The David di Donatello for Best Foreign Actress () is a category in the David di Donatello Awards, described as "Italy's answer to the Oscars". It was awarded by the Accademia del Cinema Italiano (ACI, Academy of Italian Cinema) to recognize outstanding efforts on the part of non-Italian film actresses during the year preceding the ceremony. The award was created during the second edition of the ceremony, in 1957, and cancelled after the 1996 event. The award was not granted in 1958.
Winners
1950s
1957
Ingrid Bergman – Anastasia
1958
Not awarded
1959
Deborah Kerr – Separate Tables
1960s
1960
Audrey Hepburn – The Nun's Story
1961
Brigitte Bardot – The Truth
1962
Audrey Hepburn – Breakfast at Tiffany's
1963
Geraldine Page – Sweet Bird of Youth
1964
Shirley MacLaine – Irma la Douce
1965
Audrey Hepburn – My Fair Lady
1966
Julie Andrews – The Sound of Music
1967
Julie Christie – Doctor Zhivago (ex aequo) Elizabeth Taylor – The Taming of the Shrew
1968
Faye Dunaway – Bonnie and Clyde (ex aequo) Katharine Hepburn – Guess Who's Coming to Dinner
1969
Barbra Streisand – Funny Girl (ex aequo) Mia Farrow – Rosemary's Baby
1970s
1970
Liza Minnelli – The Sterile Cuckoo
1971
Ali MacGraw – Love Story
1972
Elizabeth Taylor – X Y & Zee
1973
Liza Minnelli – Cabaret
1974
Barbra Streisand – The Way We Were (ex aequo) Tatum O'Neal – Paper Moon
1975
Liv Ullmann – Scenes from a Marriage
1976
Isabelle Adjani – The Story of Adele H. (ex aequo) Glenda Jackson – Hedda
1977
Annie Girardot – Cours après moi que je t'attrape (ex aequo) Faye Dunaway – Network
1978
Jane Fonda – Julia (ex aequo) Simone Signoret – The Life Before Us
1979
Ingrid Bergman – Autumn Sonata (ex aequo) Liv Ullmann – Autumn Sonata
1980s
1980
Isabelle Huppert – The Lacemaker
1981
Catherine Deneuve – The Last Metro
1982
Diane Keaton – Reds
1983
Julie Andrews – Victor/Victoria
1984
Shirley MacLaine – Terms of Endearment
1985
Meryl Streep – Falling in Love
1986
Meryl Streep – Out of Africa
1987
Norma Aleandro – The Official Story
1988
Cher – Moonstruck
1989
Jodie Foster – The Accused
1990s
1990
Jessica Tandy – Driving Miss Daisy
1991
Anne Parillaud – La Femme Nikita
1992
Jodie Foster – The Silence of the Lambs
1993
Emmanuelle Béart – A Heart in Winter (ex aequo) Tilda Swinton – Orlando (ex aequo) Emma Thompson – Howards End