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** Creator/KathrynHahn for ''Tiny Beautiful Things'' as Clare Pierce
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[[index]]
* 1980[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/PattyDuke''' for ''Theatre/TheMiracleWorker'' as [[UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan Annie Sullivan]]
** Creator/BetteDavis for ''White Mama'' as Adele Malone
** Creator/MelissaGilbert for ''The Miracle Worker'' as UsefulNotes/HelenKeller
** Creator/LeeRemick for ''Haywire'' as Margaret Sullavan
* 1981[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/VanessaRedgrave''' for ''Playing for Time'' as Fania Fénelon
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''The People vs. Jean Harris'' as Jean Harris
** Creator/CatherineHicks for ''Marilyn: The Untold Story'' as Creator/MarilynMonroe
** Yoko Shimada for ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shōgun]]'' as Lady Toda Mariko
** Joanne Woodward for ''Crisis at Central High'' as Elizabeth Huckaby
* 1982[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/IngridBergman''' for ''A Woman Called Golda'' as Prime Minister Golda Meir
** Creator/GlendaJackson for ''The Patricia Neal Story'' as Creator/PatriciaNeal
** Ann Jillian for ''Mae West'' as Creator/MaeWest
** Creator/JeanStapleton for ''Eleanor, First Lady of the World'' as UsefulNotes/EleanorRoosevelt
** Creator/CicelyTyson for ''The Marva Collins Story'' as Marva Collins
* 1983[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/BarbaraStanwyck''' for ''Literature/TheThornBirds'' as Mary Carson
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Who Will Love My Children?'' as Lucile Fray
** Creator/RosannaArquette for ''The Executioner's Song'' as Nicole Baker
** Creator/MarietteHartley for ''M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving'' as Candace "Candy" Lightner
** Creator/AngelaLansbury for ''Little Gloria... Happy At Last'' as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
* 1984[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/JaneFonda''' for ''The Dollmaker'' as Gertie Nevels
** Creator/JaneAlexander for ''Calamity Jane'' as Calamity Jane
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' as Blanche [=DuBois=]
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Something About Amelia'' as Gail Bennett
** Creator/JoBethWilliams for ''Adam'' as Revé Walsh
* 1985[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Joanne Woodward''' for ''Do You Remember Love'' as Barbara Wyatt-Hollis
** Creator/JaneAlexander for ''Malice in Wonderland'' as Hedda Hopper
** Creator/PeggyAshcroft for ''Series/TheJewelInTheCrown'' as Barbara "Barbie" Batchelor
** Creator/FarrahFawcett for ''Film/TheBurningBed'' as Francine Hughes
** Creator/MaryTylerMoore for ''Heartsounds'' as Martha Weinman Lear
* 1986[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/MarloThomas''' for ''Nobody's Child'' as Marie Balter
** Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry'' as Margaret Delafield
** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Second Serve'' as Richard Radley / Renée Richards
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''An Early Frost'' as Katherine Pierson
** Creator/MareWinningham for ''Love Is Never Silent'' as Margaret Ryder
* 1987[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GenaRowlands''' for ''The Betty Ford Story'' as UsefulNotes/BettyFord
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''The Two Mrs. Grenvilles'' as Ann Grenville
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''Pack of Lies'' as Barbara Jackson
** Creator/LeeRemick for ''Nutcracker: Money, Madness, and Murder'' as Frances Schrueder
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''Unnatural Causes'' as Maude [=DeVictor=]
* 1988[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaTandy''' for ''[[Series/HallmarkHallOfFame Foxfire]]'' as Annie Nations
** Ann Jillian for ''The Ann Jillian Story'' as herself
** Creator/MaryTylerMoore for ''Lincoln'' as Mary Todd Lincoln
** Creator/MarySteenburgen for ''The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank'' as Miep Gies
** Creator/JoBethWilliams for ''Baby M'' as Mary Beth Whitehead
* 1989[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HollyHunter''' for ''Roe vs. Wade'' as Ellen Russell
** Creator/AnjelicaHuston for ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' as Clara Allen
** Creator/DianeLane for ''Lonesome Dove'' as Lorena "Lorie" Wood
** Creator/AmyMadigan for ''Roe vs. Wade'' as Sarah Weddington
** Creator/{{Jane Seymour|Actress}} for ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'' as Natalie Henry
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* 1990[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/BarbaraHershey''' for ''A Killing in a Small Town'' as Candy Morrison
** Creator/FarrahFawcett for ''Film/SmallSacrifices'' as Diane Downs
** Creator/ChristineLahti for ''No Place Like Home'' as Zan Cooper
** Creator/AnnetteOToole for ''The Kennedys of Massachusetts'' as Rose Kennedy
** Creator/LesleyAnnWarren for ''Family of Spies'' as Barbara Walker
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story'' as Mary Thomas
