The Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer was an Empire Award presented annually by the British film magazine Empire to honour an actress who has delivered a breakthrough performance while working within the film industry. The Empire Award for Best Female Newcomer is one of two ongoing awards which were first introduced at the 17th Empire Awards ceremony in 2012 (along with Best Male Newcomer) with Felicity Jones receiving the award for her role in Like Crazy. Dafne Keen is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Logan. Winners are voted by the readers of Empire magazine.
Winners and nominees In the list below, winners are listed first in boldface, followed by the other nominees. The number of the ceremony (1st, 2nd, etc.) appears in parentheses after the awards year, linked to the article (if any) on that ceremony.
2010s Year Actor Film 2012 Felicity Jones Like Crazy Bonnie Wright Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows – Part 2 Céline Buckens War Horse Elle Fanning Super 8 Hailee Steinfeld True Grit Laura Haddock The Inbetweeners Movie 2013 Samantha Barks Les Misérables Alice Lowe Sightseers Alicia Vikander Anna Karenina Holliday Grainger Great Expectations Quvenzhané Wallis Beasts of the Southern Wild 2014 Margot Robbie The Wolf of Wall Street Adèle Exarchopoulos Blue Is the Warmest Colour Antonia Thomas Sunshine on Leith Elizabeth Debicki The Great Gatsby Freya Mavor Sunshine on Leith Lupita Nyong'o 12 Years a Slave 2015 Karen Gillan Oculus and Guardians of the Galaxy Carrie Coon Gone Girl Essie Davis The Babadook Gugu Mbatha-Raw Belle Sophie Cookson Kingsman: The Secret Service 2016 Daisy Ridley Star Wars: The Force Awakens Olivia Cooke Me and Earl and the Dying Girl Rebecca Ferguson Mission: Impossible – Rogue Nation Maika Monroe It Follows Bel Powley The Diary of a Teenage Girl 2017 Anya Taylor-Joy The Witch Sennia Nanua The Girl with All the Gifts Sasha Lane American Honey Hayley Squires I, Daniel Blake Angourie Rice The Nice Guys 2018 Dafne Keen Logan Emily Beecham Daphne Florence Pugh Lady Macbeth Tessa Thompson Thor: Ragnarok Kelly Marie Tran Star Wars: The Last Jedi
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