Best actress award

For the past 25 years, the Oscars' best actress category has been marked by transformative, history-making wins. We rank the best of the best.

This star's Oscar win should have kickstarted an illustrious career. But the complete opposite happened. Here's why Hollywood won't cast Mo'Nique anymore.

The young actress, a North Carolina native, may just be 21, but she is up for the Best Actress in a Musical Tony Award for her Broadway debut in Miss Saigon.

Actress. A star of both the large and small screens, she was twice nominated for the Academy Award as Best Actress. Raised in an upper class Manhattan family, she received a degree in theater from Sarah Lawrence College in 1966, then after appearing with Boston's Charles Street Repertory Theater made her 1968 Broadway...

Halle Berry is easily one of the most celebrated actors of our time. She has lit up the big screen starring in dozens of major motion pictures, nabbed just about every accolade under the sun, including a coveted Academy Award for Best Actress, even moving into the director role, proving to be a force on all artistic fronts. #halleberry #celebritycouples #breakups

Gail Fisher was already a popular model in African American newspapers and magazines, as well as a theater actress when, in the late 1950s, she starred in The New Girl in the Office, a film about integrating a hitherto all-white office staff of a white-owned … Read MoreGail Fisher (1935-2000)

The Carey Mulligan award circuit continued at tonight’s Critics’ Choice. Nominated for best actress for her role in Maestro, Mulligan stunned in a sleek-hair look, courtesy of her constant, Jenny Cho.

Herstory is made! Quinta Brunson just became the first Black woman in more than 30 years to win Best Actress in a Comedy. The last win… | Instagram

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LOS ANGELES (AP) - Emma Stone sang and danced her way to a best-actress Oscar for "La La Land," elevating the once struggling actress with roots in community...