* 1991[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/LynnWhitfield''' for ''The Josephine Baker Story'' as Josephine Baker
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Sarah, Plain and Tall'' as Sarah Wheaton
** Creator/BarbaraHershey for ''Paris Trout'' as Hanna Trout
** Creator/SuzannePleshette for ''Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean'' as Leona Helmsley
** Creator/LeePurcell for ''Long Road Home'' as Bessie Robertson
* 1992[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GenaRowlands''' for ''Face of a Stranger'' as Pat
** Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Mrs. Cage'' as Mrs. Cage
** Creator/MeredithBaxter for ''A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story'' as Betty Broderick
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''One Against the Shadows'' as Mary Lindell
** Creator/LauraDern for ''Afterburn'' as Janet Harduvel
* 1993[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HollyHunter''' for ''The Positively True Adventures of the Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'' as Wanda Holloway
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Skylark'' as Sarah Wheaton
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/MaggieSmith for ''Theatre/SuddenlyLastSummer'' as Mrs. Venable
** Joanne Woodward for ''Blind Spot'' as Nell Harrington
* 1994[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/KirstieAlley''' for ''Film/DavidsMother'' as Sally Goodson
** Creator/BetteMidler for ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'' as Rose Hovick
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/JessicaTandy for ''To Dance with the White Dog'' as Cora Peek
** Joanne Woodward for ''Literature/BreathingLessons'' as Maggie Moran
* 1995[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GlennClose''' for ''Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story'' as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer
** Creator/SallyField for ''A Woman of Independent Means'' as Bess Alcott
** Creator/AnjelicaHuston for ''Buffalo Girls'' as Calamity Jane
** Creator/DianeKeaton for ''Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight'' as UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''Theatre/ThePianoLesson'' as Berniece Charles
* 1996[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/AshleyJudd for ''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' as Norma Jean Dougherty
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' as Blanche [=DuBois=]
** Creator/MiraSorvino for ''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' as Creator/MarilynMonroe
** Creator/SelaWard for ''Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story'' as Jessica Savitch
* 1997[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/AlfreWoodard''' for ''Miss Evers' Boys'' as Eunice Evers
** Creator/StockardChanning for ''An Unexpected Family'' as Barbara Whitney
** Creator/GlennClose for ''In the Gloaming'' as Janet
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/FirstDoNoHarm'' as Lori Reimuller
* 1998[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/EllenBarkin''' for ''Before Women Had Wings'' as Glory Marie Jackson
** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis for ''Nicholas' Gift'' as Maggie Green
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''[[Series/HallmarkHallOfFame The Echo of Thunder]]'' as Gladwyn Ritchie
** Creator/OlympiaDukakis for ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheCity More Tales of the City]]'' as Anna Madrigal
** Creator/AngelinaJolie for ''Film/{{Gia}}'' as Gia Carangi
* 1999[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''The Passion of Ayn Rand'' as Creator/AynRand
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story'' as Pamela Harriman
** Creator/StockardChanning for ''The Baby Dance'' as Rachel Luckman
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''Dash and Lilly'' as Creator/LillianHellman
** Creator/LeeleeSobieski for ''Series/JoanOfArc'' as UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc
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* 2000[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HalleBerry''' for ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge'' as Creator/DorothyDandridge
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''A Cooler Climate'' as Paula Tanner
** Creator/SallyField for ''A Cooler Climate'' as Iris Prue
** Creator/HollyHunter for ''Harlan County War'' as Ruby Kincaid
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''The Color of Love: Jacey's Story'' as Georgia Porter
* 2001[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JudyDavis''' for ''Film/LifeWithJudyGarlandMeAndMyShadows'' as Creator/JudyGarland
** Creator/JudiDench for ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'' as Elizabeth Harman
** Creator/HollyHunter for ''When Billie Beat Bobby'' as Billie Jean King
** Hannah Taylor-Gordon for ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' as Anne Frank
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Theatre/{{Wit}}'' as Vivian Bearing
