Awards & Winners

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

Primetime Emmy Award

This is a list of the winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress – a Miniseries or Movie.

Check all the winners of Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Miniseries or a Movie presented under Primetime Emmy Award since 1975 .


Kathy Bates

Honored for : American Horror Story
(Coven - For playing Madame Delphine LaLaurie)

Ellen Burstyn

Honored for : Political Animals

Jessica Lange

Honored for : American Horror Story
(For playing Constance Langdon)

Nominations 2012 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mare Winningham Hatfields & McCoys
For playing \"Sally McCoy\"
Sarah Paulson Game Change
For playing \"Nicolle Wallace \"
Frances Conroy American Horror Story
For playing \"Moira O'Hara\"
Jessica Lange American Horror Story
For playing \"Constance Langdon\"
Judy Davis Page Eight
For playing \"Jill Tankard\"

Maggie Smith

Honored for : Downton Abbey
(For playing Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham)

Nominations 2011 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Melissa Leo Mildred Pierce
For playing \"Lucy Gessler\"
Evan Rachel Wood Mildred Pierce
For playing \"Veda Pierce\"
Mare Winningham Mildred Pierce
For playing \"Ida Corwin\"
Maggie Smith Downton Abbey
For playing \"Violet Crawley, Dowager Countess of Grantham\"
Eileen Atkins Upstairs, Downstairs
For playing \"Maud, Lady Holland\"

Julia Ormond

Honored for : Temple Grandin
(For playing Eustacia Grandin)

Nominations 2010 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Susan Sarandon You Don't Know Jack
For playing \"Janet Good\"
Brenda Vaccaro You Don't Know Jack
For playing \"Margo Janus\"
Julia Ormond Temple Grandin
For playing \"Eustacia Grandin\"
Catherine O'Hara Temple Grandin
For playing \"Aunt Ann\"
Kathy Bates Alice
For playing \"The Queen of Hearts\"

Shohreh Aghdashloo

Honored for : House of Saddam
(For playing Sajida Khairallah Talfah)

Nominations 2009 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Shohreh Aghdashloo House of Saddam
For playing \"Sajida Khairallah Talfah\"
Marcia Gay Harden Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Janina Krzy?anowska\"
Janet McTeer Into the Storm
For playing \"Clementine Churchill\"
Jeanne Tripplehorn Grey Gardens
For playing \"Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis\"
Cicely Tyson Relative Stranger
For playing \"Pearl\"

Eileen Atkins

Honored for : Masterpiece
(For playing Deborah Jenkyns\t)

Nominations 2008 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Laura Dern Recount
For playing \"Katherine Harris\"
Ashley Jensen Extras
For playing \"Maggie Jacobs\"
Alfre Woodard Pictures of Hollis Woods
For playing \"Edna Reilly\"
Audra McDonald A Raisin in the Sun
For playing \"Ruth Younger\"
Eileen Atkins Masterpiece
For playing \"Deborah Jenkyns\t\"

Judy Davis

Honored for : The Starter Wife
(For playing Joan McAllister)

Nominations 2007 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Greta Scacchi Broken Trail
For playing \"Nola Johns\"
Anna Paquin Bury My Heart at Wounded Knee
For playing \"Elaine Goodale\"
Samantha Morton Longford
For playing \"Myra Hindley\"
Judy Davis The Starter Wife
For playing \"Joan McAllister\"
Toni Collette Tsunami: The Aftermath
For playing \"Kathy Graham\"

Kelly Macdonald

Honored for : The Girl in the Café
(For playing Gina)

Nominations 2006 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Shirley Jones Hidden Places
For playing \"Aunt Batty\"
Ellen Burstyn Mrs. Harris
For playing \"Former Tarnower Steady\"
Cloris Leachman Mrs. Harris
For playing \"Pearl Schwartz\"
Kelly Macdonald The Girl in the Café
For playing \"Gina\"
Alfre Woodard Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Mrs. Brown\"

Jane Alexander

Honored for : Warm Springs
(For playing Sara Delano Roosevelt)

Nominations 2005 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Camryn Manheim Elvis
For playing \"Gladys Presley\"
Joanne Woodward Empire Falls
For playing \"Francine Whiting\t\"
Charlize Theron The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
For playing \"Britt Ekland\"
Jane Alexander Warm Springs
For playing \"Sara Roosevelt\"
Kathy Bates Warm Springs
For playing \"Helena Mahoney\"

Mary-Louise Parker

Honored for : Angels in America
(For playing Harper Pitt)

