page_title: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama
section_title: Best Actress – Television Series Drama
hierarchical_section_title: Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama / Winners and nominees / Best Actress – Television Series Drama
caption_attribution_description: English: Anna Paquin at the 2012 Comic-Con in San Diego.
context_page_description: The Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Television Series Drama is an award presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association. The award honors the best performance by an actress in a drama television series.
  It was first awarded at the 19th Golden Globe Awards on March 5, 1962 under the title Best TV Star - Female, encompassing performances in comedy and drama television series, to Pauline Frederick. The nominees for the award announced annually starting in 1963. In 1969, the award was split into the drama and comedy categories, presented under the new title Best TV Actress - Drama and in 1980 under its current title.
  Since its inception, the award has been given to 50 actresses. Angela Lansbury has won the most awards in this category, winning four times, and received ten nominations for the awards, the most in the category.
caption: Anna Paquin won once out of two nominations for her performance on True Blood as Sookie Stackhouse.
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