# Primetime Emmy Award voor beste vrouwelijke hoofdrol in een miniserie of televisiefilm

De Primetime Emmy Award voor beste vrouwelijke hoofdrol in een miniserie of televisiefilm (Engels: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie) is een televisieprijs die sinds 1955 elk jaar wordt uitgereikt door de Academy of Television Arts & Sciences.

## Records

| Records | Beste actrice |
| Actrice met de meeste overwinningen | Helen Mirren (4) |
| Actrice met de meeste nominaties | Helen Mirren (10) |
| Actrice met de meeste nominaties zonder ooit te winnen | Helen Hayes, Lee Remick (5) |

## Winnaars en genomineerden

| Legende | Betekenis |
| | Winnende actrice |

### Jaren 1950

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Episode | Zender |
| 1955 (7e) |
| 1955 (7e) | Judith Anderson | Lady Macbeth | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Macbeth" | NBC |
| 1955 (7e) | Ethel Barrymore | Mme. Rosalie La Grange | Climax! | "The Thirteenth Chair" | CBS |
| 1955 (7e) | Beverly Garland | Estelle Collins | Medic | "White Is the Color" | NBC |
| 1955 (7e) | Ruth Hussey | Harriet Craig | Lux Video Theater | "Craig's Wife" | CBS |
| 1955 (7e) | Dorothy McGuire | Janet Spence | Climax! | "The Gioconda Smile" | CBS |
| 1955 (7e) | Eva Marie Saint | Betty | The Philco Television Playhouse | "Middle of the Night" | NBC |
| 1955 (7e) | Claire Trevor | Ellen Creed | Lux Video Theater | "Ladies in Retirement" | CBS |
| 1956 (8e) |
| 1956 (8e) | Mary Martin | Peter Pan | Producers' Showcase | "Peter Pan" | NBC |
| 1956 (8e) | Julie Harris | Shevawn | The United States Steel Hour | "A Wind from the South" | CBS |
| 1956 (8e) | Eva Marie Saint | Emily | Producers' Showcase | "Our Town" | NBC |
| 1956 (8e) | Jessica Tandy | The Wife | Producers' Showcase | "The Fourposter" | NBC |
| 1956 (8e) | Loretta Young | Sadie | The Loretta Young Show | "Christmas Stopover" | NBC |
| 1957 (9e) |
| 1957 (9e) | Claire Trevor | Fran Dodsworth | Producers' Showcase | "Dodsworth" | NBC |
| 1957 (9e) | Edna Best | Ethel Gibbons | Ford Star Jubilee | "This Happy Breed" | CBS |
| 1957 (9e) | Gracie Fields | Sarah Dowey | The United States Steel Hour | "The Old Lady Shows Her Medals" | CBS |
| 1957 (9e) | Nancy Kelly | Sister M. Aquinas | Studio One | "The Pilot" | CBS |
| 1957 (9e) | Evelyn Rudie | Eloise | Playhouse 90 | "Eloise" | CBS |
| 1958 (10e) |
| 1958 (10e) | Polly Bergen | Helen Morgan | Playhouse 90 | "The Helen Morgan Story" | CBS |
| 1958 (10e) | Julie Andrews | Cinderella | Cinderella | Cinderella | CBS |
| 1958 (10e) | Helen Hayes | Mrs. Gilling | The Alcoa Hour | "Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper" | NBC |
| 1958 (10e) | Piper Laurie | Ruth Cornelius | Studio One | "The Deaf Heart" | CBS |
| 1958 (10e) | Teresa Wright | Annie Sullivan | Playhouse 90 | "The Miracle Worker" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) |
| 1959 (11e) | Julie Harris | Bridgid Mary | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Little Moon of Alban" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) | Judith Anderson | Marquesa de Montemayor | The DuPont Show of the Month | "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) | Helen Hayes | Mother Seraphim | The United States Steel Hour | "One Red Rose for Christmas" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) | Piper Laurie | Kirsten Clay | Playhouse 90 | "Days of Wine and Roses" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) | Geraldine Page | The Young Woman | Playhouse 90 | "The Old Man" | CBS |
| 1959 (11e) | Maureen Stapleton | Sadie Burke | Kraft Television Theatre | "All the Kings Men" | NBC |

