British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance


The British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance was instituted in 2009. It is awarded by the British Academy of Film and Television Arts, a British organisation that hosts annual awards shows for film, television, children's film and television, and interactive media.
Since 2009, the British Academy Television Awards has presented two awards for comedy performance, the BAFTA TV Award for Best Female Comedy Performance and the BAFTA TV Award for Best Male Comedy Performance. Before 2009 there was one award for Best Comedy Performance. Jessica Hynes is the only actress who has received this award more than once, with two wins.

Winners and nominees

2010s

2020s

Superlatives

Actresses with multiple wins and nominations

Multiple wins

The following people have won the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance multiple times:
2 wins
  • Jessica Hynes

    Multiple nominations

The following people have been nominated for the British Academy Television Award for Best Female Comedy Performance multiple times:
4 nominations
  • Olivia Colman
  • Miranda Hart
  • Daisy May Cooper
3 nominations
  • Jessica Hynes
  • Gbemisola Ikumelo
2 nominations
  • Taj Atwal
  • Jo Brand
  • Julia Davis
  • Natasia Demetriou
  • Sian Gibson
  • Tamsin Greig
  • Sharon Horgan
  • Ruth Jones
  • Lesley Manville
  • Diane Morgan
  • Katherine Parkinson
  • Anjana Vasan
  • Phoebe Waller-Bridge
  • Sophie Willan
  • Aimee Lou Wood

    Programmes with multiple wins and nominations

Multiple Nominations

4 nominations
3 nominations
  • Getting On
  • Sex Education
  • This Country
  • Twenty Twelve
2 nominations