Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama

The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama is a Golden Globe Award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA).

The award honors the best performance by an actress in a drama television series.

It was first awarded at the 19th Golden Globe Awards on March 5, 1962, under the title Best TV Star – Female, encompassing performances in comedy and drama television series, to Pauline Frederick.

Angela Lansbury has won the most awards in this category, winning four times, and received ten nominations for the awards, the most in the category; all of her wins were for the series Murder, She Wrote, which therefore holds the record for series with the most wins in the category.

The record for series with the most different actresses winning the award is held by The Crown, for which three actors each won the award once: Claire Foy, Olivia Colman, and Emma Corrin.

Donna Reed was the second recipient of the award, winning for The Donna Reed Show .
Mary Tyler Moore won for The Dick Van Dyke Show
Anne Francis won in 1966 for Honey West
Carol Burnett won for The Carol Burnett Show
Diahann Carroll won the award in 1969 before the category was split, receiving another nomination in the comedy category in 1970.
Linda Cristal won in 1970 for her role as Victoria Montoya on The High Chaparral .
Michael Learned received four nominations for her performance on The Waltons as Olivia Walton.
Lee Remick won the award twice for her performances on the television movie The Blue Night and the miniseries Jennie: Lady Randolph Churchill .
Natalie Wood won for From Here to Eternity (1979)
Angie Dickinson won in 1975 for her role as Sgt. Suzanne "Pepper" Anderson on Police Woman .
Sada Thompson was nominated three times for her role as Kate Lawrence on Family .
Joan Collins won in 1983 for her role as Alexis Carrington on Dynasty .
Sharon Gless won twice for her Cagney & Lacey and The Trials of Rosie O'Neill .
Angela Lansbury was nominated ten times for the award, winning four times for her role as Jessica Fletcher on Murder, She Wrote .
Kathy Baker won in 1994 for Picket Fences .
Gillian Anderson won in 1997 for The X-Files as FBI Special Agent Dana Scully .
Keri Russell won the award for her portrayal of Felicity Porter on Felicity .
Edie Falco won twice for her role as Carmela Soprano on The Sopranos .
Sela Ward won for Once and Again
Jennifer Garner won in 2002 for her portrayal of Sydney Bristow on Alias .
Anna Paquin won playing Sookie Stackhouse in True Blood
Glenn Close won for Damages
Julianna Margulies won in 2010 for Alicia Florrick on The Good Wife .
Claire Danes won the award three times for her performances on My So-Called Life and Homeland .
Robin Wright won playing Claire Underwood on House of Cards (2013).
Ruth Wilson won for The Affair (2014)
Claire Foy won for portraying Queen Elizabeth II in The Crown (2016)
Elisabeth Moss won for The Handmaid's Tale (2017)
Sandra Oh won for Killing Eve (2018)
Olivia Colman won for The Crown (2019)
Emma Corrin won playing Princess Diana in The Crown (2020)
Zendaya won for Euphoria (2021)
Sarah Snook won for Succession (2023)