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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Comedy Series
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Joan Blondell
Rose Joan Blondell (August 30, 1906 – December 25, 1979) was an American actress.
After winning a beauty pageant, Blondell embarked upon a film career. Establishing herself as a sexy wisecracking blonde, she was a pre-Hays Code staple of Warner...
Jean Hagen
Jean Hagen (August 3, 1923 - August 29, 1977) was an American film actress.
Hagen was born as Jean Shirley Verhagen in Chicago, Illinois, to Dutch immigrant Christian Verhagen (10 August 1890 - April 1983) and his Chicago-born wife, Marie (b. 25 May...
Bea Benaderet
Bea Benaderet (April 4, 1906 – October 13, 1968) was an American actress, born in New York City and raised in San Francisco, California. Sometimes credited as Bea Benadaret, she is best remembered for starring in the 1960s television series...
Nanette Fabray
Nanette Fabray (born October 27, 1920) is an American film, television and musical theatre actress. She is the aunt of actress/singer Shelley Fabares.
Born as Nanette Ruby Bernadette Fabares in San Diego, California, she overcame a significant...
Audrey Meadows
Audrey Meadows (February 8, 1922 – February 3, 1996) was an American actress best known for her role as the deadpan housewife Alice Kramden on the 1950s American television comedy The Honeymooners.
Born as Audrey Cotter in Wu-ch'ang, China, the...
Vivian Vance
Vivian Vance (July 26, 1909 – August 17, 1979) was an American award winning television and theater actress and singer. Often referred to as “TV’s most beloved second banana,” she is best known for her role as Ethel Mertz, sidekick to Lucille Ball...
Pat Carroll
Patricia Ann “Pat” Carroll (born May 5, 1927) is an American actress. She has performed in numerous stage productions, but is best known for her roles as "Bunny Halper" on The Danny Thomas Show, as Shirley Feeney's mother on Laverne and Shirley and...
Gracie Allen
Grace Ethel Cecile Rosalie Allen (July 26, 1895 – August 27, 1964), better known as Gracie Allen, was an American comedienne who became internationally famous as the zany partner and comic foil of husband George Burns. For contributions to the...
ZaSu Pitts
ZaSu Pitts (January 3, 1894 – June 7, 1963) (pronounced /ˈzeɪsuː ˈpɪts/) was an American film actress who starred in many silent dramas, although later, her career digressed to comedy sound films. She overcame her unglamorous looks and wallflower...
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Elinor Donahue
Elinor Donahue (born April 19, 1937, as Mary Eleanor Donahue in Tacoma, Washington, USA, North America) is an American actress. The naturally red-headed Donahue played Robert Young's eldest/popular daughter, Betty Anderson, on the 1950s sitcom,...
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Verna Felton
Verna Felton (July 20, 1890, Salinas, California – December 14, 1966, Hollywood, California) was an Emmy-nominated American actress who was best-known for providing many female voices in numerous Disney animated films, as well as voicing Fred...
Rosemary DeCamp
Rosemary DeCamp (November 14, 1910 - February 20, 2001) was an American film and television actress.
DeCamp made her film debut in Cheers for Miss Bishop and appeared in many Warner Bros. films, including Eyes in the Night, Yankee Doodle Dandy...
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Ann B. Davis
Ann Bradford Davis (born May 3, 1926) is an American television actress.
Davis achieved prominence for her role in The Bob Cummings Show for which she twice won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series. She later played...
Kathleen Nolan
Kathleen Nolan (born Jocelyn Schrum on September 27, 1933) is an American actress.
Born in St. Louis, Missouri, she achieved fame as the first female President of the Screen Actors Guild (1975 – 1979, two terms). She won a Women in Film Crystal...
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Thelma Ritter
Thelma Ritter (February 14, 1902 – February 5, 1969) was an American supporting and character actress from the 1940s until her death in 1969.
Ritter was born in Brooklyn, New York in 1902. After appearing in high school plays and stock companies,...
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...
Alice Pearce
Alicia “Alice” Pearce (October 16, 1917 – March 3, 1966) was an American actress. Brought to Hollywood by Gene Kelly to reprise her Broadway performance in the film version of On the Town (1949), Pearce played comedic supporting roles in several...
