Anexo:Premio Laurence Olivier a la Mejor Actriz
El Premio Laurence Olivier a la Mejor Actriz en una obra de teatro es un galardón anual, otorgado por The Society of London Theatre en reconocimiento a la labor de intérpretes masculinos de teatro comercial en el Reino Unido. Entre 1976 y 1984, y también en 1988 hubo dos categorías: Mejor actriz en un estreno y mejor actriz en una reposición.
| Año | Persona | Obra | Resultado |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | Denise Gough | People, Places and Things | Ganadora |
| 2016 | Gemma Arterton | Nell Gwynn | Nominada |
| 2016 | Nicole Kidman | Photograph 51 | Nominada |
| 2016 | Janet McTeer | Les Liaisons dangereuses | Nominada |
| 2016 | Lia Williams | Oresteia | Nominada |
| 2015 | Penelope Wilton | Taken at Midnight | Ganadora |
| 2015 | Gillian Anderson | A Streetcar named Desire | Nominada |
| 2015 | Kristin Scott Thomas | Electra | Nominada |
| 2015 | Imelda Staunton | Good People | Nominada |
| 2014 | Lesley Manville | Ghosts | Ganadora |
| 2014 | Hayley Atwell | The Pride | Nominada |
| 2014 | Anna Chancellor | Private Lives | Nominada |
| 2014 | Judi Dench | Peter and Alice | Nominada |
| 2013 | Helen Mirren | The Audience | Ganadora |
| 2013 | Hattie Morahan | A Doll's House | Nominada |
| 2013 | Billie Piper | The Effect | Nominada |
| 2013 | Kristin Scott Thomas | Old Times | Nominada |
| 2012 | Ruth Wilson | Anna Christie | Ganadora |
| 2012 | Celia Imrie | Noises Off | Nominada |
| 2012 | Lesley Manville | Grief | Nominada |
| 2012 | Kristin Scott Thomas | Betrayal | Nominada |
| 2012 | Marcia Warren | The Ladykillers | Nominada |
| 2011 | Nancy Carroll | After the Dance | Ganadora |
| 2011 | Tracie Bennett | End of the Rainbow | Nominada |
| 2011 | Tamsin Greig | The Little Dog Laughed | Nominada |
| 2011 | Sophie Thompson | Clybourne Park | Nominada |
| 2010 | Rachel Weisz | A Streetcar named Desire | Ganadora |
| 2010 | Gillian Anderson | A Doll's House | Nominada |
| 2010 | Lorraine Burroughs | The Mountaintop | Nominada |
| 2010 | Imelda Staunton | Entertaining Mr Sloane | Nominada |
| 2010 | Juliet Stevenson | Duet for One | Nominada |
| 2009 | Margaret Tyzack | The Chalk Garden | Ganadora |
| 2009 | Deanna Dunagan | August: Osage County | Nominada |
| 2009 | Lindsay Duncan | That Face | Nominada |
| 2009 | Penelope Wilton | The Chalk Garden | Nominada |
| 2008 | Kristin Scott Thomas | The Seagull | Ganadora |
| 2008 | Anne-Marie Duff | Saint Joan | Nominada |
| 2008 | Kelly Reilly | Othello | Nominada |
| 2008 | Fiona Shaw | Happy Days | Nominada |
| 2008 | Penelope Wilton | John Gabriel Borkman | Nominada |
| 2007 | Tamsin Greig | Much Ado About Nothing | Ganadora |
| 2007 | Eve Best | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Nominada |
| 2007 | Sinéad Cusack | Rock 'n' Roll | Nominada |
| 2007 | Kathleen Turner | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Nominada |
| 2006 | Eve Best | Hedda Gabler | Ganadora |
| 2006 | Clare Higgins | Death of a Salesman | Nominada |
