# Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series

The Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in Comedy Series is an annual Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best leading performance by an actress in a Canadian television comedy series.
The award was first presented in 1986 as part of the Gemini Awards. However, as Canadian television comedy was dominated by sketch comedy rather than narrative sitcoms in the late 1980s, the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor in a Comedy Series were discontinued after 1987, with only a single gender-neutral award presented for Best Performance in a Comedy thereafter; separate awards for Individual Performance in a Comedy and Ensemble Performance in a Comedy were introduced for the 16th Gemini Awards in 2001, but were still not separated for gender.
With the revival of scripted narrative comedy series in the 2000s, separate awards for actors and actresses were reinstated in 2011, and have been presented since then as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.
In August 2022, the Academy announced that beginning with the 11th Canadian Screen Awards in 2023, a gender-neutral award for Best Leading Performance in a Comedy Series will be presented.

## 1980s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | Martha Gibson | Seeing Things |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | Lally Cadeau | Hangin' In |
| 1986 1st Gemini Awards | Janet-Laine Green | Seeing Things |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | Dinah Christie | Check it Out! |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | Lally Cadeau | Hangin' In |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | Martha Gibson | Seeing Things |
| 1987 2nd Gemini Awards | Janet-Laine Green | Seeing Things |

## 2010s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Tracy Dawson | Call Me Fitz |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Angela Asher | 18 to Life |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Grace Lynn Kung | InSecurity |
| 2011 26th Gemini Awards | Brooke Nevin | Call Me Fitz |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Wendel Meldrum | Less Than Kind |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Jennifer Irwin | Mr. D |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Cathy Jones | This Hour Has 22 Minutes |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Natalie Lisinska | InSecurity |
| 2012 1st Canadian Screen Awards | Tommie-Amber Pirie | Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Tracy Dawson | Call Me Fitz |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Wendel Meldrum | Less Than Kind |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Carrie-Lynn Neales | Seed |
| 2013 2nd Canadian Screen Awards | Nancy Sorel | Less Than Kind |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Joanna Cassidy | Call Me Fitz |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Andrea Martin | Working the Engels |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Carrie-Lynn Neales | Seed |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Kacey Rohl | Working the Engels |
| 2014 3rd Canadian Screen Awards | Julia Voth | Package Deal |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Brittany LeBorgne | Mohawk Girls |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Annie Murphy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2015 4th Canadian Screen Awards | Belinda Cornish | Tiny Plastic Men |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | | |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Andrea Bang | Kim's Convenience |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Kim Cattrall | Sensitive Skin |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Jennifer Dale | What Would Sal Do? |
| 2016 5th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean Yoon | Kim's Convenience |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Andrea Bang | Kim's Convenience |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Annie Murphy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Reitman | Workin' Moms |
| 2017 6th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean Yoon | Kim's Convenience |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Dani Kind | Workin' Moms |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Annie Murphy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Reitman | Workin' Moms |
| 2018 7th Canadian Screen Awards | Cindy Sampson | Private Eyes |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Jann Arden | Jann |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Annie Murphy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Michelle Mylett | Letterkenny |
| 2019 8th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean Yoon | Kim's Convenience |

## 2020s

| Year | Actor | Series |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine O'Hara | Schitt's Creek |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Dani Kind | Workin' Moms |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Annie Murphy | Schitt's Creek |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Catherine Reitman | Workin' Moms |
| 2020 9th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean Yoon | Kim's Convenience |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Jean Yoon | Kim's Convenience |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Jann Arden | Jann |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Andrea Bang | Kim's Convenience |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Dani Kind | Workin' Moms |
| 2021 10th Canadian Screen Awards | Meredith MacNeill | Pretty Hard Cases |