Cannes Film Festival Award for Best Actress

Best Actress Award
Prix d'interprétation féminine (French)
2024 recipients, clockwise from top left: Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz, and Zoe Saldaña
Awarded for	Best Performance by an Actress
Country	France
Presented by	Cannes Film Festival
First awarded	1946
Currently held by	Karla Sofía Gascón Selena Gomez Adriana Paz Zoe Saldaña Emilia Pérez (2024)
Website	www.festival-cannes.com/en/

The Best Actress Award (French: Prix d'interprétation féminine) is an award presented at the Cannes Film Festival since 1946. It is given to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance and chosen by the jury from the films in official competition slate at the festival.

At the 1st Cannes Film Festival held in 1946, Michèle Morgan was the first winner of this award for her performance in Pastoral Symphony, and Karla Sofía Gascón, Selena Gomez, Adriana Paz and Zoe Saldaña are the most recent winners in this category for their roles in Emilia Perez at the 77th Cannes Film Festival in 2024.