Golden Globe Award / Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie

Helen Mirren (2007)

Golden Globe Award : Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie

Winners and nominees in the category Best Actress - Miniseries or TV Movie ( Best Actress - Miniseries or Television Movie ), which rewards the most outstanding acting achievements of the past calendar year. The category was launched in 1982.

The rare honor of a double nomination was given to Jane Seymour ( Firestorm and Ashes and King of Their Hearts ) in 1989 and Helen Mirren ( Elizabeth I and Hot Suspicion - The Finale ) in 2007 .

statistics	Surname	number	year
Most frequent awards	Ann-Margret	2	1984, 1985
	Judy Davis	2	1992, 2002
	Helen Mirren	2	1997, 2007
Most frequent nominations (* = victory)	Jessica Lange	8th	1993, 1996 *, 2004, 2010, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2018
Most frequent nominations without a win	Farrah Fawcett	4th	1985, 1987, 1988, 1990
	Vanessa Redgrave	4th	1987, 1989, 1998, 2003

In the list below, the winners are listed according to the year in which they were awarded. The mini-series or films listed are given with their German title (if identifiable), followed by the foreign-language original title in brackets in italics. The original title is not mentioned if the German and foreign-language film titles are identical. The winners are highlighted first.

1980s

1982

Jane Seymour - Beyond Eden ( East of Eden )

• Ellen Burstyn - The People vs. Jean Harris
• Glenda Jackson - Triumph of Love ( The Patricia Neal Story )
• Jaclyn Smith - The Life of Jackie Kennedy ( Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy )
• Joanne Woodward - Crisis at Central High

1983

Ingrid Bergman - Golda Meir ( A Woman Called Golda )

• Carol Burnett - Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice
• Lucy Gutteridge - Little Gloria - Poor Rich Girl ( Little Gloria… Happy at Last )
• Ann Jillian - Mae West
• Lee Remick - The fatal letter ( The Letter )
• Jean Stapleton - Eleanor, First Lady of the World

1984

Ann-Margret - What will become of the children? ( Who Will Love My Children? )

• Susan Blakely - Will There Really Be a Morning?
• Blair Brown - Kennedy
• Gena Rowlands - Hallmark Hall of Fame , Episode: Thursday's Child
• Rachel Ward - The Thorn Birds ( The Thorn Birds )

1985

Ann-Margret - Endstation Sehnsucht ( A Streetcar Named Desire )

• Glenn Close - Something About Amelia
• Farrah Fawcett - The Burning Bed ( The Burning Bed )
• Jane Fonda - Dollmaker - A Dream Come True ( The Dollmaker )
• Glenda Jackson - Sakharov

1986

Liza Minnelli - A Short Life ( A Time to Live )

• Peggy Ashcroft - The Jewel in the Crown - Ans other side ( The Jewel in the Crown )
• Gena Rowlands - Early Frost - A Case of AIDS ( An Early Frost )
• Marlo Thomas - How Do I Tell My Parents ( Consenting Adult )
• Joanne Woodward - Forget not love ( Do You Remember Love )

1987

Loretta Young - Merry Christmas, Mrs. Kingsley ( Christmas Eve )

• Farrah Fawcett - Persecuted and Chased ( Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story )
• Amy Irving - Anastasia ( Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna )
• Vanessa Redgrave - Second supplement ( Second Serve )
• Marlo Thomas - Nobody's Child

1988

Gena Rowlands - A Woman Conquering Fear ( The Betty Ford Story )

• Ann-Margret - Dark Society ( The Two Mrs. Grenvilles )
• Farrah Fawcett - Poor Little Rich Girl - The story of Barbara Hutton ( Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story )
• Shirley MacLaine - Out on a Limb
• Raquel Welch - The right to die ( Right to Die )

1989

Ann Jillian - The story of Ann Jillian ( The Ann Jillian Story )

• Vanessa Redgrave - A Man for All Seasons
• Jane Seymour - Firestorm and Ashes ( War and Remembrance )
• Jane Seymour - King of Her Heart ( The Woman He Loved )
• JoBeth Williams - Baby M

1990s

1990

Christine Lahti - Burning Destiny ( No Place Like Home )

• Farrah Fawcett - Cry on the Edge ( Small Sacrifices )
• Holly Hunter - Roe vs. calf
• Jane Seymour - Firestorm and Ashes ( War and Remembrance )
• Loretta Young - Spider in the Web ( Lady in the Corner )

1991

Barbara Hershey - The ax murderer ( A Killing in a Small Town )

