The London Film Critics Circle Award for British/Irish Actress of the Year was an annual award given by the London Film Critics Circle.

Winners 1990s YearWinnerFilmRole 1993 Miranda Richardson Damage Ingrid Fleming1994 Crissy Rock Ladybird, Ladybird Maggie Conlan1995 Kate Winslet Heavenly Creatures Juliet Hulme1996 Brenda Blethyn Secrets & Lies Cynthia Rose Purley1997 Judi Dench Mrs Brown Queen Victoria1998 Helena Bonham Carter The Wings of the Dove Kate Croy Julie Christie Afterglow Phyllis Hart Minnie Driver The Governess Rosina da Silva / Mary Blackchurch Louise Goodall My Name Is Joe Sarah Downie Kristin Scott Thomas The Horse Whisperer Annie Maclean Kate Winslet Titanic Rose DeWitt Bukater Catherine Zeta-Jones The Mask of Zorro Elena Montero1999 Emily Watson Angela's Ashes and Hilary and Jackie Angela McCourt and Jacqueline du Pré

2000s YearWinnerFilmRole2000 Julie Walters Billy Elliot Sandra Wilkinson Brenda Blethyn Saving Grace Grace Trevethyn Janet McTeer Tumbleweeds Mary Jo Walker Emily Watson The Luzhin Defence Natalia Katkov Kate Winslet Quills Madeleine "Maddy" LeClerc2001 Judi Dench Iris Iris Murdoch2002 Lesley Manville All or Nothing Penny Samantha Morton Morvern Callar Morvern Callar Miranda Richardson Spider Yvonne / Mrs. Cleg2003 Anne Reid The Mother May Helen Mirren Calendar Girls Chris Harper Julie Walters Annie Clarke Charlotte Rampling Swimming Pool Sarah Morton Tilda Swinton Young Adam Ella Gault2004 Eva Birthistle Ae Fond Kiss... Roisin Hanlon Kate Winslet Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind Clementine Kruczynski Judi Dench Ladies in Lavender Ursula Widdington Emily Mortimer Dear Frankie Lizzie Natalie Press My Summer of Love Mona2005 Rachel Weisz The Constant Gardener Tessa Abbott-Quayle Judi Dench Mrs. Henderson Presents Laura Henderson Keira Knightley Pride & Prejudice Elizabeth Bennet Kristin Scott Thomas Keeping Mum Gloria Goodfellow Emily Watson Separate Lies Anne Manning2006 Helen Mirren The Queen Queen Elizabeth II Judi Dench Notes on a Scandal Barbara Covett Kate Dickie Red Road Jackie Morrison Lorraine Stanley London to Brighton Kelly Kate Winslet Little Children Sarah Pierce2007 Julie Christie Away from Her Fiona Anderson Helena Bonham Carter Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street Nellie Lovett Keira Knightley Atonement Cecilia Tallis Sienna Miller Interview Katya Samantha Morton Control Deborah Curtis2008 Kristin Scott Thomas I've Loved You So Long Juliette Fontaine Rebecca Hall Vicky Cristina Barcelona Vicky Sally Hawkins Happy-Go-Lucky Pauline "Poppy" Cross Tilda Swinton Julia Julia Kate Winslet The Reader and Revolutionary Road Hanna Schmitz and April Wheeler2009 Carey Mulligan An Education Jenny Mellor Emily Blunt The Young Victoria Queen Victoria Katie Jarvis Fish Tank Mia Williams Helen Mirren The Last Station Sophia Tolstaya Kristin Scott Thomas Nowhere Boy Mimi Smith

