2000s
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2000 Janie Dee for Comic Potential
- Jennifer Ehle for The Real Thing
- Maggie Smith for The Lady in the Van
- Alison Steadman for The Memory of Water
2001 Julie Walters for All my Sons
- Jessica Lange for Long Day's Journey into Night
- Helen Mirren for Orpheus
- Julia Ormond for My Zinc Bed
- Harriet Walter for Life x 3
2002 Lindsay Duncan for Private Lives
- Lindsay Duncan for Mouth to Mouth
- Victoria Hamilton for A Day in the Death of Joe Egg
- Zoe Wanamaker for Boston Marriage
2003 Clare Higgins for Vincent in Brixton
- Anita Dobson for Frozen
- Gwyneth Paltrow for Proof
- Emily Watson for Uncle Vanya
2004 Eileen Atkins for Honour
- Helen Mirren for Mourning Becomes Electra
- Ann Mitchell for Through the Leaves
- Kelly Reilly for After Miss Julie
- Kristin Scott Thomas for Three Sisters
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2005 Clare Higgins for Hecuba
- Victoria Hamilton for Suddenly Last Summer
- Anna Maxwell Martin for His Dark Materials
- Caroline O'Connor for Bombshells
2006 Eve Best for Hedda Gabler
- Clare Higgins for Death of a Salesman
- Helen McCrory for As You You Like It
- Janet McTeer for Mary Stuart
- Harriet Walter for Mary Stuart
2007 Tamsin Greig for Much ado About Nothing
- Eve Best for A Moon for the Misbegotten
- Sinéad Cusack for Rock n Roll
- Kathleen Turner for Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
2008 Kristin Scott Thomas for The Seagull
- Anne-Marie Duff for Saint Joan
- Kelly Reilly for Othello
- Fiona Shaw for Happy Days
- Penelope Wilton for John Gabriel Borkman
2009 Margaret Tyzack for The Chalk Garden
- Deanna Dunagan for August: Osage County
- Lindsay Duncan for That Face
- Penelope Wilton for The Chalk Garden
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Note: Lindsay Duncan's two mentions in 2002, count as two separate nominations.