The Coupe Volpi for the best female role is a given reward each year at the time of the Mostra of Venice. The price is given since 1934.

Prize list

• 1934 : Katharine Hepburn for Four girls of Doctor March ( Little Women ) of George Cukor

• 1935: Paula Wessely for Episode of Walter Reisch
• 1936: Year for Day before weapons of Marcel the Herbarium
• 1937: White beet Davis for the Last combat ( Kid Galahad ) of Michael Curtiz and for marked Women ( Marked Women ) of Lord Bacon
• 1938: Normalized Shearer for Marie Antoinette of W.S. Van Dyke
• 1947: Anna Magnani for Honourable Angelina ( Onorevole Angelina ) of Luigi Zampa
• 1948: Jean Simmons for Hamlet of Laurence Olivier
• 1949: Olivia de Havilland for the Pit with the snakes ( The Snake Pit ) of Anatole Litvak
• 1950: Eleanor Parker for Women out of cage ( Caged ) of John Cromwell
• 1951: Vivien Leigh for a tram named desire ( has Streetcar Named Desire ) of Elia Kazan
• 1953: Lilli Micrometer caliper for The Furnace Poster of Irving Reis
• 1956: Maria Schell for Gervaise of Rene Clement
• 1957: Dzidra Ritenberga for Malva of Vladimir Braun
• 1958: Sophia Loren for the black Orchis ( The Black Orchid ) of Martin Ritt
• 1959: Madeleine Robinson for With double turn of Claude Chabrol
• 1960: Shirley MacLaine for Garçonnière ( The Apartment ) of Billy Wilder
• 1961: Suzanne Flon for You will not kill of Claude Autant-Lara
• 1962: Emmanuelle Rivetted for Therese Desqueyroux of Georges Franju
• 1963: Delphine Seyrig for Muriel, or the Time of a return of Alain Resnais
• 1964: Harriet Andersson for Att älska of Jörn To give
• 1965: Annie Girardot for Three rooms in Manhattan of Flesh-colored Marcel
• 1966: Natalya Arinbasarova for the First Master ( Pervyy uchitel ) of Andrei Konchalovsky
• 1967: Shirley Knight for Dutchman of Anthony Harvey
• 1968: Laura Betti for Theorem ( Teorema ) of Pier Paolo Pasolini
• 1983: Darling Légitimus for Street negro boxes of Euzhan Palcy
• 1984: Pascale Ogier for Nights of the full moon of Eric Rohmer
• 1986: Valeria Golino for Storia of amore of Francesco Maselli
• 1987: Soo-yeon Kang for the Surrogate mother ( Sibaji ) of Im Kwon-taek
• 1988: Shirley MacLaine for Mrs Sousatzka of John Schlesinger and Isabelle Huppert for a business of women of Claude Chabrol
• 1989: Peggy Ashcroft and Geraldine James for She' S Been Away of Peter Hall
• 1990: Gloria Münchmeyer for Luna in el espejo of Silvio Caiozzi
• 1991: Tilda Swinton for Edward II of Derek Jarman
• 1992: Gong Li for Qiu Ju, a Chinese woman ( Qiu Ju da guan if ) of Zhang Yimou
• 1993: Juliette Binoche for Three colors: Blue of Krzysztof Kieslowski
• 1994: Maria de Medeiros for Very Irmãos of Teresa Villaverde
• 1995: Isabelle Huppert and Sandrine Bonnaire for the Ceremony of Claude Chabrol
• 1996: Victoire Thivisol for Ponette of Jacques Doillon
• 1997: Robin Tunney for the Niagara, the Niagara of Bob Kid
• 1998: Catherine Deneuve for Place Vendôme of Nicole Garcia
• 1999: Nathalie Baye for a pornographic connection of Frederic Fonteyne
• 2000: Pink Byrne for The Goddess off 1967 of Clara Law
• 2001: Sandra Ceccarelli for Luce dei miei occhi of Giuseppe Piccioni
• 2002: Julianne Moore for Far from the paradise ( Far from Heaven ) of Todd Haynes
• 2003: Katja Riemann for Rosenstrasse of Margarethe von Trotta
• 2004: Imelda Staunton for Vera Drake of Mike Leigh
• 2005: Giovanna Mezzogiorno for the Animal in the heart ( Bestia nel cuorede ) of Cristina Comencini
• 2006: Helen Mirren for The Queen of Stephen Frears
• 2007: Cate Blanchett for I' m Not There of Todd Haynes

Remarks

• It should be noted that in 1934, the price was called gold medal of the best actress and that of 1983 summarily with 1987 the price was called better actress .
• 2 actresses gained twice the price of interpretation: Shirley MacLaine and Isabelle Huppert

See too

• Volpi Cut for best male interpretation