Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu
Indian annual film award
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The Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Telugu films. The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972. The year in the following table indicates when the film was released.[1][2][3]
Awarded forBest Performance by an Actress in a leading role in Telugu films
CountryIndia
Presented byFilmfare
First award1972
| Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu | |
|---|---|
The 2024 recipient: Nivetha Thomas | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a leading role in Telugu films |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Filmfare |
| First award | 1972 |
| Currently held by | Nivetha Thomas for 35 Chinna Katha Kaadu (2024) |
| Most wins | Vijaya Shanthi (6) |
| Most nominations | Jayasudha (10) |
| Website | http://filmfareawards.indiatimes.com/  |
Winners and nominees
| ‡ | Indicates the winner |
|---|
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Superlatives
| Superlative | Actress | Record |
|---|---|---|
| Most awards | Vijaya Shanthi | 6 wins |
| Most Consecutive wins | Vanisri | 3 (1972 - 1974) |
| Oldest winner | Anushka Shetty | 34 years |
| Oldest Nominee | Anushka Shetty | 43 years |
| Youngest winner | Jayasudha | 18 years, 241 days |
| Youngest nominees | Sridevi, Divya Bharti | 16 years |
| Most Nominations | Jayasudha | 10 |
| Most Nominations without a win | Pooja Hegde Rashmika Mandanna | 4 |
- Vanisri won the award the most times in the 70's with three wins. Vijayashanti won the most in the 80s and 90s with three wins each decade. In the 90s, Soundarya had three wins. Trisha Krishnan won the award three times in 2000s, while Anushka Shetty and Samantha Ruth Prabhu has the most wins in 2010s with two wins.
- Jayasudha and Tabu are the two actress who have won both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress – Telugu.
- Seven actresses have won the awards in consecutive years: Vanisri (1973–1975), Jayasudha (1976–1977), Vijayashanti (1989–1990), Soundarya (1998–1999), Trisha Krishnan (2004–2005), Anushka Shetty (2009–2010). Vanisri is the only actress to win the award three times consecutively.
- J. Jayalalithaa, Revathi and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are the only 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.
- Seven actresses have won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu for their debut Telugu films. In chronological order Sujatha (1979), Radhika Sarathkumar (1981), Richa Pallod (2000), Sadha (2002), Asin (2003), Sai Pallavi (2017) and Mrunal Thakur (2022).
- Nithya Menen is the first actress to win both the Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu (in 2013) and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – Telugu (in 2015).
- Sai Pallavi is the first actress who won both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and the Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – Telugu awards in the same year (2022).
- Vijayashanti and Keerthy Suresh both have won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu and National Film Award for Best Actress for their performances in Kartavyam (1990) and Mahanati (2018) respectively.
- Jayasudha has received the most nominations with Ten, followed by Anushka Shetty, and Samantha Ruth Prabhu each with nine nominations.
- In 1981, the one and only time till date, two actresses were nominated for the same film: Jayasudha and Sridevi for Premabhishekam.
Multiple wins
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress awards:
| Wins | Actress |
|---|---|
| 6 | Vijayashanti |
| 3 | Vanisri, Jayasudha, Soundarya, Trisha Krishnan, Anushka Shetty |
| 2 | Samantha, Sai Pallavi, Keerthy Suresh |
Multiple nominations
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress nominations:
| Nominations | Actress |
|---|---|
| 10 | Jayasudha |
| 9 | Anushka Shetty, Samantha |
| 8 | Vijayashanti |
| 7 | Jaya Prada, Soundarya |
| 6 | Vanisri, Sridevi |
| 5 | Radhika Sarathkumar, Trisha Krishnan |
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.