The Filmfare Best Actress Award is given by the ''Filmfare'' magazine as part of its annual

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for

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films. The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972. Film world, p 43 The year indicates the year of release of the film.

Superlatives

* Vijayashanti has maximum awards with six wins. * Vanisri won the award the most times in the 70's with three wins. Vijayashanti won the most in the 80s and 90s with three wins each decade. In the 90s, Soundarya had three wins. Trisha won the award three times in 2000s, while Anushka Shetty has the most wins in 2010s with three. * Jayasudha and

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are the two actress who have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and

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. * Six actresses have won the awards in consecutive years: Vanisri (1973–1975), Jayasudha (1976–1977), Vijayashanti (1989–1990), Soundarya (1998–1999), Trisha (2004–2005) and Anushka Shetty (2009–2010). Vanisri is the only actress to win the award three times consecutively. *

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, Revathi and

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are the only actresses to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu in the same year for their performances in the year 1972, 1992 and 2012 respectively. * Five actresses have won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for their debut Telugu films. In chronological order,

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(1981),

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(2000), Sadha (2002),

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(2003) and

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(2017). * Nithya Menon is the first actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu (in 2013) and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress (in 2015). *

was the first actress who won both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress -Telugu awards in the same year (2022). * Vijayashanti and Keerthy Suresh both have won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and

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for their performances in '' Kartavyam'' (1990) and ''

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'' (2018) respectively. * Jayasudha has received the most nominations with ten, followed by Anushka Shetty with nine, Soundarya,

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and Vijayashanti each with eight. * In 1981, the one and only time till date, two actresses were nominated for the same film: Jayasudha and

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for '' Premabhishekam''.

Multiple wins

The following individuals have received two or more Best Actress awards:

Multiple nominations

The following individuals have received five or more Best Actress nominations:

Winners and nominees

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

References

Notes

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Film awards for lead actress