This is a list of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie winners:

• 1974: Mildred Natwick - ''The Swoop Sisters
• 1975: Jessica Walter - ''Amy Prentiss
• 1976: Rosemary Harris - ''Notorious Woman
• 1977: Patty Duke - ''Captains and Kings
• 1978: Meryl Streep - ''Holocaust
• 1979: Bette Davis - '' The Story of a Mother and Daughter
• 1980: Patty Duke - ''The Miracle Worker
• 1981: Vanessa Redgrave - ''Playing for Time
• 1982: Ingrid Bergman - ''A Woman Called Golda
• 1983: Barbara Stanwyck - ''The Thorn Birds
• 1984: Jane Fonda - ''The Dollmaker
• 1985: Joanne Woodward - ''Do You Remember Love
• 1986: Marlo Thomas - ''Nobody's Child
• 1987: Gena Rowlands - ''The Betty Ford Story
• 1988: Jessica Tandy - ''Foxfire
• 1989: Holly Hunter - ''Roe vs. Wade
• 1990: Barbara Hershey - ''A Killing in a Small Town
• 1991: Lynn Whitfield - ''The Josephine Baker Story
• 1992: Gena Rowlands - ''Face of a Stranger
• 1993: Holly Hunter - ''The Positively True Adventures of the Alleged Texas Cheerleader-Murdering Mom
• 1994: Kirstie Alley - ''David's Mother
• 1995: Glenn Close - ''Serving in Silence
• 1996: Helen Mirren - ''Prime Suspect
• 1997: Alfre Woodard - ''Miss Evers Boys
• 1998: Ellen Barkin - ''Before Women Had Wings
• 1999: Helen Mirren - ''The Passion of Ayn Rand
• 2000: Halle Berry - ''Introducing Dorothy Dandridge
• 2001: Judy Davis - '' Me and My Shadows
• 2002: Laura Linney - ''Wild Iris
• 2003: Maggie Smith - ''My House in Umbria
• 2004: Meryl Streep - ''Angels in America
• 2005: S. Epatha Merkerson - ''Lackawanna Blues

Emmy Award winners