* 2002[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Wild Iris'' as Iris Bravard
** Creator/AngelaBassett for ''The Rosa Parks Story'' as Rosa Parks
** Creator/BlytheDanner for ''We Were the Mulvaneys'' as Corinne Mulvaney
** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Film/TheGatheringStorm'' as Clementine Churchill
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''Wild Iris'' as Minnie Brinn
* 2003[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MaggieSmith''' for ''My House in Umbria'' as Emily Delahunty
** Creator/ThoraBirch for ''Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story'' as Elizabeth "Liz" Murray
** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter for ''Live from Baghdad'' as Ingrid Formanek
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Film/{{Normal|2003}}'' as Irma Applewood
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' as Karen Stone
* 2004[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MerylStreep''' for ''Series/AngelsInAmerica'' as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / Rabbi Chemelwitz / The Angel Australia
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' as Queen UsefulNotes/EleanorOfAquitaine
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''The Reagans'' as Nancy Reagan
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Angels in America'' as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel America
* 2005[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/SEpathaMerkerson''' for ''Lackawanna Blues'' as Rachel "Nanny" Crosby
** Creator/HalleBerry for ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod'' as Janie Crawford
** Creator/BlytheDanner for ''Back When We Were Grownups'' as Rebecca Davitch
** Creator/CynthiaNixon for ''Film/WarmSprings'' as UsefulNotes/EleanorRoosevelt
** Creator/DebraWinger for ''Dawn Anna'' as Dawn Anna Townsend
* 2006[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/{{Elizabeth I|2005}}'' as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI of England
** Creator/GillianAnderson for ''Literature/BleakHouse'' as Lady Honoria Dedlock
** Creator/KathyBates for ''Ambulance Girl'' as Jane Stern
** Creator/AnnetteBening for ''Mrs. Harris'' as Jean Harris
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''A Little Thing Called Murder'' as Sante Kimes
* 2007[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Music/QueenLatifah for ''Life Support'' as Ana Wallace
** Creator/DebraMessing for ''The Starter Wife'' as Molly Kagan
** Creator/MaryLouiseParker for ''Literature/TheRobberBride'' as Zenia Arden
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''What If God Were the Sun?'' as Melissa Eisenbloom
* 2008[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Series/JohnAdams'' as Abigail Adams
** Creator/JudiDench for ''Series/{{Cranford}}'' as Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns
** Creator/CatherineKeener for ''Film/AnAmericanCrime'' as Gertrude Baniszewski
** Creator/PhyliciaRashad for ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'' as Lena Younger
** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Bernard and Doris'' as Doris Duke
* 2009[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaLange''' for ''Film/GreyGardens'' as Edith "Big Edie" Beale
** Creator/DrewBarrymore for ''Grey Gardens'' as Edith "Little Edie" Beale
** Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Coco Chanel'' as UsefulNotes/CocoChanel
** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''Film/PrayersForBobby'' as Mary Griffith
** Creator/ChandraWilson for ''Accidental Friendship'' as Yvonne Caldwell
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* 2010[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ClaireDanes''' for ''Film/TempleGrandin'' as Temple Grandin
** Creator/JoanAllen for ''Georgia O'Keeffe'' as Georgia O'Keeffe
** Creator/HopeDavis for ''The Special Relationship'' as UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton
** Creator/JudiDench for ''[[Series/{{Cranford}} Return to Cranford]]'' as Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns
** Creator/MaggieSmith for ''Capturing Mary'' as Mary Gilbert
* 2011[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/KateWinslet''' for ''Literature/MildredPierce'' as Mildred Pierce
** Creator/TarajiPHenson for ''Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story'' as Tiffany Rubin
** Creator/DianeLane for ''Cinema Verite'' as Pat Loud
** Creator/JeanMarsh for ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' as Rose Buck
** Creator/ElizabethMcGovern for ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' as Cora, Countess of Grantham
* 2012[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JulianneMoore''' for ''Literature/GameChange'' as Governor UsefulNotes/SarahPalin
