This article lists the winners and nominees for the Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress in a Television Movie or Limited Series. The category was retired during the 2008 ceremony, but later returned in 2012. In May 2017 the category was moved from the film awards as part of the Black Reel Awards for Television honors thus resulting in two separate winners in 2017.
Winners and nominees Winners are listed first and highlighted in bold.
2000s Year Actress Film Network Ref 2000 Halle Berry Introducing Dorothy Dandridge HBO 2000 Black Reel Awards Jenifer Lewis Jackie's Back Lifetime Regina Taylor Strange Justice Showtime Lynn Whitfield Love Songs Showtime Alfre Woodard Funny Valentines HBO 2001 Khandi Alexander The Corner HBO 2001 Black Reel Awards Sanaa Lathan Disappearing Acts HBO Alfre Woodard Holiday Heart Showtime 2002 Angela Bassett Ruby's Bucket of Blood Showtime 2002 Black Reel Awards Pam Grier 3 A.M. Showtime Nicole Ari Parker Dancing in September HBO Phylicia Rashad The Old Settler PBS Yolonda Ross Stranger Inside HBO 2003 Angela Bassett The Rosa Parks Story CBS 2003 Black Reel Awards Kerry Washington Lift Showtime Vanessa L. Williams Keep the Faith, Baby Showtime 2004 Suzzanne Douglas Sounder ABC 2004 Black Reel Awards Whoopi Goldberg Good Fences Showtime Raven-Symoné The Cheetah Girls Disney Channel 2005 Lynn Whitfield Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story FX 2005 Black Reel Awards Monica Calhoun Justice Starz Anna Maria Horsford 2006 S. Epatha Merkerson Lackawanna Blues HBO 2006 Black Reel Awards Halle Berry Their Eyes Were Watching God ABC Roselyn Sanchez Kojak USA Network 2007 Alexa Vega Walkout HBO 2007 Black Reel Awards 2008 colspan="4"
2010s Year Actress Film Network Ref 2010–11 colspan="4" 2012 Taraji P. Henson Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story Lifetime 2012 Black Reel Awards Rosario Dawson Five Lifetime Jenifer Lewis Anika Noni Rose Bag of Bones A&E Network Tracee Ellis Ross Five Lifetime 2013 Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor Abducted: The Carlina White Story Lifetime Queen Latifah Steel Magnolias Lifetime Keke Palmer Abducted: The Carlina White Story Lifetime Lynn Whitfield Somebody's Child UP Vanessa A. Williams Raising Izzie UP 2014 Anika Noni Rose The Watsons Go to Birmingham Hallmark Angela Bassett Betty and Coretta Lifetime Keke Palmer CrazySexyCool: The TLC Story VH1 Salli Richardson-Whitfield Pastor Brown Lifetime Gabrielle Union Being Mary Jane BET 2015 Cicely Tyson The Trip to Bountiful Lifetime 2015 Black Reel Awards Whoopi Goldberg A Day Late and a Dollar Short Lifetime Imani Hakim The Gabby Douglas Story Lifetime LeToya Luckett Seasons of Love Lifetime Zoe Saldaña Rosemary's Baby NBC 2016 Queen Latifah Bessie HBO 2016 Black Reel Awards Yaya DaCosta Whitney Lifetime Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor The Book of Negroes BET Regina Hall With This Ring Lifetime Shanice Williams The Wiz Live! NBC 2017 Kerry Washington Confirmation HBO 2017 Black Reel Awards Rhyon Nicole Brown Surviving Compton: Dre, Suge & Michel'le Lifetime Audra McDonald Lady Day at Emerson's Bar and Grill HBO Sophie Okonedo The Hollow Crown: The Wars of the Roses PBS Teyonah Parris Love Under New Management: The Miki Howard Story TV One 2017 Sanaa Lathan Shots Fired FOX 2017 Black Reel Awards for Television Nia Long Beaches Lifetime Oprah Winfrey The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks HBO Terry Pheto Madiba BET Loretta Devine The Lost Souls Cafe TV One 2018 Regina King Seven Seconds Netflix 2018 Black Reel Awards for Television Carmen Ejogo The Girlfriend Experience Starz Georgina Campbell Black Mirror Netflix Janelle Monae Electric Dreams Amazon Prime Video Jill Scott Flint Lifetime 2019 Niecy Nash When They See Us Netflix 2019 Black Reel Awards for Television Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor When They See Us Netflix Alfre Woodard Juanita Netflix Michaela Coel Black Earth Rising Netflix / BBC Two Emayatzy Corinealdi The Red Line CBS
2020s Year Actor Film Network Ref 2020 Regina King Watchmen HBO 2020 Black Reel Awards for Television Viola Davis Live in Front of a Studio Audience: 'All in the Family' and 'Good Times' ABC Octavia Spencer Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker Netflix Kerry Washington Little Fires Everywhere HULU Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor The Clark Sisters: First Ladies of Gospel Lifetime 2021 Michaela Coel I May Destroy You HBO Cynthia Erivo Genius National Geographic Tessa Thompson Sylvie's Love Amazon Studios Thuso Mbedu The Underground Railroad Amazon Prime Video Nicole Beharie Monsterland HULU
Superlatives Superlative Outstanding Actress, TV Movie/Limited Series Actress with most awards Angela BassettRegina King (2) Actress with most nominationsAunjanue Ellis-Taylor (4) Actress with most nominations without ever winningWhoopi GoldbergJenifer LewisKeke Palmer (2)
Programs with multiple awards
Performers with multiple awards
2 wins Angela Bassett (consecutive) Regina King
Programs with multiple nominations
3 nominations Five
2 nominations Abducted: The Carlina White Story Justice Lift When They See Us
Performers with multiple nominations
4 Nominations Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor
3 Nominations Angela Bassett Kerry Washington Lynn Whitfield Alfre Woodard
2 Nominations Halle Berry Michaela Coel Whoopi Goldberg Regina King Sanaa Lathan Queen Latifah Jenifer Lewis Anika Noni Rose Keke Palmer
Total awards by network HBO - 8 Lifetime - 3 Netflix - 2 ABC - 1 CBS - 1 FOX - 1 FX -1 Hallmark - 1 Showtime - 1
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