Emmy Awards: Actors (from 1981)

1. Edward Asner

Actor | Up

Edward Asner was born of Russian Jewish parentage in Kansas City, to Morris David Asner (founder and owner of the Kansas City-based Asner Iron & Metal Company) and his wife Elizabeth "Lizzie" (Seliger). After attending college, Ed worked various jobs, including in a steel mill, as a door-to-door ...

7/17 Won: 1971, 1972, 1975 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Mary Tyler Moore show') 1976 (Leading single appearance comedy/drama 'Rich man, Poor man'), 1977 (Supporting single appearance comedy/drama 'Roots') 1978 and 1980 (Leading drama serie 'Lou Grant') Nominated: 1973-1974, 1976-1977 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Mary Tyler Moore show'), 1979, 1981-1982 (Leading drama serie 'Lou Grant'), 1992 (Supporting drama serie 'The trials of Rosie O'Neill'), 2007 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'The Christmas card') and 2009 (Guest in drama serie 'CSI:NY')

2. John Lithgow

Actor | The World According to Garp

If "born to the theater" has meaning in determining a person's life path, then John Lithgow is a prime example of this truth. He was born in Rochester, New York, to Sarah Jane (Price), an actress, and Arthur Washington Lithgow III, who was both a theatrical producer and director. John's father was ...

6/13 Won: 1986 (Guest in drama serie 'Amazing stories'), 1996, 1997, 1999 (Leading comedy serie '3rd Rock from the Sun'), 2010 (Guest in a drama serie 'Dexter') and 2017 (Supporting drama serie 'The Crown') Nominated: 1984 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'The day after'), 1986 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Resting place Hallmark Hall of Fame'), 1995 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'My brother's keeper'), 1998, 2000, 2001 (Leading comedy serie '3rd Rock from the Sun') and 2021 (Supporting drama serie 'Perry Mason')

3. Michael J. Fox

Actor | Back to the Future

Michael J. Fox was born Michael Andrew Fox on June 9, 1961 in Edmonton, Alberta, Canada, to Phyllis Fox (née Piper), a payroll clerk, and William Fox. His parents moved their 10-year-old son, his three sisters, Kelli Fox, Karen, and Jacki, and his brother Steven, to Vancouver, British Columbia, ...

5/17 Won: 1986-1988 (Supporting comedy serie 'Family ties'), 2000 (Leading comedy serie 'Spin city') and 2009 (Guest in drama serie 'Rescue me') Nominated: 1985, 1989 (Supporting comedy serie 'Family ties'), 1997-1999 (Leading comedy serie 'Spin city'), 2006 (Guest in a drama serie 'Boston Legal'), 2011-2012 (Guest in drama serie 'The good wife'), 2012 (Guest in comedy serie 'Curb your enthusiasm'), 2013, 2015 and 2016 (Guest in drama serie 'The good wife')

4. Peter Falk

Actor | Columbo

Peter Michael Falk was born on September 16, 1927, in New York City, New York. At the age of 3, his right eye was surgically removed due to cancer. He graduated from Ossining High School, where he was president of his class. His early career choices involved becoming a certified public accountant, ...

5/12 Won: 1962 (Leading -Single performance- serie 'The Dick Powell show'), 1972, 1975, 1976 and 1990 (Leading drama serie 'Columbo') Nominated: 1961 (Supporting serie 'The law and Mr. Jones'), 1973, 1974, 1977, 1978, 1991 and 1994 (Leading drama serie 'Columbo')

5. Carroll O'Connor

Actor | All in the Family

Carroll was born in Manhattan and raised in Forest Hills, a heavily Jewish community in New York City's borough of Queens. After graduating from high school in 1942, O'Connor joined the Merchant Marines and worked on ships in the Atlantic. In 1946, he enrolled at the University of Montana to study ...

5/9 Won: 1972, 1977-1979 (Leading comedy serie 'All in the family') and 1989 (Leading drama serie 'In the heat of the night') Nominated: 1971 and 1973-1975 (Leading comedy serie 'All in the family')

6. Laurence Olivier

Actor | Sleuth

Laurence Olivier could speak William Shakespeare's lines as naturally as if he were "actually thinking them", said English playwright Charles Bennett, who met Olivier in 1927. Laurence Kerr Olivier was born in Dorking, Surrey, England, to Agnes Louise (Crookenden) and Gerard Kerr Olivier, a High ...

5/8 Won: 1960 (Performing -Single- 'The Moon and Sixpence'), 1973 (Leading -Continued performance- 'Long day's journey into night'), 1975 (Leading Limited serie 'Love among the ruins'), 1982 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'Brideshead revisited') and 1984 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'King Lear') Nominated: 1970 (Leading -Single performance- 'David Copperfield'), 1974 (Leading TV movie 'The merchant of Venice') and 1987 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Lost Empires')

7. John Larroquette

Actor | Night Court

John Bernard Larroquette, is an all-around American actor known for his roles in both drama and comedy. He became well-known as Deputy District Attorney Dan Fielding in the NBC sitcom "Night Court" (1984-1992; 2023-present), a role that earned him four straight Emmy Awards for Best Supporting Actor...

5/7 Won: 1985-1988 (Supporting comedy serie 'Night Court') and 1998 (Guest in drama serie 'The Practice') Nominated: 1994 (Leading comedy serie 'The John Larroquette show') and 2002 (Guest in drama serie 'The Practice')

8. Alan Alda

Actor | M*A*S*H

Alan Alda (born under the name Alphonso Joseph D'Abruzzo) is an American actor, comedian, film director, and screenwriter from New York City. His father was the Italian-American actor Robert Alda. Alda's best known role was playing chief surgeon Benjamin Franklin "Hawkeye" Pierce in the ...

4/21 Won: 1974 (Actor of the year), 1974 and 1982 (Leading comedy serie M.A.S.H.) and 2006 (Supporting drama serie 'The west wing') Nominated: 1973, 1975-1978 (Leading comedy serie 'M.A.S.H.'), 1978 (Leading TV movie 'Kill me if you can'), 1979-1981, 1983 (Leading comedy serie 'M.A.S.H.'), 1994 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'And the band played on'), 2000 (Guest in drama serie 'ER'), 2001 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Club Land'), 2005 (Supporting drama serie 'The west wing'), 2009 (Guest in comedy serie '30 Rock') and 2015 (Guest in drama serie 'The Blacklist')

9. Kelsey Grammer

Actor | Cheers

A six-time Emmy Award winner, Kelsey Grammer was born in Saint Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, to Sally (Cranmer), a singer, and Frank Allen Grammer, Jr., a musician and restaurateur, who were from the mainland. He was raised in New Jersey and Florida. Grammer was drawn to the works of William ...

4/13 Won: 1994, 1995, 1998 and 2004 (Leading comedy serie 'Frasier') Nominated: 1988, 1990 (Supporting comedy serie 'Cheers'), 1992, 1996-1997, 1999-2002 (Leading comedy serie 'Frasier')

10. Tony Shalhoub

Actor | Monk

Anthony Marc Shalhoub was born and raised in Green Bay, Wisconsin. His father, Joseph Shalhoub, who owned a grocery chain, emigrated from Lebanon to the United States as an orphan at age ten, later marrying Shalhoub's mother, Helen (Seroogy), who herself was born in Wisconsin, to Lebanese parents. ...

