Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil
Indian annual film award
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The Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil films. The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972.[1][2] The year indicates the year of release of the film.
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a leading role in Tamil films
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First awardJ. Jayalalithaa for Pattikada Pattanama (1972)
| Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil | |
|---|---|
The 2024 recipient: Sai Pallavi | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role in Tamil films |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First award | J. Jayalalithaa for Pattikada Pattanama (1972) |
| Currently held by | Sai Pallavi for Amaran (2024) |
| Website | http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/  |
Superlatives
| Superlative | Recipient(s) | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Most wins | Sujatha, Radhika Sarathkumar, Revathi, Nayanthara | 3 |
| Most consecutive wins | Sujatha, Revathi | 3 |
| Most nominations | Jyothika | 16 |
| Most consecutive nominations | Jyothika | 8 |
| Most nominations without a win | Khushbu Sundar | 7 |
| Youngest winner | Sridevi | 18 |
| Youngest nominee | 14 | |
| Oldest winner | Trisha Krishnan | 36 |
| Oldest nominee | Revathi | 55 |
- Actresses Sujatha won the most awards in the 1970s with three. Saritha and Radhika Sarathkumar won the award twice in the 1980s, and Revathi won three times in the 1990s for the most in that decade. Laila had two wins in the 2000s, while Nayanthara won the award thrice in the 2010s. Sai Pallavi leads the 2020s with two wins.
- Shoba, Archana and Priyamani have won Filmfare award for Best Actress Tamil and National Film Award for Best Actress for their performances in Pasi (1979), Veedu (1988) and Paruthiveeran (2006), respectively while [Revathi] have won National Film Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her role in Thevar Magan.
- Jyothika and Trisha Krishnan have won both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
- Radhika Sarathkumar, Simran and Jyothika have won awards in 2 different categories other than this category.[3][4] Radhika Sarathkumar won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in 2015. Simran has won both Debut award in 1997 and Best Supporting Actress Award in 2008, while Jyothika won Debut award in 1999 and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – South in 2015.[5][6]
- Aishwarya Lekshmi is the only actress to receive Best Actress Nominations in three different languages namely Malayalam, Tamil, Telugu in a same year (2023).[citation needed]
- J. Jayalalithaa, Revathi and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are the only three actresses to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu in the same year for their performances in the year 1972, 1992 and 2012 respectively. Lakshmi and Poornima Bhagyaraj won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for their performances in the same year (1974 and 1982 respectively).
- Eight actresses have won for their debut Tamil films, in chronological order Manisha Koirala (1995), Shruti (1996), Sandhya (2004), Bhavana (2006), Parvathy Thiruvothu (2008), Malavika Nair (2014), Ritika Singh (2016) and Nimisha Sajayan (2023).
Multiple wins
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress awards:
| Wins | Actress |
|---|---|
| 3 | Sujatha, Radhika Sarathkumar, Revathi, Nayanthara |
| 2 | J. Jayalalithaa, Lakshmi, Saritha, Laila, Anjali, Sai Pallavi |
Multiple nominations
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress nominations:
| Nominations | Actress |
|---|---|
| 16 | Jyothika |
| 11 | Revathi |
| 8 | Saritha, Radhika Sarathkumar |
| 7 | Lakshmi, Sridevi, Khushbu Sundar, Nayanthara, Trisha |
| 6 | Asin, Sujatha, Meena, Sneha |
Winners and nominees
| ‡ | Indicates the winner |
|---|
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Notes
- Ramachandran, T.M. (1973). Film world. Vol. 9.
- Collections. Update Video Publication. 1991.
- The Times of India directory and year book including who's who. Times of India Press. 1984.