Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series. Beginning with 1966, leading actresses in comedy have competed alone. However, these comedic performances included actresses from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:# – Indicates a performance in a Miniseries or Television film, prior to the category's creation § – Indicates a performance as a guest performer, prior to the category's creation

Winners and nominations

1950s 1960s 1970s 1980s 1990s 2000s 2010s 2020s ==Superlatives==

Superlatives

==Programs with multiple wins==

Programs with multiple wins

;6 wins • Veep ;5 wins • Murphy Brown ;4 wins • Hacks • Mad About You ;3 wins • All in the Family • Father Knows Best • The Golden Girls • The Mary Tyler Moore Show ;2 wins • Cheers • The Dick Van Dyke Show • Everybody Loves Raymond • The Ghost & Mrs. Muir • Hazel • Kate & Allie • The Lucy Show • Taxi ==Performers with multiple wins==

Performers with multiple wins

;7 wins • Julia Louis-Dreyfus (6 consecutive) ;5 wins • Candice Bergen (2 consecutive twice) • Mary Tyler Moore (2 consecutive twice) ;4 wins • Helen Hunt (consecutive) • Jean Smart (2 consecutive twice) ;3 wins • Lucille Ball (2 consecutive) • Jean Stapleton (2 consecutive) • Jane Wyatt (consecutive) ;2 wins • Bea Arthur • Shirley Booth (consecutive) • Jane Curtin (consecutive) • Patricia Heaton (consecutive) • Hope Lange (consecutive) ==Programs with multiple nominations==

Programs with multiple nominations

;15 nominations • The Golden Girls ;9 nominations • Cheers ;8 nominations • All in the Family ;7 nominations • 30 Rock • Everybody Loves Raymond • The Jeffersons • Mad About You • Malcolm in the Middle • The Mary Tyler Moore Show • Murphy Brown • Soap • Veep ;6 nominations • Bewitched • Nurse Jackie • Parks and Recreation • Sex and the City ;5 nominations • Black-ish • The Days and Nights of Molly Dodd • Grace and Frankie • Kate & Allie • The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel • Maude • The New Adventures of Old Christine • Will & Grace ;4 nominations • Abbott Elementary • Dead to Me • Desperate Housewives • The Donna Reed Show • Ellen • The George Burns and Gracie Allen Show • Hacks • Home Improvement • I Love Lucy • The Loretta Young Show • The Lucy Show • Rhoda • Roseanne • That Girl ;3 nominations • Ally McBeal • Cybill • Dharma & Greg • The Dick Van Dyke Show • Father Knows Best • Friends • Girls • Hazel • Insecure • Mike & Molly • Mom • Our Miss Brooks • Private Secretary • Taxi • Weeds ;2 nominations • The Bear • Better Things • The Beverly Hillbillies • The Bob Newhart Show • Brooklyn Bridge • The Comeback • The Cosby Show • December Bride • Designing Women • The Flight Attendant • Get Smart • The Ghost & Mrs. Muir • Gimme a Break! • Inside Amy Schumer • Love, Sidney • Mr. Adams and Eve • The Nanny • Samantha Who? • ''Schitt's Creek'' • Ugly Betty • Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt • United States of Tara ==Performers with multiple nominations==

Performers with multiple nominations

;12 nominations • Julia Louis-Dreyfus ;10 nominations • Mary Tyler Moore ;9 nominations • Bea Arthur ;8 nominations • Lucille Ball • Jean Stapleton ;7 nominations • Candice Bergen • Tina Fey • Patricia Heaton • Helen Hunt • Jane Kaczmarek • Isabel Sanford • Betty White ;6 nominations • Kirstie Alley • Edie Falco • Sarah Jessica Parker • Amy Poehler ;5 nominations • Christina Applegate • Rachel Brosnahan • Blair Brown • Debra Messing • Elizabeth Montgomery • Tracee Ellis Ross ;4 nominations • Gracie Allen • Eve Arden • Roseanne Barr • Quinta Brunson • Ellen DeGeneres • Valerie Harper • Katherine Helmond • Shelley Long • Rue McClanahan • Donna Reed • Patricia Richardson • Jean Smart • Ann Sothern • Marlo Thomas • Lily Tomlin • Loretta Young ;3 nominations • Jennifer Aniston • Shirley Booth • Jane Curtin • Cathryn Damon • Lena Dunham • Jenna Elfman • Calista Flockhart • Allison Janney • Melissa McCarthy • Mary-Louise Parker • Issa Rae • Cybill Shepherd • Jane Wyatt ;2 nominations • Pamela Adlon • Delta Burke • Spring Byington • Nell Carter • Toni Collette • Kaley Cuoco • Fran Drescher • Ayo Edebiri • Barbara Feldon • America Ferrera • Felicity Huffman • Ellie Kemper • Lisa Kudrow • Swoosie Kurtz • Hope Lange • Ida Lupino • Natasha Lyonne • Catherine O'Hara • Suzanne Pleshette • Phylicia Rashad • Marion Ross • Irene Ryan • Susan Saint James • Amy Schumer ==Total awards by network==

Total awards by network

• CBS – 26 • NBC – 16 • HBO/HBO Max/Max – 11 • ABC – 8 • Showtime – 2 • Amazon – 2 • Pop TV - 1 ==See also==

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