Nominations 2004 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Mary-Louise Parker Angels in America
For playing \"Harper Pitt\"
Anne Heche Gracie's Choice
For playing \"Rowena Larson\"
Anjelica Huston Iron Jawed Angels
For playing \"Carrie Chapman Catt\"
Angela Lansbury Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Dora\"
Julie Andrews Eloise At Christmastime
For playing \"Nanny\"

Gena Rowlands

Honored for : Hysterical Blindness
(For playing Virginia Miller)

Nominations 2003 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kathy Baker Door to Door
For playing \"Gladys Sullivan\"
Helen Mirren Door to Door
For playing \"Mrs. Porter\"
Gena Rowlands Hysterical Blindness
For playing \"Virginia Miller\"
Juliette Lewis Hysterical Blindness
For playing \"Beth Tocyznski\"
Anne Bancroft The Roman Spring of Mrs Stone
For playing \"Contessa\"

Stockard Channing

Honored for : The Matthew Shepard Story
(For playing Judy Shepard)

Nominations 2002 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sissy Spacek Last Call
For playing \"Zelda Fitzgerald\"
Stockard Channing The Matthew Shepard Story
For playing \"Judy Shepard\"
Joan Allen The Mists of Avalon
For playing \"Morgause\"
Anjelica Huston The Mists of Avalon
For playing \"Viviane\"
Diana Rigg Victoria & Albert
For playing \"Baroness Lehzen\"

Tammy Blanchard

Honored for : Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
(For playing Young Judy Garland)

Nominations 2001 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Brenda Blethyn Anne Frank: The Whole Story
For playing \"Auguste Van Pels\"
Tammy Blanchard Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows
For playing \"Young Judy Garland\"
Holly Hunter Things You Can Tell Just by Looking at Her
For playing \"Rebecca Waynon\"
Audra McDonald Wit
For playing \"Susie Monahan\"
Anne Bancroft Haven
For playing \"Mama Gruber\"

Vanessa Redgrave

Honored for : If These Walls Could Talk 2
(For playing Edith Tree)

Nominations 2000 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Kathy Bates Annie
For playing \"Agatha Hannigan\"
Maggie Smith Masterpiece
For playing \"Betsey Trotwood\" \"
Vanessa Redgrave If These Walls Could Talk 2
For playing \"Edith Tree\"
Melanie Griffith RKO 281
For playing \"Marion Davies\"
Elizabeth Franz Death of a Salesman
For playing \"Linda Loman\"

Anne Bancroft

Honored for : Deep in My Heart
(For playing Gerry Eileen Cummins)

Nominations 1999 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Cicely Tyson A Lesson Before Dying
For playing \"Tante Lou\"
Bebe Neuwirth Dash and Lilly
For playing \"Dorothy Parker\"
Dianne Wiest The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
For playing \"Sarah McClellan\"
Anne Bancroft Deep in My Heart
For playing \"Gerry Eileen Cummins\"
Jacqueline Bisset Joan of Arc
For playing \"Isabelle Romée\"
Olympia Dukakis Joan of Arc
For playing \"Mother Babette\"

Mare Winningham

Honored for : George Wallace
(For playing Lurleen Wallace)

Nominations 1998 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Angelina Jolie George Wallace
For playing \"Cornelia Wallace\"
Mare Winningham George Wallace
For playing \"Lurleen Wallace\"
Helena Bonham Carter Merlin
For playing \"Morgan le Fay\"
Judith Ivey Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Lucille\"
Julie Harris Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Leonora Nelson\"

Diana Rigg

Honored for : Rebecca
(For playing Mrs. Danvers)

Nominations 1997 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Glenne Headly Bastard Out of Carolina
For playing \"Aunt Ruth\"
Frances McDormand Hidden in America
For playing \"Gus\"
Bridget Fonda In the Gloaming
For playing \"Anne\"
Diana Rigg Rebecca
For playing \"Mrs. Danvers\"
Kirstie Alley The Last Don
For playing \"Rose Marie Clericuzio\"

Greta Scacchi

Honored for : Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
(For playing Tsarina Alexandra)

Nominations 1996 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Greta Scacchi Rasputin: Dark Servant of Destiny
For playing \"Tsarina Alexandra\"
Kathy Bates The Late Shift
For playing \"Helen Kushnick\"
Diana Scarwid Truman
For playing \"Bess Truman\"
Alfre Woodard Gulliver's Travels
For playing \"Queen of Brobdingnag\"
Mare Winningham Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Sheila\"

Shirley Knight

Honored for : Indictment: The McMartin Trial
(For playing Peggy Buckey)

