Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series
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| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | |
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_(cropped).jpg) The 2024 recipient: Jamie Lee Curtis | |
| Awarded for | Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| First award | 1986 |
| Currently held by | Jamie Lee Curtis, The Bear (2024) |
| Website | emmys |
This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series.[1] Prior to 1989, the category was not gender-specific, and, thus, was called Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series. It is given in honor to an actress who has delivered an outstanding performance in a guest-starring role in a television comedy series. The current recipient is Jamie Lee Curtis for The Bear. Since the category change in 1989, a total of 34 actresses were awarded for their performances. The most awarded actress is Cloris Leachman, with 3 wins, followed by Tina Fey, Colleen Dewhurst, Kathryn Joosten, Jean Smart, Tracey Ullman, Betty White, and Maya Rudolph, with 2 wins. These awards, like the other "Guest" awards, were previously not presented at the Primetime Emmy Award ceremony, but, rather, at the Creative Arts Emmy Award ceremony.
Winners and nominations
Indicates the winner
1970s
| Year | Actress | Program | Role | Submitted episode(s) | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series | |||||
| 1975 (27th) [2] | |||||
| Zohra Lampert | Kojak | Marina Sheldon | "Queen of the Gypsies" | CBS | |
| Cloris Leachman | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Phyllis Lindstrom | "Phyllis Whips Inflation" | ||
| Shelley Winters | McCloud | Thelma | "The Barefoot Girls of Bleaker Street" | NBC | |
| 1976 (28th) | |||||
| Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Comedy or Drama Series[3] | |||||
| Kathryn Walker | The Adams Chronicles | Abigail Adams | "John Adams, Lawyer" | PBS | |
| Helen Hayes | Hawaii Five-O | Aunt Clara | "Retire In Sunny Hawaii... Forever" | CBS | |
| Sheree North | Marcus Welby, M.D. | June Monica | "How Do You Know What Hurts Me?" | ABC | |
| Pamela Payton-Wright | The Adams Chronicles | Louisa Catherine Adams | "John Quincy Adams, Diplomat" | PBS | |
| Martha Raye | McMillan & Wife | Agatha | "Greed" | NBC | |
| Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series[4] | |||||
| Fionnula Flanagan | Rich Man, Poor Man | Clothilde | "Part II" | ABC | |
| Ruth Gordon | Rhoda | Carlton's Mother | "Kiss Your Epaulets Goodbye" | CBS | |
| Eileen Heckart | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Flo Meredith | "Mary's Aunt" | ||
| Kim Darby | Rich Man, Poor Man | Virginia Calderwood | "Part II" | ABC | |
| Kay Lenz | Kate Jordache | "Part VIII" | |||
| 1977 (29th) | |||||
| Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Comedy or Drama Series[5] | |||||
| Beulah Bondi | The Waltons | Aunt Martha Corinne Walton | "The Pony Cart" | CBS | |
| Susan Blakely | Rich Man, Poor Man Book II | Julie Prescott | "Chapter 1" | ABC | |
| Madge Sinclair | Roots | Bell Reynolds | "Part IV" | ||
| Leslie Uggams | Kizzy Reynolds | "Part VI" | |||
| Jessica Walter | The Streets of San Francisco | Maggie Jarris / Mrs. Reston / Mrs. McCluskey | "Till Death Do Us Part" | ||
| Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series[6] | |||||
| Olivia Cole | Roots | Mathilda | "Part VIII" | ABC | |
| Eileen Heckart | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | Flo Meredith | "Lou Proposes" | CBS | |
| Sandy Duncan | Roots | Missy Anne Reynolds | "Part V" | ABC | |
| Cicely Tyson | Binta | "Part I" | |||
| Nancy Walker | Rhoda | Ida Morgenstern | "The Separation" | CBS | |
| 1978 (30th) | |||||
| Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Comedy or Drama Series[7] | |||||
| Rita Moreno | The Rockford Files | Rita Capkovic | "The Paper Palace" | NBC | |
| Patty Duke | Having Babies III | Leslee Wexler | — | ABC | |
| Kate Jackson | James at 15 | Robin | "Pilot" | NBC | |
| Irene Tedrow | Miss Jordan | "Ducks" | |||
| Jayne Meadows | Meeting of Minds | Florence Nightingale | "Luther, Voltaire, Plato, Nightingale" | PBS | |
| Outstanding Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in a Comedy or Drama Series[8] | |||||
| Blanche Baker | Holocaust | Anna Weiss | "Part I" | NBC | |
| Ellen Corby | The Waltons | Esther Walton | "Grandma Comes Home" | CBS | |
| Jeanette Nolan | The Awakening Land | Granny McWhirter | "Part I" | NBC | |
| Beulah Quo | Meeting of Minds | Empress Tz'u-hsi | "Douglass, Tz'u-Hsi, Beccaria, De Sade" | PBS | |
| Beatrice Straight | The Dain Curse | Alice Dain Leggett | "Part 1" | CBS | |
1980s
| Year | Actor/Actress | Program | Role | Episode | Network |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Outstanding Guest Performer in a Comedy Series | |||||
| 1986 (38th) | |||||
| Roscoe Lee Browne | The Cosby Show | Dr. Barnabus Foster | "The Card Game" | NBC | |
| Earle Hyman | The Cosby Show | Russell Huxtable | "Happy Anniversary" | NBC | |
| Danny Kaye | Dr. Burns | "The Dentist" | |||
| Clarice Taylor | Anna Huxtable | "Happy Anniversary" | |||
| Stevie Wonder | Himself | "A Touch of Wonder" | |||
| 1987 (39th) | |||||
| John Cleese | Cheers | Dr. Simon Finch-Royce | "Simon Says" | NBC | |
| Art Carney | The Cavanaughs | James "Weasel" Cavanaugh | "He Ain't Heavy, Father..." | CBS | |
| Herb Edelman | The Golden Girls | Stanley Zbornak | "The Stan Who Came to Dinner" | NBC | |
| Lois Nettleton | Jean | "Isn't It Romantic?" | |||
| Nancy Walker | Angela | "Long Day's Journey into Marinara" | |||
| 1988 (40th) | |||||
| Beah Richards | Frank's Place | Mrs. Varden | "The Bridge" | CBS | |
| Herb Edelman | The Golden Girls | Stanley Zbornak | "The Audit" | NBC | |
| Geraldine Fitzgerald | Anna | "Mother's Day" | |||
| Eileen Heckart | The Cosby Show | Mrs. Hickson | "Autumn Gifts" | ||
| Gilda Radner | It's Garry Shandling's Show | Herself | "Mr. Smith Goes to Nam" | Showtime | |
| Outstanding Guest Actress in a Comedy Series | |||||
| 1989 (41st) | |||||
| Colleen Dewhurst | Murphy Brown | Avery Brown | "Mama Said" | CBS | |
| Eileen Brennan | Newhart | Corine Denby | CBS | ||
| Diahann Carroll | A Different World | Marion Gilbert | NBC | ||
| Doris Roberts | Perfect Strangers | Mrs. Bailey | ABC | ||
| Maxine Stuart | The Wonder Years | Mrs. Carples | |||
1990s
- ↑ Tyne Daly was nominated in the category of Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest appearance on Wings, but lost to Candice Bergen, who won for Murphy Brown.
- ↑ Frances Sternhagen was nominated in the category of Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series for her guest appearance on Cheers, but lost to Laurie Metcalf, who won for her role on Roseanne.