IIFA Award for Best Actress

The IIFA Award for Best Actress is given by the International Indian Film Academy as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. The recipient is chosen by viewers and the winner is announced at the ceremony.

With three awards each, Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan share the record for most wins in this category.

† - indicates the performance also won the Filmfare Award
‡ - indicates the performance was also nominated for the Filmfare Award

Superlatives

Rani Mukerji (l) and Vidya Balan (r) hold the record of maximum wins in this category.

Rani Mukerji and Vidya Balan, with three wins each, have more Best Actress wins than any other actress. Three actresses: Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor and Deepika Padukone have two wins. Rani Mukerji have won the award in consecutive three years (2005-2007).

Actresses who have won both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards include Rani Mukerji, Anushka Sharma, Tabu, Kangana Ranaut and Priyanka Chopra. Rani Mukerji is the first and only actress to win both these awards in the same year.

There has been only one tie in the history of this category. This occurred in 2010 when Kareena Kapoor and Vidya Balan were both given the award.

Deepika Padukone holds the record for most nominations in the Best Actress category, with 9, followed by Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Vidya Balan, Rani Mukerji and Priyanka Chopra (7). Rani Mukerji is the overall most-nominated performer in the female acting categories, with 10 nominations overall. Rani Mukerji holds the record for most consecutive years(five) nominations with 6 between 2003 and 2007 winning three times in 2005, 2006 and 2007.

Deepika Padukone, who received three out of the six nominations of this category in 2014 (and eventually won for Chennai Express), holds the record for the highest number of Best Actress nominations in a single year.

Multiple nominees

• 9 Nominations : Deepika Padukone
• 7 Nominations : Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Kareena Kapoor Khan, Vidya Balan, Rani Mukerji and Priyanka Chopra
• 5 Nominations : Preity Zinta
• 4 Nominations : Kangana Ranaut
• 3 Nominations : Karisma Kapoor, Kajol, Tabu, Katrina Kaif
• 2 Nominations : Ameesha Patel, Madhuri Dixit, Shilpa Shetty, Urmila Matondkar, Mahie Gill, Anushka Sharma and Shraddha Kapoor

List of winners

2000s

• 2000 Aishwarya Rai – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Nandini †
  • Aishwarya Rai – Taal as Mansi ‡
  • Kajol – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain as Megha ‡
  • Karisma Kapoor – Biwi No.1 as Pooja Mehra ‡
  • Sonali Bendre – Sarfarosh as Seema
• 2001 Karisma Kapoor – Fiza as Fiza Ikramullah †
  • Madhuri Dixit – Pukar as Anjali ‡
  • Preity Zinta – Kya Kehna as Priya Baxi ‡
  • Shilpa Shetty – Dhadkan as Anjali
  • Tabu – Astitva as Aditi Pandit ‡
• 2002 Tabu – Chandni Bar as Mumtaz Ali Ansari ‡
  • Ameesha Patel – Gadar: Ek Prem Katha as Sakina ‡
  • Gracy Singh – Lagaan as Gauri
  • Kajol – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Anjali Sharma Raichand †
  • Preity Zinta – Dil Chahta Hai as Shalini
• 2003 Aishwarya Rai – Devdas as Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty †
  • Ameesha Patel – Humraaz as Priya Singhania ‡
  • Karisma Kapoor – Shakti: The Power as Nandini ‡
  • Madhuri Dixit – Devdas as Chandramukhi
  • Rani Mukerji – Saathiya as Suhani Sharma ‡
• 2004 Preity Zinta – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Naina Catherine Kapur †
  • Hema Malini – Baghban as Pooja Malhotra ‡
  • Preity Zinta – Koi... Mil Gaya as Nisha ‡
  • Rani Mukerji – Chalte Chalte as Priya Chopra ‡
  • Urmila Matondkar – Bhoot as Swati ‡
• 2005 Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash †
  • Kareena Kapoor – Aitraaz as Priya Saxena
  • Priyanka Chopra – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Rani Singh
  • Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni ‡
  • Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak ‡
• 2006 Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally †
  • Konkona Sen Sharma – Page 3 as Madhvi Sharma
  • Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Ambi" Malhotra ‡
  • Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Vimmi "Babli" Saluja ‡
  • Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita ‡
• 2007 Rani Mukerji – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Maya Talwar ‡
  • Aishwarya Rai – Dhoom 2 as Sunehri ‡
  • Kajol – Fanaa as Zooni Ali Baig †
  • Kangana Ranaut – Gangster as Simran
  • Kareena Kapoor – Omkara as Dolly Mishra ‡
  • Vidya Balan – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Jhanvi
• 2008 Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon †
  • Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai ‡
  • Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya / Sandhya (Sandy) ‡
  • Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'jazz' Malhotra
  • Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
  • Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi ‡
• 2009 Priyanka Chopra – Fashion as Meghna Mathur †
  • Aishwarya Rai – Jodhaa Akbar as Jodhaa Bai ‡
  • Asin – Ghajini as Kalpana Shetty ‡
  • Bipasha Basu – Race as Sonia
  • Katrina Kaif – Singh is Kinng as Sonia Singh

