Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama of Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Academy of Television Arts & Sciences
First awarded	1954
Currently held by	Maggie Smith, Downton Abbey (2016)
Official website	emmys.com

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series. In early Primetime Emmy Award ceremonies, the supporting categories were not always genre, or even gender, specific. Beginning with the 22nd Primetime Emmy Awards, supporting actresses in drama have competed alone. However, these dramatic performances often included actresses from miniseries, telefilms, and guest performers competing against main cast competitors. Such instances are marked below:

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