Luise Rainer
Won for Playing Anna Held in The Great Ziegfeld (1936)
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Jennifer Jones
Won for Playing Bernadette Soubirous in The Song of Bernadette (1943) -
Ingrid Bergman
Won for Playing Anna Koreff and Anastasia in Anastasia (1956) -
Joanne Woodward
Won for Playing Eve White/Eve Black/Jane in The Three Faces of Eve (1957) -
Susan Hayward
Won for Playing Barbara Graham in I Want to Live! (1958) -
Anne Bancroft
Won for Playing Annie Sullivan in The Miracle Worker (1962) -
Katharine Hepburn
Won for Playing Eleanor of Aquitaine in The Lion in Winter (1968) -
Barbra Streisand
Won for Playing Fanny Brice in Funny Girl (1968) -
Sissy Spacek
Won for Playing Loretta Lynn in Coal Miner's Daughter (1980) -
Susan Sarandon
Won for Playing Helen Prejean in Dead Man Walking (1995) -
Hilary Swank
Won for Playing Brandon Teena in Boys Don't Cry (1999) -
Julia Roberts
Won for Playing Erin Brockovich in Erin Brockovich (2000) -
Nicole Kidman
Won for Playing Virginia Woolf in The Hours (2002) -
Charlize Theron
Won for Playing Aileen Wuornos in Monster (2003) -
Reese Witherspoon
Won for Playing June Carter Cash in Walk the Line (2005) -
Helen Mirren
Won for Playing Queen Elizabeth II in The Queen (2006) -
Marion Cotillard
Won for Playing Edith Piaf in La Vie en Rose (2007) -
Sandra Bullock
Won for Playing Leigh Anne Tuohy in The Blind Side (2009) -
Meryl Streep
Won for Playing Margaret Thatcher in The Iron Lady (2011) -
Olivia Colman
Won for Playing Anne, Queen of Britain in The Favourite (2018) -
Renée Zellweger
Won for Playing Judy Garland in Judy (2019) -
Jessica Chastain
Won for Playing Tammy Faye in The Eyes of Tammy Faye (2021)
