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2019 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Diane Mary Kay Place](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/diane-kent-jones-image.jpg)
Diane
Mary Kay Place
2018 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Favourite Olivia Colman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-favourite-yorgos-lanthimos-image.jpg)
The Favourite
Olivia Colman
2017 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Shape of Water Sally Hawkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-shape-of-water-guillermo-del-toro-image.jpg)
The Shape of Water
Sally Hawkins
2016 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Elle Isabelle Huppert](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/elle-paul-verhoeven-image.jpg)
Elle
Isabelle Huppert
2015 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![45 Years Charlotte Rampling](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/45-years-image.jpg)
45 Years
Charlotte Rampling
2014 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Boyhood Patricia Arquette](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boyhood-richard-linklater-image.jpg)
Boyhood
Patricia Arquette
2013 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Blue Is the Warmest Color Adèle Exarchopoulos](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blue-is-the-warmest-color-image.jpg)
Blue Is the Warmest Color
Adèle Exarchopoulos
2013 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Blue Jasmine Cate Blanchett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blue-jasmine-woody-allen-image.jpg)
Blue Jasmine
Cate Blanchett
2012 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Amour Emmanuelle Riva](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/amour-michael-haneke-image.jpg)
Amour
Emmanuelle Riva
2012 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Silver Linings Playbook Jennifer Lawrence](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/silver-linings-playbook-david-o.-russell-image.jpg)
Silver Linings Playbook
Jennifer Lawrence
2011 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Poetry Jeong-hie Yun](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/poetry-chang-dong-lee-image.jpg)
Poetry
Jeong-hie Yun
2010 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Mother Hye-ja Kim](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/mother-bong-joon-ho-image.jpg)
Mother
Hye-ja Kim
2009 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Séraphine Yolande Moreau](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/seraphine-martin-provost-image.jpg)
Séraphine
Yolande Moreau
2008 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Happy-Go-Lucky Sally Hawkins](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/happy-go-lucky-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Happy-Go-Lucky
Sally Hawkins
2007 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![La Vie en Rose Marion Cotillard](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/la-vie-en-rose-olivier-dahan-image.jpg)
La Vie en Rose
Marion Cotillard
2006 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Queen Helen Mirren](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-queen-stephen-frears-image.jpg)
The Queen
Helen Mirren
2005 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Down to the Bone Vera Farmiga](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/down-to-the-bone-debra-granik-image.jpg)
Down to the Bone
Vera Farmiga
2004 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Vera Drake Imelda Staunton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vera-drake-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Vera Drake
Imelda Staunton
2003 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![21 Grams Naomi Watts](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/21-grams-image.jpg)
21 Grams
Naomi Watts
2002 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Far from Heaven Julianne Moore](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/far-from-heaven-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
Far from Heaven
Julianne Moore
2001 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![In the Bedroom Sissy Spacek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/in-the-bedroom-todd-field-image.jpg)
In the Bedroom
Sissy Spacek
2000 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Erin Brockovich Julia Roberts](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/erin-brockovich-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)
Erin Brockovich
Julia Roberts
1999 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Boys Don't Cry Hilary Swank](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/boys-dont-cry-kimberly-peirce-image.jpg)
Boys Don’t Cry
Hilary Swank
1998 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Central Station Fernanda Montenegro](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/central-station-walter-salles-image.jpg)
Central Station
Fernanda Montenegro
1998 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![High Art Ally Sheedy](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/high-art-lisa-cholodenko-image.jpg)
High Art
Ally Sheedy
1997 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Wings of the Dove Helena Bonham Carter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-wings-of-the-dove-iain-softley-image.jpg)
The Wings of the Dove
Helena Bonham Carter
1996 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Secrets & Lies Brenda Blethyn](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/secrets-and-lies-mike-leigh-image.jpg)
Secrets & Lies
Brenda Blethyn
1995 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Leaving Las Vegas Elisabeth Shue](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leaving-las-vegas-mike-figgis-image.jpg)
Leaving Las Vegas
Elisabeth Shue
1994 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Blue Sky Jessica Lange](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/blue-sky-tony-richardson-image.jpg)
Blue Sky
Jessica Lange
1993 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Piano Holly Hunter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-piano-jane-campion-image.jpg)
The Piano
Holly Hunter
1992 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Howards End Emma Thompson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/howards-end-james-ivory-image.jpg)
Howards End
Emma Thompson
1991 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Fisher King Mercedes Ruehl](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fisher-king-terry-gilliam-image.jpg)
The Fisher King
Mercedes Ruehl
1990 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Grifters Anjelica Huston](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-grifters-stephen-frears-image.jpg)
The Grifters
Anjelica Huston
1989 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Sex, Lies, and Videotape Andie MacDowell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sex-lies-and-videotape-steven-soderbergh-image.jpg)
Sex, Lies, and Videotape
Andie MacDowell
1989 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The Fabulous Baker Boys Michelle Pfeiffer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-fabulous-baker-boys-steve-kloves-image.jpg)
The Fabulous Baker Boys
Michelle Pfeiffer
1988 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Running on Empty Christine Lahti](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/running-on-empty-sidney-lumet-image.jpg)
Running on Empty
Christine Lahti
1987 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Anna Sally Kirkland](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/anna-yurek-bogayevicz-image.jpg)
Anna
Sally Kirkland
1987 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Broadcast News Holly Hunter](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/broadcast-news-james-l.-brooks-image.jpg)
Broadcast News
Holly Hunter
1986 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Vagabond Sandrine Bonnaire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/vagabond-image.jpg)
Vagabond
Sandrine Bonnaire
1985 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Out of Africa Meryl Streep](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/out-of-africa-sydney-pollack-image.jpg)
Out of Africa
Meryl Streep
1984 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Crimes of Passion Kathleen Turner](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/crimes-of-passion-ken-russell-image.jpg)
Crimes of Passion
Kathleen Turner
1983 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Terms of Endearment Shirley MacLaine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/terms-of-endearment-image.jpg)
Terms of Endearment
Shirley MacLaine
1982 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Sophie's Choice Meryl Streep](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/sophies-choice-image.jpg)
Sophie’s Choice
Meryl Streep
1981 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![The French Lieutenant's Woman Meryl Streep](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-french-lieutenants-woman-karel-reisz-image.jpg)
The French Lieutenant’s Woman
Meryl Streep
1980 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Coal Miner's Daughter Sissy Spacek](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coal-miners-daughter-michael-apted-image.jpg)
Coal Miner’s Daughter
Sissy Spacek
1979 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Norma Rae Sally Field](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/norma-rae-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
Norma Rae
Sally Field
1978 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Coming Home Jane Fonda](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/coming-home-hal-ashby-image.jpg)
Coming Home
Jane Fonda
1977 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![3 Women Shelley Duvall](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/3-women-robert-altman-image.jpg)
3 Women
Shelley Duvall
1976 LAFCA Award – Best Actress
![Face to Face Liv Ullmann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/face-to-face-ingmar-bergman-image.jpg)