** Creator/ConnieBritton for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' as Vivien Harmon
** Creator/AshleyJudd for ''Series/{{Missing|2012}}'' as Rebecca "Becca" Winstone
** Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/HemingwayAndGellhorn'' as Martha Gellhorn
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''The Song of Lunch'' as She
* 2013[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Series/TheBigC'' as Cathy Jamison
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' as Sister Jude Martin
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Phil Spector'' as Linda Kenney Baden
** Creator/ElisabethMoss for ''Series/TopOfTheLake'' as Detective Robin Griffin
** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''Series/PoliticalAnimals'' as Elaine Barrish
* 2014[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaLange''' for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' as Fiona Goode
** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter for ''Burton & Taylor'' as Creator/ElizabethTaylor
** Creator/MinnieDriver for ''Return to Zero'' as Maggie Royal
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''American Horror Story: Coven'' as Cordelia Foxx
** Creator/CicelyTyson for ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'' as Carrie Watts
** Creator/KristenWiig for ''Series/TheSpoilsOfBabylon'' as Cynthia Morehouse / Lauoreighiya Samcake
* 2015[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/FrancesMcDormand''' for ''Series/OliveKitteridge'' as Olive Kitteridge
** Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal for ''Series/TheHonourableWoman'' as Nessa Stein
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Barbara "Barb" Hanlon
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'' as Elsa Mars
** Music/QueenLatifah for ''Bessie'' as Bessie Smith
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as Mrs. Lovett
* 2016[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/SarahPaulson''' for ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' as Marcia Clark
** Creator/KirstenDunst for ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' as Peggy Blumquist
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Leslie Graham
** Creator/AudraMcDonald for ''Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill'' as Music/BillieHoliday
** Creator/LiliTaylor for ''American Crime'' as Anne Blaine
** Creator/KerryWashington for ''Confirmation'' as Anita Hill
* 2017[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/NicoleKidman''' for ''Series/BigLittleLies'' as Celeste Wright
** Creator/CarrieCoon for ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' as Chief Gloria Burgle
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Jeanette Hesby
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/{{Feud}}'' as Creator/JoanCrawford / Blanche Hudson
** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Feud'' as Creator/BetteDavis / Baby Jane Hudson
** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon for ''Big Little Lies'' as Madeline Martha [=McKenzie=]
* 2018[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ReginaKing''' for ''Seven Seconds'' as Latrice Butler
** Creator/JessicaBiel for ''Series/TheSinner'' as Cora Tannetti
** Creator/LauraDern for ''The Tale'' as Jennifer "Jenny" Fox
** Creator/MichelleDockery for ''Series/{{Godless}}'' as Alice Fletcher
** Creator/EdieFalco for ''Series/LawAndOrderTrueCrime'' as Leslie Abramson
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' as Ally Mayfair-Richards
* 2019[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MichelleWilliams''' for ''Series/FosseVerdon'' as Gwen Verdon
** Creator/AmyAdams for ''Series/SharpObjects'' as Camille Preaker
** Creator/PatriciaArquette for ''Series/EscapeAtDannemora'' as Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell
** Creator/AunjanueEllis for ''Series/WhenTheySeeUs'' as Sharonne Salaam
** Creator/JoeyKing for ''Series/TheAct'' as Gypsy Rose Blanchard
** Creator/NiecyNash for ''When They See Us'' as Delores Wise
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* 2020[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ReginaKing''' for ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'' as Angela Abar / Sister Night
** Creator/CateBlanchett for ''Series/MrsAmerica'' as Phyllis Schlafly
** Shira Haas for ''Series/{{Unorthodox}}'' as Esther "Esty" Shapiro
** Creator/OctaviaSpencer for ''Self Made'' as Madam C.J. Walker
** Creator/KerryWashington for ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere'' as Mia Warren
* 2021[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/KateWinslet''' for ''Series/MareOfEasttown'' as Marianne "Mare" Sheehan
** Creator/MichaelaCoel for ''Series/IMayDestroyYou'' as Arabella Essiedu
** Creator/CynthiaErivo for ''Series/{{Genius}}'' as Music/ArethaFranklin
** Creator/ElizabethOlsen for ''Series/WandaVision'' as [[Characters/MCUScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch]]
** Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy for ''Series/TheQueensGambit'' as Elizabeth "Beth" Harmon
* 2022: '''Creator/AmandaSeyfried''' for ''Series/TheDropout'' as Elizabeth Holmes