| 2006 | Helen McCrory | As You Like It | Nominada |
| 2006 | Janet McTeer | Mary Stuart | Nominada |
| 2006 | Harriet Walter | Mary Stuart | Nominada |
| 2005 | Clare Higgins | Hecuba | Ganadora |
| 2005 | Victoria Hamilton | Suddenly, Last Summer | Nominada |
| 2005 | Anna Maxwell Martin | His Dark Materials | Nominada |
| 2005 | Caroline O'Connor | Bombshells | Nominada |
| 2004 | Eileen Atkins | Honour | Ganadora |
| 2004 | Helen Mirren | Mourning Becomes Electra | Nominada |
| 2004 | Ann Mitchell | Through the Leaves | Nominada |
| 2004 | Kelly Reilly | After Miss Julie | Nominada |
| 2004 | Kristin Scott Thomas | Three Sisters | Nominada |
| 2003 | Clare Higgins | Vincent in Brixton | Ganadora |
| 2003 | Anita Dobson | Frozen | Nominada |
| 2003 | Gwyneth Paltrow | Proof | Nominada |
| 2003 | Emily Watson | Uncle Vanya | Nominada |
| 2002 | Lindsay Duncan | Private Lives | Ganadora |
| 2002 | Victoria Hamilton | A Day in the Death of Joe Egg | Nominada |
| 2002 | Zoë Wanamaker | Boston Marriage | Nominada |
| 2001 | Julie Walters | All My Sons | Ganadora |
| 2001 | Jessica Lange | Long Day's Journey Into Night | Nominada |
| 2001 | Helen Mirren | Orpheus Descending | Nominada |
| 2001 | Julia Ormond | My Zinc Bed | Nominada |
| 2001 | Harriet Walter | Life x 3 | Nominada |
| 2000 | Janie Dee | Comic Potential | Ganadora |
| 2000 | Jennifer Ehle | The Real Thing | Nominada |
| 2000 | Maggie Smith | The Lady in the Van | Nominada |
| 2000 | Alison Steadman | The Memory of Water | Nominada |
| 1999 | Eileen Atkins | The Unexpected Man | Ganadora |
| 1999 | Sinéad Cusack | Our Lady of Sligo | Nominada |
| 1999 | Judi Dench | Filumena Marturano | Nominada |
| 1999 | Nicole Kidman | The Blue Room | Nominada |
| 1999 | Diana Rigg | Britannicus y Phèdre | Nominada |
| 1998 | Zoë Wanamaker | Electra | Ganadora |
| 1998 | Judi Dench | Amy's View | Nominada |
| 1998 | Sally Dexter | Closer | Nominada |
| 1998 | Maggie Smith | A Delicate Balance | Nominada |
| 1997 | Janet McTeer | A Doll's House | Ganadora |
| 1997 | Eileen Atkins | John Gabriel Borkman | Nominada |
| 1997 | Vanessa Redgrave | John Gabriel Borkman | Nominada |
| 1997 | Diana Rigg | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Nominada |
| 1996 | Judi Dench | Absolute Hell | Ganadora |
| 1996 | Diana Rigg | Mother Courage | Nominada |
| 1996 | Zoë Wanamaker | The Glass Menagerie | Nominada |
| 1996 | Lia Williams | Skylight | Nominada |
| 1995 | Judi Dench | Sweet Bird of Youth | Ganadora |
| 1995 | Diana Rigg | Les Parents terribles | Nominada |
| 1995 | Zoë Wanamaker | Les Parents terribles | Nominada |
| 1995 | Lia Williams | Broken Glass | Nominada |
| 1994 | Fiona Shaw | Machinal | Ganadora |
| 1994 | Kathryn Hunter | The Skriker | Nominada |
| 1994 | Diana Rigg | Medea | Nominada |
| 1994 | Penelope Wilton | The Deep Blue Sea | Nominada |
| 1993 | Alison Steadman | The Rise and Fall of Little Voice | Ganadora |
| 1993 | Stockard Channing | Six Degrees of Separation | Nominada |
