Laurence Olivier Award For Best Actress - 1970s

1976 (New Play) Peggy Ashcroft for Our World

• Pauline Collins for Engaged
• Penelope Keith for Donkey's Years
• Joan Plowright for The Best Before Yesterday

1976 (Revival) Dorothy Tutin for A Month in the Country

• Susan Fleetwood for The Playboy of the Western World; Hamlet and Tamburlaine the Great
• Geraldine McEwan for On Approval
• Googie Withers for The Cherry Orchard and An Ideal Husband

1977 (New Play) Alison Fiske for Dusa, Fish, Stas and Vi

• Glenda Jackson for Stevie
• Glynis Johns for Cause Celebre
• Rosemary Leach for 'Just Between Ourselves

1977 (Revival) Judi Dench for Macbeth

• Francesca Annis for Troilus and Cressida
• Susan Fleetwood for The Plough and the Stars
• Janet Suzman for Hedda Gabler

1978 (New Play) Joan Plowright for Filumena

• Yvonne Bryceland for The Woman
• Sylvia Miles for Vieux Carre
• Kate Nelligan for Plenty

1978 (Revival) Dorothy Tutin for The Double Dealer

• Eileen Atkins for Twelfth Night
• Ingrid Bergman for Waters of the Moon
• Wendy Hiller for Waters of the Moon

1979 (New Play) Jane Lapotaire for Piaf

• Constance Cummings for Wings
• Gemma Jones for And a Nightingale Sang
• Jessica Tandy for The Gin Game

1979 (Revival) Zoe Wanamaker for Once in a Lifetime

• Paolo Dionisotti for The Taming of the Shrew
• Glenda Jackson for Antony and Cleopatra
• Billie Whitelaw for Happy Days