** Creator/ToniCollette for ''The Staircase'' as Kathleen Peterson
** Creator/JuliaGarner for ''Series/InventingAnna'' as Anna Sorokin / Anna Delvey
** Creator/LilyJames for ''Series/PamAndTommy'' as Creator/PamelaAnderson
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''Series/{{Impeachment}}'' as Linda Tripp
** Creator/MargaretQualley for ''Series/{{Maid}}'' as Alexandra "Alex" Russell
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* 1980[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/PattyDuke''' for ''Theatre/TheMiracleWorker'' as [[UsefulNotes/AnneSullivan Annie Sullivan]]
** Creator/BetteDavis for ''White Mama'' as Adele Malone
** Creator/MelissaGilbert for ''The Miracle Worker'' as UsefulNotes/HelenKeller
** Creator/LeeRemick for ''Haywire'' as Margaret Sullavan
* 1981[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/VanessaRedgrave''' for ''Playing for Time'' as Fania Fénelon
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''The People vs. Jean Harris'' as Jean Harris
** Creator/CatherineHicks for ''Marilyn: The Untold Story'' as Creator/MarilynMonroe
** Yoko Shimada for ''[[Literature/AsianSaga Shōgun]]'' as Lady Toda Mariko
** Joanne Woodward for ''Crisis at Central High'' as Elizabeth Huckaby
* 1982[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/IngridBergman''' for ''A Woman Called Golda'' as Prime Minister Golda Meir
** Creator/GlendaJackson for ''The Patricia Neal Story'' as Creator/PatriciaNeal
** Ann Jillian for ''Mae West'' as Creator/MaeWest
** Creator/JeanStapleton for ''Eleanor, First Lady of the World'' as UsefulNotes/EleanorRoosevelt
** Creator/CicelyTyson for ''The Marva Collins Story'' as Marva Collins
* 1983[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/BarbaraStanwyck''' for ''Literature/TheThornBirds'' as Mary Carson
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Who Will Love My Children?'' as Lucile Fray
** Creator/RosannaArquette for ''The Executioner's Song'' as Nicole Baker
** Creator/MarietteHartley for ''M.A.D.D.: Mothers Against Drunk Driving'' as Candace "Candy" Lightner
** Creator/AngelaLansbury for ''Little Gloria... Happy At Last'' as Gertrude Vanderbilt Whitney
* 1984[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/JaneFonda''' for ''The Dollmaker'' as Gertie Nevels
** Creator/JaneAlexander for ''Calamity Jane'' as Calamity Jane
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' as Blanche [=DuBois=]
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Something About Amelia'' as Gail Bennett
** Creator/JoBethWilliams for ''Adam'' as Revé Walsh
* 1985[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or a Special[[/note]]: '''Joanne Woodward''' for ''Do You Remember Love'' as Barbara Wyatt-Hollis
** Creator/JaneAlexander for ''Malice in Wonderland'' as Hedda Hopper
** Creator/PeggyAshcroft for ''Series/TheJewelInTheCrown'' as Barbara "Barbie" Batchelor
** Creator/FarrahFawcett for ''Film/TheBurningBed'' as Francine Hughes
** Creator/MaryTylerMoore for ''Heartsounds'' as Martha Weinman Lear
* 1986[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/MarloThomas''' for ''Nobody's Child'' as Marie Balter
** Creator/KatharineHepburn for ''Mrs. Delafield Wants to Marry'' as Margaret Delafield
** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Second Serve'' as Richard Radley / Renée Richards
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''An Early Frost'' as Katherine Pierson
** Creator/MareWinningham for ''Love Is Never Silent'' as Margaret Ryder
* 1987[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GenaRowlands''' for ''The Betty Ford Story'' as UsefulNotes/BettyFord
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''The Two Mrs. Grenvilles'' as Ann Grenville
** Creator/EllenBurstyn for ''Pack of Lies'' as Barbara Jackson
** Creator/LeeRemick for ''Nutcracker: Money, Madness, and Murder'' as Frances Schrueder
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''Unnatural Causes'' as Maude [=DeVictor=]
* 1988[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaTandy''' for ''[[Series/HallmarkHallOfFame Foxfire]]'' as Annie Nations
** Ann Jillian for ''The Ann Jillian Story'' as herself
** Creator/MaryTylerMoore for ''Lincoln'' as Mary Todd Lincoln
** Creator/MarySteenburgen for ''The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank'' as Miep Gies
** Creator/JoBethWilliams for ''Baby M'' as Mary Beth Whitehead
* 1989[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HollyHunter''' for ''Roe vs. Wade'' as Ellen Russell
** Creator/AnjelicaHuston for ''Literature/LonesomeDove'' as Clara Allen
** Creator/DianeLane for ''Lonesome Dove'' as Lorena "Lorie" Wood
** Creator/AmyMadigan for ''Roe vs. Wade'' as Sarah Weddington
** Creator/{{Jane Seymour|Actress}} for ''[[Literature/TheWindsOfWarAndWarAndRemembrance War and Remembrance]]'' as Natalie Henry
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[[folder:1990s]]
* 1990[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/BarbaraHershey''' for ''A Killing in a Small Town'' as Candy Morrison