4/12 Won: 2003, 2005-2006 (Leading comedy serie 'Monk') and 2019 (Supporting comedy serie 'The marvelous Mrs. Maisel') Nominated: 2004, 2007-2010 (Leading comedy serie 'Monk'), 2018, 2020 and 2022 (Supporting comedy serie 'The marvelous Mrs. Maisel')

11. David Hyde Pierce

Actor | Frasier

David Hyde Pierce was born in Saratoga Springs, New York, USA. He is the youngest child of George and Laura Pierce (both deceased) and has two older sisters (Barbara and Nancy) and an older brother (Thomas). As a child, he was very interested in music (particularly piano) and regularly played the ...

4/11 Won: 1995, 1998, 1999 and 2004 (Supporting comedy serie 'Frasier') Nominated: 1994, 1996-1997 and 2000-2003 (Supporting comedy serie 'Frasier')

12. Bryan Cranston

Actor | Breaking Bad

Bryan Lee Cranston was born on March 7, 1956 in Hollywood, California, to Audrey Peggy Sell, a radio actress, and Joe Cranston, an actor and former amateur boxer. His maternal grandparents were German, and his father was of Irish, German, and Austrian-Jewish ancestry. He was raised in the Canoga ...

4/11 Won: 2008-2010 and 2014 (Leading drama serie 'Breaking bad') Nominated: 2002, 2003, 2006 (Supporting comedy serie 'Malcolm in the middle'), 2012-2013 (Leading drama serie 'Breaking bad'), 2016 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'All the way') and 2018 (Guest in comedy serie 'Curb your enthusiasm')

13. Art Carney

Actor | Harry and Tonto

Art Carney was an American actor with a lengthy career but is primarily remembered for two roles. In television, Carney played municipal sewer worker Ed Norton in the influential sitcom "The Honeymooners" (1955-1956). In film, Carney played senior citizen Harry Coombes in the road movie "Harry and ...

4/9 Won: 1954-1955 (Supporting 'The Jackie Gleason show'), 1956 (Supporting 'The Honeymooners') and 1984 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'Terrible Joe Moran') Nominated: 1956 (Best comedian), 1957 (Supporting 'The Jackie Gleason show'), 1976 (Supporting Comedy or drama Special 'Katherine'), 1987 (Guest in comedy serie 'The Cavanaughs') and 1990 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Where pigeons goto die')

14. Michael Moriarty

Actor | Courage Under Fire

As one of Hollywood's tallest actors standing at 6' 3", he will always be noticed. Michael Moriarty is one of the great character T.V. actors of all time. He was born in Detroit, Michigan, in 1941. Moriarty was to move to London, England, where he built up a name as a great stage actor. It was also...

4/9 Won: 1974 (both Actor of the year and Supporting TV movie 'The glass menagerie'), 1978 (Leading drama or comedy special 'Holocaust') and 2002 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'James Dean') Nominated: 1989 (Guest in drama serie 'The Equalizer') and 1991-1994 (Leading drama serie 'Law & Order')

15. Dennis Franz

Actor | NYPD Blue

Dennis Franz was born Dennis Franz Schlacta in Maywood, Illinois, a suburb of Chicago, and is the son of Eleanor (Mueller) and Franz Ferdinand Schlachta, who were postal workers. He has two sisters, Marlene (born 1938) and Heidi (born 1935). He graduated from Southern Illinois University and was ...

4/8 Won: 1994, 1996, 1997 and 1999 (Leading drama serie 'NYPD Blue') Nominated: 1995, 1998, 2000 and 2001 (Leading drama serie 'NYPD Blue')

16. Jim Parsons

Actor | The Big Bang Theory

Having grown up in Houston, and its northern suburb of Spring, he made his first stage appearance in a school play at the age of 6. Parsons then went on to study theater at the University of Houston. From there he won a place on a two-year Masters course in classical theater at the University of ...

4/8 Won: 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 (Leading comedy serie 'The Big Bang theory') Nominated: 2009, 2012 (Leading comedy serie 'The Big Bang theory'), 2014 (Supporting Miniserie/TV 'The normal heart') and 2020 (Supporting Limited serie/TV movie 'Hollywood')

17. Peter Dinklage

Actor | Game of Thrones

Peter Dinklage is an American actor. Since his breakout role in The Station Agent (2003), he has appeared in numerous films and theatre plays. Since 2011, Dinklage has portrayed Tyrion Lannister in the HBO series Game of Thrones (2011) . For this he won an Emmy for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a...

4/8 Won: 2011, 2015, 2018 and 2019 (Supporting drama serie 'Game of Thrones') Nominated: 2012-2014 and 2016 (Supporting drama serie 'Game of Thrones')

18. Beau Bridges

Actor | The Fabulous Baker Boys

Beau Bridges was born in Hollywood, and is the son of actor Lloyd Bridges and his wife, who was his college sweetheart, Dorothy Dean Bridges. Born just two days after the attack on Pearl Harbour, he was delivered by candlelight because of a power blackout. Named Lloyd Vernet Bridges III, his ...

3/15 Won: 1992 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Without warning: The James Brady story'), 1993 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'The positively true adventures of the alleged Texas cheerleader-murdering mom') and 1997 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'The second Civil War') Nominated: 1995 (Guest in drama serie 'The outer limits'), 1996 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Kissinger and Nixon'), 1997 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Hidden in America'), 1999 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Inherit the wind'), 2000 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'P.T. Barnum'), 2002 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'We were the Mulvaneys'), 2007 (Guest in comedy serie 'My name is Earl'), 2009 (Guest in comedy serie 'Desperate housewives'), 2010 (Guest in drama serie 'The closer'), 2011 (Guest in drama serie 'Brothers & Sisters') and 2014-2015 (Guest in drama serie 'Masters of sex')

19. Alec Baldwin

Actor | The Departed

Alec Baldwin is the oldest, and best-known, of the four Baldwin brothers in the acting business (the others are Stephen Baldwin, William Baldwin and Daniel Baldwin). Alexander Rae Baldwin III was born on April 3, 1958 in Massapequa, New York, the son of Carol Newcomb (Martineau) and Alexander Rae ...

3/14 Won: 2008-2009 (Leading comedy serie '30 Rock') and 2017 (Supporting comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live') Nominated: 1996 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'A streetcar named desire'), 2002 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Path to war'), 2005-2006 (Guest in comedy serie 'Will & Grace'), 2007, 2010-2013 (Leading comedy serie '30 Rock'), 2018 (Supporting comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live') and 2021 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live')

20. Richard Kiley

Actor | Jurassic Park

Although Richard Kiley's rich baritone and strong vocal talent was much in evidence and received due respect with his award of a Tony for "Man of La Mancha", it was little used in his television and movie appearances. Won two Tony Awards as Best Actor (Musical): in 1959 for "Redhead" and in 1966 ...

3/8 Won: 1983 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'The thorn birds'), 1988 (Leading drama serie 'A year in the life') and 1994 (Guest in drama serie 'Picket Fences') Nominated: 1985 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Do you remember love'), 1991 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Separate but equal'), 1992 (Supporting drama serie 'The Ray Bradbury Theater') and 1993 (Guest in drama serie 'Picket Fences')

21. Bradley Whitford

Actor | Get Out

Bradley Whitford's credits in film, television and theater include work with some of the most noted writers, directors and playwrights in the arts, and constitute a career worthy of a Juilliard-trained actor -- which he is. But stardom is something else altogether, and it remained elusive, at least...

