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Lead Actress Comedy Emmy

Lead Actress Comedy Emmy

Established

1954

First Winner

Eve Arden

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Lead Actress Comedy Emmy

About

Honor awarded for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. The award is handed out at the annual Primetime Emmy Award celebration.

Trivia

The 71st Primetime Emmy Awards are the first Emmys where there is no representation from any of the big four broadcast networks.

#81 award

Lead Actress Comedy Emmy Winners

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston, 56

2002

1

Betty White

Betty White (1922-2021)

1986

2

Tina Fey

Tina Fey, 54

2008

3

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy, 54

2011

4

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker, 60

2004

5

America Ferrera

America Ferrera, 41

2007

6

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

1956, 1967, 1968

7

Edie Falco

Edie Falco, 61

2010

8

Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara, 71

2020

9

Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton, 67

2000, 2001

10

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 64

2006, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017

11

Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt, 61

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

12

Toni Collette

Toni Collette, 52

2009

13

Rachel Brosnahan

Rachel Brosnahan, 34

2018

14

Felicity Huffman

Felicity Huffman, 62

2005

15

Debra Messing

Debra Messing, 56

2003

16

Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)

1991

17

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)

1964, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1976

18

Jean Smart

Jean Smart, 73

2021, 2022

19

Rue McClanahan

Rue McClanahan (1934-2010)

1987

20

Bea Arthur

Bea Arthur (1922-2009)

1977, 1988

21

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Barr, 72

1993

22

Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin, 77

1984, 1985

23

Carol Kane

Carol Kane, 72

1982

24

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Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 39

2019

25

Shelley Long

Shelley Long, 75

1983

26

Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen, 78

1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995

27

Loretta Young

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

1955, 1957

28

Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (1898-1992)

1962, 1963

29

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990)

1961

30

Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper (1939-2019)

1975

31

Jean Stapleton

Jean Stapleton (1923-2013)

1971, 1972, 1978

32

Eve Arden

Eve Arden (1908-1990)

1954

33

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford (1917-2004)

1981

34

Jane Wyatt

Jane Wyatt (1910-2006)

1958, 1959, 1960

35

Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon (1896-1985)

1979

36

Hope Lange

Hope Lange (1933-2003)

1969, 1970

37

Cathryn Damon

Cathryn Damon (1930-1987)

1980

38

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