Who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film at the most recent Golden Globes?

Jodie Foster won at the 2025 Golden Globes.

How many different winners has Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film had?

40 different winners across 44 ceremonies, 1982–2025.

A visual history · Golden Globes

The winners who defined TV Actress (Limited).

Q: Who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film in 2025?

Jodie Foster — True Detective: Night Country.

Q: Who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film in 2023?

Amanda Seyfried — The Dropout.

Q: Who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film in 2022?

Kate Winslet — Mare of Easttown.

Q: Who won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film in 2021?

Anya Taylor-Joy — The Queen's Gambit.

Q: Who has won Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film the most times?

Ann-Margret, Helen Mirren, Judy Davis and Kate Winslet are tied with 2 wins each.

44 ceremonies, 1982–2025. 40 different winners. The longest run belongs to Ann-Margret, with 2 straight wins.

Who won most recently?: Jodie Foster in 2025 for True Detective: Night Country.
Who has won the most?: Ann-Margret, Helen Mirren, Judy Davis and Kate Winslet, tied on 2 wins each.

2025True Detective: Night CountryJodie Foster
2024BeefAli Wong
2023The DropoutAmanda Seyfried
2022Mare of EasttownKate Winslet
2021The Queen's GambitAnya Taylor-Joy
2020Fosse/VerdonMichelle Williams

Years explored: 1982–2025
Different winners: 40
Category leader: Ann-Margret · 2

About this record

Best Actress in a Limited Series, Anthology Series or Television Film was first awarded in 1982, so it does not run the full 1944–2025 window.

It was previously known as Best Actress in a Miniseries or Television Film.

The current name took effect at the 2023 ceremony.

2000–2025

26 ceremonies

19822025

01 / The reigns

25 winners shaped this category.

The timeline turns the 2000–2025 record into a sequence of reigns. Longer bands reveal sustained runs; color shows the credited network / distributor.

01
Kate Winslet2 wins

One band per year, because no winner has gone back-to-back in the years on record. Colored by network / distributor; scroll sideways for the full run.

Halle Berry'00

Judi Dench'01

Judy Davis'02

Uma Thurman'03

Meryl Streep'04

Glenn Close'05

S. Epatha Merkerson'06

Helen Mirren'07

Queen Latifah'08

Laura Linney'09

Drew Barrymore'10

Claire Danes'11

Kate Winslet'12

Julianne Moore'13

Elisabeth Moss'14

Maggie Gyllenhaal'15

Lady Gaga'16

Sarah Paulson'17

Nicole Kidman'18

Patricia Arquette'19

Michelle Williams'20

Anya Taylor-Joy'21

Kate Winslet'22

Amanda Seyfried'23

Ali Wong'24

Jodie Foster'25

02 / The power map

Who stood behind the winners?

HBO leads the recorded network / distributor credits with 15 wins, 2000–2025. The full distribution shows whether power was concentrated or shared.

HBO15 wins

FX3 wins

Netflix2 wins

Showtime2 wins

Sundance Channel2 wins

ABC1 win

Wins by network / distributor

HBO1558%
FX312%
Netflix28%
Showtime28%
Sundance Channel28%
ABC14%
Other14%

03 / The near misses

The names that kept coming back without the ending they wanted.

Counting nominations in this category only, 2000–2025.

Most nominated, never won this award

01
Jessica Lange
6 noms
02
Cate Blanchett
2 noms
03
Elizabeth Olsen
2 noms
04
Felicity Huffman
2 noms
05
Frances O'Connor
2 noms
06
Helena Bonham Carter
2 noms

Most losses in this category

01
Helen Mirren
6L · 1W
02
Jessica Lange
6L · 0W
03
Cate Blanchett
2L · 0W
04
Elizabeth Olsen
2L · 0W
05
Felicity Huffman
2L · 0W
06
Frances O'Connor
2L · 0W

04 / The archive

Every year.
Every winner.

