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Primetime Emmy Award for Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie
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Bette Davis
Ruth Elizabeth "Bette" Davis (April 5, 1908 – October 6, 1989) was an American actress of film, television and theatre. Noted for her willingness to play unsympathetic characters, she was highly regarded for her performances in a range of film...
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Judith Anderson
Dame Judith Anderson, AC, DBE (10 February 1897 – 3 January 1992) was an Australian actress of stage and screen, who was also nominated for a Grammy and an Oscar. She is generally regarded by theatre critics as the greatest classical actress...
Claudette Colbert
Claudette Colbert (pronounced /koʊlˈbɛr/; September 13, 1903 – July 30, 1996) was a French-born American stage and film actress.
Born in Saint-Mandé, France and raised in New York City, Colbert began her career in Broadway productions during the...
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Dorothy McGuire
Dorothy Hackett McGuire (June 14, 1916 – September 13, 2001) was an American actress.
Born in Omaha, Nebraska, she began her acting career on the stage at the Omaha Community Playhouse. Eventually, she succeeded on Broadway, first appearing as an...
Olivia de Havilland
Olivia Mary de Havilland (born July 1, 1916) is an actress. She is the elder sister of actress Joan Fontaine. De Havilland is one of the last surviving female stars from 1930s Hollywood. She is also the last living lead from Gone with the Wind.
De...
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Celeste Holm
Celeste Holm (born April 29, 1917) is an American stage, film, and television actress, known for her Academy Award-winning performance in Gentleman's Agreement (1947), as well as for her Oscar-nominated performance in All About Eve (1950).
Born in...
Julie Harris
Julie Harris (born December 2, 1925) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has won five Tony Awards and three Emmy Awards, and was nominated for an Academy Award. She is a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame. She also...
Deborah Kerr
Deborah Kerr, born Deborah Jane Kerr-Trimmer, CBE (30 September 1921 – 16 October 2007) was a British stage, television and film actress. She won the Sarah Siddons Award for her Chicago performance as Laura Reynolds in Tea and Sympathy, a role which...
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Eva Marie Saint
Eva Marie Saint (born July 4, 1924) is an American actress who has starred in films, on Broadway and television in a career spanning seven decades. She won an Academy Award for her feature film debut in On the Waterfront (1954), and later appeared...
Shirley Jones
Shirley Mae Jones (born March 31, 1934) is an American singer and actress of stage, film and television. She starred as wholesome characters in a number of well-known musical films, such as Oklahoma!, Carousel, and The Music Man. She won the Academy...
Piper Laurie
Rosetta Jacobs, better known as Piper Laurie (born January 22, 1932), is an American actress of stage and screen noted for her roles in the television series Twin Peaks and the film Carrie.
Laurie was born Rosetta Jacobs in Detroit, Michigan, to...
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Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno (born December 11, 1931) is a Puerto Rican singer, dancer and actress. She is the first and only Hispanic female and one of ten performers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony and at the time the second Puerto Rican to...
Angela Lansbury
Angela Brigid Lansbury, CBE (born 16 October 1925) is an English actress and singer whose career has spanned seven decades. Her first film appearance was in Gaslight (1944), for which she received an Academy Award nomination as a malevolent maid,...
Lee Remick
Lee Ann Remick (December 14, 1935 – July 2, 1991) was an American film and television actress. Among her best-known films are Anatomy of a Murder (1959), Days of Wine and Roses (1962), and The Omen (1976).
Remick was born in Quincy, Massachusetts,...
Patty Duke
Anna Marie "Patty" Duke (born December 14, 1946) is an American actress of stage, film, and television. She was able to make the rare successful transition from child star (winning an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress at age 16) to award...
Shirley Knight
Shirley Enola Knight (born July 5, 1936) is an American stage, screen, and television actress. She has been nominated twice for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, in 1960 for The Dark at the Top of the Stairs and in 1962 for Sweet Bird...
Kim Stanley
Kim Stanley (February 11, 1925 – August 20, 2001) was an American actress, primarily in theatre but with occasional film performances.
Stanley began her acting career in theatre, and subsequently attended the The Actors Studio. She received the 1952...
Julie Elizabeth Andrews
Julie Elizabeth Andrews, DBE (born Julia Elizabeth Wells; 1 October 1935) is a British film and stage actress, singer, and author. She is the recipient of Golden Globe, Emmy, Grammy, BAFTA, People's Choice Award, Theatre World Award, Screen Actors...
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Anne Bancroft
Anne Bancroft (September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005) was an American actress associated with the method school of acting.
Bancroft was born Anna Maria Louisa Italiano in the Bronx, New York, the daughter of Mildred (née DiNapoli), a telephone operator,...
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Patricia Neal
Patricia Neal (born January 20, 1926) is an American actress of stage and screen.
Neal was born Patsy Louise Neal, in Packard, Whitley County, Kentucky. She grew up in Knoxville, Tennessee and studied drama at Northwestern University.
After moving...
Jean Simmons
Jean Merilyn Simmons, OBE (born 31 January 1929) is an English actress. Simmons was named an Officer in the Order of the British Empire in 2003.
