Giải Primetime Emmy cho nữ diễn viên chính trong series ngắn hoặc phim truyền hình xuất sắc nhất

Sau đây là danh sách những người chiến thắng Giải Primetime Emmy cho nữ diễn viên chính trong series ngắn hoặc phim truyền hình xuất sắc nhất và cả những người chiến thắng Giải Primetime Emmy cho nữ diễn viên chính trong vai diễn đơn.

Từ 1973 đến 1978, hạng mục được chia làm hai mục nhỏ hơn (1 cho "phim truyền hình" hoặc "Vai diễn đơn trong series" và hạng mục kia gồm "Series giớni hạn" hoặc "Series ngắn").

Từ thập niên 1950 đến thập niên 1960, những vai diễn khách mời đều được đề cử đề cử ở hạng mục này. Hạng mục riêng lẻ cho vai diễn khách mời được lập ra vào giữa thập niên 80.

Một vài năm nhất định, cả vai chính và vai phụ đều được gộp lại thành một hạng mục duy nhất.

==Người đoạt giải==
===1950s===
- 1954 - Single Performance: Judith Anderson – "Macbeth
- Ethel Barrymore - "The 13th Chair" episode of "Climax!"
- Beverly Garland - "White is the Color" episode of "Medic"
- Ruth Hussey - "Craig's Wife"
- Dorothy McGuire - "The Giaconda Smile" episode of "Climax!"
- Eva Marie Saint - "Middle of the Night"
- Claire Trevor - "Ladies in Retirement"
- 1955 - Single Performance: Mary Martin – "Peter Pan
- Julie Harris - "Wind from the South"
- Eva Marie Saint - "Our Town"
- Jessica Tandy - "The Fourposter"
- Loretta Young - "Christmas Stopver" episode of "The Loretta Young Show"
- 1956 - Single Performance: Claire Trevor – "Dodsworth
- Edna Best - "This Happy Breed"
- Gracie Fields - "Old Lady Shows Her Medals"
- Nancy Kelly - "The Pilot"
- Evelyn Rudie - "Eloise"
- 1957 - Single Performance - Lead or Supporting: Polly Bergen – "The Helen Morgan Story
- Julie Andrews - "Cinderella"
- Helen Hayes - "Mrs. Gilling and the Skyscraper"
- Piper Laurie - "The Deaf Heart"
- Teresa Wright - "The Miracle Worker"
- 1959 - Single Performance: Julie Harris – "Little Moon of Alban
- Judith Anderson - "The Bridge of San Luis Rey"
- Helen Hayes - "One Red Rose for Christmas"
- Piper Laurie - "Days of Wine and Roses"
- Geraldine Page - "Old Man"
- Maureen Stapleton - "All the King's Men"

===1960s===
- 1960 - Single Performance - Lead or Supporting: Ingrid Bergman – "The Turn of the Screw
- Julie Harris - "Ethan Frome"
- Teresa Wright - "Margaret Bourke-White Story"
- 1961 - Single Performance: Judith Anderson – "Macbeth
- Ingrid Bergman - "24 Hours in a Woman's Life"
- Elizabeth Montgomery - "The Rusty Heller Story" episode of "The Untouchables"
- "'1962 - Single Performance: Julie Harris – "Victoria Regina"
- Geraldine Brooks - "Call Back Yesterday" episode of "Bus Stop"
- Suzanne Pleshette - "Shining Image" episode for "Dr. Kildare"
- Inger Stevens - "The Price of Tomatoes"
- Ethel Waters - "Goodnight Sweet Blues" episode of "Route 66"
- "'1963 - Single Performance: Kim Stanley – "A Cardinal Act of Mercy" episode of "Ben Casey"
- Diahann Carroll - "A Horse Has a Big Head, Let Him Worry" episode of "Naked City"
- Diana Hyland - "The Voice of Charlie Pont"
- Eleanor Parker - "Why Am I Grown So Cold" episode of "The Eleventh Hour"
- Sylvia Sidney - "The Madman" episode of "The Defenders"
- 1964 - Single Performance: Shelley Winters – "Two is the Number
- Ruby Dee - "Express Stop from Lenox Avenue" episode of "The Nurses"
- Bethel Leslie - "Statement of Fact" episode of "The Richard Boone Show"
- Jeanette Nolan - "Vote No On 11!" episode of "The Richard Boone Show"
- Diana Sands - "Who Do You Kill?" episode of "East Side/West Side"
- 1965 - Individual Achievement in Entertainment - Actors and Performers: Lynn Fontanne – "The Magnificent Yankee
- Julie Harris - "The Holy Terror"
- 1966 - Single Performance in Drama: Simone Signoret – "A Small Rebellion
- Eartha Kitt - "The Loser" episode of "I Spy"
- Margaret Leighton - for 4 episodes of "Dr. Kildare"
- Shelley Winters - "Back to Back"
- 1967 - Single Performance in Drama: Geraldine Page – "A Christmas Memory
- Shirley Booth - "The Glass Menagerie"
- Mildred Dunnock - "Death of a Salesman"
- Lynn Fontanne - "Anastasia"
- Julie Harris - "Anastasia"
- 1968 - Single Performance in Drama: Maureen Stapleton – "Among the Paths to Eden
- Judith Anderson - "Elizabeth the Queen"
- Geneviève Bujold - "Saint Joan"
- Colleen Dewhurst - "The Crucible"
- Anne Jackson - "Dear Friends"
- 1969 - Single Performance in a Series or Special: Geraldine Page – "A Thanksgiving Visitor
- Anne Baxter - "The Bobbie Currier Story" episode for "The Name of the Game"
- Lee Grant - "The Gates of Cerberus" episode for "Judd for the Defense"

