Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series
| Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series | |
|---|---|
| Description | Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series |
| Country | United States |
| Presented by | Academy of Television Arts & Sciences |
| Currently held by | Merritt Wever, Nurse Jackie (2013) |
| Website | http://www.emmys.com |
This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series.
Rhea Perlman and Doris Roberts at four apiece are tied with the most number of awards received. Loretta Swit and Rhea Perlman are tied for having received the most number of nominations (ten).
Superlatives
| Superlative | Lead Actress - Comedy Series | Supporting Actress Comedy Series |
Guest Actress - Comedy Series | Overall | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Actress with most awards | Mary Tyler Moore, Candice Bergen |
5 | Rhea Perlman, Doris Roberts |
4 | Cloris Leachman | 3 | Mary Tyler Moore, Candice Bergen, Betty White |
5 |
| Actress with most nominations | Mary Tyler Moore | 10 | Loretta Swit, Rhea Perlman | 10 | Cloris Leachman | 8 | Betty White | 16 |
| Actress with most nominations without ever winning |
Jane Kaczmarek | 7 | Julia Duffy | 7 | Georgia Engel | 3 | Julia Duffy, Jane Kaczmarek, Katherine Helmond | 7 |
| Television program with most wins | Murphy Brown | 5 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show, Cheers | 6 | Frasier | 3 | The Mary Tyler Moore Show | 10 |
| Television program with most nominations | The Golden Girls | 15 | Cheers | 13 | 30 Rock | 11 | The Golden Girls | 28 |
| Television program with most nominations without ever winning | Malcolm in the Middle | 7 | Newhart | 7 | Cheers, Will & Grace | 5 | Newhart | 8 |
Winners and nominees
Winners in each year are denoted by bold text.
1950s
- 1953: Vivian Vance – I Love Lucy as Ethel Mertz
- 1954: Audrey Meadows – The Jackie Gleason Show as Alice Kramden
- 1955: Nanette Fabray – Caesar's Hour as Various
- Ann B. Davis - The Bob Cummings Show as Schultzy
- Audrey Meadows - The Honeymooners as Alice Kramden
- 1956: Pat Carroll – Caesar's Hour as Various
- Vivian Vance - I Love Lucy as Ethel Mertz
- Ann B. Davis - The Bob Cummings Show as Schultzy
- Audrey Meadows - The Jackie Gleason Show as Alice Kramden
- 1957: Ann B. Davis – The Bob Cummings Show as Schultzy
- 1959: Ann B. Davis – The Bob Cummings Show as Schultzy
1960s
- 1966: Alice Pearce – Bewitched as Gladys Kravitz
- Rose Marie - The Dick Van Dyke Show as Sally Rogers
- Agnes Moorehead - Bewitched as Endora
- 1967: Frances Bavier – The Andy Griffith Show as Aunt Bee
- Marion Lorne - Bewitched as Aunt Clara
- Nancy Kulp - The Beverley Hillbillies as Miss Jane Hathaway
- 1968: Marion Lorne – Bewitched as Aunt Clara
- Agnes Moorehead - Bewitched as Endora
- Marge Redmond - The Flying Nun as Sister Jaqueline
- Nita Talbot - Hogan's Heroes as Marya
- 1969: no award