# Satellite Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

The Satellite Award for Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film is one of the annual Satellite Awards given by the International Press Academy.

## Winners and nominees
### 1990s

| Year | Actor | Series | Role | Network |
| 1996 | Helen Mirren | Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgment | DSI Jane Tennison | ITV |
| 1996 | Kirstie Alley | Suddenly | Marty Doyle | ABC |
| 1996 | Jena Malone | Hidden in America | Willa Januson | Showtime |
| 1996 | Lolita Davidovich | Harvest of Fire | Sally Russell | CBS |
| 1996 | Laura Dern | The Siege at Ruby Ridge | Vicki Weaver | CBS |
| 1997 | Jennifer Beals | The Twilight of the Golds | Suzanne Stein | Showtime |
| 1997 | Alfre Woodard | Miss Evers' Boys | Eunice Rivers Laurie | HBO |
| 1997 | Greta Scacchi | The Odyssey | Penelope | NBC |
| 1997 | Glenn Close | In the Gloaming | Janet | HBO |
| 1997 | Meryl Streep | ...First Do No Harm | Lori Reimuller | ABC |
| 1998 | Angelina Jolie | Gia | Gia Carangi | HBO |
| 1998 | Olympia Dukakis | More Tales of the City | Anna Madrigal | Channel 4 |
| 1998 | Mia Farrow | Miracle at Midnight | Doris Koster | ABC |
| 1998 | Barbara Hershey | The Staircase | Mother Madalyn | CBS |
| 1998 | Jennifer Jason Leigh | Thanks of a Grateful Nation | Teri Small | Showtime |
| 1999 | Linda Hamilton | The Color of Courage | Anna Sipes | USA Network |
| 1999 | Kathy Bates | Annie | Miss Agatha Hannigan | ABC |
| 1999 | Halle Berry | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | Dorothy Dandridge | HBO |
| 1999 | Leelee Sobieski | Joan of Arc | Joan d'Arc | CBS |
| 1999 | Regina Taylor | Strange Justice | Anita Hill | Showtime |

### 2000s

| Year | Actor | Series | Role | Network |
| 2000 | Jill Hennessy | Nuremberg | Elsie Douglas | TNT |
| 2000 | Jennifer Beals | A House Divided | Amanda Dickson | Showtime |
| 2000 | Holly Hunter | Harlan County War | Ruby Kincaid | Showtime |
| 2000 | Vanessa Redgrave | If These Walls Could Talk 2 | Edith Tree | HBO |
| 2000 | Gena Rowlands | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | Georgia Porter | CBS |
| 2001 | Judy Davis | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | Judy Garland | ABC |
| 2001 | Laura Linney | Wild Iris | Iris Bravard | Showtime |
| 2001 | Sissy Spacek | Midwives | Sibyl Danforth | Lifetime |
| 2001 | Hannah Taylor-Gordon | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | Anne Frank | ABC |
| 2001 | Emma Thompson | Wit | Vivian Bearing | HBO |
| 2002 | Vanessa Williams | Keep the Faith, Baby | Hazel Scott | Showtime |
| 2002 | Kathy Bates | My Sister's Keeper | Christine Chapman | CBS |
| 2002 | Vanessa Redgrave | The Gathering Storm | Clementine Churchill | HBO |
| 2002 | Stockard Channing | The Matthew Shepard Story | Judy Shepard | NBC |
| 2002 | Marcia Gay Harden | King of Texas | Mrs. Susannah Lear Tumlinson | TNT |
| 2003 | Meryl Streep | Angels in America | Various Characters | HBO |
| 2003 | Felicity Huffman | Out of Order | Lorna Colm | Showtime |
| 2003 | Helen Mirren | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Karen Stone | Showtime |
| 2003 | Mary Tyler Moore | Blessings | Lydia Blessing | CBS |
| 2003 | Jessica Lange | Normal | Irma Applewood | HBO |
| 2003 | Maggie Smith | My House in Umbria | Mrs. Emily Delahunty | HBO |
| 2004 | Dianne Wiest | The Blackwater Lightship | Lily Devereux Breen | CBS |
| 2004 | Helen Mirren | Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness | DSI Jane Tennison | ITV |
| 2004 | Clea DuVall | Helter Skelter | Linda Kasabian | CBS |
| 2004 | Angela Lansbury | The Blackwater Lightship | Dora Devereux | CBS |
| 2004 | Miranda Richardson | The Lost Prince | Queen Mary | BBC One |
| 2005 | Kristen Bell | Reefer Madness | Mary Lane | Showtime |
| 2005 | Natascha McElhone | Revelations | Sister Josepha Montafiore | NBC |
| 2005 | Geraldine McEwan | Agatha Christie's Marple | Miss Marple | ITV |
| 2005 | S. Epatha Merkerson | Lackawanna Blues | Rachel "Nanny" Crosby | HBO |
| 2005 | Cynthia Nixon | Warm Springs | Eleanor Roosevelt | HBO |
| 2005 | Keri Russell | The Magic of Ordinary Days | Livvy Dunne | CBS |
| 2006 | Judy Davis | A Little Thing Called Murder | Sante Kimes | Lifetime |
| 2006 | Annette Bening | Mrs. Harris | Jean Harris | HBO |
| 2006 | Helen Mirren | Elizabeth I | Elizabeth I | HBO |
| 2006 | Gillian Anderson | Bleak House | Lady Dedlock | BBC One |
| 2006 | Miranda Richardson | Gideon's Daughter | Stella | BBC One |
| 2007 | Samantha Morton | Longford | Myra Hindley | HBO |
| 2007 | Ellen Burstyn | For One More Day | Pauline "Posey" Benetto | ABC |
| 2007 | Queen Latifah | Life Support | Ana Wallace | HBO |
| 2007 | Debra Messing | The Starter Wife | Molly Kagan | USA Network |
| 2007 | Sharon Small | The Inspector Lynley Mysteries | DS Barbara Havers | BBC One |
| 2007 | Ruth Wilson | Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre | BBC One |
| 2008 | Judi Dench | Cranford | Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns | PBS |
| 2008 | Jacqueline Bisset | An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving | Isabella Caldwell | Hallmark Channel |
| 2008 | Laura Linney | John Adams | Abigail Adams | HBO |
| 2008 | Phylicia Rashad | A Raisin in the Sun | Lena Younger | ABC |
| 2008 | Susan Sarandon | Bernard and Doris | Doris Duke | HBO |
| 2008 | Julie Walters | Filth: The Mary Whitehouse Story | Mary Whitehouse | BBC Two |
| 2009 | Drew Barrymore | Grey Gardens | "Little" Edith Bouvier Beale | HBO |
| 2009 | Lauren Ambrose | Loving Leah | Leah Lever | CBS |
| 2009 | Judy Davis | Diamonds | Senator Joan Cameron | ABC |
| 2009 | Jessica Lange | Grey Gardens | "Big" Edith Bouvier Beale | HBO |
| 2009 | Janet McTeer | Into the Storm | Clementine Churchill | HBO |
| 2009 | Sigourney Weaver | Prayers for Bobby | Mary Griffith | Lifetime |