### Jaren 1960

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Episode | Zender |
| 1960 (12e) |
| Geen prijs ||||||
| 1961 (16e) |
| 1961 (16e) | Judith Anderson | Lady Macbeth | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Macbeth" | NBC |
| 1961 (16e) | Ingrid Bergman | Clare Lester | Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life | Twenty-Four Hours in a Woman's Life | CBS |
| 1961 (16e) | Elizabeth Montgomery | Rusty Heller | The Untouchables | "The Rusty Heller Story" | NBC |
| 1962 (14e) |
| 1962 (14e) | Julie Harris | Koningin Victoria | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Victoria Regina" | NBC |
| 1962 (14e) | Geraldine Brooks | Katherine Barnes | Bus Stop | "Call Back Yesterday" | ABC |
| 1962 (14e) | Suzanne Pleshette | Julie Lawler | Dr. Kildare | "Shining Image" | NBC |
| 1962 (14e) | Inger Stevens | Anna Beza | The Dick Powell Theatre | "The Price of Tomatoes" | NBC |
| 1962 (14e) | Ethel Waters | Jenny Henderson | Route 66 | "Goodnight, Sweet Blues" | CBS |
| 1963 (15e) |
| 1963 (15e) | Kim Stanley | Faith Parsons | Ben Casey | "A Cardinal Act of Mercy" | ABC |
| 1963 (15e) | Diahann Carroll | Ruby Jay | Naked City | "A Horse Has a Big Head, Let Him Worry" | ABC |
| 1963 (15e) | Diana Hyland | Liza Laurents | Alcoa Premiere | "The Voice of Charlie Point" | ABC |
| 1963 (15e) | Eleanor Parker | Connie Folson | The Eleventh Hour | "Why Am I Grown So Cold?" | NBC |
| 1963 (15e) | Sylvia Sidney | Adela | The Defenders | "The Madman" | CBS |
| 1964 (16e) |
| 1964 (16e) | Shelley Winters | Jenny Dworak | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "Two is the Number" | NBC |
| 1964 (16e) | Ruby Dee | Jenny Bishop | The Doctors and the Nurses | "Express Stop from Lennox Avenue" | CBS |
| 1964 (16e) | Bethel Leslie | Ellen Dudley | The Richard Boone Show | "Statement of Fact" | NBC |
| 1964 (16e) | Jeanette Nolan | Jessie McCoony | The Richard Boone Show | "Vote No on 11!" | NBC |
| 1964 (16e) | Diana Sands | Ruth | East Side/West Side | "Who Do You Kill?" | CBS |
| 1965 (17e) |
| 1965 (17e) | Lynn Fontanne | Fanny Bowditch Holmes | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "The Magnificent Yankee" | NBC |
| 1966 (18e) |
| 1966 (18e) | Simone Signoret | Sara Lescault | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "A Small Rebellion" | NBC |
| 1966 (18e) | Eartha Kitt | Angel | I Spy | "The Loser" | NBC |
| 1966 (18e) | Margaret Leighton | Chris Becker | Dr. Kildare | "A Life for a Life" | NBC |
| 1966 (18e) | Shelley Winters | Edith | Bob Hope Presents the Chrysler Theatre | "Back to Back" | NBC |
| 1967 (19e) |
| 1967 (19e) | Geraldine Page | Sook | ABC Stage 67 | "Truman Capote's A Christmas Memory" | ABC |
| 1967 (19e) | Shirley Booth | Amanda Wingfield | CBS Playhouse | "The Glass Menagerie" | CBS |
| 1967 (19e) | Mildred Dunnock | Linda Loman | Death of a Salesman | Death of a Salesman | CBS |
| 1967 (19e) | Lynn Fontanne | Grootvorstin Marie | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Anastasia" | NBC |
| 1967 (19e) | Julie Harris | Anastasia | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Anastasia" | NBC |
| 1968 (20e) |
| 1968 (20e) | Maureen Stapleton | Mary O'Meaghan | Among the Paths to Eden | Among the Paths to Eden | ABC |
| 1968 (20e) | Judith Anderson | Koningin Elizabeth I | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Elizabeth the Queen" | NBC |
| 1968 (20e) | Geneviève Bujold | Joan of Arc | Hallmark Hall of Fame | "Saint Joan" | NBC |
| 1968 (20e) | Colleen Dewhurst | Elizabeth Proctor | The Crucible | The Crucible | CBS |
| 1968 (20e) | Anne Jackson | Vivian Spears | CBS Playhouse | "Dear Friends" | CBS |
| 1969 (21e) |
| 1969 (21e) | Geraldine Page | Sook | The Thanksgiving Visitor | The Thanksgiving Visitor | ABC |
| 1969 (21e) | Anne Baxter | Betty-Jean Currier | The Name of the Game | "The Bobby Currier Story" | NBC |
| 1969 (21e) | Lee Grant | Kay Gould | Judd, for the Defense | "The Gates of Cerberus" | ABC |