Born in Lower Holloway, London, England, to Charles Simmons and his wife Winifred (Loveland) Simmons,...
Pamela Brown
Pamela Mary Brown (8 July 1917 – 19 September 1975) was an English stage and film actress.
She was born in Hampstead, London to George Edward Brown, a journalist, and his wife, Helen Blanche Ellerton. After attending the Royal Academy of Dramatic...
Anna Calder-Marshall
Anna Calder-Marshall (born 11 January 1947, Kensington) is a British actress.
Her son is actor Tom Burke, her husband is actor David Burke.
Anna Calder-Marshall at the Internet Movie Database
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Cloris Leachman
Cloris Leachman (born April 30, 1926) is an American actress of stage, film and television. She has won eight Primetime Emmy Awards—more than any other female performer—and one Daytime Emmy Award. She won an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress...
Margaret Leighton
Margaret Leighton (26 February 1922 – 13 January 1976) was a two-time Tony Award-winning English leading actress with an exquisite sense of grandeur and refinement. She created the role of Hannah Jelkes in Tennessee Williams' The Night of the Iguana...
Eileen Heckart
Eileen Heckart (March 29, 1919 – December 31, 2001) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television.
Heckart was born Anna Eileen Heckart in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Esther (née Stark) and Leo Herbert. She was legally adopted by her...
Maggie Smith
Dame Margaret Natalie Smith, DBE (born 28 December 1934), better known as Maggie Smith, is an English film, stage, and television actress who made her stage debut in 1952 and is still performing after 57 years. Considered to be one of world's...
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Cicely Tyson
Cicely Tyson (born December 19, 1933) is an American actress. A successful stage actress, Tyson is also known for appearances in the film Sounder and the television specials The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and Roots.
Tyson was born and raised...
Ellen Burstyn
Ellen Burstyn (born December 7, 1932) is an American stage and film actress.
Burstyn was born Edna Rae Gillooly in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Correine Marie (née Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly, who was a building contractor. She describes...
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Sylvia Sidney
Sylvia Sidney (August 8, 1910 – July 1, 1999) was an American actress.
Sidney, born Sophia Kosow in The Bronx, New York, was the daughter of Rebecca (née Saperstein), a Romanian Jew, and Victor Kosow, a Russian Jewish immigrant who worked as a...
Gena Rowlands
Gena Rowlands (born June 19, 1930) is an American actress of film, stage and television. She collaborated with her actor-director husband John Cassavetes on ten films.
Born as Virginia Cathryn Rowlands in Madison, Wisconsin, Rowlands was raised in...
Lily Tomlin
Mary Jean "Lily" Tomlin (born September 1, 1939) is an American actress, comedian, writer and producer. She has won multiple awards from many quarters, including Tony Awards, Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Award and has also been nominated for an Academy...
Ann-Margret
Ann-Margret Olsson (born April 28, 1941) is a Swedish-American actress, singer and dancer.
Ann-Margret was born in Stockholm, the daughter of Anna (née Aronsson) and Gustav Olsson, a native of Örnsköldsvik. While young she moved with her parents to...
Juliet Mills
Juliet Maryon Mills, (born 21 November 1941) is an English actress.
The daughter of John Mills and Mary Hayley Bell, and the sister of Hayley Mills, Juliet Mills began her career as a child actor. She was nominated for a Tony Award for her work in...
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Sissy Spacek
Mary Elizabeth "Sissy" Spacek (born December 25, 1949 in Quitman, Texas) is an American actress and singer. Her screen debut was in the 1972 film Prime Cut co-starring Lee Marvin and Gene Hackman.
International prominence would soon follow in the...
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Lee Grant
Lee Grant (born October 31, 1927) is an American theater, film and television actress, and film director who was blacklisted by the Hollywood movie studio bosses in the 1950s.
Grant was born Lyova Haskell Rosenthal in New York City, the daughter of...
Vicki Lawrence
Vicki Lawrence (born March 26, 1949) is an American actress, comedian, and singer, who was frequently a game show panelist in the 1970s and 1980s. She is best known for her co-starring role on The Carol Burnett Show, alongside Carol Burnett, from...
Tuesday Weld
Tuesday Weld (born August 27, 1943) is an American actress.
Weld began her acting career as a child, and progressed to more mature roles during the late 1950s. She won a Golden Globe Award for Most Promising Female Newcomer in 1960. Over the...
Esther Rolle
Esther Rolle (November 8, 1920 – November 17, 1998) was an American actress of stage and television. She was perhaps best known for her portrayal of Florida Evans in two 1970s television sitcoms, Maude and Good Times.
Esther Rolle was born in...
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Mary Tyler Moore
Mary Tyler Moore (born December 29, 1936) is an American actress, primarily known for her roles in television sitcoms.
Moore is best known for The Mary Tyler Moore Show (1970–1977), in which she starred as Mary Richards, a 30-something single woman...
Diana Scarwid
Diana Scarwid (born August 27, 1955) is a Academy Award nominated American actress. Scarwid has done work in film, television and theater.
