2000s

• 2000 Aishwarya Rai – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Nandini †
  • Aishwarya Rai – Taal as Mansi Shankar ‡
  • 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 Singh
  • 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' Trivedi
  • 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 Dr. 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 Vinnie
• 2017 Alia Bhatt – Udta Punjab as Kumari Pinky †
  • Alia Bhatt – Dear Zindagi as Kaira (Koko) ‡
  • Anushka Sharma – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as Alizeh ‡
  • Sonam Kapoor – Neerja as Neerja Bhanot ‡
  • Taapsee Pannu – Pink as Minal Arora
• 2018 Sridevi – Mom as Devki Sabarwal ‡
  • Alia Bhatt – Badrinath Ki Dulhania as Vaidehi Trivedi ‡
  • Bhumi Pednekar – Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as Sugandha Joshi ‡
  • Vidya Balan – Tumhari Sulu as Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey †
  • Zaira Wasim – Secret Superstar as Insia Malik ‡
• 2019 Alia Bhatt – Raazi as Sehmat Khan †
  • Deepika Padukone – Padmaavat as Rani Padmavati ‡
  • Neena Gupta – Badhaai Ho as Priyamvada 'Babli' Kaushik ‡
  • Rani Mukerji – Hichki as Naina Mathur ‡
  • Tabu – Andhadhun as Simi ‡

2020s

• 2020 Alia Bhatt – Gully Boy as Safeena Firdausi † ^[1]
  • Kareena Kapoor – Good Newwz as Deepti Batra ‡
  • Priyanka Chopra – The Sky Is Pink as Aditi Chaudhary ‡
  • Taapsee Pannu – Badla as Naina Sethi
  • Vidya Balan – Mission Mangal as Tara Shinde ‡

• 2021-22 Kriti Sanon – Mimi as Mimi Rathore † ^[2][3]
  • Kiara Advani – Shershaah as Dimple Cheema ‡
  • Taapsee Pannu – Thappad as Amrita Sabharwal †
  • Sanya Malhotra – Pagglait as Sandhya Giri
  • Vidya Balan – Sherni as Vidya Vincent ‡

• 2023 Alia Bhatt – Gangubai Kathiawadi as Gangubai †^[4]
  • Alia Bhatt – Darlings as Badrunissa
  • Shefali Shah – Darlings as Shamshunissa
  • Tabu – Bhool Bhulaiyaa 2 as Anjulika Chatterjee / Manjulika Chatterjee
  • Yami Gautam – A Thursday aa Naina Jaiswal