page_title: BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role
section_title: Winners and nominees
hierarchical_section_title: BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role / Winners and nominees
caption_attribution_description: English: Dame Maggie Smith in Kensington Gardens filming 'Capturing Mary', 7th March 2007. Shot with a long lens from the nearby path in a break between filming. The weather was cold and she appeared to be taking shelter.
context_page_description: Best Actress in a Leading Role is a British Academy Film Award presented annually by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts to recognize an actress who has delivered an outstanding leading performance in a film.
  From 1952 to 1967, there were two Best Actress awards presented, Best British Actress and Best Foreign Actress.
  From 1968 onwards, the two awards merged into one award, which from 1968 to 1984 was known as Best Actress.
  From 1985 to present, the award has been known by its current name of Best Actress in a Leading Role.
caption: Maggie Smith has the most wins in this category for her roles in The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969), A Private Function (1984), A Room with a View (1985), and The Lonely Passion of Judith Hearne (1987)
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