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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Comedy Series
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Geraldine Fitzgerald
Geraldine Fitzgerald (November 24, 1913 – July 17, 2005) was an Irish-American actress and a member of the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Fitzgerald was born in Greystones, County Wicklow, south of Dublin, the daughter of Edith and Edward Fitzgerald...
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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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...
Debbie Reynolds
Debbie Reynolds (born Mary Frances Reynolds on April 1, 1932) is an American actress, singer, and dancer. She is also a collector of movie memorabilia. Reynolds was also an MGM contract star.
Reynolds was born in El Paso, Texas, the second child of...
Beah Richards
Beah Richards (July 12, 1920 – September 14, 2000) was an American actress of stage, screen and television. She was a poet, playwright and author.
Born Beulah Richardson in Vicksburg, Mississippi, her mother was a seamstress and PTA advocate and her...
Irene Hervey
Irene Hervey (July 11, 1909 – December 20, 1998) was an American television and film actress.
Born Beulah Irene Herwick in Venice, California, she began her acting career after being introduced to a casting agent from MGM. After a successful screen...
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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...
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...
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...
Brenda Vaccaro
Brenda Buell Vaccaro (born November 18, 1939) is an American stage, television and film actress.
Vaccaro was born in Brooklyn, New York, to Italian American parents Christine M. (née Pavia) and Mario A. Vaccaro (originally a lawyer), both of whom...
Marsha Mason
Marsha Mason (born April 3, 1942) is an American actress and television director.
Mason was born in St. Louis, Missouri, to Edward Marion Mason, Jr., and his wife Catharine Kentwood-Mason. She has a younger sister, Linda (b. 1943). She grew up on...
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Georgia Engel
Georgia Bright Engel (born July 28, 1948) is an American film, television, and stage actress.
Engel was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Ruth Caroline (née Hendron) and Benjamin Franklin Engel, who was a Coast Guard officer, eventually...
Nancy Walker
Nancy Walker (May 10, 1922 – March 25, 1992) was an American actress of stage, screen, and television. She also was a director of The Mary Tyler Moore Show, in which she was a co-star.
Born Anna Myrtle Swoyer in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United...
Bette Midler
Bette Midler (born December 1, 1945) is an American singer, actress and comedienne, also known (by her informal stage name) as The Divine Miss M. During her career, she has been nominated for two Academy Awards; and won four Grammy Awards, four...
Carol Burnett
Carol Creighton Burnett (born April 26, 1933) is an American actress, comedian, singer, dancer and writer. Burnett started her career in New York. After becoming a hit on Broadway, she debuted on television. After successful appearances on The Garry...
Jean Stapleton
Jean Stapleton (born Jeanne Murray, January 19, 1923 in New York City, New York) is an American character actress of stage, television and film. Stapleton is best known for her portrayal of Edith Baines Bunker, the long-suffering, yet devoted wife...
Eileen Brennan
Eileen Brennan (born September 3, 1932) is an American actress of film, television, and theater.
Brennan was born as Verla Eileen Regina Brennen in Los Angeles, California, daughter of Regina "Jeanne" Menehan, a silent film actress, and John Gerald...
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...
Susan Sarandon
Susan Sarandon (born October 4, 1946) is an American actress. She has worked in films and television since 1970, and won an Oscar for her performance in the 1995 film Dead Man Walking. She is also noted for her social and political activism for a...
Katherine Helmond
Katherine Marie Helmond (born July 5, 1928 in Galveston, Texas) is an American film, theater and television actress, who is famous for playing Jessica Tate on Soap, Mona Robinson on Who's the Boss?, and Debra Barone's mom on Everybody Loves Raymond....
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...
Whoopi Goldberg
Whoopi Goldberg (born Caryn Elaine Johnson; November 13, 1955) is an American actress, comedienne, singer-songwriter, activist, and media personality.
Goldberg made her film debut in The Color Purple (1985) playing Celie, a mistreated black woman in...
Marlee Matlin
Marlee Beth Matlin (born August 24, 1965) is an American actress. Deaf since she was 18 months old, she is the youngest woman to win the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Leading Role, which she won at the age of 21.
Matlin was born in Morton...
Shelley Long
Shelley Lee Long (born August 23, 1949) is an American actress.
Long was born in Fort Wayne, Indiana at 7:00 A.M. on Tuesday, August 23, 1949. The daughter of Evandine, a school teacher, and Leland Long, who worked in the rubber industry before...
