Golden Globe Award / Best Actress - Mini-Series or TV Movie
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
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 )
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
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 )
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
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 )
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
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 )
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
- 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 )
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 )
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 )
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 )
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
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
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 )
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
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
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)
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 )
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 )
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 )
- 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 )
- 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
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
- Joan Allen - Georgia O'Keeffe
- Jessica Lange - Gray Gardens
- Anna Paquin - The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler
- Sigourney Weaver - Prayers for Bobby
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)
- Romola Garai - The Hour
- Diane Lane - Cinema Verite
- Elizabeth McGovern - Downton Abbey
- Emily Watson - Appropriate Adult
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
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)
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
Lady Gaga - American Horror Story (American Horror Story: Hotel)
- Kirsten Dunst - Fargo
- Sarah Hay - Flesh and Bone
- Felicity Huffman - American Crime
- Queen Latifah - Bessie
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)
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
Patricia Arquette - Escape at Dannemora
- Amy Adams - Sharp Objects
- Connie Britton - Dirty John
- Laura Dern - The Tale (The Tale)
- Regina King - Seven Seconds