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2019 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Gloria Mundi Ariane Ascaride](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gloria-mundi-robert-guediguian-image.jpg)
Gloria Mundi
Ariane Ascaride
2018 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – 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 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Hannah Charlotte Rampling](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hannah-andrea-pallaoro-image.jpg)
Hannah
Charlotte Rampling
2016 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![La La Land Emma Stone](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/la-la-land-damien-chazelle-image.jpg)
La La Land
Emma Stone
2015 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Anna Valeria Golino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/anna-giuseppe-m.-gaudino-image.jpg)
Anna
Valeria Golino
2014 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Hungry Hearts Alba Rohrwacher](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/hungry-hearts-saverio-costanzo-image.jpg)
Hungry Hearts
Alba Rohrwacher
2013 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![A Street in Palermo Elena Cotta](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-street-in-palermo-emma-dante-image.jpg)
A Street in Palermo
Elena Cotta
2012 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Fill the Void Hadas Yaron](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/fill-the-void-rama-burshtein-image.jpg)
Fill the Void
Hadas Yaron
2011 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![A Simple Life Deannie Ip](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-simple-life-ann-hui-image.jpg)
A Simple Life
Deannie Ip
2010 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Attenberg Ariane Labed](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/attenberg-athina-rachel-tsangari-image.jpg)
Attenberg
Ariane Labed
2009 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Double Hour Kseniya Rappoport](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-double-hour-giuseppe-capotondi-image.jpg)
The Double Hour
Kseniya Rappoport
2008 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Other One Dominique Blanc](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-other-one-patrick-mario-bernard-pierre-trividic-image.jpg)
The Other One
Dominique Blanc
2007 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![I'm Not There Cate Blanchett](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/im-not-there-todd-haynes-image.jpg)
I’m Not There
Cate Blanchett
2006 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – 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 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Don't Tell Giovanna Mezzogiorno](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dont-tell-cristina-comencini-image.jpg)
Don’t Tell
Giovanna Mezzogiorno
2004 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – 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 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Rosenstrasse Katja Riemann](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/rosenstrasse-margarethe-von-trotta-image.jpg)
Rosenstrasse
Katja Riemann
2002 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – 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 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Light of My Eyes Sandra Ceccarelli](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/light-of-my-eyes-giuseppe-piccioni-image.jpg)
Light of My Eyes
Sandra Ceccarelli
2000 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Goddess of 1967 Rose Byrne](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-goddess-of-1967-clara-law-image.jpg)
The Goddess of 1967
Rose Byrne
1999 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![An Affair of Love Nathalie Baye](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/an-affair-of-love-frederic-fonteyne-image.jpg)
An Affair of Love
Nathalie Baye
1998 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Place Vendôme Catherine Deneuve](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/place-vendome-nicole-garcia-image.jpg)
Place Vendôme
Catherine Deneuve
1997 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Niagara, Niagara Robin Tunney](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/niagara-niagara-bob-gosse-image.jpg)
Niagara, Niagara
Robin Tunney
1996 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Ponette Victoire Thivisol](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/ponette-jacques-doillon-image.jpg)
Ponette
Victoire Thivisol
1995 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![La cérémonie Sandrine Bonnaire](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/la-ceremonie-claude-chabrol-image.jpg)
La cérémonie
Sandrine Bonnaire
1994 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Two Brothers, My Sister Maria de Medeiros](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/two-brothers-my-sister-teresa-villaverde-image.jpg)
Two Brothers, My Sister
Maria de Medeiros
1993 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Three Colors: Blue Juliette Binoche](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/three-colors-blue-krzysztof-kieslowski-image.jpg)
Three Colors: Blue
Juliette Binoche
1992 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Story of Qiu Ju Li Gong](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-story-of-qiu-ju-yimou-zhang-image.jpg)
The Story of Qiu Ju
Li Gong
1991 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Edward II Tilda Swinton](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/edward-ii-derek-jarman-image.jpg)
Edward II
Tilda Swinton
1990 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Moon in the Mirror Gloria Münchmeyer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-moon-in-the-mirror-silvio-caiozzi-image.jpg)