3/8 Won: 2001 (Supporting drama serie 'The west wing'), 2015 (Guest in comedy serie 'Transparent') and 2019 (Guest in drama serie 'The handmaid's tale') Nominated: 2002-2003 (Supporting drama serie 'The west wing'), 2016 (Guest in comedy serie 'Transparent') and 2020-2021 (Supporting drama serie 'The handmaid's tale')

22. Ed Flanders

Actor | The Exorcist III

Ed Flanders was born on December 29, 1934 in Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA. He was an actor, known for The Exorcist III (1990), St. Elsewhere (1982) and The Ninth Configuration (1980). He was married to Cody Lambert, Ellen Geer and Bennye Kelly. He died on February 22, 1995 in Denny, California, USA.

3/7 Won: 1976 (Supporting -Single performance- comedy or drama Special 'A moon for the misbegotten), 1977 (Leading drama or comedy Special 'Harry S. Truman: Plain speaking') and 1983 (Leading drama serie 'St. Elsewhere') Nominated: 1979 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'Backstairs at the White House') and 1985-1987 (Leading drama serie 'St. Elsewhere')

23. Carl Reiner

Writer | The Dick Van Dyke Show

Carl Reiner is a legend of American comedy, who achieved great success as a comic actor, a director, producer and recording artist. He won nine Emmy Awards, three as an actor, four as a writer and two as a producer. He also won a Grammy Award for his album "The 2,000 Year Old Man", based on his ...

3/6 Won: 1957-1958 (Supporting serie 'Caesar's hour') and 1995 (Guest in comedy serie 'Mad about you') Nominated: 1954 (Supporting serie 'Your show of shows'), 1956 (Supporting serie 'Caesar's hour') and 2000 (Guest in comedy 'Beggars and Choosers')

24. Dick Van Dyke

Actor | Mary Poppins

Dick Van Dyke was born Richard Wayne Van Dyke in West Plains, Missouri, to Hazel Victoria (McCord), a stenographer, and Loren Wayne Van Dyke, a salesman. His younger brother was entertainer Jerry Van Dyke. His ancestry includes English, Dutch, Scottish, German and Swiss-German. Although he had ...

3/6 Won: 1964-1966 (Leading comedy serie 'The Dick Van Dyke show') Nominated: 1963 (Leading comedy serie 'The Dick Van Dyke show'), 1974 (Leading TV movie 'The morning after Wednesday') and 1990 (Guest in comedy serie 'The golden girls')

25. Hume Cronyn

Actor | Cocoon

Hume Cronyn was a Canadian actor with a lengthy career. He was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor for his performance in "The Seventh Cross" (1944).

Cronyn was born to a prominent family. His father was politician Hume Blake Cronyn (1864-1933), Member of Parliament for London, ...

3/6 Won: 1990 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Age-Old friends'), 1992 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Broadway bound') and 1994 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'To dance with the white dog') Nominated: 1988 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Foxfire'), 1992 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Christmas on Division Street') and 1998 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie '12 angry men')

26. James Gandolfini

Actor | The Sopranos

James Gandolfini was born in Westwood, New Jersey, to Santa (Penna), a high school lunchlady, and James Joseph Gandolfini, Sr., a bricklayer and head school janitor. His parents were both of Italian origin. Gandolfini began acting in the New York theater. His Broadway debut was in the 1992 revival ...

3/6 Won: 2000, 2001 and 2003 (Leading drama serie 'The Sopranos') Nominated: 1999, 2004 and 2007 (Leading drama serie 'The Sopranos')

27. Brad Garrett

Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond

Standing 6 feet 9 inches tall, Garrett grew up in Woodland Hills outside of Los Angeles. His father was a hearing aid specialist working in geriatrics and his mother was a housewife. Garrett spent a whopping six weeks at UCLA before going into stand-up comedy full time. He began performing his act ...

3/6 Won: 2001, 2002 and 2005 (Supporting comedy serie 'Everybody loves Raymond') Nominated: 2000, 2003 and 2004 (Supporting comedy serie 'Everybody loves Raymond')

28. Michael Richards

Actor | Seinfeld

Immortalized as Cosmo Kramer on the classic sitcom Seinfeld (1989), West Coast comedy star Michael Richards was born on July 24, 1949, and raised in South Los Angeles, California, to Phyllis (Nardozzi), an Italian-American medical records librarian, and William Richards, an electrical engineer. ...

3/5 Won: 1993, 1994 and 1997 (Supporting comedy serie 'Seinfeld') Nominated: 1995 and 1996 (Supporting comedy serie 'Seinfeld')

29. Aaron Paul

Actor | Breaking Bad

Aaron Paul was born Aaron Paul Sturtevant in Emmett, Idaho, to Darla (Haynes) and Robert Sturtevant, a retired Baptist minister. While growing up, Paul took part in church programs, and performed in plays.

He attended Centennial High School in Boise, Idaho. It was there, in eighth grade, that Aaron ...

3/5 Won: 2010, 2012 and 2014 (Supporting drama serie 'Breaking bad') Nominated: 2009 and 2013 (Supporting drama serie 'Breaking bad')

30. Mel Brooks

Actor | Spaceballs

Mel Brooks was born Melvin Kaminsky on June 28, 1926 in Brooklyn, New York. He served in WWII, and afterwards got a job playing the drums at nightclubs in the Catskills. Brooks eventually started a comedy act and also worked in radio and as Master Entertainer at Grossinger's Resort before going to ...

3/4 Won: 1997-1999 (Guest in comedy serie 'Mad about you') Nominated: 2015 (Guest in comedy serie 'The comedians')

31. James Spader

Actor | The Blacklist

James Todd Spader was born on February 7, 1960 in Boston, Massachusetts, the son of teachers Jean (Fraser) and Stoddard Greenwood "Todd" Spader. He attended Phillips Academy in Andover with director Peter Sellars; he dropped out in eleventh grade. He bused tables, shoveled manure, and taught yoga ...

3/4 Won: 2004 (Leading drama serie 'The Practice'), 2005 and 2007 (Leading drama serie 'Boston Legal') Nominated: 2008 (Leading drama serie 'Boston Legal')

32. Jeremy Piven

Actor | Serendipity

Jeremy Piven was born on July 26, 1965 in Manhattan, New York City, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Serendipity (2001), Entourage (2004) and Grosse Pointe Blank (1997).

3/4 Won: 2006-2008 (Supporting comedy serie 'Entourage') Nominated: 2005 (Supporting comedy serie 'Entourage')

33. Christopher Lloyd

Actor | Back to the Future

Christopher Lloyd is an American actor with a relatively long career. His better known roles include drug-using taxicab driver Jim Ignatowski in the sitcom Taxi (1978), Klingon Commander Kruge in Star Trek III: The Search for Spock (1984), inventor Dr. Emmett "Doc" Brown in the Back to the Future ...

3/3 Won: 1982-1983 (Supporting comedy serie 'Taxi') and 1992 (Leading drama serie 'Avonlea')

34. Ted Danson

Actor | Cheers

Ted Danson is well known for his role as Sam Malone in the television series Cheers (1982). During the show's 11-year run, he was nominated nine times for an Emmy Award as Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series and won twice, in 1990 and 1993. The role also earned him a Golden Globe Award for ...

2/18 Won: 1990 and 1993 (Leading comedy serie 'Cheers') Nominated: 1983-1984 (Leading comedy serie 'Cheers'), 1984 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Something about Amelia'), 1985-1989, 1991-1992 (Leading comedy serie 'Cheers'), 2008 (Supporting drama serie 'Damages'), 2009-2010 (Guest in drama serie 'Damages') and 2018-2020 (Leading comedy serie 'The good place')

35. Andre Braugher

Actor | Homicide: Life on the Street

Many actors have attempted to crack both genres of drama and comedy. Few have succeeded, among them the genial Andre Braugher (pronounced 'Ahn-drey Braw-ger'). A two-time Emmy Award winner, he is especially remembered for two seminal roles: as the intense, often explosive Detective Frank Pembleton ...