** Creator/FarrahFawcett for ''Film/SmallSacrifices'' as Diane Downs
** Creator/ChristineLahti for ''No Place Like Home'' as Zan Cooper
** Creator/AnnetteOToole for ''The Kennedys of Massachusetts'' as Rose Kennedy
** Creator/LesleyAnnWarren for ''Family of Spies'' as Barbara Walker
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story'' as Mary Thomas
* 1991[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/LynnWhitfield''' for ''The Josephine Baker Story'' as Josephine Baker
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Sarah, Plain and Tall'' as Sarah Wheaton
** Creator/BarbaraHershey for ''Paris Trout'' as Hanna Trout
** Creator/SuzannePleshette for ''Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean'' as Leona Helmsley
** Creator/LeePurcell for ''Long Road Home'' as Bessie Robertson
* 1992[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GenaRowlands''' for ''Face of a Stranger'' as Pat
** Creator/AnneBancroft for ''Mrs. Cage'' as Mrs. Cage
** Creator/MeredithBaxter for ''A Woman Scorned: The Betty Broderick Story'' as Betty Broderick
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''One Against the Shadows'' as Mary Lindell
** Creator/LauraDern for ''Afterburn'' as Janet Harduvel
* 1993[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HollyHunter''' for ''The Positively True Adventures of the Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom'' as Wanda Holloway
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Skylark'' as Sarah Wheaton
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/MaggieSmith for ''Theatre/SuddenlyLastSummer'' as Mrs. Venable
** Joanne Woodward for ''Blind Spot'' as Nell Harrington
* 1994[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/KirstieAlley''' for ''Film/DavidsMother'' as Sally Goodson
** Creator/BetteMidler for ''Theatre/{{Gypsy}}'' as Rose Hovick
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/JessicaTandy for ''To Dance with the White Dog'' as Cora Peek
** Joanne Woodward for ''Literature/BreathingLessons'' as Maggie Moran
* 1995[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/GlennClose''' for ''Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story'' as Colonel Margarethe Cammermeyer
** Creator/SallyField for ''A Woman of Independent Means'' as Bess Alcott
** Creator/AnjelicaHuston for ''Buffalo Girls'' as Calamity Jane
** Creator/DianeKeaton for ''Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight'' as UsefulNotes/AmeliaEarhart
** Creator/AlfreWoodard for ''Theatre/ThePianoLesson'' as Berniece Charles
* 1996[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/AshleyJudd for ''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' as Norma Jean Dougherty
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Theatre/AStreetcarNamedDesire'' as Blanche [=DuBois=]
** Creator/MiraSorvino for ''Norma Jean & Marilyn'' as Creator/MarilynMonroe
** Creator/SelaWard for ''Almost Golden: The Jessica Savitch Story'' as Jessica Savitch
* 1997[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special[[/note]]: '''Creator/AlfreWoodard''' for ''Miss Evers' Boys'' as Eunice Evers
** Creator/StockardChanning for ''An Unexpected Family'' as Barbara Whitney
** Creator/GlennClose for ''In the Gloaming'' as Janet
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/MerylStreep for ''Film/FirstDoNoHarm'' as Lori Reimuller
* 1998[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/EllenBarkin''' for ''Before Women Had Wings'' as Glory Marie Jackson
** Creator/JamieLeeCurtis for ''Nicholas' Gift'' as Maggie Green
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''[[Series/HallmarkHallOfFame The Echo of Thunder]]'' as Gladwyn Ritchie
** Creator/OlympiaDukakis for ''[[Literature/TalesOfTheCity More Tales of the City]]'' as Anna Madrigal
** Creator/AngelinaJolie for ''Film/{{Gia}}'' as Gia Carangi
* 1999[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''The Passion of Ayn Rand'' as Creator/AynRand
** Creator/AnnMargret for ''Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story'' as Pamela Harriman
** Creator/StockardChanning for ''The Baby Dance'' as Rachel Luckman
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''Dash and Lilly'' as Creator/LillianHellman
** Creator/LeeleeSobieski for ''Series/JoanOfArc'' as UsefulNotes/JoanOfArc
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[[folder:2000s]]
* 2000[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HalleBerry''' for ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge'' as Creator/DorothyDandridge
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''A Cooler Climate'' as Paula Tanner
** Creator/SallyField for ''A Cooler Climate'' as Iris Prue
** Creator/HollyHunter for ''Harlan County War'' as Ruby Kincaid
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''The Color of Love: Jacey's Story'' as Georgia Porter
* 2001[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JudyDavis''' for ''Film/LifeWithJudyGarlandMeAndMyShadows'' as Creator/JudyGarland