The complete reference behind the story, showing 2000–2025. Open any year to see the rest of the field when nominee records are available.

Year	Winner	Network / Distributor
2025	Jodie Foster (True Detective: Night Country) beat 5 others Cate Blanchett (Disclaimer) Cristin Milioti (The Penguin) Sofia Vergara (Griselda) Naomi Watts (Feud: Capote vs. the Swans) Kate Winslet (The Regime)	HBO
2024	Ali Wong (Beef) beat 5 others Riley Keough (Daisy Jones & the Six) Brie Larson (Lessons in Chemistry) Elizabeth Olsen (Love & Death) Juno Temple (Fargo) Rachel Weisz (Dead Ringers)	Netflix
2023	Amanda Seyfried (The Dropout) beat 4 others Jessica Chastain (George & Tammy) Julia Garner (Inventing Anna) Lily James (Pam & Tommy) Julia Roberts (Gaslit)	Hulu
2022	Kate Winslet (Mare of Easttown) beat 4 others Jessica Chastain (Scenes from a Marriage) Cynthia Erivo (Genius) Elizabeth Olsen (WandaVision) Margaret Qualley (Maid)	HBO
2021	Anya Taylor-Joy (The Queen's Gambit) beat 4 others Cate Blanchett (Mrs. America) Daisy Edgar-Jones (Normal People) Shira Haas (Unorthodox) Nicole Kidman (The Undoing)	Netflix
2020	Michelle Williams (Fosse/Verdon) beat 4 others Kaitlyn Dever (Unbelievable) Joey King (The Act) Helen Mirren (Catherine the Great) Merritt Wever (Unbelievable)	FX
2019	Patricia Arquette (Escape at Dannemora) beat 4 others Amy Adams (Sharp Objects) Connie Britton (Dirty John) Laura Dern (The Tale) Regina King (Seven Seconds)	Showtime
2018	Nicole Kidman (Big Little Lies) beat 4 others Jessica Biel (The Sinner) Jessica Lange (Feud: Bette and Joan) Susan Sarandon (Feud: Bette and Joan) Reese Witherspoon (Big Little Lies)	HBO
2017	Sarah Paulson (The People v. O. J. Simpson: American Crime Story) beat 4 others Felicity Huffman (American Crime) Riley Keough (The Girlfriend Experience) Charlotte Rampling (London Spy) Kerry Washington (Confirmation)	FX
2016	Lady Gaga (American Horror Story: Hotel) beat 4 others Kirsten Dunst (Fargo) Sarah Hay (Flesh and Bone) Felicity Huffman (American Crime) Queen Latifah (Bessie)	FX
2015	Maggie Gyllenhaal (The Honourable Woman) beat 4 others Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Freak Show) Frances McDormand (Olive Kitteridge) Frances O'Connor (The Missing) Allison Tolman (Fargo)	Sundance Channel
2014	Elisabeth Moss (Top of the Lake) beat 4 others Helena Bonham Carter (Burton & Taylor) Rebecca Ferguson (The White Queen) Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Coven) Helen Mirren (Phil Spector)	Sundance Channel
2013	Julianne Moore (Game Change) beat 4 others Nicole Kidman (Hemingway & Gellhorn) Jessica Lange (American Horror Story: Asylum) Sienna Miller (The Girl) Sigourney Weaver (Political Animals)	HBO
2012	Kate Winslet (Mildred Pierce) beat 4 others Romola Garai (The Hour) Diane Lane (Cinema Verite) Elizabeth McGovern (Downton Abbey) Emily Watson (Appropriate Adult)	HBO
2011	Claire Danes (Temple Grandin) beat 4 others Hayley Atwell (The Pillars of the Earth) Judi Dench (Return to Cranford) Romola Garai (Emma) Jennifer Love Hewitt (The Client List)	HBO
