Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role – Play (Large Theatre)

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The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live Canadian theatre.

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Awards and nominations

YearWinnerNominated
1981 Blueribbon icon.png Roberta Maxwell, Stevie
1982 Blueribbon icon.png Rosemary Dunsmore, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers
1983 Blueribbon icon.png Jennifer Phipps, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
1984 Blueribbon icon.png Martha Burns, Trafford Tanzi
1985 Blueribbon icon.png Doris Petrie, 'night, Mother
1986 [1] Blueribbon icon.png Martha Burns, The Miracle Worker
1987 [2] Blueribbon icon.png Lally Cadeau, Saturday Sunday Monday
1988 [3] Blueribbon icon.png Susan Wright, A Lie of the Mind
1989 [4] Blueribbon icon.png Tanja Jacobs, Under the Skin
1990 Blueribbon icon.png Nancy Beatty, Love and Anger
1991 Blueribbon icon.png Seana McKenna, Saint Joan
1992 Blueribbon icon.png Nicola Cavendish, Shirley Valentine
1993 Blueribbon icon.png Fiona Reid, Fallen Angels
1994 Blueribbon icon.png Brenda Robins, Dancing at Lughnasa
1995 [5] Blueribbon icon.png Fiona Reid, Six Degrees of Separation
1996 Blueribbon icon.png Nicola Cavendish, Later Life
1997 Blueribbon icon.png Lilo Baur, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
1998 Blueribbon icon.png Kristen Thomson, Problem Child
1999 Blueribbon icon.png Nancy Beatty, Risk Everything
2000 Blueribbon icon.png Nora McLellan, Music for Contortionist
2001 Blueribbon icon.png Kristen Thomson, I, Claudia
2002 Blueribbon icon.png Yanna McIntosh, Skylight
2003 Blueribbon icon.png Kristina Nicoll, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
2004 Blueribbon icon.png Caroline Cave, The Syringa Tree
2005 Blueribbon icon.png Irene Poole, The Leisure Society
2006 Blueribbon icon.png d'bi young, blood.claat — one womban story
2007 Blueribbon icon.png Seana McKenna, Orpheus Descending
2008 Blueribbon icon.png Lally Cadeau, Rose
2009 Blueribbon icon.png Alison Sealy-Smith, A Raisin in the Sun
2010 Blueribbon icon.png Tara Rosling, If We Were Birds
2011 Blueribbon icon.png Yanna McIntosh, Ruined
2012 [6] Blueribbon icon.png Pamela Mala Sinha, Crash
2013 Blueribbon icon.png Irene Poole, The Little Years
2014 Blueribbon icon.png Carly Street, Venus in Fur
2015 Blueribbon icon.png Nicky Guadagni, Hooked
2016 Blueribbon icon.png Rebecca Northan, Blind Date
2017 Blueribbon icon.png Maev Beaty, The Last Wife
2018 Blueribbon icon.png Michaela Washburn, Confederation & Riel

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