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- Halle Berry won for Monster's Ball ; first black winner in this category. (en)
- Maggie Smith won for The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie . (en)
- Helen Hayes won for The Sin of Madelon Claudet ; first actress to complete the EGOT. (en)
- Elizabeth Taylor won twice, for BUtterfield 8 and Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? . (en)
- Jessica Tandy won for Driving Miss Daisy ; this category's oldest winner, at age 80. (en)
- Marion Cotillard won for La Vie en Rose ; first French-language performance winner. (en)
- Vivien Leigh won twice, for Gone with the Wind and A Streetcar Named Desire . (en)
- Anna Magnani won for The Rose Tattoo . (en)
- Anne Bancroft won for The Miracle Worker . (en)
- Audrey Hepburn won for Roman Holiday . (en)
- Brie Larson won for Room . (en)
- Marlee Matlin won for Children of a Lesser God ; first deaf, and at age 21, this category's youngest winner. (en)
- Cate Blanchett won for Blue Jasmine . (en)
- Charlize Theron won for Monster . (en)
- Cher won for Moonstruck . (en)
- Claudette Colbert won for It Happened One Night . (en)
- Diane Keaton won for Annie Hall . (en)
- Emma Thompson won for Howards End . (en)
- Faye Dunaway won for Network . (en)
- Geraldine Page won for The Trip to Bountiful . (en)
- Ginger Rogers won for Kitty Foyle . (en)
- Grace Kelly won for The Country Girl . (en)
- Greer Garson won for Mrs. Miniver . (en)
- Gwyneth Paltrow won for Shakespeare in Love . (en)
- Helen Hunt won for As Good as It Gets . (en)
- Helen Mirren won for The Queen . (en)
- Holly Hunter won for The Piano . (en)
- Ingrid Bergman won twice, for Gaslight and Anastasia . (en)
- Jane Fonda won twice, for Klute and Coming Home . (en)
- Jennifer Jones won for The Song of Bernadette . (en)
- Jessica Chastain won for The Eyes of Tammy Faye . (en)
- Jessica Lange won for Blue Sky . (en)
- Joan Crawford won for Mildred Pierce . (en)
- Joan Fontaine won for Suspicion . (en)
- Joanne Woodward won for The Three Faces of Eve . (en)
- Judy Holliday won for Born Yesterday . (en)
- Julia Roberts won for Erin Brockovich . (en)
- Julianne Moore won for Still Alice . (en)
- Julie Andrews won for Mary Poppins . (en)
- Julie Christie won Darling . (en)
- Kate Winslet won for The Reader . (en)
- Kathy Bates won for Misery . (en)
- Liza Minnelli won for Cabaret . (en)
- Loretta Young won for The Farmer's Daughter . (en)
- Marie Dressler won for Min and Bill . (en)
- Mary Pickford won for Coquette . (en)
- Natalie Portman won for Black Swan . (en)
- Nicole Kidman won for The Hours . (en)
- Norma Shearer won for The Divorcee . (en)
- Olivia Colman won for The Favourite . (en)
- Patricia Neal won for Hud . (en)
- Jodie Foster won twice, for The Accused and The Silence of the Lambs . (en)
- Sophia Loren won for Two Women ; first for a non-English (Italian) dialogue role. (en)
- Reese Witherspoon won for Walk the Line . (en)
- Renée Zellweger won for Judy . (en)
- Olivia de Havilland won twice, for To Each His Own and The Heiress . (en)
- Sandra Bullock won for The Blind Side . (en)
- Shirley MacLaine won for Terms of Endearment . (en)
- Simone Signoret won for Room at the Top . (en)
- Sissy Spacek won for Coal Miner's Daughter . (en)
- Susan Hayward won for I Want to Live! . (en)
- Susan Sarandon won for Dead Man Walking . (en)
- The 2025 recipient: Mikey Madison (en)
- Ellen Burstyn won for Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore . (en)
- Shirley Booth won for Come Back, Little Sheba ; won Tony for the same role—first actress to accomplish this. (en)
- Hilary Swank won twice, for Boys Don't Cry and Million Dollar Baby . (en)
- Sally Field won twice, for Norma Rae and Places in the Heart . (en)
- Bette Davis won twice, for Dangerous and Jezebel . (en)
- Louise Fletcher won for One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest . (en)
- Meryl Streep won twice, for Sophie's Choice and The Iron Lady . (en)
- Glenda Jackson won twice, for Women in Love and A Touch of Class . (en)
- Katharine Hepburn won four times, for: Morning Glory , Guess Who's Coming to Dinner , The Lion in Winter , and On Golden Pond . (en)
- Emma Stone won twice, for La La Land and Poor Things . (en)
- Barbra Streisand won for Funny Girl , in a tie with Katharine Hepburn. (en)
- Janet Gaynor was the inaugural winner, for three films: 7th Heaven , Street Angel , and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans . (en)
- Frances McDormand won thrice, for Fargo , Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri , and Nomadland . (en)
- Luise Rainer was the first to win twice consecutively, for The Great Ziegfeld and The Good Earth . (en)
- Michelle Yeoh won for Everything Everywhere All at Once ; first Southeast Asian winner in this category. (en)
- Jane Wyman won for Johnny Belinda ; first winner to utilize ASL. (en)
- Jennifer Lawrence won for Silver Linings Playbook . (en)
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