Scarwid was born in Savannah, Georgia, and left Georgia at the age of 17 to head to New York and become an...
Sada Thompson
Sada Thompson (born September 27, 1929) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Born Sada Carolyn Thompson in Des Moines, Iowa and raised in New Jersey, she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Theatre at the Carnegie Institute of...
Carrie Nye
Carrie Nye (October 14, 1936 – July 14, 2006) was an American actress.
Nye was born Caroline Nye McGeoy in Greenwood, Mississippi; her father was a vice president of a local bank. She attended Stephens College and then went on to the Yale School of...
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Maureen Stapleton
Lois Maureen Stapleton (June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006) was an American actress in film, theater and television. She was also elected to the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Stapleton was born in Troy, New York, the daughter of Irene (née Walsh) and...
Charlotte Rae
Charlotte Rae (born April 22, 1926) is an American character actress, singer and dancer, who in her six decades of television is perhaps best known for her portrayal of Edna Garrett in the sitcoms Diff'rent Strokes and The Facts of Life (in which...
Claire Bloom
Claire Bloom (born Patricia Claire Blume; 15 February 1931) is an English film and stage actress.
Bloom was born in the North London suburb of Finchley, the daughter of Elizabeth (née Grew) and Edward Max Blume, who worked in sales. Her paternal...
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Ann Jillian
Ann Jillian (born Ann Jura Nauseda on January 29, 1950 in Cambridge, Massachusetts) is an American actress, who started acting at age 10. Her career reached its zenith in the 1980s, with her best-known role being that of waitress Cassie Cranston on...
Jane Alexander
Jane Alexander (born October 28, 1939) is an American actress, author, and former director of the National Endowment for the Arts. Although perhaps best known for playing the female lead in The Great White Hope on both stage and screen, Alexander...
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Swoosie Kurtz
Swoosie Kurtz (born September 6, 1944) is an American actress. She began her career in theater during the 1970s and shortly thereafter began a career in television, garnering ten nominations and winning one Emmy Award. Her most famous television...
Vanessa Redgrave
Vanessa Redgrave CBE (born 30 January 1937) is an Oscar winning English actress of stage, film and television. She is a member of the Redgrave family, the world-renowned theatrical dynasty. A former Trotskyist and leading member of the Workers'...
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Judy Davis
Judy Davis (born 23 April 1955) is an Australian actress.
Davis was born in Perth and had a strict Catholic upbringing. She was educated at Loreto Convent and graduated from the National Institute of Dramatic Art (NIDA) in 1977. She has been married...
Peggy Ashcroft
Dame Peggy Ashcroft, DBE (22 December 1907 – 14 June 1991) was an English actress.
Born as Edith Margaret Emily Ashcroft in Croydon, Ashcroft attended the Woodford School, Croydon and the Central School of Speech and Drama. A prolific stage actress...
Roxana Zal
Roxana Zal (born November 8, 1969) is an American actress.
Zal was born and raised in Malibu, California, the daughter of Maureen and Hossein Zal. She was on her High School tennis team. Her first acting role was a guest spot on Hart to Hart at age...
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Christine Lahti
Christine Lahti (born April 4, 1950) is an American actress and film director.
Lahti was born in Birmingham, Michigan, the daughter of Elizabeth Margaret (née Tabar), a painter, homemaker and nurse, and Paul Theodore Lahti, a surgeon. Lahti has...
Beverly D'Angelo
Beverly D'Angelo (born November 15, 1951) is an American singer and actress.
D'Angelo was born in Columbus, Ohio, the daughter of Priscilla (née Smith), a violinist, and Gene D'Angelo, a bass player and television station manager. She is of part...
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Paula Kelly
Paula Kelly (b. October 21, 1943, Jacksonville, Florida) is an dancer and actress in motion pictures and television.
Daughter of a jazz musician, Kelly was raised in New York City's Harlem where she attended the Fiorello H. LaGuardia High School of...
Phyllis Frelich
Phyllis Frelich (born February 29, 1944) is an American actress and is one of the most noted deaf actresses in the United States.
Frelich was born in Devils Lake, North Dakota to deaf parents and is the oldest of 9 children (all of whom are also...
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Holly Hunter
Holly P. Hunter (born March 20, 1958) is an American actress. Her films include Raising Arizona, Broadcast News, Always, and The Piano for which she won several acting awards, including an Academy Award for Best Actress. She stars in the cable...
Olympia Dukakis
Olympia Dukakis (born June 20, 1931) is an American actress.
Dukakis was born in Lowell, Massachusetts, the daughter of Alexandra (née Christos) and Constantine S. Dukakis. Her parents were Greek immigrants to the United States, her father from...
Elizabeth Wilson
Elizabeth Welter Wilson (born April 4, 1921) is an American Tony Award-winning actress. She was elected to the Theatre Hall of Fame in 2007.
Wilson was born in Grand Rapids, Michigan, the daughter of Marie Ethel (née Welter) and Henry Dunning Wilson...