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sada Thompson Indictment: The McMartin Trial
For playing \"Virginia McMartin\"
Shirley Knight Indictment: The McMartin Trial
For playing \"Peggy Buckey\"
Judy Davis Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
For playing \"Diane\"
Sônia Braga The Burning Season
For playing \"Regina de Catrvalho\"
Sissy Spacek The Good Old Boys
For playing \"Spring Renfro\"

Judy Davis

Honored for : Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
(For playing Diane)

Nominations 1995 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sada Thompson Indictment: The McMartin Trial
For playing \"Virginia McMartin\"
Shirley Knight Indictment: The McMartin Trial
For playing \"Peggy Buckey\"
Judy Davis Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
For playing \"Diane\"
Sônia Braga The Burning Season
For playing \"Regina de Catrvalho\"
Sissy Spacek The Good Old Boys
For playing \"Spring Renfro\"

Cicely Tyson

Honored for : Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
(For playing Castalia)

Nominations 1994 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Lily Tomlin And the Band Played On
For playing \"Dr. Selma Dritz\"
Swoosie Kurtz And the Band Played On
For playing \"Mrs. Johnstone\"
Lee Purcell Secret Sins of the Father
For playing \"Ann Theilman\"
Cicely Tyson Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
For playing \"Castalia\"
Anne Bancroft Oldest Living Confederate Widow Tells All
For playing \"Lucy Marsden (age 99 - 100)\"

Mary Tyler Moore

Honored for : Stolen Babies
(For playing Georgia Tann)

Nominations 1993 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ann-Margret Alex Haley's Queen
For playing \"Sally Jackson\"
Lee Grant Citizen Cohn
For playing \"Dora Cohn\"
Mary Tyler Moore Stolen Babies
For playing \"Georgia Tann\"
Joan Plowright Stalin
For playing \"Olga\"
Peggy McCay Woman on the Run: The Lawrencia Bembenek Story
For playing \"Virginia Bembenek\"

Amanda Plummer

Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame
(For playing Lusia)

Nominations 1992 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bibi Besch Doing Time on Maple Drive
For playing \"Lisa Carter\"
Penny Fuller Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Miss Kate Ryan\"
Maureen Stapleton Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing :Tanta Perla\"
Amanda Plummer Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Lusia\"
Anne Bancroft Broadway Bound
For playing \"Kate Jerome\"

Ruby Dee

Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame
(For playing Rowena)

Nominations 1991 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ruby Dee Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Rowena\"
Vanessa Redgrave American Playhouse
For playing \"Elizabeth of Russia\"
Elaine Stritch An Inconvenient Woman
For playing \"Rose\"
Olympia Dukakis Lucky Day
For playing \"Katherine Campbell\"
Doris Roberts American Playhouse
For playing \"Mimi Finklestein\"

Eva Marie Saint

Honored for : People Like Us
(For playing Lil Van Degan Altemus)

Nominations 1990 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Colleen Dewhurst Lantern Hill
For playing \" Hepzibah\"
Eva Marie Saint People Like Us
For playing \"Lil Van Degan Altemus\"
Stockard Channing Perfect Witness
For playing \"Liz Sapperstein\"
Swoosie Kurtz The Image
For playing \"Joanne Winstow-Darvish\"
Irene Worth Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Dolly Keeling\"

Colleen Dewhurst

Honored for : Those She Left Behind
(For playing Margaret Page)

Nominations 1989 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Peggy Ashcroft Masterpiece
For playing \"Miss Duber\"
Glenne Headly Lonesome Dove
For playing \"Elmira Johnson\"
Paula Kelly The Women of Brewster Place
For playing \"Theresa\"
Colleen Dewhurst Those She Left Behind
For playing \"Margaret Page\"
Polly Bergen War and Remembrance
For playing \"Rhoda Henry\"

Jane Seymour

Honored for : Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
(For playing Maria Callas)

Nominations 1988 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Ruby Dee Gore Vidal's Lincoln
For playing \"Elizabeth Keckley\"
Jane Seymour Onassis: The Richest Man in the World
For playing \"Maria Callas\"
Lisa Jacobs The Attic: The Hiding of Anne Frank
For playing \"Anne Frank\"
Julie Harris The Woman He Loved
For playing \"Alice\"
Stockard Channing Echoes in the Darkness
For playing \"Susan Reinert\"

Piper Laurie

Honored for : Hallmark Hall of Fame
(For playing Annie Gilbert)

