page_title: FAMAS Award for Best Actress
section_title: Winners and nominees
hierarchical_section_title: FAMAS Award for Best Actress / Winners and nominees
caption_attribution_description: Filipino actress Judy Ann Santos
context_page_description: The FAMAS Award for Best Actress is one of the FAMAS Awards given to people working in the motion picture industry by the Filipino Academy of Movie Arts and Sciences Award, which are voted on by Palanca Award-winning writers and movie columnists and writers within the industry. This is the Philippines' equivalent of the Hollywood's Academy Awards or the Oscars.
context_section_description: The list may be incomplete such as some of the names of the nominees and the roles portrayed especially during the early years of FAMAS Awards.
  In the lists below, the winner of the award for each year is shown first, followed by the other nominees.
    
  Note – The year indicates the awards for the films of that year when those films were originally released. Please refer to the Academy Awards how they label the awards for the films original release date and not the awards ceremony date.
  ‡ – indicates the winner
  † – indicates the performance was also nominated for the Academy Award
caption: Prime Superstar Judy Ann Santos Before she got her first best actress in FAMAS, she became best new actress with her performance in Mara Clara . She received the  German Moreno Youth Achievement Award in the same year (1997) for her movie Mara Clara . She also received nominations as best actress in Kay Tagal Kang Hinintay (film)  (1999) and Sabel (2005). Her powerful performance  in 2007's Kasal, Kasali, Kasalo won her first famas best actress .
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