IIFA Award for Best Actress

Superlatives

Multiple Winners

• 3 Wins : Rani Mukerji, Vidya Balan
• 2 Wins : Aishwarya Rai, Kareena Kapoor, Deepika Padukone and Alia Bhatt

  List of winners and nominees

• Winners are listed first in bold, followed by the other nominees.

2000s

• 2000 Aishwarya Rai – Hum Dil De Chuke Sanam as Nandini †
• * Aishwarya Rai – Taal as Mansi Shankar ‡
• * Kajol – Hum Aapke Dil Mein Rehte Hain as Megha ‡
• * Karisma Kapoor – Biwi No.1 as Pooja Mehra ‡
• * Sonali Bendre – Sarfarosh as Seema
• 2001 Karisma Kapoor – Fiza as Fiza Ikramullah †
• * Madhuri Dixit – Pukar as Anjali ‡
• * Preity Zinta – Kya Kehna as Priya Baxi ‡
• * Shilpa Shetty – Dhadkan as Anjali
• * Tabu – Astitva as Aditi Pandit ‡
• 2002 Tabu – Chandni Bar as Mumtaz Ali Ansari ‡
• * Ameesha Patel – ' as Sakina ‡
• * Gracy Singh – Lagaan as Gauri
• * Kajol – Kabhi Khushi Kabhie Gham... as Anjali Sharma Raichand †
• * Preity Zinta – Dil Chahta Hai as Shalini
• 2003 Aishwarya Rai – Devdas as Parvati "Paro" Chakraborty †
• * Ameesha Patel – Humraaz as Priya Singhania ‡
• * Karisma Kapoor – ' as Nandini ‡
• * Madhuri Dixit – Devdas as Chandramukhi
• * Rani Mukerji – Saathiya as Suhani Sharma ‡
• 2004 Preity Zinta – Kal Ho Naa Ho as Naina Catherine Kapur †
• * Hema Malini – Baghban as Pooja Malhotra ‡
• * Preity Zinta – Koi... Mil Gaya as Nisha ‡
• * Rani Mukerji – Chalte Chalte as Priya Chopra ‡
• * Urmila Matondkar – Bhoot as Swati ‡
• 2005 Rani Mukerji – Hum Tum as Rhea Prakash †
• * Kareena Kapoor – Aitraaz as Priya Saxena
• * Priyanka Chopra – Mujhse Shaadi Karogi as Rani Singh
• * Shilpa Shetty – Phir Milenge as Tamanna Sahni ‡
• * Urmila Matondkar – Ek Hasina Thi as Sarika Vartak ‡
• 2006 Rani Mukerji – Black as Michelle McNally †
• * Konkona Sen Sharma – Page 3 as Madhvi Sharma
• * Preity Zinta – Salaam Namaste as Ambar "Ambi" Malhotra ‡
• * Rani Mukerji – Bunty Aur Babli as Vimmi "Babli" Saluja ‡
• * Vidya Balan – Parineeta as Lalita ‡
• 2007 Rani Mukerji – Kabhi Alvida Naa Kehna as Maya Talwar ‡
• * Aishwarya Rai – Dhoom 2 as Sunehri ‡
• * Kajol – Fanaa as Zooni Ali Baig †
• * Kangana Ranaut – Gangster as Simran
• * Kareena Kapoor – Omkara as Dolly Mishra ‡
• * Vidya Balan – Lage Raho Munna Bhai as Jhanvi
• 2008 Kareena Kapoor – Jab We Met as Geet Dhillon †
• * Aishwarya Rai – Guru as Sujata Desai ‡
• * Deepika Padukone – Om Shanti Om as Shantipriya / Sandhya ‡
• * Katrina Kaif – Namastey London as Jasmeet 'jazz' Malhotra
• * Tabu – Cheeni Kum as Nina Verma
• * Vidya Balan – Bhool Bhulaiyaa as Avni S. Chaturvedi ‡
• 2009 Priyanka Chopra – Fashion as Meghna Mathur †
• * Aishwarya Rai – Jodhaa Akbar as Jodhaa Bai ‡
• * Asin – Ghajini as Kalpana Shetty ‡
• * Bipasha Basu – Race as Sonia
• * Katrina Kaif – Singh Is Kinng as Sonia Singh

