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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series
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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...
Hope Emerson
Hope Emerson (October 29, 1897 - April 25, 1960) was an American actress.
Emerson was born in Hawarden, Iowa. Following her graduation from West High School in Des Moines in 1916, she moved to New York City where she performed in vaudeville.
Emerson...
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...
Nina Foch
Nina Foch (April 20, 1924 - December 5, 2008) was a Dutch-born American actress and leading lady in many 1940s and 1950s films.
Nina Foch was born Nina Consuelo Maud Fock in Leiden, Holland. Her mother was American actress and singer Consuelo...
Amanda Blake
Amanda Blake (February 20, 1929 – August 16, 1989) was an American actress best known for the role of the red-haired saloon proprietress "Miss Kitty Russell" on the television drama Gunsmoke.
Born Beverly Louise Neill in Buffalo, New York, she was a...
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Lola Albright
Lola Jean Albright (born July 20, 1924, Akron, Ohio) is an American singer and actress.
Albright worked as a model before moving to Hollywood. She began her motion picture with a bit part in the 1948 film The Pirate, and followed it with important...
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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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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 Wickes
Mary Isabella Wickes (13 June 1910 – 22 October 1995) was an American film and television actress.
Wickes was born as Mary Isabelle Wickenhauser in St. Louis, Missouri, of German Irish Protestant extraction. She graduated at the age of eighteen with...
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Diane Baker
Diane Carol Baker (born February 25, 1938) is an American actress who has appeared in motion pictures and on television since 1959.
Baker was born and raised in Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, the daughter of Dorothy Helen Harrington, who...
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Pamela Franklin
Pamela Franklin (born 4 February 1950) is a British actress who appeared in films from 1961 until 1976.
Franklin was born in Yokohama, Japan, and grew up in the Far East, where her father was a trader. She was sent to the Elmhurst School of Ballet...
Ruth Warrick
Dame Ruth Elizabeth Warrick (June 29, 1915 – January 15, 2005), DM, OSJ, Regent of Cathedral of St. John the Divine, Dame of Honour and Merit by the Imperial Russian Order of Saint John of Jerusalem Ecumenical Foundation, was an American singer,...
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Tina Chen
Tina Chen is a Chinese American actress best known for her appearances in the films Alice's Restaurant, Three Days of the Condor and The Hawaiians. She was born in Chongqing, China. She is also known for her work on the television series Hawaii Five...
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Tessie O'Shea
Teresa “Tessie” O'Shea (13 March 1913 – 21 April 1995) was a Welsh entertainer and actress.
Born in Cardiff, O'Shea was raised in the tradition of British music hall, appearing on stage as "The Wonder of Wales", beside her cousin Adam Dionne, as...
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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...
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...
Linda Cristal
Linda Cristal (born Marta Victoria Moya Burges on 23 February 1934 in Rosario,Argentina) is an Argentinean actress. She is currently retired.
In 1960, Cristal had gone into semi-retirement to raise her two sons, when John Wayne coaxed her out to...
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...
Elena Verdugo
Elena Angela Verdugo (born April 20, 1925, Paso Robles, California) is an American actress who began in films at the age of six in Cavalier of the West (1931). Her career in radio, television, and film spanned six decades.
Verdugo made numerous film...
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...
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,...
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...
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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....
Angela Baddeley
Angela Baddeley, CBE (4 July 1904 – 22 February 1976), born Madeline Angela Clinton-Baddeley, was an English actress best remembered for her role as Mrs Bridges in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs. Baddeley also had a long and distinguished...
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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...
Lee Meriwether
Lee Ann Meriwether (born May 27, 1935) is Miss America 1955, and an American actress, appearing primarily in movies, soap operas and television. The brunette Meriwether is known as Buddy Ebsen's daughter-in-law and for her role as his crime-solving...
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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...
Jacqueline Tong
Jacqueline Tong (born 21 May 1951) is an English actress who is best known for playing Daisy Barnes in the period drama Upstairs, Downstairs from 1973 to 1975. In 1975, she was nominated for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series in the...
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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...
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...
Tovah Feldshuh
Terri Sue "Tovah" Feldshuh (born December 27, 1952) is an American actress, singer and playwright.
