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Best Actress in a Musical

2026
  1. ★ Winner
    Rachel Zegler as Eva Perón
  2. Katie Brayben as The Baker's Wife
  3. Danielle Fiamanya & Georgina Onuorah as Fiona Maclaren
  4. Jane Krakowski as Marianne Brink
  5. Jenna Russell as Maureen Fry
2025
  1. ★ Winner
    Imelda Staunton as Dolly Gallagher Levi
  2. Chumisa Dornford-May as Natasha Rostova
  3. Lauren Drew as Céline Dion
  4. Clare Foster as Elowen Keene
  5. Lara Pulver as Golde
2024
  1. ★ Winner
    Nicole Scherzinger as Norma Desmond
  2. Natasha Hodgson as Ewen Montagu and Others
  3. Caissie Levy as Diana Goodman
  4. Marisha Wallace as Miss Adelaide
2023
  1. ★ Winner
    Katie Brayben as Tammy Faye Messner
  2. Anoushka Lucas as Laurey Williams
  3. Miri Mesika as Dina
  4. Faith Omole as Joy
2022
  1. ★ Winner
    Jessie Buckley as Sally Bowles
  2. Sutton Foster as Reno Sweeney
  3. Beverley Knight as Faye Treadwell
  4. Stephanie McKeon as Anna
2020
  1. ★ Winner
    Miriam-Teak Lee as Juliet Capulet
  2. Audrey Brisson as Amélie
  3. Judy Kuhn as Golde
  4. Zizi Strallen as Mary Poppins
2019
  1. ★ Winner
    Sharon D. Clarke as Caroline Thibodeaux
  2. Rosalie Craig as Bobbie
  3. Kelli O'Hara as Anna Leonowens
  4. Adrienne Warren as Tina Turner
2018
  1. ★ Winner
    Shirley Henderson as Elizabeth Lane
  2. Janie Dee as Phyllis Rogers Stone
  3. Imelda Staunton as Sally Durant Plummer
  4. Josie Walker as Margaret New
2017
  1. ★ Winner
    Amber Riley as Effie White
  2. Glenn Close as Norma Desmond
  3. Debbie Chazen , Sophie-Louise Dann , Michele Dotrice , Claire Machin , Claire Moore & Joanna Riding as Ruth, Celia, Jessie, Cora, Chris and Annie
  4. Sheridan Smith as Fanny Brice
2016
  1. ★ Winner
    Imelda Staunton as Mama Rose
  2. Tracie Bennett as Laura Henderson
  3. Natalie Dew as Jess Bhamra
  4. Laura Pitt-Pulford as Milly
  5. Sophie Thompson as Miss Adelaide

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