Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female
Hindi film award
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The Zee Cine Award for Best Actor – Female is chosen by the viewers of Zee Entertainment Enterprises as part of its annual award ceremony for Hindi films, to recognise a female actor who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role. Following its inception in 1998, the ceremony was not held in 2009 and 2010, but resumed in 2011.[1] The ceremony was again cancelled in 2021 and 2022 due to the COVID-19 pandemic, but it resumed in 2023.
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AwardedforBest Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role
CountryIndia
PresentedbyZee Entertainment Enterprises
Firstaward
- Madhuri Dixit,
- Dil To Pagal Hai (1998)
| Zee Cine Award for Best Actress | |
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The 2026 recipient: Aneet Padda | |
| Awarded for | Best Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role |
| Country | India |
| Presented by | Zee Entertainment Enterprises |
| First award |
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| Currently held by |
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| Website | zeecineawards |
Superlatives
| Superlative | Actress | Record |
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| Actress with most awards | Alia Bhatt | 4 |
| Actress with most consecutive wins | Alia Bhatt[a] (2018–2020; 2023) | |
| Actress with most consecutive nominations | Alia Bhatt[b] (2017–2020; 2023–2024) | 8 |
| Actress with most nominations | Deepika Padukone | 11 |
| Actress with most nominations without ever winning | Karisma Kapoor | 6 |
| Actress with most nominations in a single year | Kajol (1999); Deepika Padukone (2014) | 3 |
| Eldest Winner | Shraddha Kapoor (2025) | 38 years |
| Youngest Winner | Aneet Padda (2026) | 23 years |
| Eldest Nominee | Hema Malini (2004) | 55 years |
| Youngest Nominee | Zaira Wasim (2018) | 17 years |
- Alia Bhatt is the most awarded actress in this category with four wins, followed by Tabu, Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan and Deepika Padukone, who each have two wins.
- Alia Bhatt is the actress with the most consecutive wins with four, followed by Tabu, Kajol, Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan, and Deepika Padukone who each have two consecutive wins.
- Deepika Padukone is the actress with the most nominations in this category, with eleven, followed by Kajol with nine, and Kareena Kapoor Khan, Rani Mukerji, and Alia Bhatt with eight nominations each.
- The actress with the most consecutive nominations is Alia Bhatt, who received nominations for six consecutive years.
- Kajol and Deepika Padukone are the actresses who received the most nominations in a single year, with both being nominated for three films in a single year.
- Karisma Kapoor received the most nominations in this category without ever winning, with six, followed by Kriti Sanon with five and Preity Zinta and Katrina Kaif with four nominations each.
- Shraddha Kapoor, who won the award at the age of 38, is the eldest winner, while Hema Malini became the eldest nominee at the age of 55. Aneet Padda is the youngest winner, having received her first award at the age of 23, while Zaira Wasim became the youngest nominee at the age of 17.
- Vidya Balan was the first actress to win the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut before winning the award for Best Actress, followed by Deepika Padukone and Aneet Padda. Padda won both awards in the same year for the same film.
- Madhuri Dixit, Tabu, Rani Mukerji, and Anushka Sharma are the four actresses who have won both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress awards.
- Aishwarya Rai Bachchan, Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukone, Alia Bhatt and Rani Mukerji are the five actresses who have won both the Best Actress and Best Actress (Critics) awards. Balan, Padukone, and Bhatt won both awards in the same year, with Balan winning for the same film and Padukone and Bhatt winning for two different films.
- Kajol and Tabu are the two actresses who have won both the Best Actress and Best Villain awards.
Multiple wins
The following individuals have received two or more Best Actress awards:
| Wins | Actress |
|---|---|
| 4 | |
| 3 | Kajol |
| 2 | |
Multiple nominations
The following individuals have received two or more Best Actress nominations, including multiple nominations in a single year.