2 /11 Won: 1998 (Leading drama serie 'Homicide: Life on the street') and 2006 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Thief') Nominated: 1996 (both Leading drama serie 'Homicide: Life on the street' and Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Tuskegee Airmen'), 2001 (Leading drama serie 'Gideon's Crossing'), 2010-2011 (Supporting drama serie 'Men of a certain age'), 2014-2016 and 2020 (Supporting comedy serie 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine')

36. Sid Caesar

Actor | Grease

Comedian, saxophonist, composer, actor and musician, he performed within the orchestras of Charlie Spivak, Shep Fields and Claude Thornhill as saxophonist. Later, as super-hip jazz musician "Cool Cees" in television skits, he played tenor saxophone, and sang with the satirical trio "The Hair Cuts" ...

2/10 Won: 1952 (Best actor) and 1957 (Comedian performing serie 'Caesar's hour') Nominated: 1951 (Best actor), 1952-1953 (Best comedian), 1954 (Leading serie 'Your show of shows'), 1956 (Best comedian), 1958 (Comedian performing serie 'Caesar's hour'), 1995 (Guest in comedy serie 'Love & War') and 1997 (Guest in comedy serie 'Mad about you')

37. Ty Burrell

Actor | Modern Family

Tyler Gerald Burrell was born on August 22, 1967 in Grants Pass, Oregon, where his family owned a business. He is the son of Sheri Rose (Hauck), a teacher, and Gary Gerald Burrell, a family therapist, and is primarily of English and German ancestry. He earned a BA from Southern Oregon University ...

2/9 Won: 2011 and 2014 (Supporting comedy serie 'Modern family') Nominated: 2010, 2012, 2013, 2015-2017 (Supporting comedy serie 'Modern family') and 2017 (Short form comedy/drama serie 'Boondoggle')

38. Jeffrey Tambor

Actor | Transparent

Jeffrey Tambor starred in Amazon Studios hit series TRANSPARENT, playing family patriarch "Mort Pfefferman," who over the course of the show becomes the unforgettable "Maura." Tambor's groundbreaking performance earned him two Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, a SAG Award and a Critics' Choice ...

2/9 Won: 2015 and 2016 (Leading comedy serie 'Transparent') Nominated: 1993, 1996-1998 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Larry Sanders Show'), 2004-2005 (Supporting comedy serie 'Arested development') and 2017 (Leading comedy serie 'Transparent')

39. Bill Hader

Actor | The Skeleton Twins

Bill Hader is an American comedian and actor who is known for playing in Saturday Night Live from 2005 to 2013. He created and starred in the HBO show Barry. He also played Flint Lockwood from Cloudy with a Chance of Meatballs, Colonel Custer from Night at the Museum 2, Fear from Inside Out and ...

2/9 Won: 2018-2019 (Leading comedy serie 'Barry') Nominated: 2012-2013 (Supporting comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live'), 2015, 2018 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live') 2022 (Both, Leading comedy serie 'Barry' and guest in comedy serie 'Curb your enthusiasm') and 2023 (Leading comedy serie 'Barry')

40. James Earl Jones

Actor | Rogue One

Widely regarded as the one of greatest stage and screen actors both in his native USA and internationally, James Earl Jones was born on January 17, 1931 in Arkabutla, Mississippi. At an early age, he started to take dramatic lessons to calm himself down. It appeared to work as he has since starred ...

2/8 Won: 1991 (both Leading drama serie 'Gabriel's fire' and Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Heat wave') Nominated: 1964 (Leading serie 'East side/West side'), 1990 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'By dawn's early light'), 1994 (Guest in drama serie 'Picket Fences'), 1995 (Supporting drama serie 'Under one roof'), 1997 (Guest in comedy serie 'Frasier') and 2004 (Guest in drama serie 'Everwood')

41. Sterling K. Brown

Actor | Black Panther

The Emmy Award-winning actor stars in NBC's Emmy and Golden Globe nominated drama series This Is Us (2016). For his role as Randall Pearson, Brown won an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Drama Series, as well as a Golden Globe, becoming the first African-American actor to win his category in ...

2/8 Won: 2016 (Supporting Limited serie/TV movie 'The people v. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story') and 2017 (Leading drama serie 'This is us') Nominated: 2018 (Both, Leading drama serie 'This is us' and Guest in comedy serie 'Brooklyn Nine-Nine'), 2019-2020 (Leading drama serie 'This is us'), 2020 (Supporting comedy serie 'The marvelous Mrs. Maisel') and 2021 (Leading drama serie 'This is us')

42. James Woods

Actor | Vampires

James Howard Woods was born on April 18, 1947 in Vernal, Utah, the son of Martha A. (Smith) and Gail Peyton Woods, a U.S. Army intelligence officer who died during Woods' childhood. James is of Irish, English, and German descent. He grew up in Warwick, Rhode Island, with his mother and stepfather ...

2/7 Won: 1987 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Promise') and 1989 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'My name is Bill W.') Nominated: 1993 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Citizen Cohn'), 1995 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Indictment: The McMartin trial'), 2003 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Rudy: The Rudy Giuliani story'), 2006 (Guest in drama serie 'ER') and 2011 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Too big to fail')

43. William Shatner

Actor | Star Trek V: The Final Frontier

William Shatner has notched up an impressive 70-plus years in front of the camera, displaying heady comedic talent and being instantly recognizable to several generations of cult television fans as the square-jawed Captain James T. Kirk, commander of the starship U.S.S. Enterprise.

Shatner was born ...

2/7 Won: 2004 (Guest in drama serie 'The Practice') and 2005 (Supporting drama serie 'Boston Legal') Nominated: 1999 (Guest in comedy serie '3rd Rock from the Sun') and 2006-2009 (Supporting drama serie 'Boston Legal')

44. Jon Cryer

Actor | Two and a Half Men

Jonathan Niven Cryer is an American actor, comedian and filmmaker. Born into a show business family, he made his motion picture debut as a teenager photographer in the 1984 romantic comedy No Small Affair; his breakout role came in 1986, in the John Hughes-written film Pretty in Pink. In 1998, he ...

2/7 Won: 2009 (Supporting comedy serie 'Two and a half men') and 2012 (Leading comedy serie 'Two and a half men') Nominated: 2006-2008, 2010 and 2011 (Supporting comedy serie 'Two and a half men')

45. Robert Guillaume

Actor | Benson

Robert Peter Williams Guillaume was an actor from St. Louis, Missouri who was known for playing Rafiki from The Lion King, Benson DuBois from Soap and Benson, and Nathan Detroit from Guys and Dolls. He had five children from two marriages. He passed away in October 24, 2017 due to prostate cancer ...

2/6 Won: 1979 (Supporting comedy serie 'Soap') and 1985 (Leading comedy serie 'Benson') Nominated: 1980 and 1982-1984 (Leading comedy serie 'Benson')

46. Daniel J. Travanti

Actor | Hill Street Blues

The highly regarded actor Daniel J. Travanti was born Danielo Giovanni Travanty in the southeastern part of Wisconsin on March 7, 1940, but raised for a time in Iowa before returning to his native state. The youngest son of an American Motors auto worker, he showed both athletic and academic ...

