Dora Mavor Moore Award for Best Leading Actress (General Theatre) explained

The Dora Mavor Moore Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female in a Principal Role - Play is an annual award celebrating achievements in live Canadian theatre.

The award was discontinued after 2018, and merged with the award for Best Leading Actor (General Theatre) into a single gender-neutral award for Best Leading Performer (General Theatre).[1]

Awards and nominations

YearWinnerNominated
1981 Roberta Maxwell, Stevie
1982 Rosemary Dunsmore, Straight Ahead/Blind Dancers
1983 Jennifer Phipps, Sister Mary Ignatius Explains It All For You
1984 Martha Burns, Trafford Tanzi
1985 Doris Petrie, 'night, Mother
1986[2] Martha Burns, The Miracle Worker
1987[3] Lally Cadeau, Saturday Sunday Monday
1988[4] Susan Wright, A Lie of the Mind
1989[5] Tanja Jacobs, Under the Skin
1990 Nancy Beatty, Love and Anger
1991 Seana McKenna, Saint Joan
  • Robin Craig, A Fertile Imagination
  • Nicola Lipman, Clutching the Heat
  • Fiona Reid, Daylight Saving
  • Tracy Wright, Lion in the Streets
1992 Nicola Cavendish, Shirley Valentine
1993 Fiona Reid, Fallen Angels
1994 Brenda Robins, Dancing at Lughnasa
1995[6] Fiona Reid, Six Degrees of Separation
1996 Nicola Cavendish, Later Life
1997 Lilo Baur, The Three Lives of Lucie Cabrol
1998 Kristen Thomson, Problem Child
1999 Nancy Beatty, Risk Everything
2000 Nora McLellan, Music for Contortionist
2001 Kristen Thomson, I, Claudia[7]
2002 Yanna McIntosh, Skylight
2003 Kristina Nicoll, Girl in the Goldfish Bowl
2004 Caroline Cave, The Syringa Tree
2005 Irene Poole, The Leisure Society
  • Marie-Hélène Fontaine, Le Collier d'Hélène
  • Carolyn Hetherington, Half Life
  • Melody Johnson, Trout Stanley
  • Alison Sealy-Smith, Cast Iron
2006 d'bi young, blood.claat — one womban story
2007 Seana McKenna, Orpheus Descending
2008 Lally Cadeau, Rose
2009 Alison Sealy-Smith, A Raisin in the Sun
2010 Tara Rosling, If We Were Birds
2011 Yanna McIntosh, Ruined
2012[8] Pamela Mala Sinha, Crash
  • Maev Beaty, The Happy Woman
  • Christine Horne, Andromache
  • Nicole Underhay, The Small Room at the Top of the Stairs
  • Michaela Washburn, White Biting Dog
2013 Irene Poole, The Little Years
  • Maev Beaty, Proud
  • Maev Beaty, Terminus
  • Clare Coulter, LEAR
  • Melody Johnson, Miss Caledonia
2014 Carly Street, Venus in Fur
2015 Nicky Guadagni, Hooked
  • Maev Beaty, The De Chardin Project
  • Rosemary Dunsmore, Tom at the Farm
  • Alanna Hibbert, The Mountaintop
  • Fiona Reid, Vanya and Sonia and Masha and Spike
2016 Rebecca Northan, Blind Date
2017 Maev Beaty, The Last Wife
2018 Michaela Washburn, Confederation & Riel

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Notes and References

  1. http://www.cbc.ca/news/entertainment/dora-awards-gender-neutral-1.4635132 "Dora Mavor Moore Awards to adopt gender-neutral performance categories"
  2. "Tarragon sweeps the nominations for Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 15, 1986.
  3. "Mikado nominated for 7 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 27, 1987.
  4. "CentreStage play tops Dora Award nominees". Toronto Star, May 11, 1988. Page C1.
  5. "And the Dora nominees are...". The Globe and Mail, May 13, 1989.
  6. "Nominations for '95 Dora Awards". Toronto Star, May 13, 1995.
  7. Robert Cushman, "I, Claudia takes Doras for best actress, new play: Toronto Theatre Awards". National Post, June 26, 2001.
  8. Web site: Dora Awards: Recipients . 2012-10-07 . dead . https://web.archive.org/web/20131029194310/http://tapa.ca/files/2012_NOMINEES_RECIPIENTS.pdf . 2013-10-29 .