2010s YearWinnerFilmRole2010 Lesley Manville Another Year Mary Smith Helena Bonham Carter The King's Speech Queen Elizabeth Rosamund Pike Barney's Version Miriam Grant Ruth Sheen Another Year Gerri Hepple Tilda Swinton I Am Love Emma Recchi2011 Olivia Colman The Iron Lady and Tyrannosaur Carol Thatcher and Hannah Carey Mulligan Drive and Shame Irene Gabriel and Sissy Sullivan Vanessa Redgrave Anonymous and Coriolanus Elizabeth I and Volumnia Tilda Swinton We Need to Talk About Kevin Eva Khatchadourian Rachel Weisz The Deep Blue Sea Hester Collyer2012 Andrea Riseborough Shadow Dancer Colette McVeigh Emily Blunt Looper and Your Sister's Sister Sara and Iris Judi Dench The Best Exotic Marigold Hotel and Skyfall Evelyn Greenslade and M Alice Lowe Sightseers Tina Helen Mirren Hitchcock Alma Reville2013 Judi Dench Philomena Philomena Lee Lindsay Duncan About Time, Last Passenger and Le Week-End Mary Lake, Elaine Middleton and Meg Burrows Naomie Harris Mandela: Long Walk to Freedom Winnie Madikizela Sally Hawkins Blue Jasmine Ginger Emma Thompson Beautiful Creatures and Saving Mr. Banks Mavis Lincoln / Sarafine Duchannes and P. L. Travers2014 Rosamund Pike Gone Girl and What We Did on Our Holiday Amy Elliott-Dunne and Abi McLeod Emily Blunt Edge of Tomorrow and Into the Woods Rita Vrataski and the Baker's Wife Felicity Jones The Theory of Everything Jane Wilde Keira Knightley The Imitation Game, Begin Again and Say When Joan Clarke, Gretta James and Megan Burch Gugu Mbatha-Raw Belle Dido Elizabeth Belle2015 Saoirse Ronan Brooklyn and Lost River Eilis Lacey and Rat Emily Blunt Sicario Kate Macer Carey Mulligan Far from the Madding Crowd and Suffragette Bathsheba Everdene and Maud Watts Charlotte Rampling 45 Years and The Forbidden Room Kate Mercer and the Ostler's Mother Kate Winslet The Dressmaker, A Little Chaos, and Steve Jobs Myrtle "Tilly" Dunnage, Sabine de Barra, and Joanna Hoffman2016 Kate Beckinsale Love and Friendship Lady Susan Vernon Rebecca Hall Christine Christine Chubbuck Naomie Harris Moonlight, Our Kind of Traitor and Collateral Beauty Paula, Gail MacKendrick, and Madeleine Ruth Negga Loving and Iona Mildred Loving and Iona Hayley Squires I, Daniel Blake Katie Morgan2017 Sally Hawkins Maudie, Paddington 2, and The Shape of Water Maud Lewis, Mary Brown, and Elisa Esposito Emily Beecham Daphne Daphne Vitale Judi Dench Victoria & Abdul and Murder on the Orient Express Queen Victoria and Princess Natalia Dragomiroff Florence Pugh Lady Macbeth Katherine Lester Saoirse Ronan Lady Bird and Loving Vincent Christine "Lady Bird" McPherson and Marguerite Gachet2018 Jessie Buckley Beast Moll Huntford Emily Blunt A Quiet Place, Mary Poppins Returns, and Sherlock Gnomes Evelyn Abbott, Mary Poppins, and Juliet Olivia Colman The Favourite Queen Anne Claire Foy First Man, The Girl in the Spider's Web, and Unsane Janet Armstrong, Lisbeth Salander, and Sawyer Valentini Rachel Weisz Disobedience and The Favourite Ronit Krushka and Sarah Churchill, Duchess of Marlborough2019 Florence Pugh Fighting with My Family, Little Women, and Midsommar Saraya "Paige" Knight, Amy March, and Dani Ardor Jessie Buckley Wild Rose and Judy Rose-Lynn Harlan and Rosalyn Wilder Cynthia Erivo Harriet Harriet Tubman Lesley Manville Maleficent: Mistress of Evil and Ordinary Love Flittle and Joan Thompson Saoirse Ronan Little Women Josephine "Jo" March

2020s YearWinnerFilmRole2020 Morfydd Clark Eternal Beauty and Saint Maud Young Jane and Katie / Maud Bukky Bakray Rocks Olushola "Rocks" Omotoso Jessie Buckley I'm Thinking of Ending Things and Misbehaviour Young Woman and Jo Robinson Vanessa Kirby Pieces of a Woman and The World to Come Martha Weiss and Tallie Carey Mulligan The Dig and Promising Young Woman Edith Pretty and Cassandra "Cassie" Thomas2021 Tilda Swinton The French Dispatch, Memoria and The Souvenir Part II J.K.L. Berensen, Jessica Holland and Rosalind Hart Jessie Buckley The Lost Daughter Young Leda Caruso Olivia Colman The Electrical Life of Louis Wain, The Lost Daughter, The Mitchells vs. the Machines, Mothering Sunday, and Ron's Gone Wrong The Narrator, Leda Caruso, PAL, Clarrie Niven, and Donka Pudowski Ruth Negga Passing and Poly Styrene: I Am a Cliché Clare Bellew and the Narrator Joanna Scanlan After Love Mary Hussain2022 Florence Pugh Don't Worry Darling, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish and The Wonder Alice Chambers, Goldilocks, and Elizabeth "Lib" Wright Jessie Buckley Men, Scrooge: A Christmas Carol, and Women Talking Harper Marlowe, Isabel Fezziwig, and Mariche Loewen Olivia Colman Empire of Light, Joyride, Puss in Boots: The Last Wish, and Scrooge: A Christmas Carol Hilary Small, Joy, Mama Bear, and Past Emma Thompson Good Luck to You, Leo Grande and Matilda the Musical Nancy Stokes / Susan Robinson and Miss Trunchbull Letitia Wright Aisha, Black Panther: Wakanda Forever, and The Silent Twins Aisha Osagie, Shuri, and June Gibbons

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