Cannes Film Festival Best Actress Winners

The Festival, known officially as the Festival de Cannes, is a world festival for the motion picture industry, held annually in the city of Cannes on the French Riviera.

• Bette Davis (born 1908, died 1989)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1951 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for All About Eve
• Shirley Booth (born 1907, died 1992)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1953 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Come Back, Little Sheba
• Isa Miranda (born 1909, died 1982)

  Italian actress.

  • Winner of the 1949 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Walls of Malapaga
• Lee Grant (born 1927)

  American actress and director. Original name: Lyova Haskell Rosenthal.

  • Winner of the 1952 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Detective Story
• Giulietta Masina (born 1920, died 1994)

  Italian actress.

  • Winner of the 1957 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Nights of Cabiria
• Eva Dahlbeck (born 1920)

  Swedish actress and writer.

  • Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Brink of Life
• Ingrid Thulin (born 1929)

  Swedish actress, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Brink of Life
• Bibi Andersson (born 1935)

  Swedish actress.

  • Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Brink of Life
• Simone Signoret (born 1921, died 1985)

  German actress.

  • Winner of the 1959 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Room at the Top
• Melina Mercouri (born 1925, died 1994)

  Greek-American actress.

  • Winner of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Never on Sunday
• Jeanne Moreau (born 1928)

  French actress, writer and director.

  • Winner of the 1960 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Moderato Cantabile
• Rita Tushingham (born 1942)

  English actress.

  • Winner of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for A Taste of Honey
• Marina Vlady (born 1938)

  French actress.

  • Winner of the 1963 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Conjugal Bed/Queen Bee
• Anne Bancroft (born 1931)

  American actress. Original name: Anna Maria Italiano.

  • Winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Pumpkin Eater
• Barbara Barrie (born 1931)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1964 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for One Potato, Two Potato
• Samantha Eggar (born 1939)

  English actress.

  • Winner of the 1965 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Collector
• Vanessa Redgrave (born 1937)

  English actress.

  • Winner of the 1966 and 1969 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress awards, for Morgan!--A Suitable Case for Treatment and Isadora
• Pia Degermark

  Swedish actress.

  • Winner of the 1967 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Elvira Madigan
• Ottavia Piccolo

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1970 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Metello
• Kitty Winn (born 1944)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1971 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Panic in Needle Park
• Marie-José Nat (born 1940)

  French actress.

  • Winner of the 1974 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Les Violons du Bal
• Valerie Perrine (born 1944)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1975 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Lenny
• Mari Töröcsik

  Hungarian actress.

  • Winner of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Where Are You, Mrs. Dery?
• Dominique Sanda (born 1948)

  French actress.

  • Winner of the 1976 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Inheritance
• Shelley Duvall (born 1949)

  American actress and producer.

  • Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for 3 Women
• Monique Mercure

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1977 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for J.A. Martin Photographe
• Jill Clayburgh (born 1944)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for An Unmarried Woman
• Isabelle Huppert (born 1955)

  French actress.

  • Winner of the 1978 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Violette
• Sally Field (born 1946)

  American actress, director and producer.

  • Winner of the 1979 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Norma Rae
• Anouk Aimée (born 1932)

  French actress.

  • Winner of the 1980 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for A Leap Into the Void
• Isabelle Adjani (born 1955)

  French actress and producer.

  • Winner of the 1981 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Quartet and Possession
• Jadwiga Jankowska-Cieslak

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1982 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Another Way
• Hanna Schygulla (born 1943)

  German actress.

  • Winner of the 1983 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Storia di Piera
• Helen Mirren (born 1945)

  English actress.

  • Winner of the 1984 and 1995 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress awards, for Cal and The Madness of King George
• Norma Aleandro (born 1941)

  Argentine actress.

  • Winner of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Official Story
• Cher (born 1946)

  American singer, actress and director. Original name: Cherilyn Sarkisian.

  • Winner of the 1985 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Mask
• Barbara Sukowa (born 1950)

  German actress.

  • Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Rosa Luxemburg
• Fernanda Torres

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1986 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Love Me Forever or Never
• Barbara Hershey (born 1948)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1987 and 1988 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress awards, for Shy People and A World Apart
• Jodhi May

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for A World Apart
• Linda Mvusi

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1988 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for A World Apart
• Meryl Streep (born 1949)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1989 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for A Cry in the Dark
• Krystyna Janda

  Actress and director.

  • Winner of the 1990 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Interrogation
• Irene Jacob (born 1966)

  Swiss actress.

  • Winner of the 1991 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Double Life of Véronique
• Pernilla August (born 1958)

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1992 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Best Intentions
• Holly Hunter (born 1958)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1993 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Piano
• Virna Lisi (born 1937)

  Italian actress.

  • Winner of the 1994 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Queen Margot
• Susannah York (born 1941)

  English actress and writer.

  • Winner of the 1972 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Images
• Joanne Woodward (born 1930)

  American actress and director.

  • Winner of the 1973 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for The Effects of Gamma Rays on Man-in-the-Moon Marigolds
• Susan Hayward (born 1919, died 1975)

  American actress. Original name: Edythe Marriner.

  • Winner of the 1956 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for I''ll Cry Tomorrow
• Sophia Loren (born 1934)

  Italian actress.

  • Winner of the 1961 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Two Women
• Katharine Hepburn (born 1907)

  American actress.

  • Winner of the 1962 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Long Day''s Journey into Night
• Barbro Hiort af Ornäs

  Actress.

  • Winner of the 1958 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Brink of Life
• Kathy Burke
  • Winner of the 1997 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Nil by Mouth
• Natacha Regnier
  • Winner of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for La Vie rêvée des anges
• Elodie Bouchez (born 1973)
  • Winner of the 1998 Cannes Film Festival for La Vie rêvée des anges
• Brenda Blethyn (born 1946)

  British actress

  • Winner of the 1996 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award for Secrets and Lies
• Séverine Caneele

  French actress

  • 1999 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award winner
• Emilie Dequenne
  • 1999 Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award winner
• Björk Gudmundsdottir (born 1965)

  Icelandic singer and actress

  • Winner of the 2000Cannes Film Festival Best Actress award, for Dancer in the Dark