### Jaren 1970

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 1970 (22e) |
| 1970 (22e) | Patty Duke | Marlene Chambers | My Sweet Charlie | NBC |
| 1970 (22e) | Edith Evans | Aunt Betsy Trotwood | David Copperfield | NBC |
| 1970 (22e) | Shirley Jones | Katherine Johnson | Silent Night, Lonely Night | NBC |
| 1971 (23e) |
| 1971 (23e) | Lee Grant | Carrie Miller | The Neon Ceiling | NBC |
| 1971 (23e) | Colleen Dewhurst | Mrs. Franz | The Price | NBC |
| 1971 (23e) | Lee Grant | Leslie Williams | Columbo | NBC |
| 1972 (24e) |
| 1972 (24e) | Glenda Jackson | Koningin Elizabeth I | Elizabeth R ("The Shadow in the Sun") | PBS |
| 1972 (24e) | Helen Hayes | Sophie Tate Curtis | Do Not Fold, Spindle or Mutilate | ABC |
| 1972 (24e) | Glenda Jackson | Koningin Elizabeth I | Elizabeth R ("The Lion's Cub") | PBS |
| 1972 (24e) | Patricia Neal | Olivia Walton | The Homecoming: A Christmas Story | CBS |
| 1972 (24e) | Susannah York | Jane Eyre | Jane Eyre | NBC |
| 1973 (25e) |
| Beste actrice in een hoofdrol van een miniserie (komedie/drama) ||||
| 1973 (25e) | Susan Hampshire | Becky Sharp | Vanity Fair | PBS |
| 1973 (25e) | Vivien Heilbron | Rachel Verinder | The Moonstone | PBS |
| 1973 (25e) | Margaret Tyzack | Bette | Cousin Bette | PBS |
| Beste éénmalig optreden van een actrice in een hoofdrol ||||
| 1973 (25e) | Cloris Leachman | Victoria Douglas | A Brand New Life | ABC |
| 1973 (25e) | Lauren Bacall | Margo Channing | Applause | CBS |
| 1973 (25e) | Hope Lange | Janet Salter | That Certain Summer | ABC |
| 1974 (26e) |
| Beste actrice in een drama ||||
| 1974 (26e) | Cicely Tyson | Jane Pittman | The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman | CBS |
| 1974 (26e) | Carol Burnett | Anne Miller | 6 Rms Riv Vu | CBS |
| 1974 (26e) | Katharine Hepburn | Amanda Wingfield | The Glass Menagerie | ABC |
| 1974 (26e) | Cloris Leachman | Viola Barlow | The Migrants | CBS |
| 1974 (26e) | Elizabeth Montgomery | Ellen Harrod | A Case of Rape | PBS |
| Best actrice in een miniserie ||||
| 1974 (26e) | Mildred Natwick | Gwendolyn Snoop Nicholson | The Snoop Sisters | NBC |
| 1974 (26e) | Helen Hayes | Ernesta Snoop | The Snoop Sisters | NBC |
| 1974 (26e) | Lee Remick | Cassie Walters | The Blue Knight | NBC |
| 1975 (27e) |
| Beste actrice in een speciaal programma (drama of komedie) ||||
| 1975 (27e) | Katharine Hepburn | Jessica Medlicott | Love Among the Ruins | ABC |
| 1975 (27e) | Jill Clayburgh | Wanda | Hustling | ABC |
| 1975 (27e) | Elizabeth Montgomery | Lizzie Borden | The Legend of Lizzie Borden | ABC |
| 1975 (27e) | Diana Rigg | Philippa | In This House of Brede | CBS |
| 1975 (27e) | Maureen Stapleton | Bea Asher | Queen of the Stardust Ballroom | CBS |
| Beste actrice in een miniserie ||||
| 1975 (27e) | Jessica Walter | Amy Prentiss | Amy Prentiss | NBC |
| 1975 (27e) | Susan Saint James | Sally McMillan | McMillan & Wife | NBC |
| 1976 (28e) |
| Beste actrice in een speciaal programma (drama of komedie) ||||
