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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Drama Series
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.
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Gillian Anderson
Gillian Leigh Anderson (born August 9, 1968) is an Emmy, Golden Globe, and SAG winning actress, best known for her roles as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully in the American TV series The X-Files, Moro in the English dub of Princess Mononoke, Lily Bart...
Barbara Stanwyck
Barbara Stanwyck (July 16, 1907 – January 20, 1990) was an American actress, a star of film and television, known during her 60-year career as a consummate and versatile professional with a strong screen presence, and a favorite of directors such as...
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...
Loretta Young
Loretta Young (January 6, 1913 – August 12, 2000) was an American actress.
She was born in Salt Lake City, Utah as Gretchen Young, of Luxembourgian descent.At confirmation, she took the name Michaela. She and her family moved to Hollywood when she...
Agnes Moorehead
Agnes Robertson Moorehead (December 6, 1900 – April 30, 1974) was an American actress. Although she began with the Mercury Theatre, appeared in more than seventy films beginning with Citizen Kane and on dozens of television shows during a career...
Edie Falco
Edith "Edie" Falco (pronounced /ˈiːdi ˈfælkoʊ/; born July 5, 1963) is an American television, film and stage actress, known for her lead roles as both Carmela Soprano on the HBO series The Sopranos, and the titular character on the Showtime series ...
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...
Sally Field
Sally Margaret Field (born November 6, 1946) is an American actress. She became a household name at the age of 20 as Sister Bertrille in the 1960s sitcom The Flying Nun. She has won two Academy Awards, one for Norma Rae in 1979, and another for...
Susan Hampshire
Susan Hampshire, Lady Kulukundis, OBE (born on 12 May 1937 in London) is an English actress best known for her many television and film roles. Her appeal has always been that of an "English rose".
Susan Hampshire was born in 1937, the youngest of...
Patricia Arquette
Patricia T. Arquette (born April 8, 1968) is an American actress and director, perhaps best known as the star of the supernatural drama series Medium.
Arquette was born in Chicago, Illinois, the daughter of Brenda "Mardi" Olivia (née Nowak), an...
Mariska Hargitay
Mariska Magdolina Hargitay (born January 23, 1964) is an American actress, best known for her role as Detective Olivia Benson on the television program Law & Order: Special Victims Unit. Hargitay is a winner of a Golden Globe Award and an Emmy Award...
Barbara Bain
Barbara Bain (born 13 September 1931) is an American actress.
Bain was born into a Jewish family in Chicago, Illinois. She graduated from the University of Illinois with a Bachelor's Degree in Sociology and moved to New York City where she was a...
Allison Janney
Allison Brooks Janney (born November 19, 1959) is an American actress, best known for her role as C. J. Cregg on the television series The West Wing.
Janney was born in Dayton, Ohio, the daughter of Macy (née Putnam), a former actress and homemaker,...
Tyne Daly
Tyne Daly (born February 21, 1946) is an American stage and screen actress, widely known for her work as Detective Lacey in the television series Cagney and Lacey. She won the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical in...
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...
Sela Ward
Sela Ann Ward (born July 11, 1956) is an American movie and television actress, perhaps best known for her television roles as the free-spirited "Teddy Reed" on the American TV series Sisters (1991-96) and the single mother Lily Manning on Once and...
Sharon Gless
Sharon Marguerite Gless (born May 31, 1943) is an American character actress of stage, who is best known for her roles as Maggie Philbin on Switch (1975-1978), as Sgt. Christine Cagney in the police procedural drama series Cagney & Lacey (1982–1988)...
Lindsay Wagner
Lindsay Jean Wagner (born June 22, 1949) is an American actress. She is probably most widely known for her portrayal of Jaime Sommers in the 1970s television series The Bionic Woman (for which she won an Emmy award), though she has maintained a...
Dana Delany
Dana Welles Delany (born March 13, 1956) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She is known for her role as Colleen McMurphy on the ABC television show China Beach (1988–91), in more recent times as Katherine Mayfair on Desperate...
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...
Patricia Wettig
Patricia Wettig (born December 4, 1951) is an American actress and playwright. She is best known for her roles in the television series' Thirtysomething, Prison Break and Brothers & Sisters. In film, she is known for her role in City Slickers....
Ellen Corby
Ellen Corby (June 3, 1911 – April 14, 1999) was an American actress. She is most widely remembered for the role of "Grandma Esther Walton" on the CBS television series The Waltons, for which she won three Emmy Awards.
Corby was born Ellen Hansen in...
Michael Learned
Michael Learned (born April 9, 1939) is an American actress known for her role as Olivia Walton on The Waltons.
Learned was born in Washington, D.C., but lived on a farm with her five sisters for the first ten years of her life. She was named...
Jean Marsh
Jean Lyndsey Torren Marsh (born 1 July 1934) is an English actress, occasional screenwriter, and co-creator of the television series Upstairs, Downstairs and The House of Eliott.
Marsh received an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama...
Gail Fisher
Gail Fisher (August 18, 1935 – December 2, 2000) was an American actress who was one of the first African American women to play substantive roles in American television. She was best known for playing the role of secretary "Peggy Fair" on the...
Barbara Babcock
Barbara Babcock (born February 27, 1937 in Pasadena, California) is an American actress who works primarily on television.
Although she was born in the United States, she spent a large part of her childhood in Tokyo, Japan, because her father Conrad...
Mariette Hartley
Mary Loretta "Mariette" Hartley (born June 21, 1940) is an American character actress.
Hartley was born in Weston, Connecticut, the daughter of Mary Ickes “Polly” (née Watson), a manager and saleswoman, and Paul Hembree Hartley, an account executive...
Kathy Baker
Katherine Whitton "Kathy" Baker (born June 8, 1950) is an American character actress.
Baker was born in Midland, Texas, the daughter of French-born Helene Andree "Lany" (née Whitton) and John Seawand Baker, who was a geologist and educator. She was...
Barbara Bel Geddes
Barbara Bel Geddes (October 31, 1922 – August 8, 2005) was an American actress, artist and children's author. She is best known for her role in the television drama series Dallas as matriarch Eleanor "Miss Ellie" Ewing. Bel Geddes also starred in...
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...
Kathryn Walker
Kathryn Walker (born January 9, 1943 in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania is an American theater, television and film actress. She was married to singer James Taylor from 1985 to 1995 and was with Douglas Kenney for many years up until his untimely death...
