Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | |
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Awarded for | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series |
Country | United States |
Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
Currently held by | Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Veep (2015) |
Official website | http://www.emmys.com/ |
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Beginning with the 18th Emmys, leading actresses in comedy have competed alone. However, these comedic performances included actresses from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below.
- # – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Telefilm, prior to the category's creation.
- § – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation.
Contents
Award winners and nominations
1950s
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
Year | Actor | Program | Role | Episode | Network |
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1989-1990 (42nd) |
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Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “Brown Like Me” | CBS | |
Kirstie Alley | Cheers | Rebecca Howe | “The Improbable Dream” (Part 1) |
NBC | |
Blair Brown | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Molly Bickford Dodd | N/A | Lifetime | |
Delta Burke | Designing Women | Suzanne Sugarbaker | “They Shoot Fat Women, Don’t They?” | CBS | |
Betty White | The Golden Girls | Rose Nylund | “Rose Fights Back” | NBC | |
1990-1991 (43rd) |
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Kirstie Alley | Cheers | Rebecca Howe | “The Days of Wine and Neurosis” | NBC | |
Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “On Another Plane” | CBS | |
Blair Brown | The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd | Molly Bickford Dodd | “Here’s a Pregnant Pause” | Lifetime | |
Delta Burke | Designing Women | Suzanne Sugarbaker | “The Bachelor Auction” | CBS | |
Betty White | The Golden Girls | Rose Nylund | “Once, in St. Olaf” | NBC | |
1991-1992 (44th) |
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Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “Birth 101” | CBS | |
Kirstie Alley | Cheers | Rebecca Howe | “An Old Fashioned Wedding” | NBC | |
Roseanne Arnold | Roseanne | Roseanne Conner | “A Bitter Pill to Swallow” | ABC | |
Tyne Daly § | Wings | Mimsy Borogroves | “My Brother’s Keeper” | NBC | |
Marion Ross | Brooklyn Bridge | Sophie Berger | “Brave New World” | CBS | |
Betty White | The Golden Girls | Rose Nylund | “Dateline: Miami” | NBC | |
1992-1993 (45th) |
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Roseanne Barr | Roseanne | Roseanne Conner | “Wait ’Til Your Father Gets Home” | ABC | |
Kirstie Alley | Cheers | Rebecca Howe | “One for the Road” | NBC | |
Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “Games Mothers Play” | CBS | |
Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “Pilot” | NBC | |
Marion Ross | Brooklyn Bridge | Sophie Berger | “Brave New Worlds” | CBS | |
1993-1994 (46th) |
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Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “It’s Just Like Riding a Bike” | CBS | |
Roseanne Barr | Roseanne | Roseanne Conner | “The Driver’s Seat” | ABC | |
Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “Cold Feet” | NBC | |
Annie Potts | Love & War | Dana Palladino | “I’ve Got a Crush on You” | CBS | |
Patricia Richardson | Home Improvement | Jill Taylor | “The Colonel” | ABC | |
1994-1995 (47th) |
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Candice Bergen | Murphy Brown | Murphy Brown | “Requiem for a Crew Guy” | CBS | |
Roseanne Barr | Roseanne | Roseanne Conner | “Thanksgiving 1994” | ABC | |
Ellen DeGeneres | Ellen | Ellen Morgan | “The Spa” | ||
Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “The Ride Home” | NBC | |
Cybill Shepherd | Cybill | Cybill Sheridan | “Virgin, Mother, Crone” | CBS | |
1995-1996 (48th) |
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Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “The Finale” | NBC | |
Ellen DeGeneres | Ellen | Ellen Morgan | “Witness” | ABC | |
Fran Drescher | The Nanny | Fran Fine | “The Hockey Show” | CBS | |
Patricia Richardson | Home Improvement | Jill Taylor | “The Longest Day” | ABC | |
Cybill Shepherd | Cybill | Cybill Sheridan | “When You’re Hot, You’re Hot” | CBS | |
1996-1997 (49th) |
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Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “The Birth” | NBC | |
Ellen DeGeneres | Ellen | Ellen Morgan | “The Puppy Episode” | ABC | |
Fran Drescher | The Nanny | Fran Fine | “The Facts of Lice” | CBS | |
Patricia Richardson | Home Improvement | Jill Taylor | “Family Unties” | ABC | |
Cybill Shepherd | Cybill | Cybill Sheridan | “In Her Dreams” | CBS | |
1997-1998 (50th) |
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Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “Moody Blue’s” | NBC | |
Kirstie Alley | Veronica's Closet | Veronica Chase | “Pilot” | NBC | |
Ellen DeGeneres | Ellen | Ellen Morgan | “Neighbors” | ABC | |
Jenna Elfman | Dharma & Greg | Dharma Montgomery | “Haus Arrest” | ||
Calista Flockhart | Ally McBeal | Ally McBeal | “One Hundred Tears Away” | Fox | |
Patricia Richardson | Home Improvement | Jill Taylor | “Bright Christmas” | ABC | |
1998-1999 (51st) |
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Helen Hunt | Mad About You | Jamie Buchman | “The Final Frontier” | NBC | |
Jenna Elfman | Dharma & Greg | Dharma Montgomery | “Are You Ready for Some Football?” | ABC | |
Calista Flockhart | Ally McBeal | Ally McBeal | “Sideshow” | Fox | |
Patricia Heaton | Everybody Loves Raymond | Debra Barone | “Be Nice” | CBS | |
Sarah Jessica Parker | Sex and the City | Carrie Bradshaw | “The Drought” | HBO |
2000s
2010s
Total awards by network
- CBS – 26
- NBC – 16
- ABC – 7
- HBO – 5
- Showtime – 2
Multiple wins
5 wins
4 wins
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3 wins
2 wins
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Multiple nominations
10 nominations 9 nominations 8 nominations 7 nominations 6 nominations |
5 nominations 4 nominations
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3 nominations
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2 nominations |
- Notes
See also
- Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Comedy Series