| 1976 (28e) | Susan Clark | Babe Didrikson Zaharias | Babe | CBS |
| 1976 (28e) | Jane Alexander | Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor and Franklin | ABC |
| 1976 (28e) | Colleen Dewhurst | Josie Hogan | A Moon for the Misbegotten | ABC |
| 1976 (28e) | Sada Thompson | Phoebe Rice | The Entertainer | NBC |
| Beste actrice in een miniserie ||||
| 1976 (28e) | Rosemary Harris | George Sand | Notorious Woman | PBS |
| 1976 (28e) | Susan Blakely | Julie Prescott | Rich Man, Poor Man | ABC |
| 1976 (28e) | Jean Marsh | Rose | Upstairs, Downstairs | PBS |
| 1976 (28e) | Lee Remick | Lady Randolph Churchill | Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill | PBS |
| 1977 (29e) |
| Beste actrice in een speciaal programma (drama of komedie) ||||
| 1977 (29e) | Sally Field | Sybil | Sybil | NBC |
| 1977 (29e) | Jane Alexander | Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor and Franklin: The White House Years | ABC |
| 1977 (29e) | Susan Clark | Amelia Earhart | Amelia Earhart | NBC |
| 1977 (29e) | Julie Harris | Mary Todd Lincoln | The Last of Mrs. Lincoln | PBS |
| 1977 (29e) | Joanne Woodward | Dr. Cornelia Wilbur | Sybil | NBC |
| Beste actrice in een miniserie ||||
| 1977 (29e) | Patty Duke | Bernadette Hennessy Armagh | Captains and the Kings | NBC |
| 1977 (29e) | Dori Brenner | Rhoda Gold Blackman | Seventh Avenue | NBC |
| 1977 (29e) | Susan Flannery | Margot Bracken | The Moneychangers | PBS |
| 1977 (29e) | Eva Marie Saint | Katherine Macaran | How the West Was Won | ABC |
| 1977 (29e) | Jane Seymour | Marjorie Chisolm | Captains and the Kings | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) |
| Beste actrice in een speciaal programma (drama of komedie) ||||
| 1978 (30e) | Joanne Woodward | Betty Quinn | See How She Runs | CBS |
| 1978 (30e) | Helen Hayes | Emma Long | A Family Upside Down | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Eva Marie Saint | Passenger | Taxi!!! | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Maureen Stapleton | Kate | The Gathering | ABC |
| 1978 (30e) | Sada Thompson | Mrs. Gibbs | Our Town | NBC |
| Beste actrice in een miniserie ||||
| 1978 (30e) | Meryl Streep | Inga Helms-Weiss | Holocaust | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Rosemary Harris | Berta Palitz Weiss | Holocaust | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Elizabeth Montgomery | Sayward Luckett Wheeler | The Awakening Land | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Lee Remick | Erica Trenton | Wheels | NBC |
| 1978 (30e) | Cicely Tyson | Coretta Scott King | King | NBC |
| 1979 (31e) |
| 1979 (31e) | Bette Davis | Lucy Mason | Strangers: The Story of a Mother and Daughter | CBS |
| 1979 (31e) | Carol Burnett | Peg Mullen | Friendly Fire | ABC |
| 1979 (31e) | Olivia Cole | Maggie Rogers | Backstairs at the White House | NBC |
| 1979 (31e) | Katharine Hepburn | Miss Lily Moffat | The Corn Is Green | CBS |
| 1979 (31e) | Mary Tyler Moore | Betty Rollin | First, You Cry | CBS |

