The Kalakar Award for Best Actress is an award, presented annually at the Kalakar Awards. It is given by the Kalakar Parivar Foundation for Bengali films. The award was first given in 1993.
Superlatives Debashree Roy is the first recipient of this award,along with Indrani Haldar, they both became joint winners. Debashree Roy has won it four times. She won the award consecutively for two years twice (1993, 1994) & (2002, 2003). Rituparna Sengupta is the most awarded recipient, with 10 wins, and has won the award consecutively for 5 years (2006, 2007, 2008, 2009 & 2010). Additionally, she is the only actress to win both Best Actress & Best Supporting Actress. Satabdi Roy is the third most awarded actress, with 3 wins. Subhashree Ganguly won the award twice consecutively in 2014 and 2015. She also received the Kalakar Award for Best Rising Actress in 2014 for the film Boss: Born to Rule (2013). Churni Ganguly is the only actress awarded for her performance in her debut film, Waarish... (2004). Raveena Tandon is notably the only Bollywood actress to have won this award.
Multiple winners 10 wins: Rituparna Sengupta 4 wins: Debashree Roy 3 wins: Satabdi Roy 2 wins: Subhashree Ganguly
Winners
List of winners and nominated work Year Recipient(s) Role(s) Film(s) 1993 (1st) & (2nd) Debashree Roy Prem Indrani Haldar Tapashya 1994 (3rd) Debashree Roy Sandhyatara 1996 (4th) Satabdi Roy Mamata Sansaar Sangram 1997 (5th) Rituparna Sengupta Celina Choudhury Abujh Mon 1998 (6th) Roopa Ganguly Anasuya (Anu) Yugant 1999 (7th) Satabdi Roy Sundari Raja Rani Badsha 2000 (8th) Rituparna Sengupta Payel Choudhury Moner Manush 2001 (9th) Roopa Ray Sasurbari Zindabad 2002 (10th) Debashree Roy Sarama Dekha 2003 (11th) Kusum/K. Nandy Silpantar 2004 (12th) Rachna Banerjee Saathi Sabuj Saathi Rituparna Sengupta Rajani Daasi Mondo Meyer Upakhyan 2005 (13th) Churni Ganguly Medha Chatterjee Waarish... Satabdi Roy Revati Bhattacharya Debipaksha 2006 (14th) Rituparna Sengupta – Dwitiya Basanta 2007 (15th) Anuradha Byatikrami 2008 (16th) Nandita Chatterjee Anuranan 2009 (17th) Brishti/Tilottama Mon Amour: Shesher Kobita Revisited Sreelekha Mitra Krishnakali Chatterjee Tolly Lights 2010 (18th) Rituparna Sengupta Malini/Debi Aainaate Swastika Mukherjee Koel Brake Fail 2011 (19th) Raveena Tandon Sohini Laboratory 2012 (20th) Konkona Sen Sharma Mrinalini Mitra Iti Mrinalini 2014 (22nd) Subhashree Ganguly Bhoomi Khoka 420 2015 (23rd) Bhumika Pratap Chaudhury Ami Shudhu Cheyechi Tomay 2016 (24th) Payel Sarkar Ria Banerjee Jomer Raja Dilo Bor 2017 (25th) Srabanti Chatterjee Riya/Chutki Shikari 2018 (26th) Rituparna Sengupta Runu Biswas Baranda 2019 (27th) Priyanka Sarkar Roopa Crisscross 2020 (28th) Rukmini Maitra Nisha Chatterjee Password
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