Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South

The Filmfare Best Female Debut is presented by the Filmfare magazine as part of its annual Filmfare Awards South for South Indian films.

Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut – South
Awarded for	Best Debut Performance by an Actress
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First award	Simran, (Once More, V.I.P. and Nerrukku Ner) (1998)
Currently held by	Amrutha Prem, (Tagaru Palya) (2023)
Website	Filmfare winners

Superlatives

The actresses whose performances have won awards have worked in four major languages. They are:

• Tamil (14 winners).
• Telugu (7 winners).
• Malayalam (6 winners).
• Kannada (3 winners).

Recipients

Year	Recipient(s)	Film(s)	Language(s)	Ref.
1998	Simran	Once More V.I.P. Nerrukku Ner	Tamil	[1]
1999	Isha Koppikar	Kadhal Kavithai		[1][2]
2000	Jyothika	Vaali		[1]
2002	Reema Sen	Minnale		[1]
2006	Padmapriya Janakiraman	Thavamai Thavamirundhu		[1]
2007	Ileana D'Cruz	Devadasu	Telugu	[1]
2008	Hansika Motwani	Desamuduru		[1]
	Anjali	Kattradhu Thamizh	Tamil
2009	Meera Nandan	Mulla	Malayalam	[1]
2010	Abhinaya	Naadodigal	Tamil	[1]
2011	Samantha Ruth Prabhu	Ye Maaya Chesave	Telugu	[1][3]
2012	Shruti Haasan	7aum Arivu	Tamil	[1][4]
		Anaganaga O Dheerudu	Telugu
2013	Shwetha Srivatsav	Cyber Yugadol Nava Yuva Madhura Prema Kavyam	Kannada	[1]
	Lakshmi Menon	Sundarapandian	Tamil
2014	Nazriya Nazim	Neram		[5]
2015	Catherine Tresa	Madras		[6]
	Nikki Galrani	1983	Malayalam
2016	Pragya Jaiswal	Kanche	Telugu	[7]
	Sai Pallavi	Premam	Malayalam
2017	Manjima Mohan	Achcham Yenbadhu Madamaiyada	Tamil	[8][9]
2018	Aishwarya Lekshmi	Mayaanadhi	Malayalam	[10]
	Kalyani Priyadarshan	Hello	Telugu
2019	Raiza Wilson	Pyaar Prema Kaadhal	Tamil	[11]
	Saniya Iyappan	Queen	Malayalam
2020–21	Krithi Shetty	Uppena	Telugu	[12] [13]
	Dhanya Ramkumar	Ninna Sanihake	Kannada
	Anaga Narayananan	Thinkalazhcha Nishchayam	Malayalam
2022	Aditi Shankar	Viruman	Tamil	[14]
2023	Amrutha Prem	Tagaru Palya	Kannada	[15]