### Jaren 1980

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 1980 (32e) |
| 1980 (32e) | Patty Duke | Annie Sullivan | The Miracle Worker | NBC |
| 1980 (32e) | Bette Davis | Estelle Malone | White Mama | CBS |
| 1980 (32e) | Melissa Gilbert | Helen Keller | The Miracle Worker | NBC |
| 1980 (32e) | Lee Remick | Margaret Sullivan | Haywire | CBS |
| 1981 (33e) |
| 1981 (33e) | Vanessa Redgrave | Fania Fénelon | Playing for Time | CBS |
| 1981 (33e) | Ellen Burstyn | Jean Harris | The People vs. Jean Harris | NBC |
| 1981 (33e) | Catherine Hicks | Marilyn Monroe | Marilyn: The Untold Story | ABC |
| 1981 (33e) | Yoko Shimada | Lady Toda Buntaro | Shōgun | NBC |
| 1981 (33e) | Joanne Woodward | Elizabeth Huckaby | Crisis at Central High | CBS |
| 1982 (34e) |
| 1982 (34e) | Ingrid Bergman | Golda Meïr | A Woman Called Golda | Syndicated |
| 1982 (34e) | Glenda Jackson | Patricia Neal | The Patricia Neal Story | CBS |
| 1982 (34e) | Ann Jillian | Mae West | Mae West | ABC |
| 1982 (34e) | Jean Stapleton | Eleanor Roosevelt | Eleanor, First Lady of the World | CBS |
| 1982 (34e) | Cicely Tyson | Marva Collins | The Marva Collins Story | CBS |
| 1983 (35e) |
| 1983 (35e) | Barbara Stanwyck | Mary Carson | The Thorn Birds | ABC |
| 1983 (35e) | Ann-Margret | Lucile Fray | Who Will Love My Children? | ABC |
| 1983 (35e) | Rosanna Arquette | Nicole Baker | The Executioner's Song | NBC |
| 1983 (35e) | Mariette Hartley | Candy Lightner | M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Drivers | NBC |
| 1983 (35e) | Angela Lansbury | Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney | Little Gloria... Happy at Last | NBC |
| 1984 (36e) |
| 1984 (36e) | Jane Fonda | Gertie Nevels | The Dollmaker | ABC |
| 1984 (36e) | Jane Alexander | Calamity Jane | Calamity Jane | CBS |
| 1984 (36e) | Ann-Margret | Blanche DuBois | A Streetcar Named Desire | ABC |
| 1984 (36e) | Glenn Close | Gail Bennett | Something About Amelia | ABC |
| 1984 (36e) | JoBeth Williams | Reve Walsh | Adam | NBC |
| 1985 (37e) |
| 1985 (37e) | Joanne Woodward | Barbara Wyatt-Hollis | Do You Remember Love | CBS |
| 1985 (37e) | Jane Alexander | Hedda Hopper | Malice in Wonderland | CBS |
| 1985 (37e) | Peggy Ashcroft | Barbie Batchelor | The Jewel in the Crown | PBS |
| 1985 (37e) | Farrah Fawcett | Francine Hughes | The Burning Bed | NBC |
| 1985 (37e) | Mary Tyler Moore | Martha Weinman Lear | Heartsounds | ABC |
| 1986 (38e) |
| 1986 (38e) | Marlo Thomas | Marie Balter | Nobody's Child | CBS |
| 1986 (38e) | Katharine Hepburn | Margaret Delafield | Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry | CBS |
| 1986 (38e) | Vanessa Redgrave | Richard Radley en Renée Richards | Second Serve | CBS |
| 1986 (38e) | Gena Rowlands | Katherine Pierson | An Early Frost | NBC |
| 1986 (38e) | Mare Winningham | Margaret Ryder | Love Is Never Silent | NBC |
| 1987 (39e) |
| 1987 (39e) | Gena Rowlands | Betty Ford | The Betty Ford Story | ABC |
| 1987 (39e) | Ann-Margret | Ann Arden Grenville | The Two Mrs. Grenvilles | NBC |
| 1987 (39e) | Ellen Burstyn | Barbara Jackson | Pack of Lies | CBS |
| 1987 (39e) | Lee Remick | Frances Schrueder | Nutcracker: Money, Madness and Murder | NBC |
| 1987 (39e) | Alfre Woodard | Maude DeVictor | Unnatural Causes | NBC |
| 1988 (40e) |
| 1988 (40e) | Jessica Tandy | Annie Nations | Foxfire | CBS |
| 1988 (40e) | Ann Jillian | Zichzelf | The Ann Jillian Story | NBC |
| 1988 (40e) | Mary Tyler Moore | Mary Todd Lincoln | Lincoln | NBC |
| 1988 (40e) | Mary Steenburgen | Miep Gies | The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank | CBS |
| 1988 (40e) | JoBeth Williams | Marybeth Whitehead | Baby M | ABC |
| 1989 (41e) |
| 1989 (41e) | Holly Hunter | Ellen Russell | Roe vs. Wade | NBC |
| 1989 (41e) | Anjelica Huston | Clara Allen | Lonesome Dove | CBS |
| 1989 (41e) | Diane Lane | Lorena Wood | Lonesome Dove | CBS |
| 1989 (41e) | Amy Madigan | Sarah Weddington | Roe vs. Wade | NBC |
| 1989 (41e) | Jane Seymour | Natalie Henry | War and Remembrance | ABC |

