# Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress

The Toronto Film Critics Association Award for Best Actress was one of the annual awards given by the Toronto Film Critics Association.

## Winners
### 1990s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 1997 | Helena Bonham Carter | The Wings of the Dove | Kate Croy |
| 1997 | Sarah Polley | The Sweet Hereafter | Nicole Burnell |
| 1998 | Cate Blanchett | Elizabeth | Queen Elizabeth I |
| 1998 | Pascale Bussières | August 32nd on Earth (Un 32 août sur terre) | Simone Prévost |
| 1998 | Christina Ricci | The Opposite of Sex | Dedee Truitt |
| 1999 | Hilary Swank | Boys Don't Cry | Brandon Teena |
| 1999 | Cecilia Roth | All About My Mother | Manuela Echevarria |

### 2000s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2000 | Laura Linney | You Can Count on Me | Samantha "Sammy" Prescott |
| 2000 | Michelle Yeoh | Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon (Wo hu cang long) | Yu Shu Lien |
| 2001 | Thora Birch | Ghost World | Enid |
| 2001 | Gillian Anderson | The House of Mirth | Lily Bart |
| 2001 | Tilda Swinton | The Deep End | Margaret Hall |
| 2002 | Julianne Moore | Far from Heaven | Cathy Whitaker |
| 2002 | Maggie Gyllenhall | Secretary | Lee Holloway |
| 2002 | Isabelle Huppert | The Piano Teacher | Erika Kohut |
| 2003 | Samantha Morton | Morvern Callar | Morvern Callar |
| 2004 | Imelda Staunton | Vera Drake | Vera Drake |
| 2005 | Laura Linney | The Squid and the Whale | Joan Berkman |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | The Queen | Queen Elizabeth II |
| 2006 | Penélope Cruz | Volver | Raimunda |
| 2006 | Judi Dench | Notes on a Scandal | Barbara Covett |
| 2007 | Julie Christie | Away from Her | Fiona Anderson |
| 2007 | Elliot Page | Juno | Juno MacGuff |
| 2007 | Laura Dern | Inland Empire | Nikki Grace / Susan Blue |
| 2008 | Michelle Williams | Wendy and Lucy | Wendy |
| 2008 | Anne Hathaway | Rachel Getting Married | Kym |
| 2008 | Meryl Streep | Doubt | Aloysius Beauvier |
| 2009 | Carey Mulligan | An Education | Jenny |
| 2009 | Arta Dobroshi | Lorna's Silence (Le silence de Lorna) | Lorna |
| 2009 | Meryl Streep | Julie & Julia | Julia Child |

### 2010s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2010 | Jennifer Lawrence | Winter's Bone | Ree Dolly |
| 2010 | Natalie Portman | Black Swan | Nina Sayers |
| 2010 | Michelle Williams | Blue Valentine | Cindy Heller |
| 2011 | Michelle Williams | My Week with Marilyn | Marilyn Monroe |
| 2011 | Elizabeth Olsen | Martha Marcy May Marlene | Martha |
| 2011 | Meryl Streep | The Iron Lady | Margaret Thatcher |
| 2012 | Rachel Weisz | The Deep Blue Sea | Hester Collyer |
| 2012 | Jessica Chastain | Zero Dark Thirty | Maya |
| 2012 | Emmanuelle Riva | Amour | Anne Laurent |
| 2013 | Cate Blanchett | Blue Jasmine | Jeanette "Jasmine" Francis |
| 2013 | Julie Delpy | Before Midnight | Céline Wallace |
| 2013 | Greta Gerwig | Frances Ha | Frances Halliday |
| 2014 | Marion Cotillard | The Immigrant | Ewa Cybulska |
| 2014 | Julianne Moore | Still Alice | Alice Howland |
| 2014 | Reese Witherspoon | Wild | Cheryl Strayed |
| 2015 | Nina Hoss | Phoenix | Nelly Lenz |
| 2015 | Cate Blanchett | Carol | Carol Aird |
| 2015 | Brie Larson | Room | Joy "Ma" Newsome |
| 2016 | Sandra Hüller | Toni Erdmann | Ines Conradi |
| 2016 | Rebecca Hall | Christine | Christine Chubbuck |
| 2016 | Isabelle Huppert | Elle | Michèle Leblanc |
| 2016 | Natalie Portman | Jackie | Jackie Kennedy |
| 2017 | Frances McDormand | Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri | Mildred Hayes |
| 2017 | Sally Hawkins | The Shape of Water | Elisa Esposito |
| 2017 | Saoirse Ronan | Lady Bird | Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson |
| 2018 | Olivia Colman | The Favourite | Anne, Queen of Great Britain |
| 2018 | Regina Hall | Support the Girls | Lisa Conroy |
| 2018 | Melissa McCarthy | Can You Ever Forgive Me? | Lee Israel |
| 2019 | Lupita Nyong'o | Us | Adelaide Wilson / Red |
| 2019 | Scarlett Johansson | Marriage Story | Nicole Barber |
| 2019 | Renée Zellweger | Judy | Judy Garland |

### 2020s

| Year | Winner | Film | Role |
| 2020 | Frances McDormand | Nomadland | Fern |
| 2020 | Viola Davis | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey |
| 2020 | Sidney Flanigan | Never Rarely Sometimes Always | Autumn Callahan |
| 2021 | Olivia Colman | The Lost Daughter | Leda Caruso |
| 2021 | Penélope Cruz | Parallel Mothers | Janis Martinez |
| 2021 | Kristen Stewart | Spencer | Diana, Princess of Wales |
| 2022 | Cate Blanchett | Tár | Lydia Tár |
| 2022 | Danielle Deadwyler | Till | Mamie Till |
| 2022 | Michelle Yeoh | Everything Everywhere All at Once | Evelyn Quan Wang |