Nestroy Theater Award / Best Actress

Regina Fritsch ( Nestroy 2008 )

Since 2000 when will Nestroy Theater Prize Best Actress honor.

Prize winners

Birgit Minichmayr ( Nestroy 2009 )

Nicole Heesters ( Nestroy 2014 )

Sona MacDonald ( Nestroy 2016 )

year	actress	Staging (role)	Place of performance	Other nominees
2000	Birgit Doll	Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (Martha)	Volkstheater (Vienna)	Jutta lamp for the seagull (Arkadina) Elisabeth Rath for Das Blut (woman)
2001	Judith Engel	Bash (Sue / The Woman)	Hamburger Kammerspiele	Andrea Clausen for Three Times Life (Ines Finidori) Angela Winkler for Rosmersholm (Rebekka West)
2002	Ulli Maier	The Man Without Qualities (Agathe)	Wiener Festwochen / Hamburger Kammerspiele	Corinna Kirchhoff for Maria Stuart (Maria Stuart) Elisabeth Orth for Maria Stuart (Elisabeth)
2003	Maria Happel	The time of the Plancks (Maria)	Burgtheater	Andrea Clausen for Emilia Galotti (Orsina) Monique Schwitter for Woyzeck (Marie) and Janis Joplin (Janis Joplin)
2004	Birgit Minichmayr	The golden fleece (Medea)	Burgtheater	Petra Morzé for The Wide Land (Genia) Sophie Rois for Hallo Hotel (Contributor)
2005	Sunnyi Melles	Stories from the Vienna Woods (Valerie)	Salzburg Festival / Bavarian State Theater	Andrea Clausen for The Cherry Orchard (Ranjewskaja) Christiane von Poelnitz for The Woman From Before (Romy Vogtländer)
2006	Edith Clever	Sleep (the older woman)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Judith Hoffmann for Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) Christiane von Poelnitz for petty bourgeoisie (Tatjana)
2007	Sylvie Rohrer	Medea. A project by Grzegorz Jarzyna (Medea) & About animals (monologue)	Casino on Schwarzenbergplatz	Christiane von Poelnitz for Much Ado About Nothing (Beatrice) Barbara Sukowa for quartet (Merteuil)
2008	Regina Fritsch	Burns (nawal)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Sandra Cervik for Reigen (female roles) Andrea Wenzl for Alice (Alice)
2009	Birgit Minichmayr	The female devil (female)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Katja Jung for Invasion! (multiple roles) Tatja Seibt for a visit to her father (Edith)
2010	Kirsten Dene	One family (Violet Weston)	Akademietheater / Burgtheater	Christiane von Poelnitz for The Golden Dragon (various roles) Martina Stilp for peepshow (solo)
2011	Sarah Viktoria Frick	Stallerhof (Beppi)	Casino on Schwarzenbergplatz / Burgtheater	Ruth Brauer-Kvam for Cabaret (Sally Bowles) Nicola Kirsch for orphans (Helen) Maria Köstlinger for Blackbird (Una) Caroline Peters for Professor Bernhardi (Dr. Cyprian)
2012	Dörte Lyssewski	End of the line longing (Blanche Dubois)	Burgtheater	Andrea Eckert for you stay with me (Dorothea Neff) Regina Fritsch for The Commune (Anna) Nicole Heesters for John Gabriel Borkman (Gunhild Borkman) Steffi Krautz for ghosts in Princeton (Adele Gödel)
2013	Christiane von Poelnitz	Elektra (Elektra)	Burgtheater	Sandra Cervik for Speed (Annie) Gerti Drassl for Jägerstätter (Franziska Jägerstätter) Franziska Hackl for Mamma Medea (Medea) Katharina Straßer for Casimir and Karoline (Karoline)
2014	Nicole Heesters	Before retirement (Vera)	Theater in the Josefstadt	Hanna Binder for Woyzeck (Marie) Maria Happel for Mother Courage and her children (Mother Courage) Sona MacDonald for Spatz und Engel (Marlene Dietrich) - Burgtheater and Wie im Himmel (Inger) Birgit Stöger for no man's land (Asra)
2015	Elisabeth Orth	the unmarried (the old woman)	Academy Theater	Andrea Jonasson for Am Ziel (mother) Katja Jung for Dogs of God (Betty Aligheri) Birgit Minichmayr for John Gabriel Borkman (Gunhild Borkman) Caroline Peters for John Gabriel Borkman (Ella Rentheim)
2016	Sona MacDonald	Miss Julie (Julie) and Blue Moon (you)	Theater in der Josefstadt and Wiener Kammerspiele	Stefanie Dvorak for the presidents (Mariedl) Claudia Kottal for The Blonde, the Brunette and the Revenge of the Redheads (Diverse) Caroline Peters for Bella Figura (Andrea) Stefanie Reinsperger for self- harm
2017	Andrea Jonasson	Stage version of Die Verdammten (Freifrau Sophie von Essenbeck)	Theater in the Josefstadt	Lina Beckmann - Rose Bernd (Rose Bernd) Gerti Drassl - The Wild Duck (Gina Ekdal) Evi Kehrstephan - The Misanthrope (Célimène) Christiane von Poelnitz - Pension Schöller (Josephine Krüger) and The Persians (Atossa)
2018	Caroline Peters	Hotel Strindberg	Akademietheater in coproduction with Theater Basel	Anja Herden - pity. The history of the machine gun Sandra Hüller - Penthesilea (Penthesilea) Aenne Schwarz - The Who and the What (Zarina) Valery Tscheplanowa - The Persians
2019	Steffi Krautz	End stop Sehnsucht (Blanche DuBois)	Volkstheater Vienna	Anna Drexler - Woyzeck (Marie) Caroline Peters - Medea (Anna) Maja Schöne - Liliom (Julie) Andrea Wenzl - Faith Love Hope (Elisabeth)

statistics

Most often honored actress	Birgit Minichmayr (2 awards)
Most often nominated actress	Christiane von Poelnitz (6 nominations)
Most often nominated actress without a win	Andrea Clausen & Caroline Peters (3 nominations each)