The Moon in the Mirror
Gloria Münchmeyer
1989 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Screen One Peggy Ashcroft](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/screen-one-image.jpg)
Screen One
Peggy Ashcroft
1988 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Madame Sousatzka Shirley MacLaine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/madame-sousatzka-john-schlesinger-image.jpg)
Madame Sousatzka
Shirley MacLaine
1988 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Story of Women Isabelle Huppert](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/story-of-women-claude-chabrol-image.jpg)
Story of Women
Isabelle Huppert
1987 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Surrogate Woman Soo-youn Kang](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-surrogate-woman-kwon-taek-im-image.jpg)
The Surrogate Woman
Soo-youn Kang
1986 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![A Tale of Love Valeria Golino](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/a-tale-of-love-francesco-maselli-image.jpg)
A Tale of Love
Valeria Golino
1984 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Full Moon in Paris Pascale Ogier](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/full-moon-in-paris-eric-rohmer-image.jpg)
Full Moon in Paris
Pascale Ogier
1983 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Black Shack Alley Darling Légitimus](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/black-shack-alley-euzhan-palcy-image.jpg)
Black Shack Alley
Darling Légitimus
1968 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Teorema Laura Betti](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/teorema-pier-paolo-pasolini-image.jpg)
Teorema
Laura Betti
1967 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Dutchman Shirley Knight](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/dutchman-anthony-harvey-image.jpg)
Dutchman
Shirley Knight
1966 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The First Teacher Natalya Arinbasarova](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/pervyy-uchitel-andrey-konchalovskiy-image.jpg)
The First Teacher
Natalya Arinbasarova
1965 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Three Rooms in Manhattan Annie Girardot](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/three-rooms-in-manhattan-marcel-carne-image.jpg)
Three Rooms in Manhattan
Annie Girardot
1964 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![To Love Harriet Andersson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/to-love-jorn-donner-image.jpg)
To Love
Harriet Andersson
1963 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Muriel, or the Time of Return Delphine Seyrig](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/muriel-or-the-time-of-return-alain-resnais-image.jpg)
Muriel, or the Time of Return
Delphine Seyrig
1962 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Therese Emmanuelle Riva](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/therese-georges-franju-image.jpg)
Therese
Emmanuelle Riva
1961 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Thou Shalt Not Kill Suzanne Flon](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/thou-shalt-not-kill-claude-autant-lara-image.jpg)
Thou Shalt Not Kill
Suzanne Flon
1960 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Apartment Shirley MacLaine](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-apartment-billy-wilder-image.jpg)
The Apartment
Shirley MacLaine
1959 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Leda Madeleine Robinson](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/leda-claude-chabrol-image.jpg)
Leda
Madeleine Robinson
1958 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Black Orchid Sophia Loren](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-black-orchid-martin-ritt-image.jpg)
The Black Orchid
Sophia Loren
1957 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Malva Dzidra Ritenberga](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Malva
Dzidra Ritenberga
1956 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Gervaise Maria Schell](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/gervaise-rene-clement-image.jpg)
Gervaise
Maria Schell
1953 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Four Poster Lilli Palmer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-four-poster-irving-reis-image.jpg)
The Four Poster
Lilli Palmer
1952 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Europe '51 Ingrid Bergman](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/europe-51-roberto-rossellini-image.jpg)
Europe ’51
Ingrid Bergman
1942 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![The Golden City Kristina Söderbaum](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/the-golden-city-veit-harlan-image.jpg)
The Golden City
Kristina Söderbaum
1941 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Annelie Luise Ullrich](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/annelie-josef-von-baky-image.jpg)
Annelie
Luise Ullrich
1938 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Marie Antoinette Norma Shearer](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/marie-antoinette-w.s.-van-dyke-julien-duvivier-image.jpg)
Marie Antoinette
Norma Shearer
1937 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Kid Galahad Bette Davis](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/kid-galahad-michael-curtiz-image.jpg)
Kid Galahad
Bette Davis
1936 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Sacrifice d'honneur Annabella](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/movie-cover-1-image.jpg)
Sacrifice d’honneur
Annabella
1935 Venice Film Festival – Volpi Cup – Best Actress
![Episode Paula Wessely](https://www.awardsarchive.com/wp-content/uploads/2020/03/episode-walter-reisch-image.jpg)