Best Actress Academy Award Winners Trivia Word Search

This British actress won Best Actress for playing a reigning monarch coping with a national tragedy in 'The Queen' (2006).

She won Best Actress in her film debut, the youngest winner at the time, for the deaf drama 'Children of a Lesser God' (1986).

She won Best Actress for playing an aging Judy Garland on a London concert tour in 'Judy' (2019).

She won Best Actress as a frumpy political wife in 'The Country Girl' (1954), before becoming a real-life princess.

She won Best Actress for playing a self-made restaurant tycoon and devoted mother in 'Mildred Pierce' (1945).

She won Best Actress for playing a linguistics professor diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer's in 'Still Alice' (2014).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar playing a pregnant Minnesota police chief in 'Fargo' (1996).

This French actress won Best Actress for 'Room at the Top' (1959).

She won Best Actress playing a real-life legal researcher who took on a power company in 'Erin Brockovich' (2000).

She won Best Actress for playing a resilient wife on the British home front in 'Mrs. Miniver' (1942).

She won Best Actress in her film debut, reprising a stage role, in 'Come Back, Little Sheba' (1952).

She won Best Actress playing televangelist Tammy Faye Bakker in 'The Eyes of Tammy Faye' (2021).

This Italian actress won Best Actress for 'The Rose Tattoo' (1955), the first win for a non-English performance.

This French actress won Best Actress for portraying singer Édith Piaf in 'La Vie en Rose' (2007).

She won Best Actress for playing a fiercely protective mother in 'Terms of Endearment' (1983).

She won Best Actress for playing a ruthless television executive in 'Network' (1976).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar playing a rape survivor seeking justice in 'The Accused' (1988).

She won Best Actress on her fifth nomination, playing a death-row inmate in 'I Want to Live!' (1958).

She won Best Actress for playing a wife who suspects her husband of murder in Hitchcock's 'Suspicion' (1941).

She won Best Actress playing a widow chasing a singing career in 'Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore' (1974).

This Australian actress won Best Actress wearing a prosthetic nose to play Virginia Woolf in 'The Hours' (2002).

This Irish actress won Best Actress playing Agnes, Shakespeare's wife, in 'Hamnet' (2025).

She won Best Actress playing an exotic dancer who impulsively marries a Russian oligarch's son in 'Anora' (2024).

This Australian actress won Best Actress playing a disgraced New York socialite in 'Blue Jasmine' (2013).

She won Best Actress on her fifth nomination, playing a nun ministering to a death-row inmate in 'Dead Man Walking' (1995).

This British actress won Best Actress playing Queen Anne in 'The Favourite' (2018).

She won Best Actress for playing a ditzy-seeming but sharp former showgirl in 'Born Yesterday' (1950).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar playing a transgender man in the drama 'Boys Don't Cry' (1999).

This actress holds the record for most Best Actress wins, four in total, the first for 'Morning Glory' (1933).

She won the first-ever Best Actress Oscar in 1929 for a trio of silent-era roles including 'Seventh Heaven.'

She won Best Actress for playing a mother raising her son in captivity in 'Room' (2015).

She won Best Actress for playing a waitress romanced by an obsessive-compulsive writer in 'As Good as It Gets' (1997).

This one-named singer-actress won Best Actress for playing a widowed bookkeeper who falls for her fiance's brother in 'Moonstruck' (1987).

She won Best Actress for 'The Sin of Madelon Claudet' (1932), playing a mother who sacrifices everything for her son.

She won her first Best Actress Oscar for playing a self-destructive actress in 'Dangerous' (1935).

She won Best Actress for playing a wronged wife in 'The Divorcee' (1930).

She won Best Actress hitchhiking across America in the screwball comedy 'It Happened One Night' (1934).

This British actress won Best Actress for playing a lawyer investigating her husband's affair in 'Howards End' (1992).

She became the first Black woman to win Best Actress, for 'Monster's Ball' (2001).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar playing a call girl in the thriller 'Klute' (1971).

Hollywood's 'America's Sweetheart' won Best Actress for 'Coquette' (1929), her first talking picture.

She won Best Actress for playing a troubled Montana rancher's wife in 'Blue Sky' (1994).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar for raising a child alone in 'To Each His Own' (1946).

She won Best Actress for playing a Berlin cabaret singer in 'Cabaret' (1972).

She won Best Actress playing an obsessive fan who holds an author captive in 'Misery' (1990).

This British actress won Best Actress for playing an ambitious, amoral model in 'Darling' (1965).

She won Best Actress for playing country singer Loretta Lynn in 'Coal Miner's Daughter' (1980).

She won Best Actress playing Helen Keller's teacher in 'The Miracle Worker' (1962).

She won Best Actress for the title role of a neurotic New Yorker in 'Annie Hall' (1977).

She won Best Actress for playing an unconventional Edinburgh schoolteacher in 'The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie' (1969).

She won Best Actress for playing a woman who takes in a homeless teen who becomes a football star in 'The Blind Side' (2009).

'Roman Holiday' (1953) brought this actress, whose first name is _ _ _ _ _ _, her only competitive Best Actress Oscar.

This British actress won her first Best Actress Oscar for 'Women in Love' (1970).

She won Best Actress for playing a Swedish immigrant housemaid who runs for Congress in 'The Farmer's Daughter' (1947).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar playing a union organizer in a Southern textile mill in 'Norma Rae' (1979).

She won Best Actress for playing a strong-willed housekeeper in 'Hud' (1963).

She won Best Actress for portraying a woman with three distinct personalities in 'The Three Faces of Eve' (1957).

She won Best Actress in her film debut as a magical nanny in 'Mary Poppins' (1964).

This Malaysian actress won Best Actress playing a laundromat owner navigating the multiverse in 'Everything Everywhere All at Once' (2022).

Best known for dancing with Fred Astaire, she won Best Actress for the dramatic role 'Kitty Foyle' (1940).

This Italian star became the first to win Best Actress for a foreign-language performance, in 'Two Women' (1961).

She won Best Actress for playing a chillingly controlling psychiatric ward nurse in 'One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest' (1975).

She won Best Actress for playing a mute Scottish pianist in 19th-century New Zealand in 'The Piano' (1993).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar for 'BUtterfield 8' (1960), a role she reportedly disliked.

She won Best Actress playing a former Nazi camp guard hiding a secret in 'The Reader' (2008).

She won Best Actress at age 22, playing a young widow in a dance competition, in 'Silver Linings Playbook' (2012).

This Austrian-born actress won Best Actress in back-to-back years, 1936 and 1937, a first in Oscar history.

She won Best Actress playing Scarlett O'Hara in 'Gone with the Wind' (1939).

She won Best Actress for playing a French peasant girl who sees visions of the Virgin Mary in 'The Song of Bernadette' (1943).

At 80, she became the oldest Best Actress winner for playing an elderly Southern woman in 'Driving Miss Daisy' (1989).

She won Best Actress for playing a deaf and mute woman in 'Johnny Belinda' (1948), without speaking a single line.

She shared the Best Actress prize in a rare tie, for playing entertainer Fanny Brice in 'Funny Girl' (1968).

She won Best Actress on her eighth nomination, for playing an elderly widow revisiting her hometown in 'The Trip to Bountiful' (1985).

She won her first Best Actress Oscar as an aspiring actress in the musical 'La La Land' (2016).

This Swedish star won Best Actress for being psychologically tormented by her husband in 'Gaslight' (1944).

She won Best Actress playing a fictionalized muse to a struggling playwright in 'Shakespeare in Love' (1998).