Marlo Thomas
Margaret Julia “Marlo” Thomas (born November 21, 1937) is an American actress, who first achieved fame on the TV series That Girl in the 1960s.
Thomas was born in Detroit, Michigan, the daughter of Rose Marie (née Cassanti; 1914–2000) and Lebanese...
Clarice Taylor
Clarice Taylor (b. September 20, 1927, Buckingham County, Virginia) is an American stage, film and television actress.
She is best-known for her recurring role on television on The Cosby Show as Dr. Heathcliff "Cliff" Huxtable (Bill Cosby)'s mother,...
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Glenn Close
Glenn Close (born March 19, 1947) is an American actress and singer of stage and screen, perhaps best known for her role as deranged stalker Alex Forrest in Fatal Attraction (1987). She has been nominated five times for an Oscar, and has won three...
Gilda Radner
Gilda Susan Radner (June 28, 1946 – May 20, 1989) was an American comedienne and actress, best known for her five years as part of the original cast of the NBC sketch comedy series Saturday Night Live, for which she won an Emmy Award. Radner's death...
Christina Pickles
Christina Pickles (born February 17, 1935) is a British-born American actress. She has appeared in such television shows as Roseanne, Matlock, Diagnosis Murder and Murder, She Wrote, as well as the soap operas The Guiding Light and Another World....
Beatrice Arthur
Beatrice "Bea" Arthur (May 13, 1922 – April 25, 2009) was an American actress, comedian and singer whose career spanned seven decades. Arthur achieved fame as the character Maude Findlay on the 1970s sitcoms All in the Family and Maude, and as...
Lois Nettleton
Lois June Nettleton (August 6, 1927 – January 18, 2008) was an American actress of film, stage, and television. She was Miss Chicago of 1948 as well as a semifinalist at that year's Miss America Pageant.
Born in Oak Park, Illinois (near Chicago) to...
Maxine Stuart
Maxine Stuart (born June 28, 1918) is an American retired actress. She has appeared in numerous television series, including Chicago Hope, NYPD Blue and Trapper John, M.D..
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Kathy Bates
Kathleen Doyle "Kathy" Bates (born June 28, 1948) is an American actress and director.
After several small roles in film and television, Bates rose to prominence with her performance in Misery (1990), for which she won both the Academy Award for...
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Morgan Fairchild
Morgan Fairchild (born February 3, 1950) is an American actress. She achieved prominence during the late 1970s and early 1980s with continuing roles in several television series, in which she usually conveyed a glamorous image. Fairchild has also...
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Colleen Dewhurst
Colleen Dewhurst (June 3, 1924 – August 22, 1991) was a Canadian actress known for a while as "the Queen of Off-Broadway." Admired for her casual beauty, wide-armed emotional frankness and a voice as deep as a fog-horn, Dewhurst was a renowned...
Alexis Smith
Alexis Smith (June 8, 1921 – June 9, 1993) was a Canadian-born stage, film and television actress.
Born Gladys Smith in Penticton, British Columbia, Canada, Smith was raised in Los Angeles. She was signed to a contract by Warner Bros. after being...
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Georgia Brown
Georgia Brown (21 October 1933 – 5 July 1992) was a British singer and actress.
Born Lillian Claire Laizer Getel Klot in the East End of London to Mark and Anne Kirschenbaum Klot, Jewish immigrants to the United Kingdom, she was dispatched to Wales...
Georgia Brown
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Diane Ladd
Diane Ladd (born November 29, 1935) is an American actress, film director and producer. She has appeared in over 120 roles, in numerous popular TV shows or mini-series during 1958-2003, and several major feature films, including Alice Doesn't Live...
Bebe Neuwirth
Beatrice "Bebe" Neuwirth (born December 31, 1958) is an American actress, singer and dancer. She is probably best known for her portrayal of Dr. Lilith Sternin, Dr. Frasier Crane's wife and ex-wife, both on the TV sitcom Cheers (in a starring role),...
Betty White
Betty Marion White (born January 17, 1922) is an American actress, comedian and former television host with a career spanning over sixty-five years. Her television roles include Sue Ann Nivens on The Mary Tyler Moore Show and Rose Nylund on The...
Frances Sternhagen
Frances Hussey Sternhagen (born January 13, 1930) is an American actress. Sternhagen has appeared on and off Broadway, in movies and on TV since the 1950s.
Sternhagen was born in Washington, D.C., the daughter of Gertrude S. (née Wyckoff) and John...
