The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama is a
Golden Globe Award
The Golden Globe Awards are accolades bestowed by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association beginning in January 1944, recognizing excellence in both American and international film and television. Beginning in 2022, there are 105 members of t ...
presented annually by the
Hollywood Foreign Press Association
The Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) is a nonprofit organization of journalists and photographers who report on the Cinema of the United States, entertainment industry activity and interests in the United States for media (newspaper, ...
(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
The 19th Golden Globe Awards, honoring the best in film and television for 1961, were held on March 5, 1962.
Winners and nominees
Film
Best Film - Drama
'' The Guns of Navarone''
* '' El Cid''
* '' Fanny''
* ''Judgment at Nuremberg''
* ''Spl ...
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
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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
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'', 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
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'', for which three actors each won the award once:
Claire Foy
Claire Elizabeth Foy (born 16 April 1984) is a British actress. She is best known for her portrayal of the young Queen Elizabeth II in the first two seasons of the Netflix series ''The Crown'' (2016–2017) for which she won a Primetime Emmy Aw ...
,
Olivia Colman
Sarah Caroline Sinclair ( Colman; born 30 January 1974), known professionally as Olivia Colman, is an English actress. Known for her comedic and dramatic roles in film and television, she has received various accolades, including an Academy A ...
, and
Emma Corrin
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.
Winners and nominees
Listed below are the winners of the award for each year, as well as the other nominees.
1960s
1970s
1980s
1990s
2000s
2010s
2020s
Superlatives
Multiple wins
Multiple nominations
Firsts
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Diahann Carroll became the first actress of African descent to win, when she won at the
26th Golden Globe Awards in 1969.
*
Linda Cristal
Marta Victoria Moya Peggo Burges (23 February 1931 – 27 June 2020), known professionally as Linda Cristal (), was an Argentinian actress. She appeared in a number of Western (genre), Western films during the 1950s, before winning a Golden Glo ...
became the first actress of Latin American descent to win, when she won at the
27th Golden Globe Awards in 1970.
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Yoko Shimada
was a Japanese actress, best known to Western audiences for her portrayal of Mariko in the 1980 miniseries ''Shōgun''.
''Shogun'' miniseries
Shimada was the only female member of ''Shōgun''s massive cast of Japanese actors shown speaking En ...
became the first actress of Asian descent to win, when she won at the
38th Golden Globe Awards in 1981.
*
Michaela Jaé Rodriguez
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became the first transgender actress to win, when she won at the
79th Golden Globe Awards
The 79th Golden Globe Awards honored the best in film and American television of 2021, as chosen by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA). The ceremony took place privately on January 9, 2022. The nominees were announced on December ...
in 2022.
See also
*
TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama
The TCA Award for Individual Achievement in Drama is an award given by the Television Critics Association.
Winners and nominees
Multiple wins
;3 wins
* James Gandolfini (consecutive)
;2 wins
* Andre Braugher (consecutive)
* Jon Hamm
* Hugh Lau ...
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References
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Golden Globe Awards
Television awards for Best Actress