Your personal top 5 favorite Best Actress Daytime Emmy winners!

[FreemanGriffin]

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Of all the winners since 1974, which have been your favorites? Just a reminder of who the winners have been first:

Elizabeth Hubbard for The Doctors (1974)
Susan Flannery for Days Of Our Lives (1975), and The Bold and the Beautiful (1999, 2001 and 2002)
Helen Gallagher for Ryan’s Hope (1976, 1977 and 1988)
Laurie Heinemann for Another World (1978)
Irene Dailey for Another World (1979)
Judith Light for One Life To Live (1980 and 1981)
Robin Strasser for One Life To Live (1982)
Dorothy Lyman for All My Children (1983)
Erika Slezak for One Life To Live (1984, 1986, 1992, 1995, 1996 and 2004)
Kim Zimmer for Guiding Light (1985, 1987, 1990 and 2005)
Marcy Walker for Santa Barbara (1989)
Finola Hughes for General Hospital (1991)
Linda Dano for Another World (1993)
Hillary B Smith for One Life To Live (1994)
Jess Walton for The Young and the Restless (1997)
Cynthia Watros for Guiding Light (1997; changed the eligibility period that year)
Susan Lucci for All My Children (1998)
Martha Byrne for As The World Turns (2000)
Michelle Stafford for The Young and the Restless (2003)
Maura West for As The World Turns (2006 and 2009) and General Hospital (2014)
Jeanne Cooper for The Young and the Restless (2007)
Susan Haskell for One Life To Live (2008)
Laura Wright for General Hospital (2010)
Heather Tom for The Bold and the Beautiful (2011, 2012 and 2019)
Eileen Davidson for Days Of Our Lives (2013) and The Young and the Restless (2017)
Mary Beth Evans for Days Of Our Lives (2015)
Gina Tognoni for The Young and the Restless (2016)
Jacqueline MacInnes Wood for The Bold and the Beautiful (2018)

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[FreemanGriffin Joined: Feb 19th, 2012 Topics: 72 Posts: 5435 View Predictions]

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My personal top 5 favorite Best Actress in a Daytime Drama Series Emmy wins are:

1. Maura West for As The World Turns (2006)
2. Maura West for As The World Turns (2009)
3. Robin Strasser for One Life To Live (1982)
4. Marcy Walker for Santa Barbara (1989)
5. Hillary B Smith for One Life To Live (1994)

Most years I would have chosen a different winner than the one that won, but those were 5 of the years where I felt they got it right!

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[soapsarecool Joined: Sep 30th, 2011 Topics: 7 Posts: 95 View Predictions]

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I thought 1998 was a particularly amazing year, with Cynthia Watros, Kim Zimmer and Eileen Davidson very strong contenders. I really wanted a tie between ED and CW, especially since they were both leaving their shows. I was very happy that Cynthia won, and happy that Eileen got her well-deserved Emmy in 2013.

And I’m a broken record on this but I really can’t not mention the two biggest travesties in this category in my opinion. (1) The fact that Beverlee McKinsey was never nominated for playing Alexandra Spaulding on “Guiding Light,” and (2) the fact that Melody Thomas Scott has only been nominated once for 25+ years of playing Nikki on “The Young and the Restless.”

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[Frank2803 Joined: Apr 5th, 2021 Topics: 16 Posts: 406 View Predictions]

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Hilary B Smith 1994

Susan Flannery 2000

Erika Slezak 1996

Eileen Davidson 2014

Susan Lucci 1999- not because of the reel, but just the moment of her finally winning

 

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[FreemanGriffin Joined: Feb 19th, 2012 Topics: 72 Posts: 5435 View Predictions]

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Other years where I agreed with the winner were 1974 (Liz Hubbard), 1976 (Helen Gallagher), 1983 (Dorothy Lyman), and 2013 (Eileen Davidson) – while most of the other winners were fine I just would have chosen someone else to win the year that they won. I was very disappointed that Elizabeth Hubbard never won for her work as Lucinda on As The World Turns despite being nominated 8 times including 7 times in a row for the role; and Kassie DePaiva still not having an Emmy is also really crazy to me! I also really wanted Alison Sweeney to win the year she was nominated – these last two could be rectified this year if they are nominated on Tuesday!

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[adeja_0724 Joined: May 20th, 2021 Topics: 0 Posts: 19 View Predictions]

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My top 5 wins were…

1. Susan Flannery (2002)

2. Kim Zimmer (1985)

3. Michelle Stafford (2004)

4. Erika Slezak (1996)

5. Maura West (2007)

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[alokin Joined: Jun 23rd, 2012 Topics: 0 Posts: 502 View Predictions]

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Because some of my favorite Daytime Emmy wins happened in this category in fairly recent times, I tried to limit my picks to just this past decade (I know, I know… I’m cheating a bit!)

* Eileen Davidson, DAYS (2013)

* Jacqueline MacInnes Wood, B&B (2018)

* Heather Tom, B&B (2019)

* Gina Tognoni, Y&R (2016)

* Eileen Davidson, Y&R (2017)

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[Tony Ruiz Joined: Nov 5th, 2010 Topics: 2 Posts: 48 View Predictions]

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Erika Slezak (Pick one…they’re all perfection)

Hilary B. Smith

Judith Light

Susan Flannery (2000)

Susan Lucci (That was a hell of a reel)

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