# Prix Iris for Best Actress

Québec Cinéma presents an annual award for Best Actress (French: Prix Iris de la meilleure interprétation dans un premier rôle féminin) to recognize the best in the Cinema of Quebec.
Until 2016, it was known as the Jutra Award for Best Actress in memory of influential Quebec film director Claude Jutra. Following the withdrawal of Jutra's name from the award, the 2016 award was presented under the name Québec Cinéma. The Prix Iris name was announced in October 2016.
Céline Bonnier received the most nominations in this category, five, and received two awards. Karine Vanasse became the first actress to win the award twice. Three non-Canadian actresses won the award in consecutive years: Lubna Azabal for Incendies, Vanessa Paradis for Café de Flore and Rachel Mwanza for War Witch (Rebelle), the latter becoming the first black actress to win the award. Ginette Reno is the only actress to receive two nominations for playing the same role in different films, namely It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) and Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite).
Four actresses received nominations for Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress or Revelation of the Year in the same year:
* In 2005, Céline Bonnier was nominated for Best Actress for Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille) and Best Supporting Actress for The Last Tunnel (Le dernier tunnel).
* In 2007, Bonnier achieved the same feat again, winning Best Actress for Deliver Me (Délivrez-moi) while receiving a nomination for Best Supporting Actress for A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali).
* In 2017, Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez was nominated for Best Actress for Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) and Best Supporting Actress for Bad Seeds (Les mauvaises herbes).
* In 2022, Hélène Florent became the first person to win both awards during the same ceremony: Best Actress for Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) and Best Supporting Actress for Maria Chapdelaine.
* In 2024, Ariane Castellanos won both Best Actress and Revelation of the Year for Richelieu, becoming the first to win two awards for the same film.

## 1990s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Pascale Montpetit | Streetheart (Le cœur au poing) |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Sylvia Chang | The Red Violin (Le violon rouge) |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Charlotte Laurier | 2 Seconds (2 secondes) |
| 1999 1st Jutra Awards | Ginette Reno | It's Your Turn, Laura Cadieux (C't'à ton tour, Laura Cadieux) |

## 2000s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Karine Vanasse | Set Me Free (Emporte-moi) |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Ginette Reno | Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite) |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Pierrette Robitaille | Laura Cadieux II (Laura Cadieux...la suite) |
| 2000 2nd Jutra Awards | Guylaine Tremblay | Matroni and Me (Matroni et moi) |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Marie-Josée Croze | Maelström |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Hélène Loiselle | The Bottle (La bouteille) |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Fanny Mallette | The Orphan Muses (Les muses orphelines) |
| 2001 3rd Jutra Awards | Louise Portal | Full Blast |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Élise Guilbault | The Woman Who Drinks (La femme qui boit) |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Fanny Mallette | A Girl at the Window (Une jeune fille à la fenêtre) |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Isabel Richer | The Pig's Law (La loi du cochon) |
| 2002 4th Jutra Awards | Catherine Trudeau | Tar Angel (L'ange de goudron) |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Karine Vanasse | Séraphin: Heart of Stone (Séraphin: Un homme et son péché) |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Pascale Bussières | Chaos and Desire (La turbulence des fluides) |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Maude Guérin | The Collector (Le collectionneur) |
| 2003 5th Jutra Awards | Marie-Chantal Perron | The Mysterious Miss C. (La mystérieuse Mademoiselle C.) |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Marie-Josée Croze | The Barbarian Invasions (Les invasions barbares) |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Sylvie Drapeau | Juniper Tree (Le piège d'Issoudun) |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Micheline Lanctôt | How My Mother Gave Birth to Me During Menopause (Comment ma mère accoucha de moi durant sa ménopause) |
| 2004 6th Jutra Awards | Ginette Reno | Mambo Italiano |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Pascale Bussières | Bittersweet Memories (Ma vie en cinémascope) |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Isabelle Blais | Love and Magnets (Les aimants) |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Céline Bonnier | Machine Gun Molly (Monica la mitraille) |
| 2005 7th Jutra Awards | Jacinthe Laguë | The Five of Us (Elles étaient cinq) |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Élise Guilbault | The Novena (La neuvaine) |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Hélène Bourgeois Leclerc | Aurore |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Suzanne Clément | Audition (L'audition) |
| 2006 8th Jutra Awards | Julie Le Breton | The Rocket (Maurice Richard) |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Céline Bonnier | Deliver Me (Délivrez-moi) |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Fatou N'Diaye | A Sunday in Kigali (Un dimanche à Kigali) |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Danielle Proulx | Family History (Histoire de famille) |
| 2007 9th Jutra Awards | Ginette Reno | A Family Secret (Le secret de ma mère) |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Guylaine Tremblay | Summit Circle (Contre toute espérance) |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Sylvie Léonard | Days of Darkness (L'âge des ténèbres) |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Isabel Richer | The 3 L'il Pigs (Les 3 p'tits cochons) |
| 2008 10th Jutra Awards | Karine Vanasse | My Daughter, My Angel (Ma fille, mon ange) |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Isabelle Blais | Borderline |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Suzanne Clément | It's Not Me, I Swear! (C'est pas moi, je le jure!) |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Susan Sarandon | Emotional Arithmetic |
| 2009 11th Jutra Awards | Guylaine Tremblay | Honey, I'm in Love (Le grand départ) |