===1970s===
- 1970: Patty Duke – "My Sweet Charlie
- Edith Evans - "David Copperfield"
- Shirley Jones - "Silent Night, Lonely Night"
- 1971: Lee Grant – "The Neon Ceiling
- Colleen Dewhurst - "The Price"
- Lee Grant - "Columbo": "Ransom for a Dead Man"
- 1972 - Single Performance: Glenda Jackson – "Shadow in the Sun" episode of "Elizabeth R
- Glenda Jackson - "The Lion's Cub" episode of "Elizabeth R"
- Helen Hayes - "Do Not Fold, Spindle, or Mutilate"
- Patricia Neal - ""
- Susannah York - "Jane Eyre"
(Note: Glenda Jackson also wins in the Lead Actress in a Dramatic Series category for "Elizabeth R")

- 1973 - Single Performance: Cloris Leachman – "A Brand New Life
- Lauren Bacall - "Applause"
- Hope Lange - "That Certain Summer"
- 1973 - Limited Series: Susan Hampshire – "Vanity Fair
- Vivien Heilbron - "The Moonstone"
- Margaret Tyzack - "Cousin Bette"
- 1974 - TV Movie: Cicely Tyson – "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman
- Carol Burnett - "6 Rms Riv Vu"
- Katharine Hepburn - "The Glass Menagerie"
- Cloris Leachman - "The Migrants"
- Elizabeth Montgomery - "A Case of Rape"
- 1974 - Limited Series: Mildred Natwick – "The Snoop Sisters
- Helen Hayes - "The Snoop Sisters"
- Lee Remick - "The Blue Knight"
- 1975 - TV Movie: Katharine Hepburn – "Love Among the Ruins
- Jill Clayburgh - "Hustling"
- Elizabeth Montgomery - "The Legend of Lizzie Borden"
- Diana Rigg - "In This House of Brede"
- Maureen Stapleton - "Queen of the Stardust Ballroom"
- 1975 - Limited Series: Jessica Walter – "Amy Prentiss
- Susan Saint James - "McMillan & Wife"

- 1976 - TV Movie: Susan Clark – "Babe
- Jane Alexander - "Eleanor and Franklin"
- Colleen Dewhurst" - "A Moon for the Misbegotten"
- Sada Thompson" - "The Entertainer"
- 1976 - Limited Series: Rosemary Harris – "Notorious Woman
- Susan Blakely - "Rich Man, Poor Man"
- Jean Marsh - "Upstairs, Downstairs"
- Lee Remick - ""
- 1977 - TV Movie: Sally Field – "Sybil
- Jane Alexander - ""
- Susan Clark - "Amelia Earhart"
- Julie Harris - "The Last of Mrs. Lincoln"
- Joanne Woodward - "Sybil"
- 1977 - Limited Series: Patty Duke – "Captains and the Kings
- Dori Brenner - "Seventh Avenue"
- Susan Flannery - "Arthur Hailey's The Moneychangers"
- Eva Marie Saint - "How the West Was Won"
- Jane Seymour - "Captains and the Kings"
- 1978 - TV Movie: Joanne Woodward – "See How She Runs
- Helen Hayes - "A Family Upside Down"
- Eva Marie Saint - "Taxi!!!"
- Maureen Stapleton - "The Gathering"
- Sada Thompson - "Our Town"
- 1978 - Limited Series: Meryl Streep – "Holocaust
- Rosemary Harris - "Holocaust"
- Elizabeth Montgomery - "The Awakening Land"
- Lee Remick - "Wheels"
- Cicely Tyson - "King"
- 1979: Bette Davis – "
- Carol Burnett - "Friendly Fire"
- Olivia Cole - "Backstairs at the White House"
- Katharine Hepburn - "The Corn is Green"
- Mary Tyler Moore - "First, You Cry"