| 1993 | Judi Dench | The Gift of the Gorgon | Nominada |
| 1993 | Jane Horrocks | The Rise and Fall of Little Voice | Nominada |
| 1992 | Juliet Stevenson | Death and the Maiden | Ganadora |
| 1992 | Janet McTeer | Uncle Vanya | Nominada |
| 1992 | Patricia Routledge | Talking Heads | Nominada |
| 1992 | Fiona Shaw | Hedda Gabler | Nominada |
| 1991 | Kathryn Hunter | The Visit | Ganadora |
| 1991 | Penny Downie | Scenes from a Marriage | Nominada |
| 1991 | Barbara Jefford | Coriolanus | Nominada |
| 1991 | Josette Simon | After the Fall | Nominada |
| 1990 | Fiona Shaw | Electra & As You Like It | Ganadora |
| 1990 | Sheila Hancock | Prin | Nominada |
| 1990 | Jane Lapotaire | Shadowlands | Nominada |
| 1990 | Prunella Scales | Single Spies | Nominada |
| 1988* | Harriet Walter | Three Sisters & Twelfth Night | Ganadora |
| 1988* | Estelle Kohler | Titus Andronicus | Nominada |
| 1988* | Vanessa Redgrave | A Touch of the Poet | Nominada |
| 1988* | Imelda Staunton | Uncle Vanya | Nominada |
| 1988** | Pauline Collins | Shirley Valentine | Ganadora |
| 1988** | Gillian Barge | Mrs. Klein | Nominada |
| 1988** | Saskia Reeves | Separation | Nominada |
| 1988** | Penelope Wilton | The Secret Rapture | Nominada |
| 1987 | Judi Dench | Antony and Cleopatra | Ganadora |
| 1987 | Miranda Richardson | A Lie of the Mind | Nominada |
| 1987 | Maggie Smith | Lettice and Lovage & Coming in to Land | Nominada |
| 1987 | Juliet Stevenson | Yerma | Nominada |
| 1986 | Lindsay Duncan | Les Liaisons Dangereuses | Ganadora |
| 1986 | Julia McKenzie | Woman in Mind | Nominada |
| 1986 | Juliet Stevenson | As You Like It | Nominada |
| 1986 | Irene Worth | The Bay at Nice | Nominada |
| 1985 | Yvonne Bryceland | The Road to Mecca | Ganadora |
| 1985 | Wendy Morgan | Martine | Nominada |
| 1985 | Harriet Walter | The Castle | Nominada |
| 1985 | Joanne Whalley | Saved | Nominada |
| 1984* | Vanessa Redgrave | The Aspern Papers | Ganadora |
| 1984* | Glenda Jackson | Strange Interlude | Nominada |
| 1984* | Juliet Stevenson | Measure for Measure | Nominada |
| 1984* | Zoë Wanamaker | Twelfth Night | Nominada |
| 1984** | Thuli Dumakude | Poppie Nongena | Ganadora |
| 1984** | Brenda Blethyn | Benefactors | Nominada |
| 1984** | Julie Covington | Tom & Viv | Nominada |
| 1984** | Julie Walters | Fool for Love | Nominada |
| 1983* | Frances de la Tour | A Moon for the Misbegotten | Ganadora |
| 1983* | Sinéad Cusack | The Taming of the Shrew | Nominada |
| 1983* | Rosemary Harris | Heartbreak House | Nominada |
| 1983* | Helen Mirren | Antony and Cleopatra | Nominada |
| 1983** | Judi Dench | Pack of Lies | Ganadora |
| 1983** | Sara Kestelman | The Custom of the Country | Nominada |
| 1983** | Maureen Lipman | Messiah | Nominada |
| 1983** | Janet Suzman | Cowardice | Nominada |
| 1982* | Cheryl Campbell | A Doll's House | Ganadora |
| 1982* | Judi Dench | The Importance of Being Earnest | Nominada |
| 1982* | Felicity Kendal | The Second Mrs Tanqueray | Nominada |
