Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre)

The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live Canadian theatre.

The award was discontinued after 2018, and merged with the award for Best Leading Actor (General Theatre) into a single gender-neutral award for Best Leading Performer (General Theatre).[1]

Awards and nominations
Year Winner Nominated
1981 Blue ribbon Roberta Maxwell, Stevie
1982 Blue ribbon Rosemary Dunsmore, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers
1983 Blue ribbon Jennifer Phipps, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
1984 Blue ribbon Martha Burns, Trafford Tanzi
1985 Blue ribbon Doris Petrie, 'night, Mother
1986[2] Blue ribbon Martha Burns, The Miracle Worker
1987[3] Blue ribbon Lally Cadeau, Saturday Sunday Monday
1988[4] Blue ribbon Susan Wright, A Lie of the Mind
1989[5] Blue ribbon Tanja Jacobs, Under the Skin
1990 Blue ribbon Nancy Beatty, Love and Anger
1991 Blue ribbon Seana McKenna, Saint Joan
  • Robin Craig, A Fertile Imagination
  • Nicola Lipman, Clutching the Heat
  • Fiona Reid, Daylight Saving
  • Tracy Wright, Lion in the Streets
1992 Blue ribbon Nicola Cavendish, Shirley Valentine
1993 Blue ribbon Fiona Reid, Fallen Angels
1994 Blue ribbon Brenda Robins, Dancing at Lughnasa
1995[6] Blue ribbon Fiona Reid, Six Degrees of Separation
1996 Blue ribbon Nicola Cavendish, Later Life
1997 Blue ribbon Lilo Baur, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
1998 Blue ribbon Kristen Thomson, Problem Child
1999 Blue ribbon Nancy Beatty, Risk Everything
2000 Blue ribbon Nora McLellan, Music for Contortionist
2001 Blue ribbon Kristen Thomson, I, Claudia
2002 Blue ribbon Yanna McIntosh, Skylight
2003 Blue ribbon Kristina Nicoll, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
2004 Blue ribbon Caroline Cave, The Syringa Tree
2005 Blue ribbon Irene Poole, The Leisure Society
  • Marie-Hélène Fontaine, Le Collier d'Hélène
  • Carolyn Hetherington, Half Life
  • Melody Johnson, Trout Stanley
  • Alison Sealy-Smith, Cast Iron
2006 Blue ribbon d'bi young, blood.claat — one womban story
2007 Blue ribbon Seana McKenna, Orpheus Descending
2008 Blue ribbon Lally Cadeau, Rose
2009 Blue ribbon Alison Sealy-Smith, A Raisin in the Sun
2010 Blue ribbon Tara Rosling, If We Were Birds
2011 Blue ribbon Yanna McIntosh, Ruined
2012[7] Blue ribbon Pamela Mala Sinha, Crash
  • Maev Beaty, The Happy Woman
  • Christine Horne, Andromache
  • Nicole Underhay, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs
  • Michaela Washburn, White Biting Dog
2013 Blue ribbon Irene Poole, The Little Years
  • Maev Beaty, Proud
  • Maev Beaty, Terminus
  • Clare Coulter, LEAR
  • Melody Johnson, Miss Caledonia
2014 Blue ribbon Carly Street, Venus in Fur
2015 Blue ribbon Nicky Guadagni, Hooked
  • Maev Beaty, The De Chardin Project
  • Rosemary Dunsmore, Tom at the Farm
  • Alanna Hibbert, The Mountaintop
  • Fiona Reid, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016 Blue ribbon Rebecca Northan, Blind Date
2017 Blue ribbon Maev Beaty, The Last Wife
2018 Blue ribbon Michaela Washburn, Confederation & Riel

References
  1. "Dora Mavor Moore Awards to adopt gender-neutral performance categories". CBC Arts, April 25, 2018.
  2. "Tarragon sweeps the nominations for Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 15, 1986.
  3. "Mikado nominated for 7 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 27, 1987.
  4. "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 11, 1988. Page C1.
  5. "And the Dora nominees are...". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989.
  6. "Nominations for '95 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 13, 1995.
  7. "Dora Awards: Recipients" (PDF). Archived from the original (PDF) on 2013-10-29. Retrieved 2012-10-07.
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