Katherine Heigl — Charleston Tucker, “State of Affairs”
Julianna Margulies — Alicia Florrick, “The Good Wife”
Tea Leoni — Elizabeth McCord, “Madam Secretary”
Viola Davis — Annalise Keating, “How To Get Away With Murder”
Kerry Washington — Olivia Pope, “Scandal”
Cristela Alonzo — Cristela, “Cristela”
Gina Rodriguez — Jane Villanueva, “Jane the Virgin”
Connie Britton — Rayna James, “Nashville”
Edie Falco — Jackie Peyton, “Nurse Jackie”
Claire Danes — Carrie Mathison, “Homeland”
Halle Berry — Molly Woods, “Extant”
Patricia Arquette — Avery Ryan, “CSI: Cyber”
Anna Faris and Allison Janney — Bonnie and Christy Plunkett, “Mom”
Emilia Clarke — Daenerys Targaryen, “Game of Thrones”
Kate Mulgrew — Red, “Orange is the New Black”
Julia Louis-Dreyfus – Selina Meyer, “Veep”
Jane Fonda — Leona Lansing, “The Newsroom”
Jessica Lange — Elsa Mars, “American Horror Story: Freak Show”
Robin Wright — Claire Underwood, “House of Cards”
Amy Poehler — Leslie Knope, “Parks and Recreation”
Maggie Smith — Violet Crawley, “Downton Abbey”
Lizzy Caplan — Virginia Johnson, “Masters of Sex”
Mindy Kaling — Mindy Lahiri, “The Mindy Project”
Mariska Hargitay — Olivia Benson, “Law and Order: SVU”
Debra Messing — Laura Diamond, “The Mysteries of Laura”