Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film (official name: Golden Globe Award for Best Performance by an Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture Made for Television) is one of the annual television awards given by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association.

Winners and nominees

1980s

1981: Jane Seymour – East of Eden

• Ellen Burstyn – The People vs. Jean Harris
• Glenda Jackson – The Patricia Neal Story as Patricia Neal
• Jaclyn Smith – Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Joanne Woodward – Crisis at Central High

1982: Ingrid Bergman – A Woman Called Golda

• Carol Burnett – Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
• Lucy Gutteridge – Little Gloria... Happy at Last
• Ann Jillian – Mae West
• Lee Remick – The Letter
• Jean Stapleton – Eleanor, First Lady of the World

1983: Ann-Margret – Who Will Love My Children?

• Susan Blakely – Will There Really Be a Morning?
• Blair Brown – Kennedy as Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis
• Gena Rowlands – Thursday's Child
• Rachel Ward – The Thorn Birds

1984: Ann-Margret – A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois

• Glenn Close – Something About Amelia
• Farrah Fawcett – The Burning Bed
• Jane Fonda – The Dollmaker
• Glenda Jackson – Sakharov

1985: Liza Minnelli – A Time to Live

• Peggy Ashcroft – The Jewel in the Crown
• Gena Rowlands – An Early Frost
• Marlo Thomas – Consenting Adult
• Joanne Woodward – Do You Remember Love

1986: Loretta Young – Christmas Eve

• Farrah Fawcett – Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story as Beate Klarsfeld
• Amy Irving – Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
• Vanessa Redgrave – Second Serve
• Marlo Thomas – Nobody's Child

1987: Gena Rowlands – The Betty Ford Story as Betty Ford

• Ann-Margret – The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
• Farrah Fawcett – Poor Little Rich Girl as Barbara Hutton
• Shirley MacLaine – Out on a Limb as herself
• Raquel Welch – Right to Die

1988: Ann Jillian – The Ann Jillian Story as herself

• Vanessa Redgrave – A Man for All Seasons
• Jane Seymour – War and Remembrance
• Jane Seymour – The Woman He Loved
• JoBeth Williams – Baby M

1989: Christine Lahti – No Place Like Home'

• Farrah Fawcett – Small Sacrifices as Diane Downs
• Holly Hunter – Roe vs. Wade
• Jane Seymour – War and Remembrance
• Loretta Young – Lady in the Corner

1990s

1990: Barbara Hershey – A Killing in a Small Town

• Annette O'Toole – The Kennedys of Massachusetts
• Suzanne Pleshette – Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean as Leona Helmsley
• Lesley Ann Warren – Family of Spies
• Stephanie Zimbalist – Caroline?

1991: Judy Davis – One Against the Wind

• Glenn Close – Sarah, Plain and Tall
• Sally Kirkland – The Haunted
• Jessica Tandy – The Story Lady
• Lynn Whitfield – The Josephine Baker Story as Josephine Baker

1992: Laura Dern – Afterburn

• Drew Barrymore – Guncrazy
• Katharine Hepburn – The Man Upstairs
• Jessica Lange – O Pioneers!
• Kyra Sedgwick – Miss Rose White

1993: Bette Midler – Gypsy

• Helena Bonham Carter – Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
• Faye Dunaway – Columbo
• Holly Hunter – The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
• Anjelica Huston – Family Pictures

1994: Joanne Woodward – Breathing Lessons as Maggie Moran

• Kirstie Alley – David's Mother as Sally Goodson
• Irene Bedard – Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee as Mary Crow Dog
• Diane Keaton – Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight as Amelia Earhart
• Diana Ross – Out of Darkness as Paulie Cooper

1995: Jessica Lange – A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois

• Glenn Close – Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story as Margarethe Cammermeyer
• Jamie Lee Curtis – The Heidi Chronicles
• Sally Field – A Woman of Independent Means
• Linda Hamilton – A Mother's Prayer

1996: Helen Mirren – Losing Chase

• Ashley Judd – Norma Jean & Marilyn
• Demi Moore – If These Walls Could Talk
• Isabella Rossellini – Crime of the Century
• Mira Sorvino – Norma Jean & Marilyn as Marilyn Monroe

1997: Alfre Woodard – Miss Evers' Boys

• Ellen Barkin – Before Women Had Wings
• Jena Malone – Hope
• Vanessa Redgrave – Bella Mafia
• Meryl Streep – …First Do No Harm

1998: Angelina Jolie – Gia as Gia Carangi

• Stockard Channing – The Baby Dance
• Laura Dern – The Baby Dance
• Ann-Margret – Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story as Pamela Harriman
• Miranda Richardson – Merlin

