Santosham Best Actress Award

The Santosham Best Actress Award is given by the Santosham Magazine as part of its annual Santosham Film Awards for Telugu films. The award was first given to Asin in 2003. Here is a list of the award winners and the films for which they won.

Superlatives

Superlative	Best Actress	Record
Top	Anushka Shetty, Samantha Ruth Prabhu	3 wins
Runner-up	Tamannaah Bhatia, Shriya Saran	2 wins

Winners

Year	Photos of winners	Actress	Film	Ref.
2003 (2nd)		Asin	Sivamani	[1]
2004 (3rd)		Trisha Krishnan	Varsham	[2]
2005 (4th)		Charmy Kaur	Anukokunda Oka Roju	[3]
2006 (5th)		Genelia D'Souza	Bommarillu	[4]
2007 (6th)		Bhumika Chawla	Anasuya	[5]
2008 (7th)		Ileana D'Cruz	Jalsa	[6]
2009 (8th)		Anushka Shetty	Arundhati	[7]
2010 (9th)		Anushka Shetty	Vedam
2011 (10th)		Nayanthara	Sri Rama Rajyam	[8][9]
		Tamannaah Bhatia	100% Love	[10]
2012 (11th)		Samantha Ruth Prabhu	Eega	[11]
2013 (12th)		Samantha Ruth Prabhu	Attarintiki Daredi	[12]
2014 (13th)		Shriya Saran	Manam	[13]
2015 (14th)		Anushka Shetty	Rudhramadevi	[14]
2016 (15th)		Samantha Ruth Prabhu	A Aa	[15]
2017 (16th)		Shriya Saran	Gautamiputra Satakarni	[16]
2018 (17th)	—			[17]
2019 (20th)		Tamannaah Bhatia	F2: Fun and Frustration	[18]
2020 (20th)	—			[19]
2021-22 (21st)		Shraddha Srinath (Tamil)	Chakra, Maara	[20][21]
		Apurva (Kannada)	Krishna Talkies
		Sangeetha Sringeri (Kannada)	777 Charlie, Lucky Man
		Vinitha Koshy (Malayalam)	Paka

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