Filmfare Awards for Best Female Debut
The 2024 recipient: Alizeh Agnihotri
Awarded for	Best Debut Performance by an Actress
Country	India
Presented by	Filmfare
First awarded	Juhi Chawla Qayamat Se Qayamat Tak (1989)
Currently held by	Alizeh Agnihotri Farrey (2024)
Website	Filmfare winners

The Filmfare Award for Best Female Debut (previously known as Filmfare Award for Lux New Face of the Year) is given by Filmfare as part of its annual Filmfare Awards for Hindi films to recognise a performance by a female actor in their debut role.^[1]

The first recipient of the award was Juhi Chawla, who was honored at the 34th Filmfare Awards in the year 1989. Preity Zinta and Ananya Panday are the only actresses who won the award for 2 different films. As of 2021, Priyanka Chopra and Parineeti Chopra are the only cousins to win the award while Sara Ali Khan and Abhimanyu Dassani are the only winners whose parents (Saif Ali Khan and Bhagyashree respectively) have won a Filmfare Best Debut award. Divya Bharti is the only actress to win the award for her fifth film and not for her first film.

Juhi Chawla, Preity Zinta, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, Vidya Balan, Deepika Padukone, Kangana Ranaut and Kriti Sanon are the only recipients who also won Filmfare Award for Best Actress, with Balan winning four times and Padukone winning twice.

Tabu, Kareena Kapoor, Priyanka Chopra, and Kangana Ranaut have all won the Filmfare Award for Best Actress (Critics) (Tabu winning the most at 4 times and Kapoor with 2 wins) and the Filmfare Award for Best Supporting Actress, while Vidya Balan has won the former award once. The award was not given in this category in the years 1997, 2010 and 2018. The most recent recipient of the award is Alizeh Agnihotri, who was honored at the 69th Filmfare Awards.

Winners and nominees

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film
2010 (55th)	NOT AWARDED
2011 (56th)		Sonakshi Sinha †	Rajjo Shreshawat	Dabangg
		Shraddha Kapoor	Aparna Khanna	Teen Patti
		Amrita Puri	Shefali Thakur	Aisha
2012 (57th)		Parineeti Chopra †	Dimple Chaddha	Ladies vs Ricky Bahl
		Kajal Aggarwal	Kavya Bhosle	Singham
		Myra Karn	Jessica	No One Killed Jessica
		Nargis Fakhri	Heer Kaul	Rockstar
2013 (58th)		Ileana D'Cruz †	Shruti Ghosh Sengupta	Barfi!
		Alia Bhatt	Shanaya	Student of the Year
		Diana Penty	Meera Sahni	Cocktail
		Yami Gautam	Ashima Roy	Vicky Donor
2014 (59th)		Vaani Kapoor †	Tara	Shuddh Desi Romance
		No Other Nominee
2015 (60th)		Kriti Sanon †	Dimpy Chaudhary	Heropanti
		No Other Nominee
2016 (61st)		Bhumi Pednekar †	Sandhya	Dum Laga Ke Haisha
		No Other Nominee
2017 (62nd)		Ritika Singh †	Ezhil Madhi	Saala Khadoos
		No Other Nominee
2018 (63rd)	NOT AWARDED
2019 (64th)		Sara Ali Khan †	Mandakini "Mukku"	Kedarnath
		Banita Sandhu	Shiuli Iyer	October
		Janhvi Kapoor	Parthavi Singh Rathore	Dhadak
		Mouni Roy	Monobina Das	Gold
		Radhika Madan	Chamki Kumari	Pataakha

2020s

Year	Photo of winners	Actress	Role(s)	Film
2020 (65th)		Ananya Panday †	• Shreya Randhawa  • Tapasya Singh	• Student of the Year 2  • Pati Patni Aur Woh
		Pranutan Bahl	Firdaus Quadri	Notebook
		Saiee Manjrekar	Khushi Chautala	Dabangg 3
		Sharmin Segal	Astha Tripathi	Malaal
		Shivaleeka Oberoi	Mitee Deora	Yeh Saali Aashiqui
		Tara Sutaria	Mridula "Mia" Chawla	Student of the Year 2
2021 (66th)		Alaya F †	Tia Singh	Jawaani Jaaneman
		Sadia Khateeb	Shanti Dhar	Shikara
2022 (67th)		Sharvari Wagh †	Sonia Rawat / Jasmine "Jazz"	Bunty Aur Babli 2
		No Other Nominee
2023 (68th)		Andrea Kevichüsa †	Aido	Anek
		Khushali Kumar	Saanchi Sinha	Dhokha: Round D Corner
		Manushi Chhillar	Sanyogita	Samrat Prithviraj
		Prajakta Koli	Ginny Sahni	Jugjugg Jeeyo
2024 (69th)		Alizeh Agnihotri †	Nitya	Farrey
		No Other Nominee