Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama is a Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The award honors the best performance by an actress in a drama television series.

It was first awarded at the 19th Golden Globe Awards on March 5, 1962 under the title Best TV Star – Female, encompassing performances in comedy and drama television series, to Pauline Frederick. The nominees for the award announced annually starting in 1963. In 1969, the award was split into the drama and comedy categories, presented under the new title Best TV Actress – Drama and in 1980 under its current title.

Since its inception, the award has been given to 50 actresses. Angela Lansbury has won the most awards in this category, winning four times, and received ten nominations for the awards, the most in the category; all of her wins were for the series Murder, She Wrote, which therefore holds the record for series with the most wins in the category. The record for series with the most different actresses winning the award is held by The Crown, for which three actors each won the award once: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Emma Corrin.

Winners and nominees

Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.

Donna Reed was the second recipient of the award, winning for her performance on The Donna Reed Show.

Anne Francis won in 1966 for her performance on Honey West as the titular character.

Diahann Carroll (pictured left) won the award in 1969 before the category was split, receiving another nomination in the comedy category in 1970.

1960s

Linda Cristal won in 1970 for her role as Victoria Montoya on The High Chaparral.

Michael Learned received four nominations for her performance on The Waltons as Olivia Walton.

Lee Remick won the award twice for her performances on the television movie The Blue Night and the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill.

Angie Dickinson won in 1975 for her role as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on Police Woman.

Sada Thompson was nominated three times for her role as Kate Lawrence on Family.

Kate Jackson was nominated four times for the award, three of them for her performance on Charlie's Angels.

1970s

Joan Collins won in 1983 for her role as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty.

Stefanie Powers was nominated five times for her role as Jennifer Hart on Hart to Hart.

Sharon Gless has received seven nominations for the award, winning twice for her performance on Cagney & Lacey and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill.

Angela Lansbury was nominated ten times for the award, winning four times for her role as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote.

Patricia Wettig won in 1991 for her performance on thirtysomething.

Kathy Baker received three nominations for the award, winning in 1994 for her role as Jill Brock on Picket Fences.

Gillian Anderson won in 1997 and received three more nominations for her performance on The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully.

Keri Russell won the award for her portrayal of Felicity Porter on Felicity.

Edie Falco won twice and received five more nominations for her role as Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos.

Sela Ward won the award for her performance on Once and Again as Lily Manning.

Jennifer Garner won in 2002 for her portrayal of Sydney Bristow on Alias.

Anna Paquin won once out of two nominations for her performance on True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse.

Julianna Margulies received nine nominations for the award, the second most in the category, winning in 2010 for her portrayal of Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife.

Claire Danes won the award three times for her performances on My So-Called Life and Homeland.

Robin Wright won the award for her portrayal of Claire Underwood on House of Cards.

Taraji P. Henson won the award for her role as Cookie Lyon on Empire.

1980s

1990s

2000s

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

Multiple wins

Multiple nominations

Firsts

• Diahann Carroll became the first actress of African descent to win, when she won at the 26th Golden Globe Awards in 1969.
• Linda Cristal became the first actress of Latin American descent to win, when she won at the 27th Golden Globe Awards in 1970.
• Yoko Shimada became the first actress of Asian descent to win, when she won at the 38th Golden Globe Awards in 1981.
• Michaela Jaé Rodriguez became the first transgender actress to win, when she won at the 79th Golden Globe Awards in 2022.

See also

• TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
• Critics' Choice Television Award for Best Actress in a Drama Series
• Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series
• Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series

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