Laurence Olivier Award For Best Actress - 1980s

1980s

1980 (New Play) Frances de la Tour for Duet for One

  • Shelagh Holliday for A Lessons From Aloes
  • Glenda Jackson for Rose
  • Joan Plowright for Enjoy

1980 (Revival) Judi Dench for Juno and the Paycock

  • Maria Aitken for Private Lives
  • Geraldine McEwan for The Browning Version and Harlequinade
  • Susan Tracy for Anna Christie

1981 (New Play) Elizabeth Quinn for Children of a Lesser God

  • Eileen Atkins for Passion Play
  • Janet Dale for Accrington Pals
  • Maggie Smith for Virginia

1981 (Revival) Margaret Tyzack for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

  • Sinéad Cusack for The Maid's Tragedy
  • Rosemary Harris for All My Sons
  • Penelope Wilton for Man and Superman

1982 (New Play) Rosemary Leach for 84 Charing Cross Road

  • Judy Davis for Insignificance
  • Judi Dench for Other Places
  • Anna Massey for Summer

1982 (Revival) Cheryl Campbell for a Doll's House

  • Judi Dench for The Importance of Being Earnest
  • Felicity Kendal for The Second Mrs. Tanqueray
  • Mary Maddox for Rocket to the Moon

1983 (New Play) Judi Dench for Pack of Lies

  • Sara Kestelman for The Custom of the Country
  • Maureen Lipman for Messiah
  • Janet Suzman for Cowardice

1983 (Revival) Frances de la Tour for A Moon for the Misbegotten

  • Sinéad Cusack for The Taming of the Shrew
  • Rosemary Harris for Heartbreak House
  • Helen Mirren for Antony and Cleopatra

1984 (New Play) Thuli Dumakudi for Poppie Nongena

  • Brenda Blethyn for Benefactors
  • Julie Covington for Tom and Viv
  • Julie Walters for Fool for Love

1984 (Revival) Vanessa Redgrave for The Aspern Papers

  • Glenda Jackson for Strange Interlude
  • Juliet Stevenson for Measure for Measure
  • Zoe Wanamaker for Twelfth Night

Actress of the Year 1985 Yvonne Bryceland for The Road to Mecca

  • Wendy Morgan for Martine
  • Harriet Walter for The Castle
  • Joanne Whalley for Saved

Actress of the Year 1986 Lindsay Duncan for Les Liaisons Dangereuses

  • Julia McKenzie for Woman in Mind
  • Juliet Stevenson for As You Like It; Les Liaisons Dangereuses and Troilus and Cressida
  • Irene Worth for The Bay at Nice

Actress of the Year 1987 Judi Dench for Antony and Cleopatra

  • Miranda Richardson for A Lie of the Mind
  • Maggie Smith for Lettice and Lovage and Coming in to Land
  • Juliet Stevenson for Yerma

1988 (New Play) Pauline Collins for Shirley Valentine

  • Gillian Barge for Mrs. Klein
  • Saskia Reeves for Separation
  • Penelope Wilton for The Secret Rapture

1988 (Revival) Harriet Walter for Twelfth Night and Three Sisters

  • Estelle Kohler for Titus Andronicus
  • Vanessa Redgrave for A Touch of the Poet
  • Imelda Staunton for Uncle Vanya

Actress of the Year 1989/90 Fiona Shaw for Electra; As You Like It and The Good Person of Sichuan

  • Sheila Hancock for Prin
  • Jane Lapotaire for Shadowlands
  • Prunella Scales for Spies

Note: Only one award ceremony for 1989-1990.

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