2010	Drew Barrymore (Grey Gardens) beat 4 others Joan Allen (Georgia O'Keeffe) Jessica Lange (Grey Gardens) Anna Paquin (The Courageous Heart of Irena Sendler) Sigourney Weaver (Prayers for Bobby)	HBO
2009	Laura Linney (John Adams) beat 4 others Judi Dench (Cranford) Catherine Keener (An American Crime) Shirley MacLaine (Coco Chanel) Susan Sarandon (Bernard and Doris)	HBO
2008	Queen Latifah (Life Support) beat 4 others Bryce Dallas Howard (As You Like It) Debra Messing (The Starter Wife) Sissy Spacek (Pictures of Hollis Woods) Ruth Wilson (Jane Eyre)	HBO
2007	Helen Mirren (Elizabeth I) beat 4 others Gillian Anderson (Bleak House) Annette Bening (Mrs. Harris) Helen Mirren (Prime Suspect: The Final Act) Sophie Okonedo (Tsunami: The Aftermath)	HBO
2006	S. Epatha Merkerson (Lackawanna Blues) beat 4 others Halle Berry (Their Eyes Were Watching God) Kelly Macdonald (The Girl in the Café) Cynthia Nixon (Warm Springs) Mira Sorvino (Human Trafficking)	HBO
2005	Glenn Close (The Lion in Winter) beat 4 others Blythe Danner (Back When We Were Grownups) Julianna Margulies (The Grid) Miranda Richardson (The Lost Prince) Hilary Swank (Iron Jawed Angels)	Showtime
2004	Meryl Streep (Angels in America) beat 4 others Judy Davis (The Reagans) Jessica Lange (Normal) Helen Mirren (The Roman Spring of Mrs. Stone) Maggie Smith (My House in Umbria)	HBO
2003	Uma Thurman (Hysterical Blindness) beat 4 others Helena Bonham Carter (Live from Baghdad) Shirley MacLaine (Hell on Heels: The Battle of Mary Kay) Helen Mirren (Door to Door) Vanessa Redgrave (The Gathering Storm)	HBO
2002	Judy Davis (Life with Judy Garland: Me and My Shadows) beat 5 others Bridget Fonda (After Amy) Julianna Margulies (The Mists of Avalon) Leelee Sobieski (Uprising) Hannah Taylor-Gordon (Anne Frank: The Whole Story) Emma Thompson (Wit)	ABC
2001	Judi Dench (The Last of the Blonde Bombshells) beat 5 others Holly Hunter (Harlan County War) Christine Lahti (An American Daughter) Frances O'Connor (Madame Bovary) Rachel Ward (On the Beach) Alfre Woodard (Holiday Heart)	HBO
2000	Halle Berry (Introducing Dorothy Dandridge) beat 4 others Judy Davis (Dash and Lilly) Mia Farrow (Forget Me Never) Helen Mirren (The Passion of Ayn Rand) Leelee Sobieski (Joan of Arc)	HBO
1999	Angelina Jolie (Gia)unverified beat 4 others Stockard Channing (The Baby Dance) Laura Dern (The Baby Dance) Ann-Margret (Life of the Party: The Pamela Harriman Story) Miranda Richardson (Merlin)	HBO
1998	Alfre Woodard (Miss Evers' Boys)unverified beat 4 others Ellen Barkin (Before Women Had Wings) Jena Malone (Hope) Vanessa Redgrave (Bella Mafia) Meryl Streep (...First Do No Harm)	HBO
1997	Helen Mirren (Losing Chase)unverified beat 4 others Ashley Judd (Norma Jean & Marilyn) Demi Moore (If These Walls Could Talk) Isabella Rossellini (Crime of the Century) Mira Sorvino (Norma Jean & Marilyn)	Showtime
1996	Jessica Lange (A Streetcar Named Desire)unverified beat 4 others Glenn Close (Serving in Silence: The Margarethe Cammermeyer Story) Jamie Lee Curtis (The Heidi Chronicles) Sally Field (A Woman of Independent Means) Linda Hamilton (A Mother's Prayer)	CBS