** Creator/JudiDench for ''The Last of the Blonde Bombshells'' as Elizabeth Harman
** Creator/HollyHunter for ''When Billie Beat Bobby'' as Billie Jean King
** Hannah Taylor-Gordon for ''Series/AnneFrankTheWholeStory'' as Anne Frank
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Theatre/{{Wit}}'' as Vivian Bearing
* 2002[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Wild Iris'' as Iris Bravard
** Creator/AngelaBassett for ''The Rosa Parks Story'' as Rosa Parks
** Creator/BlytheDanner for ''We Were the Mulvaneys'' as Corinne Mulvaney
** Creator/VanessaRedgrave for ''Film/TheGatheringStorm'' as Clementine Churchill
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''Wild Iris'' as Minnie Brinn
* 2003[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MaggieSmith''' for ''My House in Umbria'' as Emily Delahunty
** Creator/ThoraBirch for ''Homeless to Harvard: The Liz Murray Story'' as Elizabeth "Liz" Murray
** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter for ''Live from Baghdad'' as Ingrid Formanek
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Film/{{Normal|2003}}'' as Irma Applewood
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone'' as Karen Stone
* 2004[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MerylStreep''' for ''Series/AngelsInAmerica'' as Hannah Pitt / Ethel Rosenberg / Rabbi Chemelwitz / The Angel Australia
** Creator/GlennClose for ''Theatre/TheLionInWinter'' as Queen UsefulNotes/EleanorOfAquitaine
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''The Reagans'' as Nancy Reagan
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Angels in America'' as Nurse Emily / Homeless Woman / The Angel America
* 2005[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/SEpathaMerkerson''' for ''Lackawanna Blues'' as Rachel "Nanny" Crosby
** Creator/HalleBerry for ''Literature/TheirEyesWereWatchingGod'' as Janie Crawford
** Creator/BlytheDanner for ''Back When We Were Grownups'' as Rebecca Davitch
** Creator/CynthiaNixon for ''Film/WarmSprings'' as UsefulNotes/EleanorRoosevelt
** Creator/DebraWinger for ''Dawn Anna'' as Dawn Anna Townsend
* 2006[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/{{Elizabeth I|2005}}'' as Queen UsefulNotes/ElizabethI of England
** Creator/GillianAnderson for ''Literature/BleakHouse'' as Lady Honoria Dedlock
** Creator/KathyBates for ''Ambulance Girl'' as Jane Stern
** Creator/AnnetteBening for ''Mrs. Harris'' as Jean Harris
** Creator/JudyDavis for ''A Little Thing Called Murder'' as Sante Kimes
* 2007[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/HelenMirren''' for ''Series/PrimeSuspect'' as DCI Jane Tennison
** Music/QueenLatifah for ''Life Support'' as Ana Wallace
** Creator/DebraMessing for ''The Starter Wife'' as Molly Kagan
** Creator/MaryLouiseParker for ''Literature/TheRobberBride'' as Zenia Arden
** Creator/GenaRowlands for ''What If God Were the Sun?'' as Melissa Eisenbloom
* 2008[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Series/JohnAdams'' as Abigail Adams
** Creator/JudiDench for ''Series/{{Cranford}}'' as Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns
** Creator/CatherineKeener for ''Film/AnAmericanCrime'' as Gertrude Baniszewski
** Creator/PhyliciaRashad for ''Theatre/ARaisinInTheSun'' as Lena Younger
** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Bernard and Doris'' as Doris Duke
* 2009[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaLange''' for ''Film/GreyGardens'' as Edith "Big Edie" Beale
** Creator/DrewBarrymore for ''Grey Gardens'' as Edith "Little Edie" Beale
** Creator/ShirleyMacLaine for ''Coco Chanel'' as UsefulNotes/CocoChanel
** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''Film/PrayersForBobby'' as Mary Griffith
** Creator/ChandraWilson for ''Accidental Friendship'' as Yvonne Caldwell
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[[folder:2010s]]
* 2010[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ClaireDanes''' for ''Film/TempleGrandin'' as Temple Grandin
** Creator/JoanAllen for ''Georgia O'Keeffe'' as Georgia O'Keeffe
** Creator/HopeDavis for ''The Special Relationship'' as UsefulNotes/HillaryClinton
** Creator/JudiDench for ''[[Series/{{Cranford}} Return to Cranford]]'' as Matilda "Matty" Jenkyns
** Creator/MaggieSmith for ''Capturing Mary'' as Mary Gilbert
* 2011[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/KateWinslet''' for ''Literature/MildredPierce'' as Mildred Pierce
** Creator/TarajiPHenson for ''Taken From Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story'' as Tiffany Rubin
** Creator/DianeLane for ''Cinema Verite'' as Pat Loud
** Creator/JeanMarsh for ''Series/UpstairsDownstairs'' as Rose Buck
** Creator/ElizabethMcGovern for ''Series/DowntonAbbey'' as Cora, Countess of Grantham
* 2012[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JulianneMoore''' for ''Literature/GameChange'' as Governor UsefulNotes/SarahPalin
** Creator/ConnieBritton for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryMurderHouse'' as Vivien Harmon
** Creator/AshleyJudd for ''Series/{{Missing|2012}}'' as Rebecca "Becca" Winstone
** Creator/NicoleKidman for ''Film/HemingwayAndGellhorn'' as Martha Gellhorn
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''The Song of Lunch'' as She