• Annette O'Toole - The Kennedys of Massachusetts
• Suzanne Pleshette - The Dollar Queen ( Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean )
• Lesley Ann Warren - Family of Spies
• Stephanie Zimbalist - Hallmark Hall of Fame , episode: Caroline

1992

Judy Davis - One Against the Wind ( One Against the Wind )

• Glenn Close - A Sea for Sarah ( Sarah, Plain and Tall )
• Sally Kirkland - House of the Living Dead ( The Haunted )
• Jessica Tandy - The Story Lady
• Lynn Whitfield - The Josephine Baker Story ( The Josephine Baker Story )

1993

Laura Dern - Starfighter of Death ( Afterburn )

• Drew Barrymore - Guncrazy - Young Killer ( Guncrazy )
• Katharine Hepburn - No Angel On Earth ( The Man Upstairs )
• Jessica Lange - O Pioneers!
• Kyra Sedgwick - Miss Rose White

1994

Bette Midler - Gypsy

• Faye Dunaway - Columbo , Episode: The Dead in the Electric Blanket ( It's All in the Game )
• Helena Bonham Carter - Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald
• Holly Hunter - The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
• Anjelica Huston - Scenes from a Family ( Family Pictures )

1995

Joanne Woodward - Maggie, Maggie! ( Breathing Lessons )

• Kirstie Alley - Too Much Love - David's mother ( David's Mother )
• Irene Bedard - Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee
• Diane Keaton - Amelia Earhart - The last flight ( Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight )
• Diana Ross - The long road from the night ( Out of Darkness )

1996

Jessica Lange - Endstation Sehnsucht ( A Streetcar Named Desire )

• Glenn Close - Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story
• Jamie Lee Curtis - Lost Dreams ( The Heidi Chronicles )
• Sally Field - Interplay of Life ( A Woman of Independent Means )
• Linda Hamilton - A Mother's Prayer ( A Mother's Prayer )

1997

Helen Mirren - Farewell to Chase ( Losing Chase )

• Ashley Judd - Marilyn - Your Life ( Norma Jean & Marilyn )
• Demi Moore - House of Mute Screams ( If These Walls Could Talk )
• Isabella Rossellini - Crime of the Century
• Mira Sorvino - Marilyn - Your Life ( Norma Jean & Marilyn )

1998

Alfre Woodard - Miss Evers' Boys

• Ellen Barkin - Like a Bird Without Wings ( Before Women Had Wings )
• Jena Malone - Hope
• Vanessa Redgrave - Bella Mafia
• Meryl Streep - … First Do No Harm

1999

Angelina Jolie - Gia - Price of Beauty (Gia)

• Ann-Margret - The Soul of the Party - Die Pamela Harriman Story ( Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story )
• Stockard Channing - Baby Blues (The Baby Dance)
• Laura Dern - Baby Blues
• Miranda Richardson - Merlin

2000s

2000

Halle Berry - Rising Star ( Introducing Dorothy Dandridge )

• Judy Davis - Dash and Lilly
• Mia Farrow - Forget Me Never
• Helen Mirren - The Passion of Ayn Rand
• Leelee Sobieski - Jeanne d'Arc - The Woman of the Millennium ( Joan of Arc )

2001

Judi Dench - The Last of the Blonde Bombshells ( The Last of the Blonde Bombshells )

• Holly Hunter - Time of Justice ( Harlan County War )
• Christine Lahti - Candidate in the Crossfire ( An American Daughter )
• Frances O'Connor - Madame Bovary
• Rachel Ward - USS Charleston - The Last Hope of Mankind ( On the Beach )
• Alfre Woodard - Holiday Heart

2002

Judy Davis - Life With Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows

• Bridget Fonda - After Amy
• Julianna Margulies - The Mists of Avalon ( The Mists of Avalon )
• Leelee Sobieski - Uprising - Uprising ( Uprising )
• Hannah Taylor-Gordon - Anne Frank ( Anne Frank )
• Emma Thompson - Wit

2003

Uma Thurman - Hysterical Blindness

• Helena Bonham Carter - Live aus Baghdad ( Live from Baghdad )
• Shirley MacLaine - Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay
• Helen Mirren - Door to Door ( Door to Door )
• Vanessa Redgrave - Churchill - The Gathering Storm (The Gathering Storm)

2004

Meryl Streep - Angels in America ( Angels in America )

