Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut

Zee Cine Awards for Best Female Debut
Zee Cine Awards for Best Female Debut
	The 2024 recipient: Medha Shankr
Awarded for	Best Female Debut
Country	India
Presented by	Zee Entertainment
First awarded	Mahima Chaudhry; Pardes (1998)
Currently held by	Medha Shankr; 12th Fail (2024)

The Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut is chosen by the jury members and a part of the annual Zee Cine Awards. They give awards to the new discoveries of Bollywood where they see some potential. The 1st Zee Cine Award was held on 14 March 1998 in Mumbai, India. Since then, the Award Ceremony is being held in different countries and continents.

The Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut was given in the 1st ZCA (1998). Mahima Chaudhary became the first recipient of the Zee Cine Award for Best Female Debut (Jury/Critics). She received the award for Pardes (1997). The most recent receipt is Medha Shankr for 12th Fail.

Winners

The winners are listed below:-

Year	Portrait	Name	Film	Ref.
1998		Mahima Chaudhry	Pardes
1999		Preity Zinta	Soldier
2000		Rinke Khanna	Pyaar Mein Kabhi Kabhi
2001		Ameesha Patel	Kaho Naa... Pyaar Hai
2002		Gracy Singh	Lagaan: Once Upon a Time in India
2003		Malini Sharma	Raaz
2004		Bhoomika Chawla	Tere Naam
2005		Gayatri Joshi	Swades
2006		Konkona Sen Sharma & Vidya Balan	Page 3 Parineeta
2007		Kangana Ranaut	Gangster/ Woh Lamhe
2008		Deepika Padukone	Om Shanti Om
2009	Not Held
2010	Not Held
2011		Sonakshi Sinha	Dabangg
2012		Parineeti Chopra	Ladies VS Ricky Bahl
2013		Ileana D'Cruz & Yami Gautam	Barfi! Vicky Donor
2014		Vaani Kapoor	Shuddh Desi Romance
2015	Not Held
2016		Harshaali Malhotra & Bhumi Pednekar	Bajrangi Bhaijaan Dum Laga Ke Haisha
2017		Ritika Singh	Saala Khadoos
2018		Nidhhi Agerwal	Munna Michael
2019		Janhvi Kapoor	Dhadak
2020		Ananya Panday Tara Sutaria	Student of The Year 2	^[1]
2021	Not Held
2022	Not Held
2023		Rashmika Mandana	Goodbye
2024		Medha Shankr Alizeh Agnihotri	12th Fail Farrey