### 2010s

| Year | Actor | Series | Role | Network |
| 2010 | Claire Danes | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin | HBO |
| 2010 | Hope Davis | The Special Relationship | Hillary Clinton | HBO |
| 2010 | Judi Dench | Return to Cranford | Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns | BBC One |
| 2010 | Naomie Harris | Small Island | Hortense Roberts | BBC One |
| 2010 | Ellie Kendrick | The Diary of Anne Frank | Anne Frank | BBC One |
| 2010 | Ruth Wilson | Luther | Alice Morgan | BBC One |
| 2010 | Winona Ryder | When Love Is Not Enough: The Lois Wilson Story | Lois Wilson | CBS |
| 2011 | Kate Winslet | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce | HBO |
| 2011 | Taraji P. Henson | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Tiffany Rubin | LMN |
| 2011 | Diane Lane | Cinema Verite | Pat Loud | HBO |
| 2011 | Jean Marsh | Upstairs Downstairs | Rose Buck | BBC One |
| 2011 | Elizabeth McGovern | Downton Abbey | Cora Crawley, The Countess of Grantham | ITV |
| 2011 | Rachel Weisz | Page Eight | Nancy Pierpan | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Julianne Moore | Game Change | Sarah Palin | HBO |
| 2012 | Gillian Anderson | Great Expectations | Miss Havisham | BBC One |
| 2012 | Romola Garai | The Crimson Petal and the White | Sugar | BBC Two |
| 2012 | Nicole Kidman | Hemingway & Gellhorn | Martha Gellhorn | HBO |
| 2012 | Sienna Miller | The Girl | Tippi Hedren | HBO |
| 2012 | Sigourney Weaver | Political Animals | Elaine Barrish | USA Network |
| 2013 | Elisabeth Moss | Top of the Lake | Det. Robin Griffin | Sundance TV |
| 2013 | Helena Bonham Carter | Burton & Taylor | Elizabeth Taylor | BBC America |
| 2013 | Holliday Grainger | Bonnie & Clyde | Bonnie Parker | Lifetime |
| 2013 | Melissa Leo | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film | Robin | Lifetime |
| 2013 | Rebecca Hall | Parade's End | Sylvia Tietjens | HBO |
| 2013 | Helen Mirren | Phil Spector | Linda Kenney Baden | HBO |
| 2013 | Jessica Lange | American Horror Story: Coven | Fiona Goode | FX |
| 2013 | Laura Linney | The Big C: Hereafter | Cathy Jamison | Showtime |
| 2014 | Frances McDormand | Olive Kitteridge | Olive Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2014 | Maggie Gyllenhaal | The Honourable Woman | Nessa Stein, Baroness Stein of Tilbury | Sundance TV |
| 2014 | Sarah Lancashire | Happy Valley | Catherine Cawood | BBC One |
| 2014 | Cicely Tyson | The Trip to Bountiful | Carrie Watts | Lifetime |
| 2014 | Kristen Wiig | The Spoils of Babylon | Cynthia Morehouse | IFC |
| 2015 | Sarah Hay | Flesh and Bone | Claire Robbins | Starz |
| 2015 | Samantha Bond | Home Fires | Frances Barden | ITV |
| 2015 | Aunjanue Ellis | The Book of Negroes | Aminata Diallo | BET |
| 2015 | Claire Foy | Wolf Hall | Anne Boleyn | PBS |
| 2015 | Queen Latifah | Bessie | Bessie Smith | HBO |
| 2015 | Cynthia Nixon | Stockholm, Pennsylvania | Marcy Dargon | Lifetime |
| 2016 | Sarah Paulson | The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story | Marcia Clark | FX |
| 2016 | Lily James | War & Peace | Natasha Rostova | BBC One |
| 2016 | Melissa Leo | All the Way | Lady Bird Johnson | HBO |
| 2016 | Kerry Washington | Confirmation | Anita Hill | HBO |
| 2016 | Audra McDonald | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | Billie Holiday | HBO |
| 2016 | Emily Watson | The Dresser | Her Ladyship | BBC Two |
| 2017 | Nicole Kidman | Big Little Lies | Celeste Wright | HBO |
| 2017 | Joanne Froggatt | Dark Angel | Mary Ann Cotton | ITV |
| 2017 | Michelle Pfeiffer | The Wizard of Lies | Ruth Madoff | HBO |
| 2017 | Jessica Lange | Feud: Bette and Joan | Joan Crawford | FX |
| 2017 | Susan Sarandon | Feud: Bette and Joan | Bette Davis | FX |
| 2017 | Elisabeth Moss | Top of the Lake: China Girl | Robin Griffin | Sundance TV |
| 2018 | Amy Adams | Sharp Objects | Camille Preaker | HBO |
| 2018 | Dakota Fanning | The Alienist | Sara Howard | TNT |
| 2018 | Laura Dern | The Tale | Jennifer Fox | HBO |
| 2018 | Julia Roberts | Homecoming | Heidi Bergman | Prime Video |
| 2018 | Emma Stone | Maniac | Annie Landsberg | Netflix |
| 2019 | Michelle Williams | Fosse/Verdon | Gwen Verdon | FX |
| 2019 | India Eisley | I Am the Night | Fauna Hodel | TNT |
| 2019 | Aunjanue Ellis | When They See Us | Sharonne Salaam | Netflix |
| 2019 | Niecy Nash | When They See Us | Delores Wise | Netflix |
| 2019 | Joey King | The Act | Gypsy Blanchard | Hulu |
| 2019 | Helen Mirren | Catherine the Great | Catherine the Great | HBO |