2/6 Won: 1981-1982 (Leading drama serie 'Hill Street Blues') Nominated: 1983-1985 (Leading drama serie 'Hill Street Blues') and 1984 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Adam')

47. Judd Hirsch

Actor | The Fabelmans

Judd Hirsch is an American actor from New York City. His main claim to fame is playing taxicab driver Alex Reiger in the hit sitcom Taxi (1978). For this role, Hirsch twice won the "Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series." He has since had a long career.

In 1935, Hirsch ...

2/6 Won: 1981 and 1983 (Leading comedy serie 'Taxi') Nominated: 1978 (Leading -Single appearance- serie 'Rhoda'), 1979, 1980 and 1982 (Leading comedy serie 'Taxi')

48. Stanley Tucci

Actor | Big Night

Actor Stanley Tucci was born on November 11, 1960, in Peekskill, New York. He is the son of Joan (Tropiano), a writer, and Stanley Tucci, an art teacher. His family is Italian-American, with origins in Calabria.

Tucci took an interest in acting while in high school, and went on to attend the State ...

2/6 Won: 1999 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Winchell') and 2017 (Guest in comedy serie 'Monk') Nominated: 1996 (Supporting drama serie 'Murder one'), 2001 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Conspiracy'), 2008 (Guest in drama serie 'ER') and 2017 (Supporting Limited serie/TV movie 'FEUD: Bette and Joan')

49. Hank Azaria

Actor | The Simpsons

Hank Azaria is an American comedian and actor from Queens, New York. He is known for voicing several characters in The Simpsons including Apu, Chief Wiggum, Moe, Bumblebee Man, Lou and Superintendent Chalmers. The latter became well-known due to the "Steamed Hams" scene. He also acted in Godzilla, ...

2/6 Won: 2000 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Oprah Winfrey presents: Tuesdays with Morrie') and 2016 (guest in drama serie 'Ray Donovan') Nominated: 1998 (Guest in comedy serie 'Mad about you'), 2003 (Guest in comedy serie 'Friends'), 2005 (Leading drama serie 'Huff') and 2017 (Guest in drama serie 'Ray Donovan')

50. Tony Hale

Actor | Arrested Development

Tony Hale was born on September 30, 1970 in West Point, New York, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Arrested Development (2003), Veep (2012) and Toy Story 4 (2019). He has been married to Martel Thompson Hale since May 24, 2003. They have one child.

2/6 Won: 2013 and 2015 (Supporting comedy serie 'Veep') Nominated: 2014, 2016-2017 and 2019 (Supporting comedy serie 'Veep')

51. Anthony Hopkins

Actor | The Silence of the Lambs

Anthony Hopkins was born on December 31, 1937, in Margam, Wales, to Muriel Anne (Yeats) and Richard Arthur Hopkins, a baker. His parents were both of half Welsh and half English descent. Influenced by Richard Burton, he decided to study at College of Music and Drama and graduated in 1957. In 1965, ...

2/5 Won: 1976 (Leading Drama/Comedy special 'The Lindbergh kidnapping case NBC World Premiere M') and 1981 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'The Bunker') Nominated: 1982 (Leading Limited Serie/Special 'The Hunchback of Notre Dame Hallmark Hall of Fame'), 1990 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Great Expectations') and 2017 (Leading drama serie 'Westworld')

52. Richard Mulligan

Actor | Soap

Originally a student of playwriting at Columbia University, Richard Mulligan began his acting career in regional theater and soon after made his Broadway debut in the Pulitzer Prize-winning play "All the Way Home". In addition to his continuing Broadway career, Mulligan had successfully transferred...

2/5 Won: 1980 (Leading comedy serie 'Soap') and 1989 (Leading comedy serie 'Empty nest') Nominated: 1981 (Leading comedy serie 'Soap') and 1990-1991 (Leading comedy serie 'Empty nest')

53. William Daniels

Actor | St. Elsewhere

William Daniels is an American actor, born in Brooklyn, New York City. He was born in 1927, to bricklayer David Daniels and his wife Irene.

Daniels was a member of the singing Daniels family in Brooklyn. He made his television debut in 1943 at the age of 16, as part of a variety act. That same year,...

2/5 Won: 1985-1986 (Leading drama serie 'St. Elsewhere') Nominated: 1983, 1984 and 1987 (Leading drama serie 'St. Elsewhere')

54. Michael Emerson

Actor | Saw

Michael Emerson was born on September 7, 1954 in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, USA. He is an actor, known for Saw (2004), Lost (2004) and Person of Interest (2011). He has been married to Carrie Preston since September 5, 1998.

2/5 Won: 2001 (Guest in drama serie 'The practice') and 2009 (Supporting drama serie 'Lost') Nominated: 2007, 2008 and 2010 (Supporting drama serie 'Lost')

55. Jeff Daniels

Actor | The Squid and the Whale

Actor Jeff Daniels was born in Athens, Georgia, but was raised in Chelsea, Michigan. He is the son of Marjorie J. (Ferguson) and Robert Lee Daniels, who owned The Chelsea Lumber Company and was also mayor of Chelsea. Jeff attended Central Michigan University, but became involved in acting and ...

2/5 Won: 2013 (Leading drama serie 'The Newsroom') and 2018 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Godless') Nominated: 2014-2015 (Leading drama serie 'The Newsroom') and 2018 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'The Looming Tower')

56. Michael Conrad

Actor | Hill Street Blues

Michael Conrad was a powerfully built, towering New York-born American character actor, best known for his role as the pompous but beloved desk sergeant Phil Esterhaus on Hill Street Blues (1981), for which he won two Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Drama Series Emmy Awards (1981, 1982). He also ...

2/4 Won:1981-1982 (Supporting drama serie 'Hill Street Blues' Nominated: 1983-1984 (Supporting drama serie 'Hill Street Blues')

57. Charles S. Dutton

Actor | Gothika

Charles S. Dutton was born on January 30, 1951 in Baltimore, Maryland, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Gothika (2003), Alien³ (1992) and A Time to Kill (1996). He was previously married to Debbi Morgan.

2/4 Won: 2002 (Guest in drama serie 'The Practice') and 2003 (Guest in drama serie 'Without a trace') Nominated: 1995 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'The piano lesson') and 1999 (Guest in drama serie 'Oz')

58. Bobby Cannavale

Actor | The Station Agent

In both career and in real life, Bobby Cannavale tends to choose the unconventional way of doing things. In the beginning, his decisions may have cost the dark, swarthily good-looking actor some acting roles and/or good-paying parts but, in the end, his strong work ethic and sense of self, despite ...

2/4 Won: 2005 (Guest in comedy serie 'Will & Grace') and 2013 (Supporting drama serie 'Boardwalk Empire') Nominated: 2012-2013 (Guest in comedy serie 'Nurse Jackie')

59. Ron Cephas Jones

Actor | This Is Us

Ron Cephas Jones was born on January 8, 1957 in Paterson, New Jersey, USA. He was an actor, known for This Is Us (2016), Luke Cage (2016) and Half Nelson (2006). He died on August 19, 2023 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2/4 Won: 2018 and 2020 (Guest in drama serie 'This is us') Nominated: 2017 (Supporting drama serie 'This is us') and 2019 (Guest in drama serie 'This is us')

60. Bruce Willis

Actor | Die Hard

Actor and musician Bruce Willis is well known for playing wisecracking or hard-edged characters, often in spectacular action films. Collectively, he has appeared in films that have grossed in excess of $2.5 billion USD.

Walter Bruce Willis was born on March 19, 1955, in Idar-Oberstein, West Germany,...