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Rose Marie
Rose Marie (born August 15, 1923) is an American actress. As a child performer she had a successful singing career as Baby Rose Marie.
A veteran of vaudeville, Rose Marie's career includes film, theater, night clubs, and television. Her most famous...
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Nancy Kulp
Nancy Jane Kulp (August 28, 1921 - February 3, 1991) was an American actress best known as "Miss Jane Hathaway" on the popular television series The Beverly Hillbillies.
Kulp was born into an upper middle-class family in Harrisburg, Pennsylvania....
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Frances Bavier
Frances Elizabeth Bavier (December 14, 1902 – December 6, 1989) was an American stage and television actress. Originally from the New York theatre, Bavier worked in film and television from the 1950s. She played the continuing role of Aunt Bee on...
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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...
Lucille Ball
Lucille Désirée Ball (August 6, 1911 – April 26, 1989) was an American comedienne, film, television, stage and radio actress, model, film and television executive, and star of the sitcoms I Love Lucy, The Lucy-Desi Comedy Hour, The Lucy Show and...
Marion Lorne
Marion Lorne MacDougall (August 12, 1883 – May 9, 1968) was an American actress. After a career in theatre in New York and London, Lorne made her first film in 1951, and for the remainder of her life, played small roles in films and television. Her...
Marge Redmond
Marge Redmond (born December 14, 1930, Cleveland, Ohio) is an American actress.
Redmond was the first wife of the late actor Jack Weston, with whom she developed her acting craft at the Cleveland Play House after they married in 1950. Their...
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Nita Talbot
Nita Talbot (born August 8, 1930) is an American actress. Talbot is a durable leading lady who spent the first decade or so of her career playing "slick chicks" and sharp-witted career girls, but is perhaps best known for her role as the White...
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Renee Taylor
Renée Taylor (born March 19, 1933) is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing Fran Drescher’s outspoken mother, Sylvia Fine, on the TV series The Nanny.
Taylor was born Renée Wechsler in The Bronx, New York City. During 1992-1994, she...
Lurene Tuttle
Lurene Tuttle (August 29, 1907, Pleasant Lake, Indiana - May 28, 1986, Encino, California) was a character actress, who made transitions from vaudeville to radio, to films and television. Her most enduring impact was in radio drama as one of network...
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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...
Karen Valentine
Karen Valentine (born May 25, 1947, Sebastopol, California) is an American actress of Italian and Portuguese extraction. She is best-known for her role as school teacher "Alice Johnson" in the TV series Room 222.
Valentine grew up on a Northern...
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...
Carol Kane
Carolyn Laurie "Carol" Kane (born June 18, 1952) is an American actress, known for her work on stage, screen and television.
Kane was born in Cleveland, Ohio, the daughter of Joy, a jazz singer, teacher, dancer, and pianist, and Michael Kane, an...
Jessica Walter
Jessica Walter (born January 31, 1941) is an American actress, known for the film Play Misty for Me and for her role as Lucille Bluth on the sitcom Arrested Development. She recently had a starring role for the first half of season 1 of 90210....
Anne Meara
Anne Meara (born September 20, 1929) is an American comedian and actress. She and Jerry Stiller were a prominent 1960s comedy team, appearing as Stiller and Meara, and are the parents of actor/comedian Ben and actress Amy Stiller.
Meara was born in...
Sandy Duncan
Sandra Kay "Sandy" Duncan (born February 20, 1946) is an American singer and actress of stage and television. Her most notable trademarks are her pixie cut blonde hairdo and her perky demeanor. Among her most prominent roles are the title role in...
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...
Mary Kay Place
Mary Kay Place (born September 23, 1947) is an American actress, singer, director and screen writer.
Place was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the daughter of Bradley E. Place. She graduated from Nathan Hale High School and the University of Tulsa, where...
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Julie Kavner
Julie Deborah Kavner (born September 7, 1950) is an American film and television actress, comedienne and voice artist. Noted for her role as Marge Simpson on the animated television series The Simpsons, she also voices other characters for the show,...