## 2010s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Anne Dorval | I Killed My Mother (J'ai tué ma mère) |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Céline Bonnier | Je me souviens |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Marie-Thérèse Fortin | Heat Wave (Les grandes chaleurs) |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Isabelle Guérard | Detour (Détour) |
| 2010 12th Jutra Awards | Élise Guilbault | The Legacy (La donation) |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Lubna Azabal | Incendies |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Suzanne Clément | Silence Lies (Tromper le silence) |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin | Incendies |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Évelyne Rompré | Twice a Woman (Deux fois une femme) |
| 2011 13th Jutra Awards | Guylaine Tremblay | Mourning for Anna (Trois temps après la mort d'Anna) |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Vanessa Paradis | Café de Flore |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Céline Bonnier | Coteau rouge |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Catherine De Léan | Nuit #1 |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Julie Le Breton | A Life Begins (Une vie qui commence) |
| 2012 14th Jutra Awards | Madeleine Péloquin | For the Love of God (Pour l'amour de Dieu) |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Rachel Mwanza | War Witch (Rebelle) |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Micheline Bernard | Small Blind (La mise à l'aveugle) |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Marilyn Castonguay | L'Affaire Dumont |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Suzanne Clément | Laurence Anyways |
| 2013 15th Jutra Awards | Dominique Quesnel | The Torrent (Le torrent) |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Pierrette Robitaille | Vic and Flo Saw a Bear (Vic+Flo ont vu un ours) |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Chloé Bourgeois | Diego Star |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Line Castonguay | Triptych (Triptyque) |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Rose-Maïté Erkoreka | Louis Cyr (Louis Cyr: L'homme le plus fort du monde) |
| 2014 16th Jutra Awards | Marie-Evelyne Lessard | Fair Sex (Les manèges humains) |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Anne Dorval | Mommy |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Julianne Côté | You're Sleeping Nicole (Tu dors Nicole) |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Laurence Leboeuf | The Little Queen (La petite reine) |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Joëlle Paré-Beaulieu | What Are We Doing Here? (Qu'est-ce qu'on fait ici ?) |
| 2015 17th Jutra Awards | Lise Roy | Tom at the Farm (Tom à la ferme) |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Céline Bonnier | The Passion of Augustine (La passion d'Augustine) |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Laurence Leboeuf | Turbo Kid |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Fanny Mallette | Chorus |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Anna Mouglalis | Anna |
| 2016 18th Quebec Cinema Awards | Hadas Yaron | Felix and Meira (Félix et Meira) |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Mylène Mackay | Nelly |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Karina Aktouf | Montreal, White City (Montréal la blanche) |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Nathalie Baye | It's Only the End of the World (Juste la fin du monde) |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Emmanuelle Lussier-Martinez | Those Who Make Revolution Halfway Only Dig Their Own Graves (Ceux qui font les révolutions à moitié n'ont fait que se creuser un tombeau) |
| 2017 19th Quebec Cinema Awards | Tatiana Maslany | Two Lovers and a Bear |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Maude Guérin | Family First (Chien de garde) |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Charlotte Aubin | Isla Blanca |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Mélissa Désormeaux-Poulin | Threesome (Le trip à trois) |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Denise Filiatrault | It's the Heart That Dies Last (C'est le cœur qui meurt en dernier) |
| 2018 20th Quebec Cinema Awards | Élise Guilbault | A Place to Live (Pour vivre ici) |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Debbie Lynch-White | La Bolduc |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Josée Deschênes | Ghost Town Anthology (Répertoire des villes disparues) |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Brigitte Poupart | Les Salopes, or the Naturally Wanton Pleasure of Skin (Les salopes ou le sucre naturel de la peau) |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Karelle Tremblay | The Fireflies Are Gone (La disparition des lucioles) |
| 2019 21st Quebec Cinema Awards | Carla Turcotte | Sashinka |

## 2020s

| Year | Actress | Film |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Andrée Lachapelle | And the Birds Rained Down (Il pleuvait des oiseaux) |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Anne-Élisabeth Bossé | A Brother's Love (La femme de mon frère) |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Anne Dorval | 14 Days, 12 Nights (14 jours 12 nuits) |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Léane Labrèche-Dor | Laughter (Le rire) |
| 2020 22nd Quebec Cinema Awards | Noémie O'Farrell | Fabulous (Fabuleuses) |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Émilie Bierre | Our Own (Les nôtres) |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Marie-Evelyne Lessard | The Decline (Jusqu'au déclin) |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Margaret Qualley | My Salinger Year |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Sarah Sutherland | Like a House on Fire |
| 2021 23rd Quebec Cinema Awards | Karelle Tremblay | Death of a Ladies' Man |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Hélène Florent | Drunken Birds (Les oiseaux ivres) |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Nour Belkhiria | A Revision (Une révision) |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Émilie Bierre | The Guide to the Perfect Family (Le guide de la famille parfaite) |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Pascale Bussières | Bootlegger |
| 2022 24th Quebec Cinema Awards | Danielle Fichaud | Aline |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | | |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Kelly Depeault | Noemie Says Yes (Noémie dit oui) |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Larissa Corriveau | Viking |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Hélène Florent | A Respectable Woman (Une femme respectable) |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Léane Labrèche-Dor | My Mother's Men (Les hommes de ma mère) |
| 2023 25th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sara Montpetit | Falcon Lake |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Ariane Castellanos | Richelieu |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sophie Desmarais | Days of Happiness (Les Jours heureux) |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Magalie Lépine-Blondeau | The Nature of Love (Simple comme Sylvain) |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Mylène Mackay | Tell Me Why These Things Are So Beautiful (Dis-moi pourquoi ces choses sont si belles) |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Sara Montpetit | Humanist Vampire Seeking Consenting Suicidal Person (Vampire humaniste cherche suicidaire consentant) |
| 2024 26th Quebec Cinema Awards | Nahéma Ricci | Hunting Daze (Jour de chasse) |