1995	Joanne Woodward (Breathing Lessons)unverified beat 4 others Kirstie Alley (David's Mother) Irene Bedard (Lakota Woman: Siege at Wounded Knee) Diane Keaton (Amelia Earhart: The Final Flight) Diana Ross (Out of Darkness)	CBS
1994	Bette Midler (Gypsy)unverified beat 4 others Helena Bonham Carter (Fatal Deception: Mrs. Lee Harvey Oswald) Faye Dunaway (Columbo) Holly Hunter (The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom) Anjelica Huston (Family Pictures)	HBO
1993	Laura Dern (Afterburn)unverified beat 4 others Drew Barrymore (Guncrazy) Katharine Hepburn (The Man Upstairs) Jessica Lange (O Pioneers!) Kyra Sedgwick (Miss Rose White)	HBO
1992	Judy Davis (One Against the Wind)unverified beat 4 others Glenn Close (Sarah, Plain and Tall) Sally Kirkland (The Haunted) Jessica Tandy (The Story Lady) Lynn Whitfield (The Josephine Baker Story)	CBS
1991	Barbara Hershey (A Killing in a Small Town)unverified beat 4 others Annette O'Toole (The Kennedys of Massachusetts) Suzanne Pleshette (Leona Helmsley: The Queen of Mean) Lesley Ann Warren (Family of Spies) Stephanie Zimbalist (Caroline?)	CBS
1990	Christine Lahti (No Place Like Home)unverified beat 4 others Farrah Fawcett (Small Sacrifices) Holly Hunter (Roe vs. Wade) Jane Seymour (War and Remembrance (Parts VIII – XII)) Loretta Young (Lady in the Corner)	CBS
1989	Ann Jillian (The Ann Jillian Story)unverified beat 4 others Vanessa Redgrave (A Man for All Seasons) Jane Seymour (War and Remembrance (Parts I – VII)) Jane Seymour (The Woman He Loved) JoBeth Williams (Baby M)	NBC
1988	Gena Rowlands (The Betty Ford Story)unverified beat 4 others Ann-Margret (The Two Mrs. Grenvilles) Farrah Fawcett (Poor Little Rich Girl: The Barbara Hutton Story) Shirley MacLaine (Out on a Limb) Raquel Welch (Right to Die)	ABC
1987	Loretta Young (Christmas Eve)unverified beat 4 others Farrah Fawcett (Nazi Hunter: The Beate Klarsfeld Story) Amy Irving (Anastasia: The Mystery of Anna) Vanessa Redgrave (Second Serve) Marlo Thomas (Nobody's Child)	NBC
1986	Liza Minnelli (A Time to Live)unverified beat 4 others Peggy Ashcroft (The Jewel in the Crown) Gena Rowlands (An Early Frost) Marlo Thomas (Consenting Adult) Joanne Woodward (Do You Remember Love)	NBC
1985	Ann-Margret (A Streetcar Named Desire)repeatunverified beat 4 others Glenn Close (Something About Amelia) Farrah Fawcett (The Burning Bed) Jane Fonda (The Dollmaker) Glenda Jackson (Sakharov)	ABC
1984	Ann-Margret (Who Will Love My Children?)unverified beat 4 others Susan Blakely (Will There Really Be a Morning?) Blair Brown (Kennedy) Gena Rowlands (Thursday's Child) Rachel Ward (The Thorn Birds)	ABC
1983	Ingrid Bergman (A Woman Called Golda)unverified beat 5 others Carol Burnett (Life of the Party: The Story of Beatrice) Lucy Gutteridge (Little Gloria... Happy at Last) Ann Jillian (Mae West) Lee Remick (The Letter) Jean Stapleton (Eleanor, First Lady of the World)	CBS
1982	Jane Seymour (East of Eden)unverified beat 4 others Ellen Burstyn (The People vs. Jean Harris) Glenda Jackson (The Patricia Neal Story) Jaclyn Smith (Jacqueline Bouvier Kennedy) Joanne Woodward (Crisis at Central High)	ABC