1980s
1980 (New Play) Frances de la Tour for Duet for One
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1980 (Revival) Judi Dench for Juno and the Paycock
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1981 (New Play) Elizabeth Quinn for Children of a Lesser God
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1981 (Revival) Margaret Tyzack for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
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1982 (New Play) Rosemary Leach for 84 Charing Cross Road
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1982 (Revival) Cheryl Campbell for a Doll's House
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1983 (New Play) Judi Dench for Pack of Lies
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1983 (Revival) Frances de la Tour for A Moon for the Misbegotten
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1984 (New Play) Thuli Dumakudi for Poppie Nongena
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1984 (Revival) Vanessa Redgrave for The Aspern Papers
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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
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1988 (Revival) Harriet Walter for Twelfth Night and Three Sisters
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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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