| 1982* | Mary Maddox | Rocket to the Moon | Nominada |
| 1982** | Rosemary Leach | 84, Charing Cross Road | Ganadora |
| 1982** | Judy Davis | Insignificance | Nominada |
| 1982** | Judi Dench | Other Places | Nominada |
| 1982** | Anna Massey | Summer | Nominada |
| 1981* | Margaret Tyzack | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? | Ganadora |
| 1981* | Sinéad Cusack | The Maid's Tragedy | Nominada |
| 1981* | Rosemary Harris | All My Sons | Nominada |
| 1981* | Penelope Wilton | Man and Superman | Nominada |
| 1981** | Elizabeth Quinn | Children of a Lesser God | Ganadora |
| 1981** | Eileen Atkins | Passion Play | Nominada |
| 1981** | Janet Dale | The Accrington Pals | Nominada |
| 1981** | Maggie Smith | Virginia | Nominada |
| 1980* | Judi Dench | Juno and the Paycock | Ganadora |
| 1980* | Maria Aitken | Private Lives | Nominada |
| 1980* | Geraldine McEwan | The Browning Version | Nominada |
| 1980* | Susan Tracy | Anna Christie | Nominada |
| 1980** | Frances de la Tour | Duet for One | Ganadora |
| 1980** | Shelagh Holliday | A Lesson from Aloes | Nominada |
| 1980** | Glenda Jackson | Rose | Nominada |
| 1980** | Joan Plowright | Enjoy | Nominada |
| 1979* | Zoë Wanamaker | Once in a Lifetime | Ganadora |
| 1979* | Paola Dionisotti | The Taming of the Shrew | Nominada |
| 1979* | Glenda Jackson | Antony and Cleopatra | Nominada |
| 1979* | Billie Whitelaw | Happy Days | Nominada |
| 1979** | Jane Lapotaire | Piaf | Ganadora |
| 1979** | Constance Cummings | Wings | Nominada |
| 1979** | Gemma Jones | And a Nightingale Sang | Nominada |
| 1979** | Jessica Tandy | The Gin Game | Nominada |
| 1978* | Dorothy Tutin | The Double Dealer | Ganadora |
| 1978* | Eileen Atkins | Twelfth Night | Nominada |
| 1978* | Ingrid Bergman | Waters of the Moon | Nominada |
| 1978* | Wendy Hiller | Waters of the Moon | Nominada |
| 1978** | Joan Plowright | Filumena | Ganadora |
| 1978** | Yvonne Bryceland | The Woman | Nominada |
| 1978** | Sylvia Miles | Vieux Carré | Nominada |
| 1978** | Kate Nelligan | Plenty | Nominada |
| 1977* | Judi Dench | Macbeth | Ganadora |
| 1977* | Francesca Annis | Troilus and Cressida | Nominada |
| 1977* | Susan Fleetwood | The Plough and the Stars | Nominada |
| 1977* | Janet Suzman | Hedda Gabler | Nominada |
| 1977** | Alison Fiske | Dusa, Fish, Stats and Vi | Ganadora |
| 1977** | Glenda Jackson | Stevie | Nominada |
| 1977** | Glynis Johns | Cause Célèbre | Nominada |
| 1977** | Rosemary Leach | Just Between Ourselves | Nominada |
| 1976* | Dorothy Tutin | A Month in the Country | Ganadora |
| 1976* | Susan Fleetwood | Hamlet | Nominada |
| 1976* | Geraldine McEwan | On Approval | Nominada |
| 1976* | Googie Withers | The Cherry Orchard | Nominada |
| 1976** | Peggy Ashcroft | Old World | Ganadora |
| 1976** | Pauline Collins | Engaged | Nominada |
| 1976** | Penelope Keith | Donkeys' Years | Nominada |
| 1976** | Joan Plowright | The Bed Before Yesterday | Nominada |
- *Mejor actriz en una reposición
- **Mejor actriz en un estreno