The Filmfare Best Actress Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Kannada films (Sandalwood). The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972. The year indicates the year of release of the film.

Superlatives

Multiple wins

The following individuals have received two or more Best Actress awards:

Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada

Winners

Nominations

2005 Vidya Venkatesh – Nenapirali as Sindhu

Meena – My Autograph as Divya

Shilpa Shetty – Auto Shankar as Maya

Ramya – Amrithadhare as Amritha

Radhika Kumaraswamy – Anna Thangi as Lakshmi

2006 Ramya – Tananam Tananam as Vanaja

Meera Jasmine – Arasu as Aishwarya

Rakshitha – Neenello Naanalle as Siri

Radhika Kumaraswamy – Hatavadi as Anisha

2007 Rashmi – Duniya as Poornima

Parvathy Thiruvothu – Milana as Anjali

Suhasini – Maathaad Maathaadu Mallige as Kanaka

Jaya Prada - Ee Bandhana as Nandini

2008 Radhika Pandit – Moggina Manasu as Chanchala

Daisy Bopanna – Gaalipata as Soumya

Pooja Gandhi – Taj Mahal as Shruti

Ramya – Mussanjemaatu as Tanu

Suhasi – Haage Summane as Khushi

2009 Radhika Pandit – Love Guru as Kushi

Haripriya – Kallara Santhe as Roopa

Priyamani – Raam as Pooja

Priyanka Kothari – Raaj The Showman as Parvathy

Rekha – Parichaya as Nirmala (Nimmi) 2010 Radhika Pandit – Krishnan Love Story as Geetha Aindrita Ray – Veera Parampare Nayantara – Super as Indira Nidhi Subbaiah – Pancharangi as Ambika Ramya – Just Math Mathalli as Tanu 2011 Ramya – Sanju Weds Geetha as Geetha Deepa Sannidhi – Paramathma as Deepa aka Thithi Vade Nidhi Subbaiah – Krishnan Marriage Story as Khushi Radhika Pandit – Hudugaru as Gayathri Ragini Dwivedi – Kempe Gowda as Kavya 2012 Priyamani – Chaarulatha Pooja Gandhi – Dandupalya Pranitha Subhash – Bheema Theeradalli Radhika Pandit – Addhuri Ramya – Sidlingu 2013 Amulya – Shravani Subramanya Aindrita Ray – Bhajarangi Meghana Gaonkar – Charminar Nithya Menen – Mynaa Rachita Ram – Bulbul Shwetha Srivatsav – Simple Agi Ondh Love Story 2014 Shwetha Srivatsav – Fair & Lovely Haripriya – Ugramm Kriti Kharbanda – Super Ranga Radhika Pandit – Mr. and Mrs. Ramachari Ragini Dwivedi – Ragini IPS 2015 Parul Yadav – Aatagara Mayuri Kyatari – Krishna Leela Nabha Natesh – Vajrakaya Rachita Ram – Ranna Shanvi Srivastava – Masterpiece 2016 Shraddha Srinath – U Turn Hariprriya – Neer Dose Parul Yadav – Killing Veerappan Shwetha Srivatsav – Kiragoorina Gayyaligalu Sruthi Hariharan – Godhi Banna Sadharana Mykattu 2017 Sruthi Hariharan – Beautiful Manasugalu Nivedihta – Shuddhi Rashmika Mandanna – Chamak Shanvi Srivastava – Tarak Shraddha Srinath – Operation Aalamelamma 2018 Manvitha Kamath – Tagaru Ashika Ranganath – Raambo 2 Meghana Raj – Iruvudellava Bittu Nishvika Naidu -Amma I Love You Sruthi Hariharan – Nathicharami

Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada

2020-21 Yagna Shetty – Act 1978

Aarohi Narayan – Bheemasena Nalamaharaja

Amrutha Iyengar – Badava Rascal

Asha Bhat – Roberrt

Kushee Ravi – Dia

Milana Nagaraj – Love Mocktail

Reba – Rathnan Prapancha

References

Notes

Actress

Film awards for lead actress

Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Kannada