2/3 Won: 1987 (Leading drama serie 'Moonlighting') and 2000 (Guest in comedy serie 'Friends') Nominated: 1986 (Leading drama serie 'Moonlighting')

61. Larry Drake

Actor | Darkman

Larry Drake was born on February 21, 1949 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA. He was an actor and director, known for Darkman (1990), L.A. Law (1986) and The Karate Kid (1984). He was married to Ruth de Sosa. He died on March 17, 2016 in Los Angeles, California, USA.

2/3 Won: 1988-1989 (Supporting drama serie 'L.A. Law') Nominated: 1990 (Supporting drama serie 'L.A. Law')

62. Derek Jacobi

Actor | Gosford Park

Preeminent British classical actor of the first post-Olivier generation, Derek Jacobi was knighted in 1994 for his services to the theatre, and, in fact, is only the second to enjoy the honor of holding TWO knighthoods, Danish and English (Olivier was the other). Modest and unassuming in nature, ...

2/3 Won: 1989 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'The tenth man') and 2001 (Guest in comedy serie 'Frasier') Nominated: 1982 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'Inside the Third Reich')

63. Jay Thomas

Actor | The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Jay Thomas was born in Kermit, Texas, to Katherine (Guzzino), a tap-dancing South Louisiana belle of Italian descent, and T. Harry Terrell, Sr., an oil man. Reared in New Orleans, he was always active in sports and performing. He won his first award as emcee of the Jesuit High School talent show. ...

2/3 Won: 1990-1991 (Guest in comedy serie 'Murphy Brown') Nominated: 1992 (Supporting comedy serie 'Murphy Brown')

64. Ray Walston

Actor | Popeye

Ray Walston started his acting career as a spear carrier with a local stock company. When the family moved to Houston, Texas, Walston's father wanted to teach him the oil business, but Walston instead joined a traveling repertory company (selling tickets as well as acting). He went on to associate ...

2/3 Won: 1995-1996 (Supporting drama serie 'Picket Fences') Nominated: 1994 (Supporting drama serie 'Picket Fences')

65. Tim Conway

Actor | The Carol Burnett Show

Funny man Tim Conway was born on December 15th, 1933 in Willoughby, Ohio, to Sophia (Murgoiu) and Daniel Conway, a pony groomer. He was a fraternity man at Bowling Green State University, served in the army, and started his career working for a radio station.

Conway got into comedy when he started ...

2/3 Won: 1996 (Guest in comedy serie 'Coach') and 2008 (Guest in comedy serie '30 Rock') Nominated: 1963 (Supporting serie 'McHale's navy')

66. Al Pacino

Actor | Serpico

Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...

2/3 Won: 2004 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Angels in America') and 2010 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'You don't know Jack') Nominated: 2013 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Phil Spector')

67. Justin Timberlake

Soundtrack | Trolls

Justin Randall Timberlake was born on January 31, 1981, in Memphis, Tennessee, to Lynn (Bomar) and Randall Timberlake, whose own father was a Baptist minister. At the age of 11, he appeared on the show Star Search (1983), and even though he didn't win, it didn't dampen his ambitions. He also ...

2/3 Won: 2009 and 2010 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live') Nominated: 2013 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live')

68. Eric Stonestreet

Actor | The Loft

Eric Stonestreet was born on September 9, 1971 in Kansas City, Kansas, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for The Loft (2014), Modern Family (2009) and Almost Famous (2000).

2/3 Won: 2010 and 2012 (Supporting comedy serie 'Modern family') Nominated: 2011 (Supporting comedy serie 'Modern family')

69. Jason Sudeikis

Actor | Ted Lasso

Jason Sudeikis was born on September 18, 1975 in Fairfax, Virginia as Daniel Jason Sudeikis. His father is Daniel Joseph Sudeikis, a Vice President of a business development and his mother is Kathryn (née Wendt), a travel agent at Brennco and President of the American Society of Travel Agents. He ...

2/3 Won: 2021 and 2022 (Leading comedy serie 'Ted Lasso') Nominated: 2023 (Leading comedy serie 'Ted Lasso')

70. Brett Goldstein

Actor | Thor: Love and Thunder

Brett attended school in Sutton, Surrey before reading Film Studies at Warwick University. At twenty-two Brett went to New York to study acting at the American Academy Of Dramatic Art. Aside from performing, he began to write his own plays and take them to the Edinburgh Fringe Festival but ...

2/3 Won: 2021 and 2022 (Supporting comedy serie 'Ted Lasso') Nominated: 2023 (Supporting comedy serie 'Ted Lasso')

71. Matthew Macfadyen

Actor | Succession

David Matthew Macfadyen was born in Great Yarmouth, Norfolk, to Meinir (Owen), a drama teacher and actress, and Martin Macfadyen, an oil executive. He is of Scottish and Welsh descent. Because of his father's career, he spent at least part of his childhood in Indonesia, before finishing his ...

2/3 Won: 2022 and 2023 (Supporting drama serie 'Succession') Nominated: 2020 (Supporting drama serie 'Succession')

72. Patrick McGoohan

Actor | The Prisoner

Born in America, and raised in Ireland and England, actor Patrick McGoohan rose to become the number-one British TV star in the 1950s to 1960s era. His parents moved to Ireland when he was very young and McGoohan acquired a neutral accent that sounds at home in British or American dialogue. He was ...

2/2 Won: 1975 (Supporting -Single performance- drama serie 'Columbo') and 1990 (Guest in drama serie 'Columbo')

73. Jimmy Fallon

Writer | The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Jimmy Fallon was born in 1974 in Brooklyn, New York, to Gloria (Feeley) and Jimmy Fallon. He is of Irish, German, and Norwegian descent. He was raised in Saugerties, New York, which is in upstate New York. He has performed stand up, impressions and characters across the country, in some of the ...

2/2 Won: 2012 and 2014 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live')

74. Courtney B. Vance

Actor | The Hunt for Red October

From studying history at Harvard, and acting at Yale Drama School, to making history in Hollywood, Courtney B. Vance has carefully cultivated an exceptional career that showcases his passion, talent, and intellect. His penchant for successfully finding the dignity and honor in each character ...

2/2 Won: 2016 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'The people vs. O.J. Simpson: American Crime Story') and 2021 (Guest in drama serie 'Lovecraft Country')

75. Dave Chappelle

Writer | Chappelle's Show

Dave Chappelle's career started while he was in high school at Duke Ellington School of the Arts in Washington, DC where he studied theatre arts. At the age of 14, he began performing stand-up comedy in nightclubs. Shortly after graduation, he moved to New York City where he quickly established ...

2/2 Won: 2017 and 2021 (Guest in comedy serie 'Saturday Night Live')

76. James Garner

Actor | The Notebook

Amiable and handsome James Garner had obtained success in both films and television, often playing variations of the charming anti-hero/con-man persona he first developed in Maverick, the offbeat western TV series that shot him to stardom in the late 1950s.

James Garner was born James Scott ...

1/13 Won: 1977 (Leading drama serie 'The Rockford files') Nominated: 1959 (Leading drama serie 'Maverick'), 1976, 1978-1980 (Leading drama serie 'The Rockford files'), 1982 (Leading drama serie 'Bret Maverick'), 1985 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Heartsounds'), 1987 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Promise'), 1989 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'My name is Bill W.'), 1991 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Decoration Day'), 1993 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Barbarians at the gate') and 1994 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Breathing lessons')

77. William H. Macy

Actor | Fargo

William Hall Macy Jr. is an American actor. His film career has been built on appearances in small, independent films, though he has also appeared in mainstream films. Macy has won two Emmy Awards and four Screen Actors Guild Awards, while his performance in Fargo earned a nomination for the ...

