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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie
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Helen Hayes
Helen Hayes (October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993) was an American actress whose career spanned almost 70 years. She eventually garnered the nickname "First Lady of the American Theatre" and was one of only ten people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an...
Lynn Fontanne
Lynn Fontanne (6 December 1887 – 30 July 1983) was a British actress and major stage star in the United States for over 40 years, who with her husband Alfred Lunt was part of the most acclaimed acting team in the history of the American theater....
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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Katharine Hepburn
Katharine Houghton Hepburn (May 12, 1907 – June 29, 2003) was an American actress of film, television and stage.
Hepburn holds the record for the most Best Actress Oscar wins with four, from 12 nominations. Hepburn won an Emmy Award in 1976 for her...
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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...
Ruth Hussey
Ruth Hussey (October 30, 1911 – April 19, 2005) was an American actress best known for her Academy Award-nominated role as photographer Elizabeth Imbrie in The Philadelphia Story.
Hussey was born Ruth Carol O'Rourke in Providence, Rhode Island in...
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...
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Teresa Wright
Teresa Wright (October 27, 1918 – March 6, 2005) was an American actress.
She was born Muriel Teresa Wright in Harlem, New York City, the daughter of Martha (née Espy) and Arthur Wright, who was an insurance agent. She grew up in Maplewood, New...
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Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman (29 August 1915 – 29 August 1982) was a Swedish actress noted for her starring roles in American films. She won three Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards, and the Tony Award for Best Actress. She is ranked as the fourth greatest female...
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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...
Ethel Waters
Ethel Waters (October 31, 1896 – September 1, 1977) was an American blues and jazz vocalist and actress.
She frequently performed jazz, big band, rock and roll and pop music, on the Broadway stage and in concerts, although she began her career in...
Ethel Barrymore
Ethel Barrymore (August 15, 1879 – June 18, 1959) was an American actress and a member of the famous Barrymore family.
Ethel Barrymore was born Ethel Mae Blythe in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the second child of the actors Maurice Barrymore (whose...
Anne Baxter
Anne Baxter (May 7, 1923 – December 12, 1985) was an American actress known for her performances in films such as All About Eve, The Razor's Edge and The Ten Commandments.
Baxter was born in Michigan City, Indiana to Kenneth Stuart Baxter and...
Shelley Winters
Shelley Winters (August 18, 1920 – January 14, 2006) was an American actress who appeared in dozens of films, as well as on stage and television.
Winters was born Shirley Schrift in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Jewish parents Rose (née...
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Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth (August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992) was an American actress.
Primarily a theatre actress, Booth's Broadway career began in 1925. Her most significant success was as Lola Delaney, in the drama Come Back, Little Sheba, for which she...
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...
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...
Claire Trevor
Claire Trevor (March 8, 1910 - April 8, 2000) was an American actress. She was nicknamed the "Queen of Film Noir" because of her many appearances in "bad girl” roles in film noir and other black-and-white thrillers. She appeared in over 60 films....
Beverly Garland
Beverly Garland (October 17, 1926 – December 5, 2008) was an American film and television actress, businesswoman and hotel owner. Garland gained prominence for her role as Fred MacMurray's second wife, "Barbara Harper Douglas," in the 1960s sitcom,...
Mary Martin
Mary Virginia Martin (December 1, 1913 – November 3, 1990) was an American actress. She originated many roles over her career including Nellie Forbush in South Pacific and Maria in The Sound of Music. She was named a Kennedy Center Honoree in 1989....
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Nancy Kelly
Nancy Kelly (March 25, 1921 – January 2, 1995) was an American actress, who was a major movie leading lady in the 1930s, making 36 movies between 1926 and 1977, including portraying Tyrone Power's love interest in the classic Jesse James (1939),...
Mildred Dunnock
Mildred Dunnock (January 25, 1901 - July 5, 1991) was an American theater, film and television actress.
Born in Baltimore, Maryland, Dunnock was a school teacher who did not start acting until she was in her early thirties. She attended Goucher...
Hope Lange
Hope Elise Ross Lange (November 28, 1933 – December 19, 2003) was an American stage, film, and television actress.
Lange was born into a theatrical family in Redding, Connecticut. Her father, John George Lange (1885–1942), was a musician (cellist)...
Edna Best
Edna Best (3 March 1900 – 18 September 1974) was a British actress.
Born in Hove, England, Best entered films in 1921. She is best remembered for her role as the mother in the original 1934 film version of Alfred Hitchcock's The Man Who Knew Too...
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Gracie Fields
Dame Gracie Fields, DBE (9 January 1898 – 27 September 1979), born Grace Stansfield, was an English-born, later Italian-based actress, singer and comedienne widely hailed as one of the greatest stars of both cinema and music hall.
Born over a fish...
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Evelyn Rudie
Evelyn Rudie (b. March 28, 1949, Los Angeles, California) is a playwright, director, songwriter, film and television actress and teacher. Since 1973, she has been the co-artistic director of the Santa Monica Playhouse. As an award-winning costume...