2010s

• 2010 Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabudhhe ‡ (tied with) Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya †
  • Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit ‡
  • Mahie Gill – Dev D as Parminder 'Paro'
  • Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope ‡
• 2011 Anushka Sharma – Band Baaja Baaraat as Shruti Kakkar ‡
  • Aishwarya Rai – Guzaarish as Sofia D'Souza ‡
  • Kareena Kapoor – Golmaal 3 as Daboo ‡
  • Katrina Kaif – Raajneeti as Indu Patp Singh
  • Vidya Balan – Ishqiya as Krishna Verma ‡
• 2012 Vidya Balan – The Dirty Picture as Reshma / Silk †
  • Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu as Tanuja 'Tanu' Trivdei
  • Kareena Kapoor – Bodyguard as Divya
  • Mahie Gill – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Madhavi Devi ‡
  • Priyanka Chopra – 7 Khoon Maaf as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes ‡
• 2013 Vidya Balan – Kahaani as Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi †
  • Deepika Padukone – Cocktail as Veronica Malaney ‡
  • Huma Qureshi – Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2 as Mohsina
  • Kareena Kapoor – Heroine as Mahi Arora ‡
  • Priyanka Chopra – Barfi! as Jhilmil Chatterjee ‡
  • Sridevi – English Vinglish as Shashi Godbole ‡
• 2014 Deepika Padukone – Chennai Express as Meenalochni 'Meena' Azhagusundaram ‡
  • Deepika Padukone – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Leela Sanera †
  • Deepika Padukone – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Naina Talwar
  • Nimrat Kaur – The Lunchbox as Ila
  • Shraddha Kapoor – Aashiqui 2 as Aarohi Keshav Shirke ‡
  • Sonakshi Sinha – Lootera as Pakhi Roy Chaudhary ‡
• 2015 Kangana Ranaut – Queen as Rani Mehra †
  • Alia Bhatt – 2 States as Ananya Swaminathan
  • Anushka Sharma – PK as Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni
  • Deepika Padukone – Happy New Year as Mohini Joshi
  • Priyanka Chopra – Mary Kom as Mary Kom ‡
  • Rani Mukerji – Mardaani as Shivani Shivaji Roy ‡
• 2016 Deepika Padukone – Piku as Piku Banerjee †
  • Deepika Padukone – Bajirao Mastani as Mastani ‡
  • Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi / Kumari "Kusum" Sangwan (Datto) ‡
  • Priyanka Chopra – Dil Dhadakne Do as Ayesha Mehra / Sangha
  • Shraddha Kapoor – ABCD 2 as Vini

See also

• IIFA Awards
• Bollywood
• Cinema of India

External links

• Official site