### 2020s

| Year | Actor | Series | Role | Network |
| 2020 | Cate Blanchett | Mrs. America | Phyllis Schlafly | FX on Hulu |
| 2020 | Shira Haas | Unorthodox | Esther "Esty" Shapiro | Netflix |
| 2020 | Anya Taylor-Joy | The Queen's Gambit | Beth Harmon | Netflix |
| 2020 | Nicole Kidman | The Undoing | Grace Fraser | HBO |
| 2020 | Zendaya | Euphoria | Rue Bennett | HBO |
| 2020 | Letitia Wright | Small Axe | Altheia Jones-LeCointe | Prime Video |
| 2021 | Kate Winslet | Mare of Easttown | Marianne "Mare" Sheehan | HBO |
| 2021 | Danielle Brooks | Robin Roberts Presents: Mahalia | Mahalia Jackson | Lifetime |
| 2021 | Jodie Comer | Help | Sarah | Channel 4 |
| 2021 | Cynthia Erivo | Genius: Aretha | Aretha Franklin | National Geographic |
| 2021 | Julianne Moore | Lisey's Story | Lisey Landon | Apple TV+ |
| 2021 | Ruth Wilson | Oslo | Mona Juul | HBO |
| 2022 | Lily James | Pam & Tommy | Pamela Anderson | Hulu |
| 2022 | Jessica Biel | Candy | Candy Montgomery | Hulu |
| 2022 | Toni Collette | The Staircase | Kathleen Peterson | HBO Max |
| 2022 | Elle Fanning | The Girl from Plainville | Michelle Carter | Hulu |
| 2022 | Julia Roberts | Gaslit | Martha Mitchell | Starz |
| 2022 | Renée Zellweger | The Thing About Pam | Pam Hupp | NBC |
| 2023 | Rachel Weisz | Dead Ringers | Beverly Mantle / Elliot Mantle | Prime Video |
| 2023 | Kathryn Hahn | Tiny Beautiful Things | Clare Pierce | Hulu |
| 2023 | Brie Larson | Lessons in Chemistry | Elizabeth Zott | Apple TV+ |
| 2023 | Anna Maxwell Martin | A Spy Among Friends | Lily Thomas | MGM+ |
| 2023 | Juno Temple | Fargo | Dorothy "Dot" Lyon | FX |
| 2023 | Ali Wong | Beef | Amy Lau | Netflix |