===1980s===
- 1980: Patty Duke – "The Miracle Worker" as Annie Sullivan
- Bette Davis - "White Mama"
- Melissa Gilbert - "The Miracle Worker" as Helen Keller
- Lee Remick - "Haywire"
- 1981: Vanessa Redgrave – "Playing for Time"
- Ellen Burstyn - "The People vs. Jean Harris" as Jean Harris
- Catherine Hicks - "" as Marilyn Monroe
- Yoko Shimada - "Shogun"
- Joanne Woodward - "Crisis at Central High"
- 1982: Ingrid Bergman – "A Woman Called Golda" as Golda Meir
- Glenda Jackson - "The Patricia Neal Story" as Patricia Neal
- Ann Jillian - "Mae West" as Mae West
- Jean Stapleton - "Eleanor, First Lady of the World" as Eleanor Roosevelt
- Cicely Tyson - "The Marva Collins Story" as Marva Collins
- 1983: Barbara Stanwyck – "The Thorn Birds"
- Ann-Margret - "Who Will Love My Children?"
- Rosanna Arquette - "The Executioner's Song"
- Mariette Hartley - ""
- Angela Lansbury - "Little Gloria... Happy at Last"
- 1984: Jane Fonda – "The Dollmaker"
- Jane Alexander - "Calamity Jane" as Calamity Jane
- Ann-Margret - "A Streetcar Named Desire" as Blanche DuBois
- Glenn Close - "Something About Amelia"
- JoBeth Williams - "Adam"

- 1985: Joanne Woodward – "Do You Remember Love"
- Jane Alexander - "Malice in Wonderland"
- Peggy Ashcroft - "The Jewel in the Crown"
- Farrah Fawcett - "The Burning Bed"
- Mary Tyler Moore - "Heartsounds"
- 1986: Marlo Thomas – "Nobody's Child"
- Katharine Hepburn - "Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry"
- Vanessa Redgrave - "Second Serve"
- Gena Rowlands - "An Early Frost"
- Mare Winningham - "Love is Never Silent"
- 1987: Gena Rowlands – "The Betty Ford Story" as Betty Ford
- Ann-Margret - "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles"
- Ellen Burstyn - "Pack of Lies"
- Lee Remick - ""
- Alfre Woodard - "Unnatural Causes"
- 1988: Jessica Tandy – "Foxfire"
- Ann Jillian - "The Ann Jillian Story" as herself
- Mary Tyler Moore - "Gore Vidal's Lincoln"
- Mary Steenburgen - ""
- JoBeth Williams - "Baby M"
- 1989: Holly Hunter – "Roe vs. Wade"
- Anjelica Huston - "Lonesome Dove"
- Diane Lane - "Lonesome Dove"
- Amy Madigan - "Roe vs. Wade"
- Jane Seymour - "War and Remembrance"

==So sánh==
===Người giành nhiều giải===
- 4 giải
- Helen Mirren

- 3 giải
- Patty Duke
- Laura Linney

- 2 wins
- Judith Anderson
- Ingrid Bergman
- Julie Harris
- Holly Hunter
- Jessica Lange
- Geraldine Page
- Gena Rowlands
- Meryl Streep
- Joanne Woodward

===Người giành nhiều đề cử===
- 10 đề cử
- Helen Mirren

- 7 đề cử
- Judy Davis
- Julie Harris

- 6 đề cử
- Glenn Close
- Jessica Lange
- Gena Rowlands
- Joanne Woodward

- 5 đề cử
- Helen Hayes
- Lee Remick

- 4 đề cử
- Jane Alexander
- Judith Anderson
- Katharine Hepburn
- Holly Hunter
- Ann-Margret
- Elizabeth Montgomery
- Eva Marie Saint
- Maureen Stapleton
- Emma Thompson
- Cicely Tyson
- Alfre Woodard

- 3 đề cử
- Ingrid Bergman
- Judi Dench
- Colleen Dewhurst
- Patty Duke
- Sally Field
- Lee Grant
- Glenda Jackson
- Laura Linney
- Mary Tyler Moore
- Geraldine Page
- Vanessa Redgrave
- Maggie Smith
- Meryl Streep
- Jessica Tandy
- Sigourney Weaver

- 2 đề cử
- Halle Berry
- Carol Burnett
- Ellen Burstyn
- Helena Bonham Carter
- Stockard Channing
- Susan Clark
- Bette Davis
- Blythe Danner
- Farrah Fawcett
- Lynn Fontanne
- Rosemary Harris
- Barbara Hershey
- Anjelica Huston
- Ann Jillian
- Ashley Judd
- Diane Lane
- Queen Latifah
- Piper Laurie
- Jean Marsh
- Suzanne Pleshette
- Jane Seymour
- Sada Thompson
- Claire Trevor
- JoBeth Williams
- Shelley Winters
- Teresa Wright
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