1/13 Won: 2003 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Door to door') Nominated: 1997 (Guest in a drama serie 'ER'), 2000 (both, Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'A slight case of murder' and Guest in comedy serie 'Sports Night'), 2004 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'Stealing Sinatra'), 2005 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'The wool cap'), 2007 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Nightmares and Dreamscapes: From the stories of Stephen King') 2014-2018 and 2021 (Leading comedy serie 'Shameless')

78. Jimmy Smits

Actor | Star Wars: Episode III - Revenge of the Sith

Jimmy L. Smits is an American actor. He is best known for playing attorney Victor Sifuentes on the 1980s-1990s legal drama L.A. Law, NYPD Detective Bobby Simone on the 1990s-2000s police drama NYPD Blue, Matt Santos on the political drama The West Wing, and for appearing in Switch (1991), My Family...

1/12 Won: 1990 (Supporting drama serie 'L.A. Law' Nominated: 1987-1989, 1991-1992 (Supporting drama serie 'L.A. Law'), 1995-1999 (Leading drama serie 'NYPD Blue') and 2009 (Guest in drama serie 'Dexter')

79. Jon Hamm

Actor | Mad Men

Jon Hamm is an American actor and producer from St. Louis, Missouri who is known for playing Don Draper in Mad Men. He also played Mister Sinister in a deleted scene of The New Mutants and Legion, Brogan from Shrek Forever After, and other films and shows including Sucker Punch, Million Dollar Arm,...

1/12 Won: 2015 (Leading drama serie 'Mad men') Nominated: 2008-2014 (Leading drama serie 'Mad men'), 2009, 2010, 2012 (Guest in comedy serie '30 Rock') and 2015 (Guest in comedy serie 'Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt')

80. John Goodman

Actor | 10 Cloverfield Lane

John Stephen Goodman's an American film, TV & stage actor. He was born in Affton, Missouri to Virginia Roos (Loosmore), a waitress and saleswoman & Leslie Francis Goodman, a postal worker who died when he was a small child. He's of English, Welsh & German ancestry. He's best known for his role as ...

1/11 Won: 2007 (Guest in drama serie 'Studio 60 on the Sunset Strip') Nominated: 1989-1995 (Leading comedy serie 'Roseanne'), 1995 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Kingfish: The story of Huey P. Long'), 1996 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'A streetcar named Desire') and 2010 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'You don't know Jack')

81. Harry Morgan

Actor | M*A*S*H

Harry Morgan was a prolific character actor who starred in over 100 films and was a stage performer. Known to a younger generation of fans as "Col. Sherman T. Potter" on M*A*S*H (1972). Also known for his commanding personality throughout his career, he tackled movies and television in a way no ...

1/10 Won: 1980 (Supporting comedy serie 'M.A.S.H.') Nominated: 1959 (Supporting comedy serie 'December bride), 1975-1979 and 1981-1983 (Supporting comedy serie 'M.A.S.H.')

82. Martin Sheen

Actor | The Departed

Multiple Emmy- and Golden Globe-winner Martin Sheen is one of America's most celebrated, colorful, and accomplished actors. Moving flawlessly between artistic mediums, Sheen's acting range is striking.

Sheen was born Ramón Antonio Gerard Estevez in Dayton, Ohio, to Mary-Ann (Phelan), an Irish ...

1/10 Won: 1994 (Guest in comedy serie 'Murphy Brown') Nominated: 1974 (Leading TV movie 'The execution of Private Slovik'), 1978 (Leading drama or comedy special 'Taxi!!!'), 2000-2004, 2006 (Leading drama serie 'The west wing') and 2006 (Guest in comedy serie 'Two and a half men')

83. Peter Boyle

Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond

A bold, blunt instrument of hatred and violence at the onset of his film career, Peter Boyle recoiled from that repugnant, politically incorrect "working class" image to eventually play gruff, gentler bears and even comedy monsters in a career that lasted four decades.

He was born on October 18, ...

1/10 Won: 1996 (Guest in drama serie 'The X-Files') Nominated: 1977 (Leading drama or comedy special 'Tail Gunner Joe'), 1989 (Guest in drama serie 'Midnight caller') and 1999-2005 (Supporting comedy serie 'Everybody loves Raymond')

84. Rip Torn

Actor | Men in Black

Rip Torn was born Elmore Rual Torn Jr. on February 6, 1931 in Temple, Texas, the son of Thelma Mary (Spacek) and Elmore Rudolph Torn, who was an agriculturalist and economist, credited with popularizing the custom of eating black-eyed peas on New Year's Day. "Rip" is a family name, taken by ...

1/9 Won: 1996 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Larry Sanders show') Nominated: 1985 (Supporting Limited serie/Special 'The Atlanta child murders'), 1993-1995 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Larry Sanders show'), 1996 (Guest in drama serie 'Chicago Hope'), 1997-1998 (Supporting comedy serie 'The Larry Sanders show') and 2008 (Guest in comedy serie '30 Rock')

85. Bruce Weitz

Actor | Hill Street Blues

Bruce Weitz was born on May 27, 1943 in Norwalk, Connecticut, USA. He is an actor and producer, known for Hill Street Blues (1981), Half Past Dead (2002) and Deep Impact (1998). He has been married to Vivian Davis since December 2, 1986. They have one child. He was previously married to Cecilia Hart...

1/8 Won: 1984 (Supporting drama serie 'Hill Street Blues') Nominated: 1981-1983, 1985, 1986 (Supporting drama serie 'Hill Street Blues'), 1988 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Baby M') ad 1990 (Guest in drama serie 'Midnight caller')

86. Woody Harrelson

Actor | True Detective

Academy Award-nominated and Emmy Award-winning actor Woodrow Tracy Harrelson was born on July 23, 1961 in Midland, Texas, to Diane Lou (Oswald) and Charles Harrelson. He grew up in Lebanon, Ohio, where his mother was from. After receiving degrees in theater arts and English from Hanover College, he...

1/8 Won: 1989 (Supporting comedy serie 'Cheers') Nominated: 1987-1988, 1990-1991 (Supporting comedy serie 'Cheers'), 1999 (Guest in comedy serie 'Frasier'), 2012 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Game change') and 2014 (Leading drama serie 'True Detective')

87. Bob Newhart

Actor | Elf

Bob Newhart is an American actor and stand-up comedian. His comedic style involves deadpan delivery of dialogue, a slight stammer when talking, and comedic monologues. He has cited earlier comedians George Gobel (1919-1991), Ray Goulding (1922-1990), and Bob Elliott (1923-2016) as his main ...

1/8 Won: 2013 (Guest in comedy serie 'The Big Bang theory') Nominated: 1985-1987 (Leading comedy serie 'Newhart'), 2004 (Guest in drama serie 'ER'), 2009 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'The Librarian: Curse of the Judas chalice'), 2014 and 2016 (Guest in comedy serie 'The Big Bang theory')

88. Michael Douglas

Actor | Wall Street

A legendary actor with 50 celebrated years of film, television and producing experience, Michael Douglas is known for his era-defining roles and enduring cultural impact.

In addition to his career accomplishments, Douglas has remained a steadfast public servant, activist and philanthropist dedicated...

