Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play

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The Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2003. [1] In the following list, winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.

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Winners and nominees

   Winners are listed first and marked in a separate colour, in boldface.
YearActorProductionCharacter(s)
2003
(3rd)
Jane Harders Copenhagen Margrethe Bohr
Deborah Kennedy Soulmates Fiona
Angela Punch McGregor Great Expectations Miss Havisham
Julie Forsyth Great Expectations Mrs Joe Gargery and Miss Skiffins
2004
(4th)
Belinda McClory Frozen Agnetha
Deidre Rubenstein Night Letters Innkeeper
Rebecca Massey The Underpants Gertrude
Amber McMahon The Snow Queen Little Robber Girl
2005
(5th)
Zoe Carides Influence Zehra
Amber McMahon Afternoon of the Elves Maid
Kerry Walker The Spook Trixie
Justine Clarke Hedda Gabler Thea Elvsted
2006
(6th)
Alison Bell Doubt Sister Aloysius
Michaela Cantwell Honk if you are Jesus Mary-Beth
Belinda McClory The Odyssey Circe
Anne Looby The Peach Season Celia
2007
(7th)
Deborah Mailman The Lost Echo Satirino
Bojana Novakovic Eldorado Manuela
Hayley McElhinney Mother Courage and Her Children Kattrin
Rebecca Massey It Just Stopped Pearl
2008
(8th)
Julie Forsyth Exit the King Juliette
Monica Maughan Toy Symphony Mrs. Walkham
Alison Whyte Don's Party Jenny
Susan Prior Riflemind Lynn
2009
(9th)
Marta Dusseldorp War of the Roses Queen Margaret
Christen O'Leary Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd Maude Adle
Bojana Novakovic Woyzeck Marie
Yael Stone Scorched Janine
2010
(10th)
Alison Whyte Richard III Queen Elizabeth
Jennifer Hagan Richard III Queen Margaret
Deborah Kennedy The Book of Everything Aunty Pie
Yael Stone The Book of Everything Eliza
2011
(11th)
Anita Hegh The Wild Duck Gina
Anne Phelan Do Not Go Gentle Wilson
Helen Thomson In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Sabrina Daldry
Yael Stone Entertaining Mr Sloane Sophie, Madgie and Fidele
2012
(12th)
Robyn Nevin Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Emma Leech
Justine Clarke Les Liaisons Dangereuses Madame de Tourvel
Kris McQuade Neighbourhood Watch Milova
Miranda Otto The White GuardLena
2013
(13th)
Amber McMahon School Dance Hannah Ellis
Lynette Curran Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Mama
Valerie Bader Australia Day Marie
Miranda Tapsell The Secret River Muruli
2014
(14th)
Robyn Nevin Angels in America
Elizabeth Debicki The Maids
Susan Prior Small and Tired
Zahra Newman The Government Inspector
2015
(15th)
Helen Thomson After Dinner
Julie Forsyth Endgame
Sarah Peirse Endgame
Pamela Rabe Beckett Triptych Footfalls
2016
(16th)
Sarah Peirse The Golden Age
Michelle Doake Romeo and Juliet
Katrina Milosevic The Distance
Anna Samson Birdland
2017
(17th)
Amber McMahonGirl Asleep
Chloe BaylissGloria
Tilda Cobham-Hervey Things I Know To Be True
Melita JurisicJohn
2018
(18th)
Anita Hegh The Resistible Rise of Arturo Ui
Jane Montgomery-Griffiths Macbeth
Kate Box Top Girls
Elaine Crombie An Octoroon
2019
(19th) [3] [4]
Vaishnavi Suryaprakash Counting and Cracking Rahda (younger)
Helen ThomsonThe Harp in the South: Part One and Part TwoDelie Stock
Maude DaveyMelancholia
Zoe Terakes A View from the Bridge

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