1999: Halle Berry – Introducing Dorothy Dandridge as Dorothy Dandridge

• Judy Davis – Dash and Lilly as Lillian Hellman
• Mia Farrow – Forget Me Never
• Helen Mirren – The Passion of Ayn Rand as Ayn Rand
• Leelee Sobieski – Joan of Arc as Joan of Arc

2000s

2000: Judi Dench – The Last of the Blonde Bombshells as Elizabeth

• Holly Hunter – Harlan County War as Ruby Kincaid^[1]
• Christine Lahti – An American Daughter as Lyssa Dent Hughes
• Frances O'Connor – Madame Bovary as Emma Bovary
• Rachel Ward – On the Beach as Moira Davidson
• Alfre Woodard – Holiday Heart as Wanda

2001: Judy Davis – Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows as Judy Garland

• Bridget Fonda – After Amy as Linda Sanclair
• Julianna Margulies – The Mists of Avalon as Morgaine
• Leelee Sobieski – Uprising as Tosia Altman
• Hannah Taylor-Gordon – Anne Frank: The Whole Story as Anne Frank
• Emma Thompson – Wit as Vivian Bearing

2002: Uma Thurman – Hysterical Blindness as Debbie Miller

• Helena Bonham Carter – Live from Baghdad as Ingrid Formanek
• Shirley MacLaine – Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay as Mary Kay Ash
• Helen Mirren – Door to Door as Mrs. Porter
• Vanessa Redgrave – The Gathering Storm as Clementine Churchill

2003: Meryl Streep – Angels in America as Hannah Pitt/Ethel Rosenberg/Rabbi/Angel Australia

• Judy Davis – The Reagans as Nancy Reagan
• Jessica Lange – Normal as Irma Applewood
• Helen Mirren – The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone as Karen Stone
• Maggie Smith – My House in Umbria as Emily Delahunty

2004: Glenn Close – The Lion in Winter as Queen Eleanor

• Blythe Danner – Back When We Were Grownups as Rebecca Holmes Davitch
• Julianna Margulies – The Grid as Maren Jackson
• Miranda Richardson – The Lost Prince as Queen Mary
• Hilary Swank – Iron Jawed Angels as Alice Paul

2005: S. Epatha Merkerson – Lackawanna Blues as Rachel "Nanny" Crosby

• Halle Berry – Their Eyes Were Watching God as Janie Crawford
• Kelly Macdonald – The Girl in the Café as Gina
• Cynthia Nixon – Warm Springs as Eleanor Roosevelt
• Mira Sorvino – Human Trafficking as Kate Morozov

2006: Helen Mirren – Elizabeth I as Queen Elizabeth I

• Gillian Anderson – Bleak House as Lady Dedlock
• Annette Bening – Mrs. Harris as Jean Harris
• Helen Mirren – Prime Suspect: The Final Act as Jane Tennison
• Sophie Okonedo – Tsunami: The Aftermath as Susie Carter

2007: Queen Latifah – Life Support as Ana Walace

• Bryce Dallas Howard – As You Like It as Rosalind
• Debra Messing – The Starter Wife as Molly Kagan
• Sissy Spacek – Pictures of Hollis Woods as Josie Cahill
• Ruth Wilson – Jane Eyre as Jane Eyre

2008: Laura Linney – John Adams as Abigail Adams

• Judi Dench – Cranford as Matty Jenkyns
• Catherine Keener – An American Crime as Gertrude Baniszewski
• Shirley MacLaine – Coco Chanel as Coco Chanel
• Susan Sarandon – Bernard and Doris as Doris Duke

2009: Drew Barrymore – Grey Gardens as Little Edie

• Joan Allen – Georgia O'Keeffe as Georgia O'Keeffe
• Jessica Lange – Grey Gardens as Big Edie
• Anna Paquin – The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
• Sigourney Weaver – Prayers for Bobby

2010s

2010: Claire Danes – Temple Grandin as Temple Grandin

• Hayley Atwell – The Pillars of the Earth as Aliena
• Judi Dench – Return to Cranford as Matty Jenkyns
• Romola Garai – Emma as Emma Woodhouse
• Jennifer Love Hewitt – The Client List as Samantha Horton

2011: TBA

• Romola Garai – The Hour as Bel Rowley
• Diane Lane – Cinema Verite as Pat Loud
• Elizabeth McGovern – Downton Abbey as Cora, Countess of Grantham
• Emily Watson – Appropriate Adult as Janet Leach
• Kate Winslet – Mildred Pierce as Mildred Pierce

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