The Helpmann Award for Best Female Actor in a Supporting Role in a Play is a theatre award, presented by Live Performance Australia (LPA) at the annual Helpmann Awards since 2003. In the following list, winners are listed first and marked in gold, in boldface, and the nominees are listed below with no highlight.
Winners and nominees
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Year Actor Production Character(s) 2003(3rd) Jane Harders Copenhagen Margrethe Bohr Deborah Kennedy Soulmates Fiona Angela Punch McGregor Great Expectations Miss Havisham Julie Forsyth Great Expectations Mrs Joe Gargery and Miss Skiffins 2004(4th) Belinda McClory Frozen Agnetha Deidre Rubenstein Night Letters Innkeeper Rebecca Massey The Underpants Gertrude Amber McMahon The Snow Queen Little Robber Girl 2005(5th) Zoe Carides Influence Zehra Amber McMahon Afternoon of the Elves Maid Kerry Walker The Spook Trixie Justine Clarke Hedda Gabler Thea Elvsted 2006(6th) Alison Bell Doubt Sister Aloysius Michaela Cantwell Honk if you are Jesus Mary-Beth Belinda McClory The Odyssey Circe Anne Looby The Peach Season Celia 2007(7th) Deborah Mailman The Lost Echo Satirino Bojana Novakovic Eldorado Manuela Hayley McElhinney Mother Courage and Her Children Kattrin Rebecca Massey It Just Stopped Pearl 2008(8th) Julie Forsyth Exit the King Juliette Monica Maughan Toy Symphony Mrs. Walkham Alison Whyte Don's Party Jenny Susan Prior Riflemind Lynn 2009(9th) Marta Dusseldorp War of the Roses Queen Margaret Christen O'Leary Goodbye Vaudeville Charlie Mudd Maude Adle Bojana Novakovic Woyzeck Marie Yael Stone Scorched Janine 2010(10th) Alison Whyte Richard III Queen Elizabeth Jennifer Hagan Richard III Queen Margaret Deborah Kennedy The Book of Everything Aunty Pie Yael Stone The Book of Everything Eliza 2011(11th) Anita Hegh The Wild Duck Gina Anne Phelan Do Not Go Gentle Wilson Helen Thomson In the Next Room (or The Vibrator Play) Sabrina Daldry Yael Stone Entertaining Mr Sloane Sophie, Madgie and Fidele 2012(12th) Robyn Nevin Summer of the Seventeenth Doll Emma Leech Justine Clarke Les Liaisons Dangereuses Madame de Tourvel Kris McQuade Neighbourhood Watch Milova Miranda Otto The White Guard Lena 2013(13th) Amber McMahon School Dance Hannah Ellis Lynette Curran Cat on a Hot Tin Roof Big Mama Valerie Bader Australia Day Marie Miranda Tapsell The Secret River Muruli 2014(14th) Robyn Nevin Angels in America Elizabeth DebickiThe MaidsSusan PriorSmall and TiredZahra NewmanThe Government Inspector 2015(15th) Helen Thomson After DinnerJulie ForsythEndgameSarah PeirseEndgamePamela RabeBeckett Triptych Footfalls 2016(16th)Sarah PeirseThe Golden AgeMichelle DoakeRomeo and JulietKatrina MilosevicThe Distance Anna SamsonBirdland 2017(17th)Amber McMahon Girl AsleepChloe BaylissGloriaTilda Cobham-HerveyThings I Know To Be TrueMelita JurisicJohn 2018(18th)Anita HeghThe Resistible Rise of Arturo UiJane Montgomery-GriffithsMacbethKate BoxTop GirlsElaine CrombieAn Octoroon 2019(19th)Vaishnavi Suryaprakash Counting and CrackingRahda (younger) Helen Thomson The Harp in the South: Part One and Part Two Delie Stock Maude Davey Melancholia Zoe Terakes A View from the Bridge
See also Helpmann Awards
References
External links The official Helpmann Awards website