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Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress

Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress

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The Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play is an annual award presented by the Society of London Theatre in recognition of achievements in commercial London theatre. The awards were established as the Society of West End Theatre Awards in 1976, and renamed in 1984 in honour of English actor and director Laurence Olivier.

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This award was introduced in 1985, as Actress of the Year, then retitled to its current name for the 1993 ceremony. Prior to this award, from 1976 to 1984 (and again in 1988), there was a pair of awards given each year for this general category, one for Actress of the Year in a New Play and the other for Actress of the Year in a Revival.

Winners and nominees

Dame Judi Dench has won this award five times, for in 1977, 1980, 1983, 1987, and 1996
Lindsay Duncan won this award twice in 1986 and 2002
Fiona Shaw won this award twice in 1989 and 1994
Juliet Stevenson won for Death and the Maiden (1992)
Claire Higgins won this award three times in 1995, 2003, and 2005
Janet McTeer won for A Doll's House (1997)
Zoë Wanamaker won for Electra (1998)
Dame Eileen Atkins won twice for The Unexpected Man (1999) and Honour (2005)
Julie Walters won for All My Sons (2001)
Eve Best won for the title role of Hedda Gabler (2006)
Kristin Scott Thomas won for The Seagull (2008)
Tamsin Greig won for Much Ado About Nothing (2009)

1980s

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1990s

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2000s

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2010s

Rachel Weisz won for A Streetcar Named Desire (2010)
Ruth Wilson won for Anna Christie (2012)
Helen Mirren won for The Audience (2013)
Lesley Manville won for Ghosts (2014)
Penelope Wilton won for Taken at Midnight (2015)
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2020s

Sheila Atim won for Constellations (2022)
Jodie Comer won for Prima Facie (2023)
Sarah Snook won for The Portrait of Dorian Gray (2024)
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  1. Due to late March 2020[1] to late July 2021[2] closing of London theatre productions during the COVID-19 pandemic in England, the 2022 awards recognise productions that launched anytime from February 2020 to February 2022[3]

Multiple awards and nominations for Best Actress

Note: The below awards and nominations include individuals awarded and nominated under the now-defunct categories Actress of the Year in a New Play and Actress of the Year in a Revival as well as the current combined Best Actress category.

Awards

Five awards
Three awards
Two awards

Nominations

Nine nominations
Six nominations
Five nominations
Four nominations
Three nominations
Two nominations

See also

References

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    Johnson, The Rt Hon Boris, MP (2020-03-23). Prime Minister's statement on coronavirus (COVID-19): 23 March 2020 [transcript] (Speech). Prime Minister's Televised Speech to the United Kingdom. www.gov.uk. London, UK. Archived from the original on 2020-06-09. Retrieved 2022-04-25. From this evening I must give the British people a very simple instruction — you must stay at home.{{cite speech}}: CS1 maint: multiple names: authors list (link)
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    McPhee, Ryan (2021-06-14). "U.K. Postpones Reopening Roadmap; West End Theatres Will No Longer Reopen in Full in June". Playbill. Archived from the original on 2021-06-14. Retrieved 2022-04-25. Step 4 of the roadmap will allow productions to play without capacity restrictions. June 21 was the goal; now, the government is eyeing July 19.
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    Thomas, Sophie (2022-03-08). "Everything you need to know about the Olivier Awards". londontheatre.co.uk. Archived from the original on 2022-04-11. Retrieved 2022-04-25. Any new production that opened between 19 Feb. 2020 to 22 Feb. 2022 are eligible for categories in the 2022 Olivier Awards. With two years worth of shows set for honours in one year's ceremony, the 2022 Olivier Awards will prove tougher competition than before.
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