page_title: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series
section_title: Winners and nominations
hierarchical_section_title: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series / Winners and nominations
caption_attribution_description: English: Patricia Clarkson at the 2009 Tribeca Film Festival premiere of Woody Allen's Whatever Works.
context_page_description: The Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series is an award presented annually by the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences. It is given in honor of an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a guest starring role on a television drama series for the primetime network season.
  The award was first presented at the 27th Primetime Emmy Awards on May 19, 1975 to Zohra Lampert for her performance on Kojak and Cloris Leachman for her role on The Mary Tyler Moore Show. It has undergone several name changes, originally honoring single leading and supporting appearances in drama and comedy series through 1978. The award was reintroduced at the 38th Primetime Emmy Awards under the name Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series, honoring actors and actresses in guest starring roles on television drama series. In 1989, the category was split into categories for each gender, resulting in the name change to its current title.
  Since its inception, the award has been given to 34 actresses. Cherry Jones is the current recipient of the award for her portrayal of Holly Maddox on The Handmaid's Tale.
context_section_description: Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
caption: Patricia Clarkson received two awards for her portrayal of Sarah O'Connor in Six Feet Under.
exif: {"Image Make": "OLYMPUS", "Image Model": "E-500", "Image Software": "Picasa 3.0", "Image ExifOffset": "88", "Thumbnail Compression": "JPEG (old-style)", "Thumbnail XResolution": "72", "Thumbnail YResolution": "72", "Thumbnail ResolutionUnit": "Pixels/Inch", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormat": "446", "Thumbnail JPEGInterchangeFormatLength": "6045", "EXIF ExposureTime": "1/100", "EXIF ISOSpeedRatings": "160", "EXIF FNumber": "19/5", "EXIF ExifVersion": "0210", "EXIF DateTimeOriginal": "2005:01:01 04:00:00", "EXIF MeteringMode": "Pattern", "EXIF Flash": "Flash fired, auto mode", "EXIF FocalLength": "57", "EXIF ExifImageWidth": "2280", "EXIF ExifImageLength": "2953", "Interoperability InteroperabilityIndex": "", "Interoperability InteroperabilityVersion": "[48, 49, 48, 48]", "EXIF InteroperabilityOffset": "316", "EXIF ImageUniqueID": "698477a3a172e9245ccc57d1d3249980"}