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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
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Blythe Danner
Blythe Katharine Danner (born February 3, 1943) is an Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress. She is the mother of actress Gwyneth Paltrow and director Jake Paltrow.
Danner was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, the daughter of Katharine and Harry...
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...
Jenny Agutter
Jennifer Ann Agutter (born 20 December 1952) is a BAFTA- and Emmy award-winning English actress best known in recent years for her role as Tessa Phillips in the British TV drama series Spooks (broadcast on American PBS television and released on DVD...
Julianna Margulies
Julianna Luisa Margulies (born June 8, 1966) is an American actress.
After several small television roles, Margulies achieved success in her continuing role as Nurse Carol Hathaway on the NBC medical drama ER, for which she won an Emmy Award. Since...
Doris Roberts
Doris May Roberts (born November 4, 1930) is an American actress, perhaps best known for playing Marie Barone on Everybody Loves Raymond.
Roberts was born in St. Louis, Missouri, the daughter of Larry and Ann Meltzer. Her father deserted the family...
Katherine Heigl
Katherine Marie Heigl (pronounced /ˈhaɪɡəl/; born November 24, 1978) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Dr. Izzie Stevens on Grey's Anatomy and her starring role in the movies Knocked Up, 27 Dresses and The Ugly Truth.
Heigl...
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,...
Drea de Matteo
Andrea Donna de Matteo (born January 19, 1972) is an American actress, best known for her roles as Adriana La Cerva on the HBO TV series The Sopranos, Wendy Case on the FX drama Sons of Anarchy, and as Joey Tribbiani's sister Gina on the NBC sitcom...
Stockard Channing
Stockard Channing (born February 13, 1944) is an American stage, film and television actress. She is known for her portrayal of First Lady Abbey Bartlet in the NBC television series The West Wing; for playing Betty Rizzo in the film Grease; and for...
Marg Helgenberger
Mary Marg Helgenberger (born November 16, 1958 in Fremont, Nebraska) is an American film and television actress, perhaps best known for her roles as Catherine Willows in the CBS drama CSI: Crime Scene Investigation, and as K.C. Koloski in the ABC...
Dianne Wiest
Dianne Wiest (born March 28, 1948) is an American actress. She has had a successful career on stage, television, and film, and has won two Academy Awards, two Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award. Wiest has also been nominated for a BAFTA Award....
Kristy McNichol
Christina Ann "Kristy" McNichol (born September 11, 1962) is an American former actress. She is best known for her roles as Leticia 'Buddy' Lawrence on the television drama series Family and as Barbara Weston on the sitcom Empty Nest. She is also...
Camryn Manheim
Camryn Manheim (born March 8, 1961) is an American actress known primarily for her roles as attorney Ellenor Frutt on ABC's The Practice and Delia Banks on CBS's Ghost Whisperer.
Manheim was born Debra Frances Manheim in Caldwell, New Jersey, but...
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...
Kim Delaney
Kim Delaney (born November 29, 1961) is an American actress, perhaps best known for her role as Detective Diane Russell on the ABC drama N.Y.P.D. Blue. Early in her career, she endeared herself to daytime television viewers as Jenny Gardner, a...
Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress.
Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to African American parents: Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior designer. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley...
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...
Susan Saint James
Susan Saint James (born August 14, 1946) is an American actress and activist, most widely known for her work in television during the 1960s, 1970s, and 1980s.
Born Susan Jane Miller in Los Angeles, California to a Connecticut family, Saint James was...
Nancy Marchand
Nancy Marchand (June 19, 1928 – June 18, 2000) was an American actress, whose career encompassed both stage and screen. She appeared in various theatre productions throughout the early 1950s, before being offered roles on film and television.
She...
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....
Madge Sinclair
Madge Dorita Sinclair (28 April 1938 – 20 December 1995) was a Jamaican American character actress.
Sinclair was born Madge Dorita Walters in Kingston, Jamaica, to Herbert and Jemima Walters. She was a teacher in Jamaica until 1968 when she left for...
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...
Melanie Mayron
Melanie Joy Mayron (born October 20, 1952) is an American actress and director. Mayron is well known for portraying the role of photographer Melissa Steadman on ABC's drama Thirtysomething.
Mayron was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania to Norma (née...
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...
Barbara Hale
Barbara Hale (born April 18, 1922) is an American actress best known for her role as Della Street, the loyal secretary of Perry Mason.
Hale was born in DeKalb, Illinois, the daughter of Willa (née Colvin) and Luther Ezra Hale, a landscape gardener....
Mary Alice
Mary Alice (born December 3, 1941) is an American Emmy- and Tony Award-winning actress.
Alice was born Mary Alice Smith in Indianola, Mississippi, the daughter of Ozelar (née Jurnakin) and Sam Smith. In 1987 she received a Tony for Best Featured...
Bonnie Bartlett
Bonnie Bartlett (born June 20, 1929) is an American television and film actress. Her career spans over 50 years, with her first major role being on a 1950s daytime drama, Love of Life. She is best known for her 1980s Emmy Award-winning role as Ellen...
Cherry Jones
Cherry Jones (born November 21, 1956) is an Emmy Award- and Tony Award-winning American actress.
Jones is most well known for her role as President Allison Taylor on the Fox series 24, for which she won an Emmy. However, she also has done extensive...
Betty Thomas
Betty Thomas (born July 27, 1948) is an American actress and director in television and motion pictures.
Born Betty Thomas Nienhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, Thomas graduated from Ohio University in Athens, Ohio, with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree....
Holland Taylor
Holland Taylor (born January 14, 1943) is an American actress known for her film, television and theatre work. Her television roles include Ruth Dunbar in Bosom Buddies, Dean Susan McMann on Saved by the Bell: The College Years, Judge Roberta...
Leigh Taylor-Young
Leigh Taylor-Young (born January 25, 1945) is an American actress who has appeared on stage, screen, and television.
Leigh Taylor-Young was born on January 25, 1945 in Washington, DC. Her last name is an amalgamation of the last names of her father,...
Valerie Mahaffey
Valerie Mahaffey (born on June 16, 1953) is an American actress who won an Emmy Award for her work on Northern Exposure. She later won fame through her portrayal of extroverted and friendly but ultimately insane women on the television shows Wings...
Joanna Miles
Joanna Miles (born March 6, 1940) is an American actress.
Miles was born in Nice, France, the daughter of Jeanne Miles, an American painter, and Johannes Schiefer, a French painter art curator. She immigrated to the United States, and was...
Barbara Anderson
Barbara Anderson (born 27 November 1945, in Brooklyn, New York, United States) is an American actress best-known for playing the character of Eve Whitfield in the television series Ironside and also for her appearances as secret agent Mimi Davis...