• Judy Davis - The Reagans
• Jessica Lange - A Question of Love ( Normal )
• Helen Mirren - The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone
• Maggie Smith - My House in Umbria ( My House in Umbria )

2005

Glenn Close - The Lion in Winter - Fight for the King's Crown ( The Lion in Winter )

• Blythe Danner - Back When We Were Grownups
• Julianna Margulies - The Grid
• Miranda Richardson - The Lost Prince
• Hilary Swank - Alice Paul - The Path into Light ( Iron Jawed Angels )

2006

S. Epatha Merkerson - Lackawanna Blues

• Halle Berry - Love Never Dies (Their Eyes Were Watching God)
• Kelly Macdonald - G8 on Cloud 7 ( The Girl in the Café )
• Cynthia Nixon - Warm Springs
• Mira Sorvino - Human trafficking - trafficking ( Human Trafficking )

2007

Helen Mirren - Elizabeth I

• Gillian Anderson - Bleak House
• Annette Bening - Mrs. Harris - Murder in the Best Circles ( Mrs. Harris )
• Helen Mirren - Prime Suspect - The Final ( Prime Suspect: The Final Act )
• Sophie Okonedo - Tsunami - Die Killerwelle ( Tsunami: The Aftermath )

2008

Queen Latifah - Life Support

• Bryce Dallas Howard - As You Like It
• Debra Messing - The Starter Wife - The Starter Wife (The Starter Wife)
• Sissy Spacek - Pictures of Hollis Woods
• Ruth Wilson - Jane Eyre

2009

Laura Linney - John Adams - Freedom For America (John Adams)

• Judi Dench - Cranford
• Catherine Keener - An American Crime
• Shirley MacLaine - Coco Chanel
• Susan Sarandon - Bernard and Doris

2010s

2010

Drew Barrymore - Gray Gardens

• Joan Allen - Georgia O'Keeffe
• Jessica Lange - Gray Gardens
• Anna Paquin - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
• Sigourney Weaver - Prayers for Bobby

2011

Claire Danes - You Don't Walk Alone (Temple Grandin)

• Hayley Atwell - The Pillars of the Earth (The Pillars of the Earth)
• Judi Dench - Cranford
• Romola Garai - Emma
• Jennifer Love Hewitt - The list (The Client List)

2012

Kate Winslet - Mildred Pierce

• Romola Garai - The Hour
• Diane Lane - Cinema Verite
• Elizabeth McGovern - Downton Abbey
• Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult

2013

Julianne Moore - Game Change - The Sarah Palin Effect

• Nicole Kidman - Hemingway & Gellhorn
• Jessica Lange - American Horror Story (American Horror Story: Asylum)
• Sienna Miller - The Girl
• Sigourney Weaver - Political Animals

2014

Elisabeth Moss - Top of the Lake

• Helena Bonham Carter - Burton and Taylor
• Rebecca Ferguson - The White Queen
• Jessica Lange - American Horror Story (American Horror Story: Coven)
• Helen Mirren - The Phil Spector Case (Phil Spector)

2015

Maggie Gyllenhaal - The Honorable Woman

• Jessica Lange - American Horror Story (American Horror Story: Freak Show)
• Frances McDormand - Olive Kitteridge
• Frances O'Connor - The Missing
• Allison Tolman - Fargo

2016

Lady Gaga - American Horror Story (American Horror Story: Hotel)

• Kirsten Dunst - Fargo
• Sarah Hay - Flesh and Bone
• Felicity Huffman - American Crime
• Queen Latifah - Bessie

2017

Sarah Paulson - American Crime Story (The People v. OJ Simpson: American Crime Story)

• Felicity Huffman - American Crime
• Riley Keough - The Girlfriend Experience
• Charlotte Rampling - London Spy
• Kerry Washington - In Good Faith (Confirmation)

2018

Nicole Kidman - Big Little Lies

• Jessica Biel - The Sinner
• Jessica Lange - Feud (Feud: Bette and Joan)
• Susan Sarandon - Feud (Feud: Bette and Joan)
• Reese Witherspoon - Big Little Lies

2019

Patricia Arquette - Escape at Dannemora

• Amy Adams - Sharp Objects
• Connie Britton - Dirty John
• Laura Dern - The Tale (The Tale)
• Regina King - Seven Seconds

2020s

2020

Michelle Williams - Fosse / Verdon

• Kaitlyn Dever - Unbelievable
• Joey King - The Act
• Helen Mirren - Catherine the Great
• Merritt Wever - Unbelievable