Underrated TV actress performances?

[filmfanatic Joined: Mar 29th, 2020 Topics: 14 Posts: 13 View Predictions]

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I think D’Arcy Carden should be nominated for an Emmy or Golden Globe for her work on The Good Place. She was always so spot-on to me throughout the show. I don’t really hear many people talking about her Lauren Ambrose is so great in Servant, particularly in her centric episode when we find out what happened. So heart-wrenching.

In terms of the actresses from the past, the most underrated and in my top three best TV actresses ever, that definitely goes to Tatiana Maslany in Orphan Black. So transformative yet believable. Who are your underrated TV actresses?

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[Emmyfan Joined: Nov 26th, 2010 Topics: 15 Posts: 1437 View Predictions]

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Two that come to mind are Liza Weil and Jenifer Lewis.

Liza Weil in How To Get Away With Murder definitely should have been nominated for Supporting Actress Drama for seasons 2 and 4.

Jenifer Lewis also should have been nominated for her scene stealing work in black-ish. She should have won 1 – 2 Emmys for her work.

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[Jays Joined: Dec 15th, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 821 View Predictions]

#1203402015

It depends on your definition of underrated because there’s some performances that were nominated for awards that I still find so criminally underrated

Here’s some off the top of my head
– Keri Russell, The Americans
– Noah Emmerich, The Americans
– Maggie Gyllenhaal, The Deuce
– Annie Murphy, Schitt’s Creek
– Patrick Wilson, Fargo
– Michelle Fairley, Game of Thrones

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[filmfanatic Joined: Mar 29th, 2020 Topics: 14 Posts: 13 View Predictions]

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Frances Conroy is great in everything I’ve seen her in no matter how big or small the role. I found her to be great from what I’ve seen in Six Feet Under and also in American Horror Story. I loved her in season 1, 2, and 3. She was also great in Joker despite having very little to do.

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[GD Joined: Dec 1st, 2016 Topics: 0 Posts: 380 View Predictions]

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Michelle Fairley was the best actress for the first 3 seasons of Game of Thrones and was ignored. She should have won an Emmy for Season 3 easily.

Caitriona Balfe is outstanding in Outlander and deserve a lot more. She should have won an Emmy for Season 2. Damn, that girl got FOUR Golden Globes nominations in a row for that show and not a single Emmy nomination.

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[Heptapod Joined: Feb 2nd, 2019 Topics: 9 Posts: 1311 View Predictions]

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Justina Machado in One Day at a Time
Sarah Sutherland in Veep
Danielle Brooks in Orange Is the New Black
Donna Lynne Champlin in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Justine Lupe in The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel
Katherine Langford in 13 Reasons Why
Gayle Rankin in GLOW
Selenis Leyva in Orange Is the New Black
Adrienne C. Moore in Orange Is the New Black
Maya Erskine in PEN15
Emma Mackey in Sex Education
Elizabeth Olsen in Sorry for Your Loss
Kate Siegel in The Haunting of Hill House
Victoria Pedretti in The Haunting of Hill House
Anne Hathaway in Modern Love

And what might be my favorite underrated performance of all time:
Bryce Dallas Howard in Black Mirror: Nosedive

Emmys FYC: Maya Erskine in PEN15, Paapa Essiedu in I May Destroy You, Keeley Hawes in It's a Sin, Carl Lumbly in TFATWS, Cristin Milioti in Made for Love, Elizabeth Olsen in WandaVision, Billie Piper in I Hate Suzie, Hailee Steinfeld in Dickinson, William Zabka in Cobra Kai

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[Potatohead Joined: Apr 6th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 129 View Predictions]

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Agree with those praising Michelle Fairley. The writers never really got Catelyn right, but she was so perfect for the role it still worked for me. Much like the character herself, it’s an undervalued and underappreciated performance and one of the show’s best.