| Nominations | Actress |
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| 11 | |
| 9 | |
| 8 | |
| 7 | |
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| 5 | |
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| 3 | |
| 2 | |
Winners and nominees
| ‡ | Indicates the winner |
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1990s
| Year[c] | Winner | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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| 1998 (1st) |
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Madhuri Dixit ‡ | Pooja | Dil To Pagal Hai | [2] [3] |
| Juhi Chawla | Madhu Saxena | Ishq | |||
| Kajol | Isha Diwan | Gupt | |||
| Karisma Kapoor | Nisha | Dil To Pagal Hai | |||
| Meena Nath Malhotra | Hero No. 1 | ||||
| 1999 (2nd) |
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Kajol ‡ | Anjali Sharma | Kuch Kuch Hota Hai | [4] |
| Juhi Chawla | Sonia Kapoor | Duplicate | |||
| Kajol | Naina Sehgal & Sonia Sehgal (Twins) | Dushman | |||
| Muskaan Thakur | Pyaar Kiya To Darna Kya | ||||
| Rani Mukerji | Alisha Mafatlal | Ghulam | |||
2000s
| Year[c] | Winner | Actor | Role(s) | Film | Ref. |
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| 2000 (3rd) |
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Aishwarya Rai ‡ | Nandini Darbar | Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam | [5] |
| Aishwarya Rai | Mansi Shankar | Taal | |||
| Kajol | Nandita Rai | Dil Kya Kare | |||
| Megha | Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain | ||||
| Karisma Kapoor | Pooja Mehra (née Makhija) | Biwi No.1 | |||
| 2001 (4th) |
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Tabu ‡ | Aditi Pandit | Astitva | [6] |
| Aishwarya Rai | Preeti Vyas | Hamara Dil Aapke Paas Hai | |||
| Karisma Kapoor | Fiza Ikramullah | Fiza | |||
| Madhuri Dixit | Anjali | Pukar | |||
| Preity Zinta | Priya Bakshi | Kya Kehna | |||
| 2002 (5th) |
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Tabu ‡ | Mumtaz Ali Ansari | Chandni Bar | [7] |
| Ameesha Patel | Sakeena "Sakku" Tara Singh (née Ali) | Gadar: Ek Prem Katha | |||
| Kajol | Anjali Sharma Raichand | Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham | |||
| Karisma Kapoor | Zubeidaa Suleiman Seth / Zubeidaa Mehboob Alam / Rani Meenakshi Devi | Zubeidaa | |||
| Nandita Das | Saanvri | Bawandar | |||
| 2003 (6th) |
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Aishwarya Rai ‡ | Parvati "Paro" | Devdas | [8] |
| Karisma Kapoor | Nandini | Shakti: The Power | |||
| Madhuri Dixit | Chandramukhi | Devdas | |||
| Rani Mukerji | Dr. Suhani Sehgal (née Sharma) | Saathiya | |||
| Tabu | Rewa Singh | Filhaal... | |||
| 2004 (7th) |
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Urmila Matondkar ‡ | Swati | Bhoot | [9] |
| Antara Mali | Chutki | Main Madhuri Dixit Banna Chahti Hoon | |||
| Hema Malini | Pooja Malhotra | Baghban | |||
| Preity Zinta | Naina Catherine Kapur | Kal Ho Naa Ho | |||
| Rani Mukerji | Priya Chopra Mathur | Chalte Chalte | |||
| 2005 (8th) |
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Rani Mukerji ‡ | Rhea Prakash | Hum Tum | [10] |
| Kareena Kapoor | Aaliya | Dev | |||
| Mallika Sherawat | Simran Sehgal | Murder | |||
| Preity Zinta | Zaara Hayaat Khan | Veer-Zaara | |||
| Shilpa Shetty | Tamanna Sahni | Phir Milenge | |||
| Urmila Matondkar | Sarika Vartak | Ek Hasina Thi | |||
| 2006 (9th) |
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Rani Mukerji ‡ | Michelle McNally | Black | [11] [12] |
| Konkona Sen Sharma | Madhavi Sharma | Page 3 | |||
| Preity Zinta | Ambar "Amby" Malhotra | Salaam Namaste | |||
| Rani Mukerji | Vimmi "Babli" Saluja | Bunty Aur Babli | |||
| Urmila Matondkar | Trisha Chaudhary | Maine Gandhi Ko Nahin Mara | |||
| Vidya Balan | Lalita Roy | Parineeta | |||
| 2007 (10th) |
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Kajol ‡ | Zooni Qadri (née Ali Beg) | Fanaa | [13] |
| Aishwarya Rai | Amiran (Umrao Jaan) | Umrao Jaan | |||
| Ayesha Takia | Meera | Dor | |||
| Bipasha Basu | Nishigandha Dasgupta | Corporate | |||
| Kareena Kapoor | Dolly Mishra | Omkara | |||
| Rani Mukerji | Maya Talwar | Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna | |||
| 2008 (11th) |
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Kareena Kapoor ‡ | Geet Kaur Dhillon | Jab We Met | [14] |
| Aishwarya Rai | Sujata "Suju" Desai | Guru | |||
| Deepika Padukone | Shantipriya aka Shanti & Sandhya "Sandy" Bansal | Om Shanti Om | |||
| Katrina Kaif | Jasmeet "Jazz" Malhotra Singh | Namastey London | |||
| Tabu | Nina Verma | Cheeni Kum | |||
| Vidya Balan | Avni Chaturvedi / Manjulika | Bhool Bhulaiyaa | |||
| 2009 | Not held | ||||
2010s
2020s
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See also
Notes
- There was no award ceremony in 2021 and 2022. Bhatt won the award for three consecutive years, from 2018–2020, and again in 2023.
- There was no award ceremony in 2021 and 2022. Bhatt received nominations for four consecutive years, from 2017–2020, and again from 2023–2024, resulting in eight nominations, including dual nominations in 2017 and 2023.
- Refers to the year in which the ceremony was held.