Nominations 1987 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Christine Lahti Amerika
For playing \"Althea Milford\"
Olivia de Havilland Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna
For playing \"Dowager Empress Maria\"
Elizabeth Wilson Nutcracker: Money, Madness & Murder
For playing \"Berenice Bradshaw\"
Claudette Colbert The Two Mrs. Grenvilles
For playing \" Alice Grenville\"
Piper Laurie Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Annie Gilbert\"

Colleen Dewhurst

Honored for : Between Two Women
(For playing Barbara Petherton)

Nominations 1986 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Sylvia Sidney An Early Frost
For playing \"Beatrice McKenna\"
Dorothy McGuire Amos
For playing \" Hester Farrell\"
Colleen Dewhurst Between Two Women
For playing \"Barbara Petherton\"
Phyllis Frelich Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Janice Ryder\"
Vanessa Redgrave Peter the Great
For playing \"Tsarevna Sophia\"

Kim Stanley

Honored for : American Playhouse
(For playing Big Mama)

Nominations 1985 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Deborah Kerr A Woman of Substance
For playing \" Emma Harte\"
Penny Fuller American Playhouse
For playing \"Mae\"
Kim Stanley American Playhouse
For playing \"Big Mama\"
Ann Jillian Ellis Island
For playing \"Nellie Byfield\"
Alfre Woodard WonderWorks
For playing \"Claudie Sills\"

Roxana Zal

Honored for : Something About Amelia
(For playing Amelia Bennett)

Nominations 1984 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patty Duke George Washington
For playing \"Martha Washington\"
Tuesday Weld Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Margie Young-Hunt\"
Roxana Zal Something About Amelia
For playing \"Amelia Bennett\"
Beverly D'Angelo A Streetcar Named Desire
For playing \"Stella DuBois Kowalski\"
Cloris Leachman Ernie Kovacs: Between the Laughter
For playing \"Mary Kovacs\"

Jean Simmons

Honored for : The Thorn Birds
(For playing Fee Cleary)

Nominations 1983 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Bette Davis Little Gloria... Happy at Last
For playing \"Alice Gwynnne Vanderbilt\"
Piper Laurie The Thorn Birds
For playing \"Anne Mueller\"
Jean Simmons The Thorn Birds
For playing \"Fee Cleary\"
Judith Anderson Kennedy Center Tonight
For playing \"Nurse\"
Polly Bergen The Winds of War
For playing \"Rhoda Henry\"

Penny Fuller

Honored for : The Elephant Man
(For playing Mrs. Kendal)

Nominations 1982 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Judy Davis A Woman Called Golda
For playing \"Young Golda Meir\"
Claire Bloom Great Performances
For playing \"Lady Marchmain\"
Vicki Lawrence Eunice
For playing \"Thelma \"Mama\" Harper\"
Rita Moreno Portrait of a Showgirl
For playing \"Rosella DeLeon\"
Penny Fuller The Elephant Man
For playing \"Mrs. Kendal\"

Jane Alexander

Honored for : Playing for Time
(For playing Alma Rose)

Nominations 1981 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Piper Laurie The Bunker
For playing \"Magda Goebbels\"
Shirley Knight Playing for Time
For playing \"Frau Lagerfuhrerin Maria Mandel\"
Jane Alexander Playing for Time
For playing :Alma Rose\"
Colleen Dewhurst The Women's Room
For playing \"Val\"
Patty Duke The Women's Room
For playing \"Lily\"

Mare Winningham

Honored for : Amber Waves
(For playing Marlene Burkhardt)

Nominations 1980 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Patricia Neal Hallmark Hall of Fame
For playing \"Mrs. Baumer\"
Mare Winningham Amber Waves
For playing \"Marlene Burkhardt\"
Eileen Heckart F.D.R.: The Last Year
For playing \"Eleanor Roosevelt\"
Carrie Nye Moviola
For playing \"Tallulah Bankhead\"

Esther Rolle

Honored for : Summer of My German Soldier
(For playing Ruth)

Nominations 1979 »

Nominee Nominated Work
Celeste Holm Backstairs at the White House
Eileen Heckart Backstairs at the White House
Ruby Dee Roots: The Next Generations
Esther Rolle Summer of My German Soldier
Colleen Dewhurst Silent Victory: The Kitty O'Neil Story

Blanche Baker

Honored for : Holocaust
(For playing Anna Weiss)

Olivia Cole

Honored for : Roots
(For playing Mathilda)

Fionnula Flanagan

Honored for : Rich Man, Poor Man
(For playing Clothilde)

Juliet Mills

Honored for : QB VII
(For playing Samantha Cady)