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]
| 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 awarded | 1993 |
| Last awarded | 2020 |
| Currently held by | Rukmini Maitra for Password |
| List of winners and nominated work | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Year | Recipient(s) | Role(s) | Film(s) | Reference(s) |
| 1993 (1st) & (2nd) | Debashree Roy | – | Prem | [2] [3] |
| Indrani Haldar | Tapashya | |||
| 1994 (3rd) | Debashree Roy | Sandhyatara | ||
| 1996 (4th) | Satabdi Roy | Mamata | Sansaar Sangram | |
| 1997 (5th) | Rituparna Sengupta | Celina Choudhury | Abujh Mon | |
| 1998 (6th) | Roopa Ganguly | Anasuya (Anu) | Yugant | |
| 1999 (7th) | Satabdi Roy | Sundari | Raja Rani Badsha | |
| 2000 (8th) | Rituparna Sengupta | Payel Choudhury | Moner Manush | |
| 2001 (9th) | Roopa Ray | Sasurbari Zindabad | ||
| 2002 (10th) | Debashree Roy | Sarama | Dekha | |
| 2003 (11th) | Kusum/K. Nandy | Silpantar | ||
| 2004 † (12th) | Rachna Banerjee | Saathi | Sabuj Saathi | |
| Rituparna Sengupta | Rajani Daasi | Mondo Meyer Upakhyan | ||
| 2005 † (13th) | Churni Ganguly | Medha Chatterjee | Waarish... | |
| Satabdi Roy | Revati Bhattacharya | Debipaksha | ||
| 2006 (14th) | Rituparna Sengupta | – | Dwitiya Basanta | |
| 2007 (15th) | Anuradha | Byatikrami | ||
| 2008 (16th) | Nandita Chatterjee | Anuranan | ||
| 2009 † (17th) | Brishti/Tilottama | Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited | ||
| Sreelekha Mitra | Krishnakali Chatterjee | Tolly Lights | ||
| 2010 † (18th) | Rituparna Sengupta | Malini/Debi | Aainaate | |
| Swastika Mukherjee | Koel | Brake Fail | ||
| 2011 (19th) | Raveena Tandon | Sohini | Laboratory | |
| 2012 (20th) | Konkona Sen Sharma | Mrinalini Mitra | Iti Mrinalini | |
| 2014 (22nd) | Subhashree Ganguly | Bhoomi | Khoka 420 | [3] |
| 2015 (23rd) | Bhumika Pratap Chaudhury | Ami Shudhu Cheyechi Tomay | [4] | |
| 2016 (24th) | Payel Sarkar | Ria Banerjee | Jomer Raja Dilo Bor | [5] [3] |
| 2017 (25th) | Srabanti Chatterjee | Riya/Chutki | Shikari | [6] |
| 2018 (26th) | Rituparna Sengupta | Runu Biswas | Baranda | |
| 2019 (27th) | Priyanka Sarkar | Roopa | Crisscross | |
| 2020 (28th) | Rukmini Maitra | Nisha Chatterjee | Password | [7] |
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