### Jaren 1990

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 1990 (42e) |
| 1990 (42e) | Barbara Hershey | Candy Morrison | A Killing in a Small Town | CBS |
| 1990 (42e) | Farrah Fawcett | Diane Downs | Small Sacrifices | ABC |
| 1990 (42e) | Christine Lahti | Zan Cooper | No Place Like Home | CBS |
| 1990 (42e) | Annette O'Toole | Rose Kennedy | The Kennedys of Massachusetts | ABC |
| 1990 (42e) | Lesley Ann Warren | Barbara Walker | Family of Spies | CBS |
| 1990 (42e) | Alfre Woodard | Mary Thomas | A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story | NBC |
| 1991 (43e) |
| 1991 (43e) | Lynn Whitfield | Josephine Baker | The Josephine Baker Story | HBO |
| 1991 (43e) | Glenn Close | Sarah Wheaton | Sarah, Plain and Tall | CBS |
| 1991 (43e) | Barbara Hershey | Hanna Trout | Paris Trout | Showtime |
| 1991 (43e) | Suzanne Pleshette | Leona Helmsley | Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean | CBS |
| 1991 (43e) | Lee Purcell | Bessie Robertson | Long Road Home | NBC |
| 1992 (44e) |
| 1992 (44e) | Gena Rowlands | Pat | Face of a Stranger | CBS |
| 1992 (44e) | Anne Bancroft | Mrs. Cage | Mrs. Cage | PBS |
| 1992 (44e) | Meredith Baxter | Betty Broderick | A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story | CBS |
| 1992 (44e) | Judy Davis | Mary Lindell | One Against the Wind | CBS |
| 1992 (44e) | Laura Dern | Janet Harduvel | Afterburn | HBO |
| 1993 (45e) |
| 1993 (45e) | Holly Hunter | Wanda Holloway | The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom | HBO |
| 1993 (45e) | Glenn Close | Sarah Wheaton | Skylark | CBS |
| 1993 (45e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect 2 | PBS |
| 1993 (45e) | Maggie Smith | Mrs. Venable | Suddenly, Last Summer | PBS |
| 1993 (45e) | Joanne Woodward | Nell Harrington | Blind Spot | CBS |
| 1994 (46e) |
| 1994 (46e) | Kirstie Alley | Sally Goodson | David's Mother | CBS |
| 1994 (46e) | Bette Midler | Mama Rose | Gypsy | CBS |
| 1994 (46e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect 3 | PBS |
| 1994 (46e) | Jessica Tandy | Cora Peek | To Dance with the White Dog | CBS |
| 1994 (46e) | Joanne Woodward | Maggie Moran | Breathing Lessons | CBS |
| 1995 (47e) |
| 1995 (47e) | Glenn Close | Margarethe Cammermeyer | Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story | NBC |
| 1995 (47e) | Sally Field | Bess Garner Steed | A Woman of Independent Means | NBC |
| 1995 (47e) | Anjelica Huston | Calamity Jane | Buffalo Girls | CBS |
| 1995 (47e) | Diane Keaton | Amelia Earhart | Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight | TNT |
| 1995 (47e) | Alfre Woodard | Berniece Charles | The Piano Lesson | CBS |
| 1996 (48e) |
| 1996 (48e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness | PBS |
| 1996 (48e) | Ashley Judd | Norma Jean Dougherty | Norma Jean & Marilyn | HBO |
| 1996 (48e) | Jessica Lange | Blanche DuBois | A Streetcar Named Desire | CBS |
| 1996 (48e) | Mira Sorvino | Marilyn Monroe | Norma Jean & Marilyn | HBO |
| 1996 (48e) | Sela Ward | Jessica Savitch | Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story | Lifetime |
| 1997 (49e) |
| 1997 (49e) | Alfre Woodard | Nurse Eunice Evers | Miss Evers' Boys | HBO |
| 1997 (49e) | Stockard Channing | Barbara Whitney | An Unexpected Family | USA |
| 1997 (49e) | Glenn Close | Janet | In the Gloaming | HBO |
| 1997 (49e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect 5: Errors of Judgement | PBS |
| 1997 (49e) | Meryl Streep | Lori Reimuller | ...First Do No Harm | ABC |
| 1998 (50e) |
| 1998 (50e) | Ellen Barkin | Glory Marie | Before Women Had Wings | ABC |
| 1998 (50e) | Jamie Lee Curtis | Maggie Green | Nicholas' Gift | CBS |
| 1998 (50e) | Judy Davis | Gladwyn | The Echo of Thunder | CBS |
| 1998 (50e) | Olympia Dukakis | Anna Madrigal | More Tales of the City | Showtime |
| 1998 (50e) | Angelina Jolie | Gia Carangi | Gia | HBO |
| 1998 (50e) | Sigourney Weaver | Claudia Hoffman | Snow White: A Tale of Terror | Showtime |
| 1999 (41e) |
| 1999 (41e) | Helen Mirren | Ayn Rand | The Passion of Ayn Rand | Showtime |
| 1999 (41e) | Ann-Margret | Pamela Harriman | Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story | Lifetime |
| 1999 (41e) | Stockard Channing | Rachel Luckman | The Baby Dance | Showtime |
| 1999 (41e) | Judy Davis | Lillian Hellman | Dash and Lilly | A&E |
| 1999 (41e) | Leelee Sobieski | Joan of Arc | Joan of Arc | CBS |