Gwen Verdon
Gwenyth Evelyn “Gwen” Verdon (January 13, 1925 – October 18, 2000) was an American actress and dancer who won 4 Tony Awards for her musical comedy performances. With flaming red hair and an endearing quaver in her voice, Verdon was considered the...
Emma Thompson
Emma Thompson (born 15 April 1959) is an Academy Award-winning British actress, comedian, and screenwriter. She is also a patron of the Refugee Council.
Thompson was born in Paddington, London, England. Her father was the actor Eric Thompson, best...
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Marcia Wallace
Marcia Joan Wallace (born November 1, 1942; Creston, Iowa) is an American character actress, comedienne and game show panelist, primarily known for her roles in television situation comedies. A Delta Zeta alumna, she is perhaps best known for her...
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Liz Torres
Elizabeth "Liz" Torres (born September 27, 1947) is an actress, singer and comedienne of Puerto Rican descent.
Torres was born in the Bronx borough of New York City where her parents had settled after moving from Puerto Rico. There she received her...
Laurie Metcalf
Lauren Elizabeth "Laurie" Metcalf (born June 16, 1955) is an American actress. She is widely known for her performance as "Jackie Harris" on Roseanne. She is also a major force in Chicago theater, probably best known for her performance in the 1983...
JoBeth Williams
JoBeth Williams (born December 6, 1948) is an American television and film actress and director.
Williams was born as Margaret JoBeth Williams in Houston, Texas, the daughter of Frances Faye (née Adams), a dietitian, and Fredric Roger Williams, an...
Rosie O'Donnell
Roseann "Rosie" O'Donnell (born March 21, 1962) is an American stand-up comedian, actress, singer, author and media personality. She has also been a magazine editor and continues to be a celebrity blogger, LGBT rights activist, television producer...
Irene Worth
Irene Worth, Honorary CBE (June 23, 1916 - March 9, 2002) was an American stage and screen actress who became one of the leading stars of the English and American theatre. She pronounced her given name with three syllables -- "I-REE-nee" -- and...
Ellen DeGeneres
Ellen Lee DeGeneres (born January 26, 1958) is an American stand-up comedienne, television hostess and actress. She hosts the syndicated talk show The Ellen DeGeneres Show, and is also a judge on American Idol, having joined the show in its ninth...
Christine Baranski
Christine Jane Baranski (born May 2, 1952) is an American stage and screen actress.
Baranski was born in Buffalo, New York, the daughter of Virginia (née Mazurowski) and Lucien Baranski, who edited a Polish-language newspaper. She is of Polish...
Jan Hooks
Janice "Jan" Hooks (born April 23, 1957) is an American actress and comedian best known for her work on NBC's Saturday Night Live (SNL), on which she appeared from 1986 to 1991.
She was born in Decatur, Georgia, near Atlanta. Hooks began her career...
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Tracey Ullman
Tracey Ullman (born 30 December 1959) is an award-winning English stage and television actor, comedian, singer, dancer, screenwriter and author with American citizenship.
Her early appearances were on British TV sketch comedy shows A Kick Up the...
Laura Linney
Laura Leggett Linney (born February 5, 1964) is an American actress of film, television, and theatre. Linney has won three Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She has been nominated for the Academy Award three times and...
Cheri Oteri
Cheri Oteri (born September 19, 1962) is an American comic actress, best known for her roles as a cast member on Saturday Night Live from 1995 to 2000.
Oteri was born in Upper Darby, Pennsylvania. She grew up with three siblings in Upper Darby. She...
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Bernadette Peters
Bernadette Peters (born February 28, 1948) is an American actress and singer from New York City. Over the course of a career that has already spanned five decades, she has starred in musical theatre, films and television, as well as performing in...
Jami Gertz
Jami Beth Gertz (born October 28, 1965) is an American actress. Gertz is known for her early roles in the films The Lost Boys, Quicksilver, Less Than Zero, the 1980s TV series Square Pegs with Sarah Jessica Parker, 1996's Twister, as well as for her...
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Salma Hayek
Salma Valgarma Hayek Jiménez (born September 2, 1966) is a Mexican actress, director, and television and film producer. Hayek's charitable work includes increasing awareness on violence against women and discrimination against immigrants.
Hayek is...
Betty Garrett
Betty Garrett (born May 23, 1919) is an American actress, comedienne, singer, and dancer who began her career in the golden age of movie musicals. She is known for the roles she played in two prominent 1970s sitcoms: Archie Bunker's liberal neighbor...
