yerma
Billie Piper
2016
People, Places and Things
Denise Gough
2015
Taken at Midnight
Penelope Wilton
2014
Ghosts
Lesley Manville
2013
The Audience
Helen Mirren
2012
Anna Christie
Ruth Wilson
2011
After the Dance
Nancy Carroll
2010
A Streetcar Named Desire
Rachel Weisz
2009
The Chalk Garden
Margaret Tyzack
2008
The Seagull
Kristin Scott Thomas
2007
Much Ado About Nothing
Tamsin Greig
2006
Hedda Gabler
Eve Best
2005
Hecuba
Clare Higgins
2004
Honour
Eileen Atkins
2003
Vincent in Brixton
Clare Higgins
2002
Private Lives
Lindsay Duncan
2001
All My Sons
Julie Walters
2000
Comic Potential
Janie Dee
1999
The Unexpected Man
Eileen Atkins
1998
Electra
Zoë Wanamaker
1997
A Doll's House
Janet McTeer
1996
Absolute Hell
Judi Dench
1995
Sweet Bird of Youth
Clare Higgins
1994
Machinal
Fiona Shaw
1993
The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
Alison Steadman
1992
Death and the Maiden
Juliet Stevenson
1991
The Visit
Kathryn Hunter
1989/90
Electra
Fiona Shaw
As You Like It
The Good Person of Szechwan
1988
Shirley Valentine
Pauline Collins
A Question of Geography
Harriet Walter
Twelfth Night
Three Sisters
1987
Antony and Cleopatra
Judi Dench
1986
Les Liaisons Dangereuses
Lindsay Duncan
1985
The Road to Mecca
Yvonne Bryceland
1984
Poppie Nongena
Thuli Damukude
The Aspern Papers
Vanessa Redgrave
1983
Pack of Lies
Judi Dench
A Moon for the Misbegotten
Frances de la Tour
1982
84, Charing Cross Road
Rosemary Leach
A Doll's House
Cheryl Campbell
1981
Children of a Lesser God
Elizabeth Quinn
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
Margaret Tyzack
1980
Duet for One
Frances de la Tour
Juno and the Paycock
Judi Dench
1979
Piaf
Jane Lapotaire
Once in a Lifetime
Zoë Wanamaker
1978
Filumena
Joan Plowright
The Double Dealer
Dorothy Tutin
1977
Dusa, Fish, Stats and Vi
Alison Fiske
Macbeth
Judi Dench
1976
Old World
Peggy Ashcroft
A Month in the Country
Dorothy Tutin
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