Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress was one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

Winners

1990s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
1997	Helena Bonham Carter	The Wings of the Dove	Kate Croy	^[1]
1997	Sarah Polley	The Sweet Hereafter	Nicole Burnell	^[1]
1998	Cate Blanchett	Elizabeth	Queen Elizabeth I	^[2]
	Pascale Bussières	August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre)	Simone Prévost
	Christina Ricci	The Opposite of Sex	Dedee Truitt
1999	Hilary Swank	Boys Don't Cry	Brandon Teena	^[3]
1999	Cecilia Roth	All About My Mother	Manuela Echevarria	^[3]

2000s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2000	Laura Linney	You Can Count on Me	Samantha "Sammy" Prescott	^[4]
2000	Michelle Yeoh	Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long)	Yu Shu Lien	^[4]
2001	Thora Birch	Ghost World	Enid	^[5]
	Gillian Anderson	The House of Mirth	Lily Bart
	Tilda Swinton	The Deep End	Margaret Hall
2002	Julianne Moore	Far from Heaven	Cathy Whitaker	^[6]
	Maggie Gyllenhall	Secretary	Lee Holloway
	Isabelle Huppert	The Piano Teacher	Erika Kohut
2003	Samantha Morton	Morvern Callar	Morvern Callar	^[7]
2004	Imelda Staunton	Vera Drake	Vera Drake	^[8]
2005	Laura Linney	The Squid and the Whale	Joan Berkman	^[9]
2006	Helen Mirren	The Queen	Queen Elizabeth II	^[10]
	Penélope Cruz	Volver	Raimunda
	Judi Dench	Notes on a Scandal	Barbara Covett
2007	Julie Christie	Away from Her	Fiona Anderson	^[11]
	Elliot Page^[a]	Juno	Juno MacGuff
	Laura Dern	Inland Empire	Nikki Grace / Susan Blue
2008	Michelle Williams	Wendy and Lucy	Wendy	^[12]
	Anne Hathaway	Rachel Getting Married	Kym
	Meryl Streep	Doubt	Aloysius Beauvier
2009	Carey Mulligan	An Education	Jenny	^[13]
	Arta Dobroshi	Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna)	Lorna
	Meryl Streep	Julie & Julia	Julia Child

2010s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2010	Jennifer Lawrence	Winter's Bone	Ree Dolly	^[14]
	Natalie Portman	Black Swan	Nina Sayers
	Michelle Williams	Blue Valentine	Cindy Heller
2011	Michelle Williams	My Week with Marilyn	Marilyn Monroe	^[15]
	Elizabeth Olsen	Martha Marcy May Marlene	Martha
	Meryl Streep	The Iron Lady	Margaret Thatcher
2012	Rachel Weisz	The Deep Blue Sea	Hester Collyer	^[16]
	Jessica Chastain	Zero Dark Thirty	Maya
	Emmanuelle Riva	Amour	Anne Laurent
2013	Cate Blanchett	Blue Jasmine	Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis	^[17]
	Julie Delpy	Before Midnight	Céline Wallace
	Greta Gerwig	Frances Ha	Frances Halliday
2014	Marion Cotillard	The Immigrant	Ewa Cybulska	^[18]
	Julianne Moore	Still Alice	Alice Howland
	Reese Witherspoon	Wild	Cheryl Strayed
2015	Nina Hoss	Phoenix	Nelly Lenz	^[19]
	Cate Blanchett	Carol	Carol Aird
	Brie Larson	Room	Joy "Ma" Newsome
2016	Sandra Hüller	Toni Erdmann	Ines Conradi	^[20]
	Rebecca Hall	Christine	Christine Chubbuck
	Isabelle Huppert	Elle	Michèle Leblanc
	Natalie Portman	Jackie	Jackie Kennedy
2017	Frances McDormand	Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri	Mildred Hayes	^[21]
	Sally Hawkins	The Shape of Water	Elisa Esposito
	Saoirse Ronan	Lady Bird	Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson
2018	Olivia Colman	The Favourite	Anne, Queen of Great Britain	^[22]
	Regina Hall	Support the Girls	Lisa Conroy
	Melissa McCarthy	Can You Ever Forgive Me?	Lee Israel
2019	Lupita Nyong'o	Us	Adelaide Wilson / Red	^[23]
	Scarlett Johansson	Marriage Story	Nicole Barber
	Renée Zellweger	Judy	Judy Garland

2020s

Year	Winner	Film	Role	Ref
2020	Frances McDormand	Nomadland	Fern	^[24]
	Viola Davis	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey
	Sidney Flanigan	Never Rarely Sometimes Always	Autumn Callahan
2021	Olivia Colman	The Lost Daughter	Leda Caruso	^[25]
	Penélope Cruz	Parallel Mothers	Janis Martinez
	Kristen Stewart	Spencer	Diana, Princess of Wales
2022	Cate Blanchett	Tár	Lydia Tár	^[26]
	Danielle Deadwyler	Till	Mamie Till
	Michelle Yeoh	Everything Everywhere All at Once	Evelyn Quan Wang

Notes

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External links

Toronto Film Critics Association - Past Award Winners

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Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

Contents

Winners

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Notes

References

External links