1/8 Won: 2013 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Behind the candelabra') Nominated: 1974-1976 (Supporting drama serie 'The streets of San Francisco'), 2002 (Guest in comedy serie 'Will & Grace') and 2019-2021 (Leading comedy serie 'The Kominsky method')

89. Henry Winkler

Actor | The Waterboy

Henry Franklin Winkler was born on October 30, 1945, in Manhattan, New York. His parents, Ilse Anna Maria (Hadra) and Harry Irving Winkler, were German Jewish immigrants who escaped the Holocaust by moving to the US in 1939. His father was the president of an international lumber company while his ...

1/8 Won: 2018 (Supporting comedy serie 'Barry') Nominated: 1976-1978 (Leading comedy serie 'Happy days'), 2000 (Guest in drama serie 'The Practice'), 2019, 2022 and 2023 (Supporting comedy serie 'Barry')

90. Nathan Lane

Actor | The Producers

Nathan Lane is an American actor and singer from New Jersey who is known for playing Timon from The Lion King, Spot Helperman/Scott Leadready II from Teacher's Pet, Max Bialystock from The Producers, Snowball from Stuart Little, Hamegg from Astro Boy and Ernie Smuntz from Mouse Hunt. He is married ...

1/8 Won: 2022 (Guest in comedy serie 'Only murders in the building') Nominated: 1995 (Guest in comedy serie 'Frasier'), 1998 (Guest in comedy serie 'Mad about you'), 2011, 2013 (Guest in comedy serie 'Modern family'), 2013 (Guest in drama serie 'The good wife'), 2014 (Guest in comedy serie 'Modern family') and 2023 (Guest in comedy serie 'Only murders in the building')

91. Louis Gossett Jr.

Actor | An Officer and a Gentleman

Louis Gossett Jr. was one of the most respected and beloved actors on stage, screen and television and is also an accomplished writer, producer and director. Off-screen, he was a social activist, educator, and author dedicated to enriching the lives of others. He was the first African-American to ...

1/7 Won: 1977 (Leading -Single appearance- serie 'Roots') Nominated: 1979 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Backstairs at the White House'), 1981 (Leading drama serie 'Palmerstown'), 1984 (Leading Limited serie/Special 'Sadat'), 1987 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'A gathering of old men'), 1997 (Guest in drama serie 'Touched by an angel') and 2020 (Supporting Limited serie/TV movie 'Watchmen')

92. Tom Selleck

Actor | Blue Bloods

Thomas William Selleck is an American actor and film producer, best known for his starring role as Hawaii-based private investigator "Thomas Magnum" on the 1980s television series, Magnum, P.I. (1980).

Selleck was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Martha (Jagger), a homemaker, and Robert Dean Selleck, a...

1/7 Won: 1984 (Leading drama serie 'Magnum P.I.') Nominated: 1982-1983, 1985-1986 (Leading drama serie 'Magnum P.I.'), 2000 (Guest in comedy serie 'Friends') and 2007 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie 'Jesse Stone: Sea change')

93. Mandy Patinkin

Actor | Homeland

Mandy Patinkin was born Mandel Bruce Patinkin in Chicago, Illinois, to Doris "Doralee" (Sinton), a homemaker and cookbook writer, and Lester Patinkin, who operated two scrap metal plants. He is of Russian Jewish and Latvian Jewish descent. Growing up, he began singing in synagogue choirs at the age...

1/7 Won: 1995 (Leading drama serie 'Chicago Hope') Nominated: 1996 (Guest in comedy serie 'The Larry Sanders show'), 1999 (Guest in drama serie 'Chicago Hope'), 2013, 2014, 2017 and 2018 (Supporting drama serie 'Homeland')

94. Sean Hayes

Actor | Will & Grace

Sean Patrick Hayes was born and raised in the Chicago suburb of Glen Ellyn, Illinois. His father, Ronald, a lithographer, left the family when Sean was a young child. His mother, Mary, works at a food bank, and raised Sean and his four siblings on her own. Sean supported himself as a classical ...

1/7 Won: 2000 (Supporting comedy serie 'Will & Grace') Nominated: 2001-2006 (Supporting comedy serie 'Will & Grace')

95. Kiefer Sutherland

Actor | 24

Kiefer Sutherland was born in London, England, UK, to Canadian actors Shirley Douglas and Donald Sutherland, who moved to California shortly after his birth. His maternal grandfather, Tommy Douglas, was a Scottish-born Canadian politician who was a Premier of Saskatchewan for over 17 years and led ...

1/7 Won: 2006 (Leading drama serie '24') Nominated: 2002-2005, 2007 (Leading drama serie '24') and 2009 (Leading Miniserie/TV movie '24: Redemption')

96. James Cromwell

Actor | L.A. Confidential

Born in Los Angeles but raised in Manhattan and educated at Middlebury College and Carnegie-Mellon University, James Cromwell is the son of film director John Cromwell and actress Kay Johnson. He studied acting at Carnegie-Mellon, and went into the theatre (like his parents) doing everything from ...

1/7 Won: 2013 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'American Horror Story: Coven') Nominated: 2000 (Supporting Miniserie/TV movie 'RKO 281'), 2001 (Guest in drama serie 'ER'), 2003 (Guest in drama serie 'Six feet under') 2020, 2022 and 2023 (Guest in drama serie 'Succession')

97. John Ritter

Actor | Sling Blade

Jonathan Southworth Ritter was born in Burbank, California, on September 17, 1948. He was the son of legendary country singer/actor Tex Ritter (born Woodward Maurice Ritter) and his wife, actress Dorothy Fay (née Dorothy Fay Southworth). The couple married in 1941 and had their first child, Tom ...

1/6 Won: 1984 (Leading comedy serie 'Three's company') Nominated: 1978, 1981 (Leading comedy serie 'Three's company'), 1988 (Leading comedy serie 'Hooperman'), 1999 (Guest in comedy serie 'Ally McBeal') and 2004 (Leading comedy serie '8 simple rules')

98. Dabney Coleman

Actor | WarGames

For decades, Dabney Coleman has often appeared as a smarmy, selfish, nervous person, often with money, who is mostly out for himself. He did such a good job in this type of part that he's made a career of it in film.

Dabney Wharton Coleman was born in Austin, Texas, to Mary Wharton (Johns) and ...

1/6 Won: 1987 (Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Sworn to silence') Nominated: 1983-1984 (Leading comedy serie 'Buffalo Bill'), 1988 (both Leading comedy serie 'The "Slap" Maxwell story' and Supporting Miniserie/Special 'Baby M') and 1991 (Guest in drama serie 'Columbo')

99. Robert Morse

Actor | How to Succeed in Business Without Really Trying

With that impish, gap-toothed grin, nervous bundle of energy, Robert Morse could never be contained long enough to become a film star. The live stage would be his calling.

He was born Robert Allen Morse on May 18, 1931, in Newton, Massachusetts, the son of May (Silver) and Charles Morse, who worked ...

1/6 Won: 1993 (Leading Miniserie/Special 'Tru (American Playhouse)') Nominated: 2008, 2010, 2011, 2013 and 2014 (Guest in drama serie 'Mad men')

100. Ray Romano

Actor | Everybody Loves Raymond

Ray Romano grew up in Forest Hills, Queens. He performed in the NYC comedy club circuit before landing a guest spot on The Letterman Show. It was here that he propelled his TV show Everybody Loves Raymond.

He was also the voice of the Mammoth in the extremely successful Ice Age Series Movies.

He is ...

1/6 Won: 2002 (Leading comedy serie 'Everybody loves Raymond') Nominated: 1999-2001, 2003 and 2005 (Leading comedy serie 'Everybody loves Raymond')