### Jaren 2000

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 2000 (52e) |
| 2000 (52e) | Halle Berry | Dorothy Dandridge | Introducing Dorothy Dandridge | HBO |
| 2000 (52e) | Judy Davis | Paula Tanner | A Cooler Climate | Showtime |
| 2000 (52e) | Sally Field | Iris Prue | A Cooler Climate | Showtime |
| 2000 (52e) | Holly Hunter | Ruby Kincaid | Harlan County War | Showtime |
| 2000 (52e) | Gena Rowlands | Georgia Porter | The Color of Love: Jacey's Story | CBS |
| 2001 (53e) |
| 2001 (53e) | Judy Davis | Judy Garland | Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows | ABC |
| 2001 (53e) | Judi Dench | Elizabeth Harman | The Last of the Blonde Bombshells | HBO |
| 2001 (53e) | Holly Hunter | Billie Jean King | When Billie Beat Bobby | ABC |
| 2001 (53e) | Hannah Taylor-Gordon | Anne Frank | Anne Frank: The Whole Story | ABC |
| 2001 (53e) | Emma Thompson | Vivian Bearing | Wit | HBO |
| 2002 (54e) |
| 2002 (54e) | Laura Linney | Iris Bravard | Wild Iris | Showtime |
| 2002 (54e) | Angela Bassett | Rosa Parks | The Rosa Parks Story | CBS |
| 2002 (54e) | Blythe Danner | Corinne Mulvaney | We Were the Mulvaneys | Lifetime |
| 2002 (54e) | Vanessa Redgrave | Clementine Churchill | The Gathering Storm | HBO |
| 2002 (54e) | Gena Rowlands | Minnie Brinn | Wild Iris | Showtime |
| 2003 (55e) |
| 2003 (55e) | Maggie Smith | Emily Delahunty | My House in Umbria | HBO |
| 2003 (55e) | Thora Birch | Liz Murray | Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story | Lifetime |
| 2003 (55e) | Helena Bonham Carter | Ingrid Formanek | Live from Baghdad | HBO |
| 2003 (55e) | Jessica Lange | Irma Applewood | Normal | HBO |
| 2003 (55e) | Helen Mirren | Karen Stone | The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone | Showtime |
| 2004 (56e) |
| 2004 (56e) | Meryl Streep | Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / The Rabbi / The Angel Australia | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2004 (56e) | Glenn Close | Eleonora van Aquitanië | The Lion in Winter | Showtime |
| 2004 (56e) | Judy Davis | Nancy Reagan | The Reagans | Showtime |
| 2004 (56e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect 6: The Last Witness | PBS |
| 2004 (56e) | Emma Thompson | Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel America | Angels in America | HBO |
| 2005 (57e) |
| 2005 (57e) | S. Epatha Merkerson | Rachel "Nanny" Crosby | Lackawanna Blues | HBO |
| 2005 (57e) | Halle Berry | Janie Crawford | Their Eyes Were Watching God | ABC |
| 2005 (57e) | Blythe Danner | Rebecca Davitch | Back When We Were Grownups | CBS |
| 2005 (57e) | Cynthia Nixon | Eleanor Roosevelt | Warm Springs | HBO |
| 2005 (57e) | Debra Winger | Dawn Anna | Dawn Anna | Lifetime |
| 2006 (58e) |
| 2006 (58e) | Helen Mirren | Koningin Elizabeth I | Elizabeth I | HBO |
| 2006 (58e) | Gillian Anderson | Lady Dedlock | Bleak House | PBS |
| 2006 (58e) | Kathy Bates | Jane Stern | Ambulance Girl | Lifetime |
| 2006 (58e) | Annette Bening | Jean Harris | Mrs. Harris | HBO |
| 2006 (58e) | Judy Davis | Sante Kimes | A Little Thing Called Murder | Lifetime |
| 2007 (59e) |
| 2007 (59e) | Helen Mirren | DCI Jane Tennison | Prime Suspect: The Final Act | PBS |
| 2007 (59e) | Queen Latifah | Ana Wallace | Life Support | HBO |
| 2007 (59e) | Debra Messing | Molly Kagan | The Starter Wife | USA |
| 2007 (59e) | Mary-Louise Parker | Zenia Arden | The Robber Bride | Oxygen |
| 2007 (59e) | Gena Rowlands | Melissa Eisenbloom | What If God Were the Sun? | Lifetime |
| 2008 (60e) |
| 2008 (60e) | Laura Linney | Abigail Adams | John Adams | HBO |
| 2008 (60e) | Judi Dench | Miss Matty Jenkyns | Cranford | PBS |
| 2008 (60e) | Catherine Keener | Gertrude Baniszewski | An American Crime | Showtime |
| 2008 (60e) | Phylicia Rashad | Lena Younger | A Raisin in the Sun | ABC |
| 2008 (60e) | Susan Sarandon | Doris Duke | Bernard and Doris | HBO |
| 2009 (61e) |
| 2009 (61e) | Jessica Lange | Edith "Big Edie" Beale | Grey Gardens | HBO |
| 2009 (61e) | Drew Barrymore | Edith "Little Edie" Beale | Grey Gardens | HBO |
| 2009 (61e) | Shirley MacLaine | Coco Chanel | Coco Chanel | Lifetime |
| 2009 (61e) | Sigourney Weaver | Mary Griffith | Prayers for Bobby | Lifetime |
| 2009 (61e) | Chandra Wilson | Yvonne Caldwell | Accidental Friendship | Hallmark |