Valerie Harper
Valerie Harper (born August 22, 1939) is an American actress, best known for her role as Rhoda Morgenstern on the 1970s television show The Mary Tyler Moore Show, and its spin-off, Rhoda.
Harper was born in Suffern, New York at Good Samaritan...
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...
Jayne Meadows
Jayne Meadows (born September 27, 1920) is an American stage, film and television actress.
Jayne Meadows was born as Jayne Cotter in Wu-ch'ang (now Wuchang), in Heilongjiang, China, to Episcopal missionary parents, the Rev. Francis James Meadows...
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...
Sally Struthers
Sally Ann Struthers (born July 28, 1948) is an American actress and spokeswoman, known for her roles in sitcoms and television, particularly that of Gloria Bunker Stivic, the daughter of Archie and Edith Bunker (played by Carroll O'Connor and Jean...
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...
Polly Holliday
Polly Dean Holliday (born July 2, 1937; Jasper, Alabama) is an American actress. She has successfully appeared on stage, television and in film. She is best remembered for her portrayal of sassy waitress "Flo" on the 1970s sitcom Alice, and its...
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...
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....
Loni Anderson
Loni Kaye Anderson (born August 5, 1945) is an American actress best known for her role as Jennifer Marlowe on the television sitcom WKRP in Cincinnati and as a former wife of Burt Reynolds (from 1988–93). Her divorce from Reynolds was a bitter,...
Andrea Martin
Andrea Louise Martin (born January 15, 1947) is an American actress and comedienne.
Martin, the oldest of three children, was born in Portland, Maine, of Armenian heritage, in 1947. Her father owned Martins, a grocery store. Her early success was...
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Loretta Swit
Loretta Swit (born November 4, 1937) is an American stage and television actress known for her character roles. The naturally blonde Swit is best-known for her two-time Emmy-winning portrayal of Major Margaret "Hot Lips" Houlihan on M*A*S*H.
Swit...
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...
Inga Swenson
Inga Swenson (born December 29, 1932; Omaha, Nebraska) is an Emmy award and Golden Globe-nominated American actress.
Swenson was a member of Alpha Phi sorority at Northwestern University where she studied in their famed Drama Department. Swenson is...
Marla Gibbs
Marla Gibbs (born June 14, 1931 in Chicago, Illinois) is an African-American television and film actress.
She is best known for her role as Isabel Sanford's and Sherman Hemsley's sarcastic maid, Florence Johnston, on The Jeffersons and its short...
Selma Diamond
Selma Diamond (August 5, 1920 – May 13, 1985) was an Canadian-born American comic actress and radio and television writer, is known best for her high-range, raspy voice and her portrayal of Selma Hacker on the first two seasons of the NBC television...
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Lisa Bonet
Lisa Michelle Bonet (born November 16, 1967) is an American actress. She is best known for portraying the character of Denise Huxtable on The Cosby Show and its spinoff A Different World.
After being in beauty pagents and appearing in guest spots on...
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Jane Krakowski
Jane Krakowski (born October 11, 1968) is an American actress and singer. She is known in television for her roles as Elaine Vassal on Ally McBeal and Jenna Maroney on 30 Rock, and in the theatre for her role in Nine.
Krakowski was born Jane...
Keshia Knight Pulliam
Keshia Knight Pulliam (born April 9, 1979) is an American actress. She is most recognized for her childhood role as Rudy Huxtable, the youngest child of Heathcliff and Clair Huxtable, on the popular NBC sitcom The Cosby Show. Currently, she appears...
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Ann Sothern
Ann Sothern (January 22, 1909 – March 15, 2001) was an American film and television actress with a career spanning six decades.
Sothern was born Harriette Arlene Lake in Valley City, North Dakota, but was raised in Minneapolis, Minnesota, where she...
Justine Bateman
Justine Tanya Bateman (born February 19, 1966) is an American actress. Her most well-known role was that of Mallory Keaton on the sitcom Family Ties from 1982 until 1989.
Bateman was born in Rye, New York, United States, to Victoria, a flight...