Also, I know a lot of people love her but Rhea Seehorn is likely going to miss yet another Emmy nomination. Get it together, Emmys, and reward that wonderful woman!

 

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[Dan Backslide Joined: Apr 24th, 2016 Topics: 45 Posts: 3258 View Predictions]

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Potatohead wrote:

Agree with those praising Michelle Fairley. The writers never really got Catelyn right, but she was so perfect for the role it still worked for me. Much like the character herself, it’s an undervalued and underappreciated performance and one of the show’s best. Also, I know a lot of people love her but Rhea Seehorn is likely going to miss yet another Emmy nomination. Get it together, Emmys, and reward that wonderful woman!

I seem to recall George RR Martin has said the show not bringing her back as Lady Stoneheart like the books did was the biggest missed opportunity of the series. Interestingly, it was after the season four finale where this event would’ve taken place but ultimately didn’t that Martin stopped contributing to the show. I’m sure that, along with some other divisive deviations in the series played a part in that.

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[marcus_emn Joined: May 8th, 2018 Topics: 10 Posts: 708 View Predictions]

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Rachel Bloom in Crazy Ex-Girlfriend
Lisa Kudrow in The Comeback
Ilana Glazer in Broad City
Abbi Jacobson in Broad City
Maya Erskine in PEN15
Anna Konkle in PEN15
Mary Elizabeth Winstead in Fargo
Alison Brie in Community and GLOW
Gayle Rankin in GLOW
Kether Donohue in You’re the Worst
Kelly Bishop in Gilmore Girls
Rhea Seehorn in Better Call Saul
Pamela Adlon in Better Things
Aubrey Plaza in Legion
Ruth Wilson in Luther
Jessica Walter in Arrested Development
Anna Torv in Mindhunter

This performance, in my opnion, is one of the best performances of all time and hurts me everytime I remember that she was never nominated to an Emmy, Golden Globe or SAG when she should’ve won all of them:
Aya Cash in You’re the Worst

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[Snow Joined: Jan 22nd, 2017 Topics: 0 Posts: 28 View Predictions]

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Eva Green – Penny Dreadful

I don’t even have words to describe how perfect she was on the show. Also, I don’t even have words to describe how robbed she was in awards terms.

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[Stranger Among Us Joined: Feb 17th, 2019 Topics: 0 Posts: 408 View Predictions]

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I second Aya Cash in You’re the Worst. That is a performance that is really close to my heart and she crushed it.

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[mafro987 Joined: Jan 23rd, 2014 Topics: 0 Posts: 784 View Predictions]

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Alison Wright – The Americans
Michelle Monaghan – The Path
Amy Brenneman – The Leftovers
Gillian Anderson – Hannibal

For Your Consideration:

Best International Feature: Instinct (The Netherlands)
Best Actress: Carice van Houten (Instinct)

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[Carlo Joined: Oct 6th, 2011 Topics: 2 Posts: 178 View Predictions]

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Susan Kelechi Watson – This Is Us

Justina Machado – One Day At The Time

D’Arcy Carden – The Good Place

Anna Faris – Mom

From the Past:

Carrie Coon, Amy Brenneman, Ann Dowd, Regina King – The Leftovers

Emmy Rossum – Shameless

Chloe Sevigny, Jeanne Tripplehorn – Big Love

Monica Potter, Mae Whitman – Parenthood

Vera Farmiga – Bates Motel

Mindy Kaling – The Mindy Project

Patricia Heaton – The Middle

Wendie Malcik – Hot In Cleveland

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[forwardswill Joined: Apr 9th, 2013 Topics: 10 Posts: 1790 View Predictions]

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It may be because I’m watching the show at the moment but my big one for this year is Emily Meade’s performance on the final season of The Deuce.

She’s just sensational and puts many of the inevitable Emmy nominees to shame.

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[Emmyfan Joined: Nov 26th, 2010 Topics: 15 Posts: 1437 View Predictions]

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Portia DeRossi on Arrested Development

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