Magritte Award for Most Promising Actress

The Magritte Award for Most Promising Actress (French: Magritte du meilleur espoir féminin) is an award presented annually by the Académie André Delvaux. It is given in honor of a young actress who has delivered an outstanding breakthrough performance 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 Most Promising Actress
Presented by	Académie André Delvaux
First award	2011
Currently held by	Maya Vanderbeque, Playground (2021)
Website	lesmagritteducinema.com

The 1st Magritte Awards ceremony was held in 2011 with Pauline Étienne receiving the award for her role in Private Lessons.^[2] As of the 2022 ceremony, Maya Vanderbeque is the most recent winner in this category for her role in Playground.

Winners and nominees

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

2010s

Year	Actress	English title	Original title
2010 (1st)	Pauline Étienne	Private Lessons	Élève libre
	Stéphanie Blanchoud	The Boat Race	La Régate
	Anna Fransiska Jager	My Queen Karo
	Chloé Struvay	Motherly	Maternelle
2011 (2nd)	Erika Sainte	She's Not Crying, She's Singing	Elle ne pleure pas, elle chante
	Stéphanie Crayencour	Les Mythos
	Jeanne Dandoy	Bullhead	Rundskop
	Hande Kodja	Marieke, Marieke
2012 (3rd)	Anne-Pascale Clairembourg	Mobile Home
	Pauline Burlet	Dead Man Talking
	Mona Jabé	Miss Mouche
	Aurora Marion	Almayer's Folly	La Folie Almayer
2013 (4th)	Pauline Burlet	The Past	Le Passé
	Rania Mellouli	The Bag of Flour	Le Sac de farine
	Anne Paulicevich	Tango libre
	Mona Walravens	Blue Is the Warmest Colour	La Vie d'Adèle – Chapitres 1 & 2
2014 (5th)	Ambre Grouwels	Baby Balloon
	Evelien Bosmans	Marina
	Hande Kodja	Rosenn
	Emilie Maréchal	Tokyo Anyway
2015 (6th)	Lucie Debay	Melody
	Manon Capelle	All Cats Are Grey	Tous les chats sont gris
	Pili Groyne	The Brand New Testament	Le Tout Nouveau Testament
	Stéphanie Van Vyve	Être
2016 (7th)	Salomé Richard	Baden Baden
	Martha Canga Antonio	Black
	Ghalia Benali	As I Open My Eyes	À peine j'ouvre les yeux
	Jade Soentjens and Margaux Soentjens	After Love	L'Économie du couple
2017 (8th)	Maya Dory	Angel	Mon ange
	Adriana de Fonseca	Even Lovers Get the Blues
	Fantine Harduin	Happy End
	Lena Suijkerbuik	Home
2018 (9th)	Lena Girard Voss	Our Struggles	Nos batailles
	Myriem Akheddiou	The Benefit of the Doubt	Une Part d'ombre
	Bérénice Baoo	Above the Law	Tueurs
	Nawell Madani	Stand Up Girl	C'est tout pour moi
	Anaël Snoek	The Wild Boys	Les Garçons sauvages
2019 (10th)	Mya Bollaers	Lola	Lola vers la mer
	Bebel Tshiani Baloji	Binti
	Victoria Bluck	Young Ahmed	Le Jeune Ahmed
	Raphaëlle Corbisier	Escapada

2020s

Year	Actress	English title	Original title
2020/21 (11th)	Maya Vanderbeque	Playground	Un monde
	Salomé Dewaels	Lost Illusions	Illusions perdues
	Fantine Harduin	Adoration
	Daphné Patakia	Benedetta