Best Female Performance in a TV Show

The Top Ten
1 Gillian Anderson ( X-Files ) Gillian Leigh Anderson is an American-British film, television and theatre actress, activist and writer.

Gillian did such a great job as Special Agent Scully in The X-Files. Great Job, Gillian Anderson!

Always, she is so brillant and versitille And obviously beautiful and hot, what more can you ask for

The Best of the best! She was phenomenal!

2 Emily Joyce (My Hero)
3 Marsai Martin (black-ish)

Martin is an acting powerhouse.

4 Amarah-Jae St. Aubyn (Small Axe)
5 Retta (Good Girls)

Not a great series, but Retta gives a terrific performance.

6 Constance Wu (Fresh Off the Boat)
7 Michelle Dockery (Hogfather)
8 Stephanie Beatriz (Brooklyn Nine-Nine)
9 Jennifer Aniston (Friends) Jennifer Joanna Aniston is an American actress, producer, and businesswoman. The daughter of Greek actor John Aniston and American actress Nancy Dow, Aniston gained worldwide recognition for portraying Rachel Green on the popular television sitcom Friends, a role which earned her a Primetime Emmy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award.

I find her charming, cute, funny and sexy as hell!

But hey, where is Phoebe?

she is my favourite actress and she is my cousin I love her so much

10 Sofia Vergara (Modern Family) Sofía Margarita Vergara Vergara is a Colombian-American actress, comedian, producer, television host, model and businesswoman.
The Contenders
11 Rita Moreno (One Day at a Time)
12 Millie Bobby Brown (Stranger Things) Millie Bobby Brown is an English actress and model. She is known for her breakout role as Jane "Eleven" Ives in the Netflix science fiction drama series Stranger Things.
13 Lena Headey (Game of Thrones)
14 Crystal Reed (Teen Wolf) Crystal Marie Reed is an American actress and model. She was born on February 6, 1985 in Detroit, Michigan. She is best known for her role as Allison Argent in MTV's supernatural drama series Teen Wolf and as Sofia Falcone in the superhero television series Gotham.
15 Ashley Benson (Pretty Little Liars) Ashley Victoria Benson is an American actress, dancer and model, known for her role as Hanna Marin on the mystery-thriller television series Pretty Little Liars.
16 Peta Wilson (La Femme Nikita)

I was torn between voting for Lucille Ball and Peta Wilson, but LFN was such a favourite of mine during my late teens. The drama and complexity of the show and Nikita's evolution was great to watch.

17 Lucy Lawless (Xena)

Princess fighter, character brave woman super kick, shoot, rotate and taekwondo jumping.

Xena is princes and good fighter kick shoot, jump his and special warrior woman.

Xena is beautiful woman, excellent figter woman, good speed and body show. Super hair and excellent costeem, big dance kicking.

18 Rhea Seehorn (Better Call Saul)
19 Sophia Bush (One Tree Hill) Sophia Anna Bush is an American actress, director, spokesperson, and activist. She starred as Brooke Davis in The WB/CW drama series One Tree Hill. She had major film roles in John Tucker Must Die, The Hitcher, and The Narrows.

So beautiful. Was the character I looked through for inspiration through my teen years. She is a real girl, with a real body. She has battled and gone through a lot. Great role model.

Heck Yes best show ever best character ever!

And Anna Paquin in True Blood.

20 Shannen Doherty (Charmed)

Voted because she's my favorite on this list but Holly Marie Combs was better than her. Critics repeatedly called Holly "the only good thing about this show. "

She is such a great actress and her character on the show is so interesting! I'm one of the greatest fans of Shannen Doherty.

One of the reasons I got hooked on the show.

clever, strong willed, sexy

21 Marcia Cross (Desperate Housewives)

The perfect character... I can't even describe how beautifully marcia cross played bree... Desperate housewives would have been nothing without Bree!

cmon who doesn't like Bree?

22 Phoebe Tonkin (The Originals) Phoebe Jane Elizabeth Tonkin is an Australian actress and model. She is best known for portraying Cleo Sertori in H2O: Just Add Water, Fiona Maxwell in Tomorrow, When the War Began, Faye Chamberlain in The Secret Circle, and Hayley Marshall in the CW TV series The Vampire Diaries and its spin-off series ...read more.
23 Shelley Hennig (Teen Wolf) Shelley Catherine Hennig is an American model and actress. She is also a beauty pageant titleholder who held the Miss Teen USA 2004 title.
24 Madelaine Petsch (Riverdale)
25 Eva Longoria (Desperate Housewives) Eva Jacqueline Longoria Bastón is an American actress and producer. After a number of guest roles on several television series, Longoria was recognized for her portrayal of Isabella Braña on the CBS daytime soap opera The Young and the Restless, on which she starred from 2001 to 2003. She is most known for her role as Gabrielle Solis on the television series Desperate Housewives, which ran from 2004 to 2012 and for which she received Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild Award nominations.
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