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.

#57 award

Lead Actress Comedy Emmy Winners

Jennifer Aniston

Jennifer Aniston, 55

2002

1

Betty White

Betty White (1922-2021)

1986

2

America Ferrera

America Ferrera, 40

2007

3

Melissa McCarthy

Melissa McCarthy, 53

2011

4

Tina Fey

Tina Fey, 53

2008

5

Sarah Jessica Parker

Sarah Jessica Parker, 59

2004

6

Lucille Ball

Lucille Ball (1911-1989)

1956, 1967, 1968

7

Edie Falco

Edie Falco, 60

2010

8

Catherine O'Hara

Catherine O'Hara, 70

2020

9

Roseanne Barr

Roseanne Barr, 71

1993

10

Kirstie Alley

Kirstie Alley (1951-2022)

1991

11

Julia Louis-Dreyfus

Julia Louis-Dreyfus, 63

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

12

Helen Hunt

Helen Hunt, 60

1996, 1997, 1998, 1999

13

Mary Tyler Moore

Mary Tyler Moore (1936-2017)

1964, 1966, 1973, 1974, 1976

14

Bea Arthur

Bea Arthur (1922-2009)

1977, 1988

15

Patricia Heaton

Patricia Heaton, 66

2000, 2001

16

Debra Messing

Debra Messing, 55

2003

17

Rue McClanahan

Rue McClanahan (1934-2010)

1987

18

Rachel Brosnahan

Rachel Brosnahan, 33

2018

19

Felicity Huffman

Felicity Huffman, 61

2005

20

Phoebe Waller-Bridge

Phoebe Waller-Bridge, 38

2019

21

Toni Collette

Toni Collette, 51

2009

22

Shelley Long

Shelley Long, 74

1983

23

Candice Bergen

Candice Bergen, 77

1989, 1990, 1992, 1994, 1995

24

Jean Smart

Jean Smart, 72

2021, 2022

25

Barbara Stanwyck

Barbara Stanwyck (1907-1990)

1961

26

Carol Kane

Carol Kane, 71

1982

27

Loretta Young

Loretta Young (1913-2000)

1955, 1957

28

Valerie Harper

Valerie Harper (1939-2019)

1975

29

Eve Arden

Eve Arden (1908-1990)

1954

30

Jane Curtin

Jane Curtin, 76

1984, 1985

31

Jean Stapleton

Jean Stapleton (1923-2013)

1971, 1972, 1978

32

Isabel Sanford

Isabel Sanford (1917-2004)

1981

33

Ruth Gordon

Ruth Gordon (1896-1985)

1979

34

Shirley Booth

Shirley Booth (1898-1992)

1962, 1963

35

Hope Lange

Hope Lange (1933-2003)

1969, 1970

36

Jane Wyatt

Jane Wyatt (1910-2006)

1958, 1959, 1960

37

Cathryn Damon

Cathryn Damon (1930-1987)

1980

38

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