Best Actress

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Best Actress is an award given by film, television, and theatre groups, festivals, and fans to leading actresses in movies, TV shows, or plays. The first Best Actress award for a film was given on May 16, 1929, at the Academy Awards by AMPAS to Janet Gaynor for her roles in 7th Heaven, Street Angel, and Sunrise: A Song of Two Humans. The theatre version began on April 6, 1947, at the Tony Awards, awarded by the American Theatre Wing and The Broadway League to Ingrid Bergman for Joan of Lorraine and to Helen Hayes for Happy Birthday. The first TV Best Actress award was on January 23, 1951, at the Primetime Emmy Awards to Gertrude Berg for The Goldbergs. The first Best Actress prize at a film festival (the Volpi Cup) went to Katharine Hepburn for Little Women at the Venice Film Festival in 1934.