Kalakar Award for Best Actress
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The Kalakar Award for Best Actress is an award, presented annually at the Kalakar Awards. It is given by the Kalakar Parivar Foundation for Bengali films. The award was first given in 1993.[1][2]
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Bengali films
CountryIndia
Presented byKalakar Parivar Foundation
First award1993
| Kalakar Award for Best Actress | |
|---|---|
 Rukmini Maitra, the last winner | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in Bengali films |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Kalakar Parivar Foundation |
| First award | 1993 |
| Final award | 2020 |
| Currently held by | Rukmini Maitra for Password |
- Debashree Roy is the first recipient of this award,along with Indrani Haldar, they both became joint winners. Debashree Roy has won it four times. She won the award consecutively for two years twice (1993, 1994) & (2002, 2003).
- Rituparna Sengupta is the most awarded recipient, with 10 wins, and has won the award consecutively for 5 years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010). Additionally, she is the only actress to win both Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress.
- Satabdi Roy is the third most awarded actress, with 3 wins.
- Subhashree Ganguly won the award twice consecutively in 2014 and 2015. She also received the Kalakar Award for Best Rising Actress in 2014 for the film Boss: Born to Rule (2013).
- Churni Ganguly is the only actress awarded for her performance in her debut film, Waarish... (2004).
- Raveena Tandon is notably the only Bollywood actress to have won this award.
Multiple winners
- 10 wins: Rituparna Sengupta
- 4 wins: Debashree Roy
- 3 wins: Satabdi Roy
- 2 wins: Subhashree Ganguly