### Jaren 2010

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 2010 (62e) |
| 2010 (62e) | Claire Danes | Temple Grandin | Temple Grandin | HBO |
| 2010 (62e) | Joan Allen | Georgia O'Keeffe | Georgia O'Keeffe | Lifetime |
| 2010 (62e) | Hope Davis | Hillary Clinton | The Special Relationship | HBO |
| 2010 (62e) | Judi Dench | Matty Jenkyns | Return to Cranford | PBS |
| 2010 (62e) | Maggie Smith | Mary Gilbert | Capturing Mary | HBO |
| 2011 (63e) |
| 2011 (63e) | Kate Winslet | Mildred Pierce | Mildred Pierce | HBO |
| 2011 (63e) | Taraji P. Henson | Tiffany Rubin | Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story | Lifetime |
| 2011 (63e) | Diane Lane | Pat Loud | Cinema Verite | HBO |
| 2011 (63e) | Jean Marsh | Rose Buck | Upstairs, Downstairs | PBS |
| 2011 (63e) | Elizabeth McGovern | Cora, Countess of Grantham | Downton Abbey | PBS |
| 2012 (64e) |
| 2012 (64e) | Julianne Moore | Sarah Palin | Game Change | HBO |
| 2012 (64e) | Connie Britton | Vivien Harmon | American Horror Story | FX |
| 2012 (64e) | Ashley Judd | Rebecca Winstone | Missing | ABC |
| 2012 (64e) | Nicole Kidman | Martha Gellhorn | Hemingway & Gellhorn | HBO |
| 2012 (64e) | Emma Thompson | She | The Song of Lunch | PBS |
| 2013 (65e) |
| 2013 (65e) | Laura Linney | Cathy Jamison | The Big C: Hereafter | Showtime |
| 2013 (65e) | Jessica Lange | Sister Jude Martin | American Horror Story: Asylum | FX |
| 2013 (65e) | Helen Mirren | Linda Kenney Baden | Phil Spector | HBO |
| 2013 (65e) | Elisabeth Moss | Det. Robin Griffin | Top of the Lake | Sundance |
| 2013 (65e) | Sigourney Weaver | Elaine Barrish | Political Animals | USA |
| 2014 (66e) |
| 2014 (66e) | Jessica Lange | Fiona Goode | American Horror Story: Coven | FX |
| 2014 (66e) | Helena Bonham Carter | Elizabeth Taylor | Burton & Taylor | BBC America |
| 2014 (66e) | Minnie Driver | Maggie Royal | Return to Zero | Lifetime |
| 2014 (66e) | Sarah Paulson | Cordelia Foxx | American Horror Story: Coven | FX |
| 2014 (66e) | Cicely Tyson | Carrie Watts | The Trip to Bountiful | Lifetime |
| 2014 (66e) | Kristen Wiig | Cynthia Morehouse | The Spoils of Babylon | IFC |
| 2015 (67e) |
| 2015 (67e) | Frances McDormand | Olive Kitteridge | Olive Kitteridge | HBO |
| 2015 (67e) | Maggie Gyllenhaal | Nessa Stein | The Honourable Woman | Sundance |
| 2015 (67e) | Felicity Huffman | Barbara Hanlon | American Crime | ABC |
| 2015 (67e) | Jessica Lange | Elsa Mars | American Horror Story: Freak Show | FX |
| 2015 (67e) | Queen Latifah | Bessie Smith | Bessie | HBO |
| 2015 (67e) | Emma Thompson | Mrs. Lovett | Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street | PBS |
| 2016 (68e) |
| 2016 (68e) | Sarah Paulson | Marcia Clark | American Crime Story: The People v. O.J. Simpson | FX |
| 2016 (68e) | Kirsten Dunst | Peggy Blumquist | Fargo | FX |
| 2016 (68e) | Felicity Huffman | Leslie Graham | American Crime | ABC |
| 2016 (68e) | Audra McDonald | Billie Holiday | Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill | HBO |
| 2016 (68e) | Lili Taylor | Anne Blaine | American Crime | ABC |
| 2016 (68e) | Kerry Washington | Anita Hill | Confirmation | HBO |
| 2017 (69e) |
| 2017 (69e) | Nicole Kidman | Celeste Wright | Big Little Lies | HBO |
| 2017 (69e) | Carrie Coon | Gloria Burgle | Fargo | FX |
| 2017 (69e) | Felicity Huffman | Jeanette Hesby | American Crime | ABC |
| 2017 (69e) | Jessica Lange | Joan Crawford | Feud: Bette and Joan | FX |
| 2017 (69e) | Susan Sarandon | Bette Davis | Feud: Bette and Joan | FX |
| 2017 (69e) | Reese Witherspoon | Madeline Martha McKenzie | Big Little Lies | HBO |
| 2018 (70e) |
| 2018 (70e) | Regina King | Latrice Butler | Seven Seconds | Netflix |
| 2018 (70e) | Jessica Biel | Cora Tannetti | The Sinner | USA |
| 2018 (70e) | Laura Dern | Jennifer Fox | The Tale | HBO |
| 2018 (70e) | Michelle Dockery | Alice Fletcher | Godless | Netflix |
| 2018 (70e) | Edie Falco | Leslie Abramson | Law & Order True Crime: The Menendez Murders | NBC |
| 2018 (70e) | Sarah Paulson | Ally Mayfair-Richards | American Horror Story: Cult | FX |
| 2019 (71e) |
| 2019 (71e) | Michelle Williams | Gwen Verdon | Fosse/Verdon | FX |
| 2019 (71e) | Amy Adams | Camille Preaker | Sharp Objects | HBO |
| 2019 (71e) | Patricia Arquette | Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell | Escape at Dannemora | Showtime |
| 2019 (71e) | Aunjanue Ellis | Sharonne Salaam | When They See Us | Netflix |
| 2019 (71e) | Joey King | Gypsy Rose Blanchard | The Act | Hulu |
| 2019 (71e) | Niecy Nash | Delores Wise | When They See Us | Netflix |

### Jaren 2020

| Jaar | Actrice | Rol | Programma | Zender |
| 2020 (72e) |
| 2020 (72e) | Regina King | Angela Abar / Sister Night | Watchmen | HBO |
| 2020 (72e) | Cate Blanchett | Phyllis Schlafly | Mrs. America | FX |
| 2020 (72e) | Shira Haas | Esther "Esty" Shapiro | Unorthodox | Netflix |
| 2020 (72e) | Octavia Spencer | Madam C. J. Walker | Self Made | Netflix |
| 2020 (72e) | Kerry Washington | Mia Warren | Little Fires Everywhere | Hulu |
| 2021 (73e) |
| 2021 (73e) | Michaela Coel | Arabella Essiedu | I May Destroy You | HBO |
| 2021 (73e) | Cynthia Erivo | Aretha Franklin | Genius: Aretha | Nat Geo |
| 2021 (73e) | Elizabeth Olsen | Wanda Maximoff | WandaVision | Disney+ |
| 2021 (73e) | Anya Taylor-Joy | Beth Harmon | The Queen's Gambit | Netflix |
| 2021 (73e) | Kate Winslet | Mare Sheehan | Mare of Easttown | HBO |