Magritte Award for Best Actress

The Magritte Award for Best Actress (French: Magritte de la meilleure actrice) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a leading role while working within the film industry. It is one of the Magritte Awards, which were established to recognize excellence in Belgian cinematic achievements.^[1]

Magritte Award for Best Actress
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2011
Currently held by	Lubna Azabal, The Blue Caftan (2023)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Anne Coesens receiving the award for her role in Illegal.^[2] As of the 2022 ceremony, Jo Deseure is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Madly in Life.

Winners and nominees

In the list below, winners are listed first in the colored row, followed by the other nominees.

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Actress		Best Supporting Actress		Overall (including Most Promising Actress)
Actress with most awards	Émilie Dequenne	3	Catherine Salée	2	Émilie Dequenne	4
Actress with most nominations	Lubna Azabal	6	Yolande Moreau	5	Yolande Moreau	9
Actress with most nominations without ever winning	Cécile de France	5	Claire Bodson	3	Cécile de France	5
Oldest winner	Jo Deseure	74	Yolande Moreau	58	Jo Deseure	74
Oldest nominee	Annie Cordy	86	Julienne Goeffers	75	Annie Cordy	86
Youngest winner	Pauline Étienne	25	Aurora Marion	32	Pauline Étienne	25

2010s

Year	Actress	English title	Original title
2010 (1st)	Anne Coesens	Illegal	Illégal
	Cécile de France	Sister Smile	Soeur Sourire
	Yolande Moreau	Mammuth
	Aylin Yay [fr; tr]	Motherly	Maternelle
2011 (2nd)	Lubna Azabal	Incendies
	Cécile de France	The Kid with a Bike	Le Gamin au vélo
	Isabelle de Hertogh	Come as You Are	Hasta la Vista
	Yolande Moreau	The Long Falling	Où va la nuit
2012 (3rd)	Émilie Dequenne	Our Children	À perdre la raison
	Christelle Cornil	Miles from Anywhere	Au cul du loup
	Déborah François	A Checkout Girl's Big Adventures	Les Tribulations d'une caissière
	Marie Gillain	All Our Desires	Toutes nos envies
2013 (4th)	Pauline Étienne	The Nun	La Religieuse
	Lubna Azabal	Goodbye Morocco [fr]
	Déborah François	Populaire
	Astrid Whettnall	In the Name of the Son	Au nom du fils
2014 (5th)	Émilie Dequenne	Not My Type	Pas son genre
	Manah Depauw [fr]	Welcome Home [fr]
	Pauline Étienne	Tokyo Fiancée
	Déborah François	Maestro
	Ben Riga	I'll Bury You	Je te survivrai
2015 (6th)	Veerle Baetens	Un début prometteur [fr; ko; nl]
	Annie Cordy	Memories	Les Souvenirs
	Christelle Cornil	What Jacques Saw	Jacques a vu
	Yolande Moreau	Journey Through China	Voyage en Chine
2016 (7th)	Virginie Efira	In Bed with Victoria	Victoria
	Astrid Whettnall	Road to Istanbul	La Route d'Istanbul
	Jo Deseure	Man Overboard	Un homme à la mer
	Marie Gillain	Mirage of Love	Mirage d'amour
2017 (8th)	Émilie Dequenne	This Is Our Land	Chez nous
	Cécile de France	Just to Be Sure	Ôtez-moi d'un Doute
	Lucie Debay	King of the Belgians
	Fiona Gordon	Lost in Paris	Paris pieds nus
2018 (9th)	Lubna Azabal	Above the Law	Tueurs
	Cécile de France	Mademoiselle de Joncquières
	Yolande Moreau	I Feel Good
	Natacha Régnier	The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre
2019 (10th)	Veerle Baetens	Mothers' Instinct	Duelles
	Lubna Azabal	Tel Aviv on Fire
	Anne Coesens	Mothers' Instinct	Duelles
	Cécile de France	A Bigger World [de; fr; ht]	Un monde plus grand

2020s

Year	Actress	English title	Original title
2020/21 (11th)	Jo Deseure	Madly in Life	Une vie démente
	Lubna Azabal	Adam
	Lucie Debay	Madly in Life	Une vie démente
	Virginie Efira	Bye Bye Morons	Adieu les cons
2022 (12th)	Virginie Efira	Paris Memories	Revoir Paris
	Lubna Azabal	Rebel
	Lucie Debay	Lucie Loses Her Horse	Lucie perd son cheval
	Babetida Sadjo	Juwaa