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Shirley MacLaine
Shirley MacLaine (born April 24, 1934) is an American film and theater actress, dancer, activist, and author, well-known for her beliefs in new age spirituality and reincarnation. She has written a large number of autobiographical works, many...
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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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Geraldine Page
Geraldine Sue Page (November 22, 1924 – June 13, 1987) was an Academy Award-winning American actress. Although she starred in at least two dozen feature films, she is primarily known for her celebrated work in the American theater.
Page was born in...
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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...
Geraldine Brooks
Geraldine Brooks (born Geraldine Stroock, October 29, 1925 — June 19, 1977) was an American actress whose three-decade career on stage as well as in films and on television was noted with nominations for an Emmy in 1962 and a Tony in 1970.
She is...
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Inger Stevens
Inger Stevens (October 18, 1934 – April 30, 1970) was a Swedish-American movie and TV actress. She was born in Stockholm, Sweden.
Growing up in Sweden, Stevens was an insecure and often ill child. She was 9 years old when her parents divorced, and...
Diana Sands
Diana Sands (August 22, 1934- September 2, 1973) was an American dramatic actress, perhaps most famous for her portrayal of Beneatha Younger, the sister of Sidney Poitier's character in the original film version of Lorraine Hansberry's Raisin in the...
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Bethel Leslie
Bethel Leslie (August 3, 1929 - November 28, 1999) was an American theatre, film, and television actress and a screenwriter.
Born in New York City, Leslie was discovered by George Abbott, who cast her in the play Snafu in 1944. Over the next four...
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Simone Signoret
Simone Signoret (French pronunciation: [simɔn siɲɔˈʀɛ]) (25 March 1921 – 30 September 1985) was a French cinema actress often hailed as one of France's greatest movie stars. She became the first French person to win an Academy Award, for her role in...
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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Eartha Kitt
Eartha Mae Kitt (January 17, 1927 – December 25, 2008) was an American actress, singer, and cabaret star. She was perhaps best known for her highly distinctive singing style and her 1953 hit Christmas song "Santa Baby". Orson Welles once called her...
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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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Edith Evans
Dame Edith Mary Evans DBE (8 February 1888 – 14 October 1976) was an actress who was known for her work on the British stage. She also appeared in a number of films, for which she received three Academy Award nominations, plus a BAFTA and a Golden...
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Mildred Natwick
Mildred Natwick (June 19, 1905 – October 25, 1994) was an American stage and film actress.
A native of Baltimore, Maryland, after graduating from Bennett College with a degree in theater arts, Mildred Natwick toured with a number of stage...
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...
Anne Jackson
Anne Jackson (born September 3, 1926) is an American actress of television, stage, and screen.
Jackson was born Anna June Jackson in Allegheny, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Stella Germaine (née Murray) and John Ivan Jackson, who was a beautician....
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Jane Fonda
Jane Fonda (born December 21, 1937) is an American actress, writer, political activist, former fashion model and fitness guru. She rose to fame in the 1960s with films such as Barbarella and Cat Ballou and, excluding a 15 year hiatus, has appeared...
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Susannah York
Susannah York (born 9 January 1939) is an English film, stage and television actress.
York was born as Susannah Yolande Fletcher in Chelsea, London in 1939. The daughter of businessman Simon William Peel Vickers Fletcher and his wife Joan Nita Mary...
Geneviève Bujold
Geneviève Bujold (born on July 1, 1942, in Montréal, Québec) is a Canadian actress. She is best known for portraying Anne Boleyn in Anne of the Thousand Days (1969).
Issued from a French-Canadian working-class family, Bujold was the daughter of...
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...
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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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...
Margaret Tyzack
Margaret Maud Tyzack OBE (born 9 September 1931), is an award-winning British actress.
Tyzack was born in Essex, England, the daughter of Doris (née Moseley) and Thomas Edward Tyzack. She grew up in West Ham (now Greater London). She attended the...
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Vivien Heilbron
Vivien Heilbron (born 13 May 1944 in Glasgow) is a Scottish actress.
Heilbron achieved fame in her homeland by appearing in the 1971 BBC Scotland television adaption of Lewis Grassic Gibbon's Sunset Song, in the lead role of Chris Guthrie. "The...
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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...
Elizabeth Montgomery
Elizabeth Victoria Montgomery (April 15, 1933 – May 18, 1995) was an American film and television actress whose career spanned five decades. She is best remembered for her roles as Samantha Stephens in Bewitched, as Ellen Harrod in A Case of Rape...
Jeanette Nolan
Jeanette Nolan (December 30, 1911 – June 5, 1998) was an American actress, born in Los Angeles, California.
Miss Nolan was a graduate of Abraham Lincoln High School in Los Angeles. She began her acting career at the Pasadena Community Playhouse and,...
Glenda Jackson
Glenda May Jackson, CBE (born 9 May 1936) is an English actress and politician, currently Labour Member of Parliament for the constituency of Hampstead and Highgate in the London Borough of Camden.
She was born in Birkenhead on the Wirral, where her...
