Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil

The Filmfare Best Actress Award is given by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for Tamil (Kollywood) films. The awards were extended to "Best Actress" in 1972. The year indicates the year of release of the film.

Superlatives

 * Actresses Sujatha won the most awards in the 1970s with three. Saritha and Radhika Sarathkumar won the award two times in the 80s, and Revathi won three times in the 1990s for the most in that decade. Laila had two wins in the 2000s, while Nayanthara has won the most in the 2010s with three wins.
 * Shoba, Archana and Priyamani have won Filmfare award for Best Actress Tamil and National Film Award for Best Actress for their performances in Pasi (1979), Veedu (1988) and Paruthiveeran (2006) respectively.
 * Jyothika and Trisha Krishnan are the two actress to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress.
 * Radhika Sarathkumar, Simran and Jyothika have won awards in 2 different categories other than this category. Radhika Sarathkumar won the Filmfare Lifetime Achievement Award in 2014 and the Filmfare Best Supporting Actress Award in 2015. Simran has won both Debut award in 1997 and Best Supporting Actress Award in 2008, while jyothika won Debut award in 1999 and Filmfare Critics Award for Best Actress – South in 2015.
 * J. Jayalalithaa, Revathi and Samantha Ruth Prabhu are the only three actresses to win both Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Telugu in the same year for their performances in the year 1972, 1992 and 2012 respectively. Lakshmi and Poornima Bhagyaraj won Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Tamil and Filmfare Award for Best Actress – Malayalam for their performances in the same year(1974 and 1982 respectively).
 * Seven actresses have won for their debut Tamil films, in chronological order Manisha Koirala (1995), Shruti (1996), Sandhya (2004), Bhavana (2006), Parvathy Thiruvothu (2008), Malavika Nair (2014) and Ritika Singh (2016).

Multiple wins
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress awards: 6- Sai pallavi

Multiple nominations
The following individuals have received multiple Best Actress nominations: