Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Awarded for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Presented by Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
Country United States
Currently held by Melissa McCarthy,
Mike & Molly (2011)
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. The award was first presented in 1953, but was not awarded again until 1959. It has been presented every year since then (excluding 1965).

Contents

Superlatives

Superlative Lead Actress - Comedy Series Supporting Actress - Comedy Series Overall
Actress with most awards Candice Bergen, Mary Tyler Moore 5 Rhea Perlman, Doris Roberts 4 Candice Bergen, Mary Tyler Moore 5
Actress with most nominations Mary Tyler Moore 10 Rhea Perlman, Loretta Swit 10 Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Betty White 12
Actress with most nominations
without ever winning		 Jane Kaczmarek 7 Julia Duffy 7 Julia Duffy, Jane Kaczmarek 7
Television program with most wins Murphy Brown 5 Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 6 The Mary Tyler Moore Show 9
Television program with most nominations The Golden Girls 15 Cheers, The Mary Tyler Moore Show 12 The Golden Girls 22

Award winners and nominations

1950s

1960s

  • 1965: no award

1970s

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

Total awards

  • CBS: 26
  • NBC: 16
  • ABC: 7
  • HBO: 1
  • Showtime: 2

Multiple winners

2 wins

3 wins

4 wins

5 wins

Multiple nominees

2 nominations

3 nominations

4 nominations

5 nominations

6 nominations

7 nominations

8 nominations

9 nominations

10 nominations

References
Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
1950–1975

Gertrude Berg (1950) · Imogene Coca (1951) · Betty White (1952) · Eve Arden (1953) · Lucille Ball (1955) · Nanette Fabray (1956) · Jane Wyatt (1957) · Jane Wyatt (1959) · Jane Wyatt (1960) · Shirley Booth (1962) · Shirley Booth (1963) · Mary Tyler Moore (1964) · Mary Tyler Moore (1966) · Lucille Ball (1967) · Lucille Ball (1968) · Hope Lange (1969) · Hope Lange (1970) · Jean Stapleton (1971) · Jean Stapleton (1972) · Mary Tyler Moore (1973) · Mary Tyler Moore (1974) · Valerie Harper (1975)
1976–2000

Mary Tyler Moore (1976) · Beatrice Arthur (1977) · Jean Stapleton (1978) · Ruth Gordon (1979) · Cathryn Damon (1980) · Isabel Sanford (1981) · Carol Kane (1982) · Shelley Long (1983) · Jane Curtin (1984) · Jane Curtin (1985) · Betty White (1986) · Rue McClanahan (1987) · Beatrice Arthur (1988) · Candice Bergen (1989) · Candice Bergen (1990) · Kirstie Alley (1991) · Candice Bergen (1992) · Roseanne Barr (1993) · Candice Bergen (1994) · Candice Bergen (1995) · Helen Hunt (1996) · Helen Hunt (1997) · Helen Hunt (1998) · Helen Hunt (1999) · Patricia Heaton (2000)
2001–present

Patricia Heaton (2001) · Jennifer Aniston (2002) · Debra Messing (2003) · Sarah Jessica Parker (2004) · Felicity Huffman (2005) · Julia Louis-Dreyfus (2006) · America Ferrera (2007) · Tina Fey (2008) · Toni Collette (2009) · Edie Falco (2010) • Melissa McCarthy (2011)
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