* 2013[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/LauraLinney''' for ''Series/TheBigC'' as Cathy Jamison
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryAsylum'' as Sister Jude Martin
** Creator/HelenMirren for ''Phil Spector'' as Linda Kenney Baden
** Creator/ElisabethMoss for ''Series/TopOfTheLake'' as Detective Robin Griffin
** Creator/SigourneyWeaver for ''Series/PoliticalAnimals'' as Elaine Barrish
* 2014[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/JessicaLange''' for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCoven'' as Fiona Goode
** Creator/HelenaBonhamCarter for ''Burton & Taylor'' as Creator/ElizabethTaylor
** Creator/MinnieDriver for ''Return to Zero'' as Maggie Royal
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''American Horror Story: Coven'' as Cordelia Foxx
** Creator/CicelyTyson for ''Film/TheTripToBountiful'' as Carrie Watts
** Creator/KristenWiig for ''Series/TheSpoilsOfBabylon'' as Cynthia Morehouse / Lauoreighiya Samcake
* 2015[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/FrancesMcDormand''' for ''Series/OliveKitteridge'' as Olive Kitteridge
** Creator/MaggieGyllenhaal for ''Series/TheHonourableWoman'' as Nessa Stein
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Barbara "Barb" Hanlon
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryFreakShow'' as Elsa Mars
** Music/QueenLatifah for ''Bessie'' as Bessie Smith
** Creator/EmmaThompson for ''Theatre/SweeneyToddTheDemonBarberOfFleetStreet'' as Mrs. Lovett
* 2016[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/SarahPaulson''' for ''Series/ThePeopleVOJSimpson'' as Marcia Clark
** Creator/KirstenDunst for ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' as Peggy Blumquist
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Leslie Graham
** Creator/AudraMcDonald for ''Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill'' as Music/BillieHoliday
** Creator/LiliTaylor for ''American Crime'' as Anne Blaine
** Creator/KerryWashington for ''Confirmation'' as Anita Hill
* 2017[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/NicoleKidman''' for ''Series/BigLittleLies'' as Celeste Wright
** Creator/CarrieCoon for ''Series/{{Fargo}}'' as Chief Gloria Burgle
** Creator/FelicityHuffman for ''Series/AmericanCrime'' as Jeanette Hesby
** Creator/JessicaLange for ''Series/{{Feud}}'' as Creator/JoanCrawford / Blanche Hudson
** Creator/SusanSarandon for ''Feud'' as Creator/BetteDavis / Baby Jane Hudson
** Creator/ReeseWitherspoon for ''Big Little Lies'' as Madeline Martha [=McKenzie=]
* 2018[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ReginaKing''' for ''Seven Seconds'' as Latrice Butler
** Creator/JessicaBiel for ''Series/TheSinner'' as Cora Tannetti
** Creator/LauraDern for ''The Tale'' as Jennifer "Jenny" Fox
** Creator/MichelleDockery for ''Series/{{Godless}}'' as Alice Fletcher
** Creator/EdieFalco for ''Series/LawAndOrderTrueCrime'' as Leslie Abramson
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''Series/AmericanHorrorStoryCult'' as Ally Mayfair-Richards
* 2019[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/MichelleWilliams''' for ''Series/FosseVerdon'' as Gwen Verdon
** Creator/AmyAdams for ''Series/SharpObjects'' as Camille Preaker
** Creator/PatriciaArquette for ''Series/EscapeAtDannemora'' as Joyce "Tilly" Mitchell
** Creator/AunjanueEllis for ''Series/WhenTheySeeUs'' as Sharonne Salaam
** Creator/JoeyKing for ''Series/TheAct'' as Gypsy Rose Blanchard
** Creator/NiecyNash for ''When They See Us'' as Delores Wise
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[[folder:2020s]]
* 2020[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/ReginaKing''' for ''Series/{{Watchmen|2019}}'' as Angela Abar / Sister Night
** Creator/CateBlanchett for ''Series/MrsAmerica'' as Phyllis Schlafly
** Shira Haas for ''Series/{{Unorthodox}}'' as Esther "Esty" Shapiro
** Creator/OctaviaSpencer for ''Self Made'' as Madam C.J. Walker
** Creator/KerryWashington for ''Literature/LittleFiresEverywhere'' as Mia Warren
* 2021[[note]]as Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie[[/note]]: '''Creator/KateWinslet''' for ''Series/MareOfEasttown'' as Marianne "Mare" Sheehan
** Creator/MichaelaCoel for ''Series/IMayDestroyYou'' as Arabella Essiedu
** Creator/CynthiaErivo for ''Series/{{Genius}}'' as Music/ArethaFranklin
** Creator/ElizabethOlsen for ''Series/WandaVision'' as [[Characters/MCUScarletWitch Wanda Maximoff / Scarlet Witch]]
** Creator/AnyaTaylorJoy for ''Series/TheQueensGambit'' as Elizabeth "Beth" Harmon
* 2022: '''Creator/AmandaSeyfried''' for ''Series/TheDropout'' as Elizabeth Holmes
** Creator/ToniCollette for ''The Staircase'' as Kathleen Peterson
** Creator/JuliaGarner for ''Series/InventingAnna'' as Anna Sorokin / Anna Delvey
** Creator/LilyJames for ''Series/PamAndTommy'' as Creator/PamelaAnderson
** Creator/SarahPaulson for ''Series/{{Impeachment}}'' as Linda Tripp
** Creator/MargaretQualley for ''Series/{{Maid}}'' as Alexandra "Alex" Russell
[[/folder]]
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