1991 Kathryn Hunter for The Visit
- Penny Downie for Scenes rom a Marriage
- Barbara Jefford for Coriolanus
- Josette Simon for After the Fall
1992 Juliet Stevenson for Death and the Maiden
- Janet McTeer for Uncle Vanya
- Patricia Routledge for Talking Heads
- Fiona Shaw for Hedda Gaabler
1993 Alison Steadman for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
- Stockard Channing for Six Degrees of Separation
- Judi Dench for The Gift of the Gorgon
- Jane Horrocks for The Rise and Fall of Little Voice
1994 Fiona Shaw for Machinal
- Kathryn Hunter for The Skriker
- Diana Rigg for Medea
- Penelope Wilton for The Deep Blue Sea
1995 Clare Higgins for Sweet Bird of Youth
- Frances de la Tour for Les Parents Terribles
- Sheila Gish for Les Parents Terribles
- Margot Lester for Broken Glass
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1996 Judi Dench for Absolute Hell
- Diana Rigg for Mother Courage
- Zoe Wanamaker for The Glass Menagerie
- Lia Williams for Skylight
1997 Janet McTeer for A Doll's House
- Eileen Atkins for John Gabriel Borkman
- Vanessa Redgrave for John Gabriel Borkman
- Diana Rigg for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
1998 Zoe Wanamaker for Electra
- Judi Dench for Amy's View
- Sally Dexter for Closer
- Maggie Smith for A Delicate Balance
1999 Eileen Atkins for The Unexpected Man
- Sinéad Cusack for Our Lady of Sligo
- Judi Dench for Filumena
- Nicole Kidman for The Blue Room
- Diana Rigg for Britannicus and Phedre
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