Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series

Award winners

;1950s
*1959: Barbara Hale – "Perry Mason"

;1960s
*1960: "no award"
*1961: "no award"
*1962: Pamela Brown – "Victoria Regina"
*1963: Glenda Farrell – "Ben Casey"
*1964: Ruth White – "Little Moon of Alban"
*1965: "no award"
*1966: Lee Grant – "Peyton Place"
*1967: Agnes Moorehead – "The Wild Wild West"
*1968: Barbara Anderson – "Ironside"
*1969: Susan Saint James – "The Name of the Game"

;1970s
*1970: Gail Fisher – "Mannix"
*1971: Margaret Leighton – "Hallmark Hall of Fame - Hamlet"
*1972: Jenny Agutter – "The Snow Goose"
*1973: Ellen Corby – "The Waltons"
*1974: Joanna Miles – "The Glass Menagerie"
*1975: Ellen Corby – "The Waltons"
*1976: Ellen Corby – "The Waltons"
*1977: Kristy McNichol – "Family"
*1978: Nancy Marchand – "Lou Grant"
*1979: Kristy McNichol – "Family"

;1980s
*1980: Nancy Marchand – "Lou Grant"
*1981: Nancy Marchand – "Lou Grant"
*1982: Nancy Marchand – "Lou Grant"
*1983: Doris Roberts – "St. Elsewhere"
*1984: Alfre Woodard – "Hill Street Blues"
*1985: Betty Thomas – "Hill Street Blues"
*1986: Bonnie Bartlett – "St. Elsewhere"
*1987: Bonnie Bartlett – "St. Elsewhere"
*1988: Patricia Wettig – "Thirtysomething"

;1990s
*1989: Melanie Mayron – "Thirtysomething"
*1990: Marg Helgenberger – "China Beach"
*1991: Madge Sinclair – "Gabriel's Fire"
*1992: Valerie Mahaffey – "Northern Exposure"
*1993: Mary Alice – "I'll Fly Away"
*1994: Leigh Taylor-Young – "Picket Fences"
*1995: Julianna Margulies – "ER"
*1996: Tyne Daly – "Christy"
*1997: Kim Delaney – "NYPD Blue"
*1998: Camryn Manheim – "The Practice"
*1999: Holland Taylor – "The Practice"

2000s

;2000

* Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
* Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
*Allison Janney in "The West Wing"
* Nancy Marchand in "The Sopranos"
* Holland Taylor in "The Practice"

;2001

* Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
* Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
*Allison Janney in "The West Wing"
* Maura Tierney in "ER"
* Aida Turturro in "The Sopranos"

;2002

* Lauren Ambrose in "Six Feet Under"
*Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
* Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
* Janel Moloney in "The West Wing"
* Mary-Louise Parker in "The West Wing"

;2003

* Lauren Ambrose in "Six Feet Under"
* Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
*Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
* Rachel Griffiths in "Six Feet Under"
* Lena Olin in "Alias"

;2004

* Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
* Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
*Drea de Matteo in "The Sopranos"
* Janel Moloney in "The West Wing"
* Robin Weigert in "Deadwood"

;2005

* Stockard Channing in "The West Wing"
* Tyne Daly in "Judging Amy"
*Blythe Danner in "Huff"
* Sandra Oh in "Grey's Anatomy"
* CCH Pounder in "The Shield"

;2006

* Candice Bergen in "Boston Legal
*Blythe Danner in "Huff"
* Sandra Oh in "Grey's Anatomy"
* Jean Smart in "24"
* Chandra Wilson in "Grey's Anatomy"

;2007

* Lorraine Bracco in "The Sopranos
* Rachel Griffiths in "Brothers & Sisters"
*Katherine Heigl in "Grey's Anatomy"
* Sandra Oh in "Grey's Anatomy"
* Aida Turturro in "The Sopranos"
* Chandra Wilson in "Grey's Anatomy"

;2008

* Candice Bergen in "Boston Legal
* Rachel Griffiths in "Brothers & Sisters"
* Sandra Oh in "Grey's Anatomy"
*Dianne Wiest in "In Treatment"
* Chandra Wilson in "Grey's Anatomy"