  2010s

• 2010 Kareena Kapoor – 3 Idiots as Pia Sahastrabudhhe ‡ Vidya Balan – Paa as Vidya †
• * Deepika Padukone – Love Aaj Kal as Meera Pandit ‡
• * Mahie Gill – Dev D as Parminder 'Paro'
• * Priyanka Chopra – Kaminey as Sweety Shekhar Bhope ‡
• 2011 Anushka Sharma – Band Baaja Baaraat as Shruti Kakkar ‡
• * Aishwarya Rai – Guzaarish as Sofia D'Souza ‡
• * Kareena Kapoor – Golmaal 3 as Daboo ‡
• * Katrina Kaif – Raajneeti as Indu Patp Singh
• * Vidya Balan – Ishqiya as Krishna Verma ‡
• 2012 Vidya Balan – The Dirty Picture as Reshma / Silk †
• * Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu as Tanuja 'Tanu' Trivdei
• * Kareena Kapoor – Bodyguard as Divya
• * Mahie Gill – Saheb, Biwi Aur Gangster as Madhavi Devi ‡
• * Priyanka Chopra – 7 Khoon Maaf as Susanna Anna-Marie Johannes ‡
• 2013 Vidya Balan – Kahaani as Vidya Venkatesan Bagchi †
• * Deepika Padukone – Cocktail as Veronica Malaney ‡
• * Huma Qureshi – Gangs of Wasseypur – Part 2 as Mohsina
• * Kareena Kapoor – Heroine as Mahi Arora ‡
• * Priyanka Chopra – Barfi! as Jhilmil Chatterjee ‡
• * Sridevi – English Vinglish as Shashi Godbole ‡
• 2014 Deepika Padukone – Chennai Express as Meenalochni 'Meena' Azhagusundaram ‡
• * Deepika Padukone – Goliyon Ki Raasleela Ram-Leela as Leela Sanera †
• * Deepika Padukone – Yeh Jawaani Hai Deewani as Naina Talwar
• * Nimrat Kaur – The Lunchbox as Ila
• * Shraddha Kapoor – Aashiqui 2 as Aarohi Keshav Shirke ‡
• * Sonakshi Sinha – Lootera as Pakhi Roy Chaudhary ‡
• 2015 Kangana Ranaut – Queen as Rani Mehra †
• * Alia Bhatt – 2 States as Ananya Swaminathan
• * Anushka Sharma – PK as Jagat "Jaggu" Janani Sahni
• * Deepika Padukone – Happy New Year as Mohini Joshi
• * Priyanka Chopra – Mary Kom as Mary Kom ‡
• * Rani Mukerji – Mardaani as Shivani Shivaji Roy ‡
• 2016 Deepika Padukone – Piku as Piku Banerjee †
• * Deepika Padukone – Bajirao Mastani as Mastani ‡
• * Kangana Ranaut – Tanu Weds Manu Returns as Tanuja "Tanu" Trivedi / Kumari "Kusum" Sangwan ‡
• * Priyanka Chopra – Dil Dhadakne Do as Ayesha Mehra / Sangha
• * Shraddha Kapoor – ABCD 2 as Vinnie
• 2017 Alia Bhatt – Udta Punjab as Kumari Pinky †
• * Alia Bhatt – Dear Zindagi as Kaira ‡
• * Anushka Sharma – Ae Dil Hai Mushkil as Alizeh ‡
• * Sonam Kapoor – Neerja as Neerja Bhanot ‡
• * Taapsee Pannu – Pink as Minal Arora
• 2018 Sridevi - Mom as Devki Sabarwal ‡
• *Alia Bhatt - Badrinath Ki Dulhania as Vaidehi Trivedi ‡
• *Bhumi Pednekar - Shubh Mangal Saavdhan as Sugandha Joshi ‡
• *Vidya Balan - Tumhari Sulu as Sulochana "Sulu" Dubey †
• *Zaira Wasim - Secret Superstar as Insia Malik ‡
• 2019 Alia Bhatt - Raazi as Sehmat Khan †
• *Deepika Padukone - Padmaavat as Rani Padmavati ‡
• *Neena Gupta - Badhaai Ho as Priyamvada 'Babli' Kaushik ‡
• *Rani Mukerji - Hichki as Naina Mathur ‡
• *Tabu - Andhadhun as Simi ‡

  2020s

• 2020
• * Alia Bhatt - Gully Boy as Safeena Firdausi
• * Vidya Balan - Mission Mangal as Tara Shinde
• * Priyanka Chopra - The Sky Is Pink as Aditi Chaudhary
• * Kareena Kapoor Khan - Good Newwz as Deepti Batra
• * Taapsee Pannu - Badla as Naina Sethi