Feldshuh (pronounced feld-shoe) was born to a Jewish family in New York City, the daughter of Lillian (née Kaplan) and Sidney Feldshuh, who was a...
Linda Kelsey
Linda Kelsey (born on July 28, 1946 in St. Paul, Minnesota) is an American television actress.
Kelsey's professional career began with stage appearances in her home of St. Paul, Minnesota, with her good looks and striking mane of red hair winning...
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...
Barbara Barrie
Barbara Barrie (born May 23, 1931) is an American actress and author of children's books.
Barrie was born as Barbara Ann Berman in Chicago, Illinois, of Jewish heritage, the daughter of Frances Rose (née Boruszak) and Louis Berman. She was raised in...
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...
Joan Hackett
Joan Hackett (March 1, 1934 – October 8, 1983) was an American actress who appeared on stage, in films, and on television.
Born in New York City of Irish and Italian extraction, her immigrant parents raised her Roman Catholic and sent her to...
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...
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...
Allyce Beasley
Allyce Beasley (born July 6, 1954) is an American actress. She is known for her role as rhyming, love-struck receptionist Agnes DiPesto in the television series Moonlighting. For several years (as of 2007) she has been the announcer on Playhouse...
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Jeanne Cooper
Wilma Jeanne Cooper (born October 25, 1928 in Taft, California), best known as Jeanne Cooper, is an American actress best known for her portrayal of Katherine Chancellor on the daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless. Though she was not on the...
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....
Polly Draper
Polly Carey Draper (born June 15, 1956 in Gary, Indiana) is an American actress, screenwriter, playwright, producer and director. She first became known for her role on ABC's Thirtysomething. In 1998, Draper made her screenwriting debut for the film...
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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...
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....
Lena Olin
Lena Maria Jonna Olin (born March 22, 1955) is a Swedish actress.
Olin, the youngest of three children, was born in Stockholm, Sweden, the daughter of Britta Alice (née Holmberg), an actress and singer, and Stig Olin, a director, singer, composer,...
Amanda Plummer
Amanda Michael Plummer (born March 23, 1957) is an American actress.
Plummer was born in New York City, New York, the daughter of actors Tammy Grimes and Christopher Plummer. Plummer attended Middlebury College in Vermont and acting classes at the...
Michele Greene
Michele Dominguez Greene (b. February 3, 1962 in Las Vegas, Nevada, U.S.) is an American actress, singer, and songwriter, perhaps most well-known for her role as attorney Abigail "Abby" Perkins in L.A. Law from 1986 - 1991. She returned to that role...
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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...
Lorraine Bracco
Lorraine Bracco (born October 2, 1954) is an American actress. She is best known for her roles as Karen Hill in Goodfellas and Dr. Jennifer Melfi on the hit HBO TV series, The Sopranos.
Bracco was born in the Brooklyn, New York City neighborhood of...
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...
Sherilyn Fenn
Sherilyn Fenn (born February 1, 1965) is an Emmy and Golden Globe award-nominated American actress. She came to international attention for her performance on the 1990 cult TV series Twin Peaks. She is also known for her roles in Of Mice and Men,...
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Jill Eikenberry
Jill Eikenberry (born January 21, 1947) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as lawyer Ann Kelsey in L.A. Law (1986-1994), where she co-starred with her real-life husband Michael Tucker. She was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and...
Susan Ruttan
Susan Ruttan (born September 16, 1948, Oregon City, Oregon) is an American actress. She is best known for her role as Roxanne Melman, the motherly secretary of Arnie Becker (Corbin Bernsen) in L.A. Law (1986-1993). She reprised the role in 2002 for...
Diana Muldaur
Diana Muldaur (born August 19, 1938) is an American film and television actress.
Born in New York City, but raised in Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, Muldaur started acting in high school and continued on through college, graduating from Sweet...
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....
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...
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...
Meredith Baxter
Meredith Ann Baxter (born June 21, 1947), formerly Meredith Baxter Birney, is an American actress.
Baxter was born in South Pasadena, California, the daughter of actress and sitcom creator Whitney Blake and Tom Baxter, a radio announcer. Her...
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...
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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...
