The Daytime Emmy Award for Outstanding Performer in Children's Programming was an Emmy award given to performers in television programming .During the 1970s and 1980s, guest performers in dramatic specials and regular performers on children's series competed in the same category.
[1] The youngest Emmy nominee, Jodelle Ferland, was nominated in this category in 2001 at the age of six.
[2] The youngest Emmy winner, Bindi Irwin, won in 2008 at age nine.
[3] In November 2021, the National Academy of Television Arts and Sciences announced that all Daytime Emmy categories honoring children's programming will be retired in favor of a separate Children's & Family Emmy Awards ceremony, to be held starting in 2022.
For "Individual Achievement" categories, only nominees relevant to this page are listed.