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Thirteen women have won two or more Academy Awards for Best Actress:

1. Katharine Hepburn --

  • Best Actress: "Morning Glory" (1932/33).
  • Best Actress: "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" (1967).
  • Best Actress: "The Lion in Winter" (1968) [Tied with Barbra Streisand].
  • Best Actress: "On Golden Pond" (1981).

2. Luise Rainer --

  • Best Actress: "The Great Ziegfeld" (1936).
  • Best Actress: "The Good Earth" (1937).

3. Bette Davis --

  • Best Actress: "Dangerous" (1935).
  • Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1938).

4. Vivien Leigh --

5. Ingrid Bergman --

  • Best Actress: "Gaslight" (1944).
  • Best Actress: "Anastasia" (1956).

6. Olivia de Havilland --

  • Best Actress: "To Each His Own" (1946).
  • Best Actress: "The Heiress" (1949).

7. Elizabeth Taylor --

  • Best Actress: "BUtterfield 8" (1960).
  • Best Actress: "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966).

8. Glenda Jackson --

  • Best Actress: "Women in Love" (1970).
  • Best Actress: "A Touch of Class" (1973).

9. Jane Fonda --

  • Best Actress: "Klute" (1971).
  • Best Actress: "Coming Home" (1978).

10. Sally Field --

  • Best Actress: "Norma Rae" (1979).
  • Best Actress: "Places in the Heart" (1984).

11. Jodie Foster --

  • Best Actress: "The Accused" (1988).
  • Best Actress: "The Silence of the Lambs" (1991).

12. Hilary Swank --

  • Best Actress: "Boys Don't Cry" (1999).
  • Best Actress: "Million Dollar Baby" (2004).

13. Meryl Streep --

  • Best Actress: "Sophie's Choice" (1982).
  • Best Actress: "The Iron Lady" (2011).
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British (and British-born) actresses who have won Academy Awards include:

  • Vivien Leigh (Best Actress 1939, 1951).
  • Joan Fontaine (Best Actress 1941).
  • Greer Garson (Best Actress 1942).
  • Olivia de Havilland (Best Actress 1946, 1949).
  • Audrey Hepburn (Best Actress 1953).
  • Dame Wendy Hiller (Best Supporting Actress 1958).
  • Dame Elizabeth Taylor (Best Actress 1960, 1966).
  • Dame Margaret Rutherford (Best Supporting Actress 1963).
  • Dame Julie Andrews (Best Actress 1964).
  • Julie Christie (Best Actress 1965).
  • Dame Maggie Smith (Best Actress 1969, Best Supporting Actress 1978).
  • Glenda Jackson (Best Actress, 1970, 1973).
  • Vanessa Redgrave (Best Supporting Actress 1977).
  • Dame Peggy Ashcroft (Best Supporting Actress 1984).
  • Jessica Tandy (Best Actress 1989).
  • Emma Thompson (Best Actress 1992).
  • Dame Judi Dench (Best Supporting Actress 1998).
  • Catherine Zeta-Jones (Best Supporting Actress 2002).
  • Rachel Weisz (Best Supporting Actress 2005).
  • Dame Helen Mirren (Best Actress 2006).
  • Tilda Swinton (Best Supporting Actress 2007).
  • Kate Winslet (Best Actress 2008).
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Several British (or British-born) actresses are tied with two Oscar wins. They are: Vivien Leigh, Olivia de Havilland, Dame Elizabeth Taylor, Glenda Jackson, Dame Maggie Smith and Emma Thompson. Thompson's wins were for Best Actress and Best Adapted Screenplay.

Those who have received one Oscar include: Greer Garson, Dame Julie Andrews, Julie Christie, Jessica Tandy, Dame Helen Mirren, Kate Winslet, Dame Wendy Hiller, Dame Margaret Rutherford, Vanessa Redgrave, Dame Peggy Ashcroft, Dame Judi Dench, Rachel Weisz and Tilda Swinton. Catherine Zeta-Jones was born in Wales.

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Including this year's winners: 132 actors and 132 actresses. Isn't that symmetry amazing?

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