Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in a Comedy Series


The Canadian Screen Award for Best Actress in Comedy Series is an annual Canadian television award, presented by the Academy of Canadian Cinema and Television to the best leading performance by an actress in a Canadian television comedy series.
The award was first presented in 1986 as part of the Gemini Awards. However, as Canadian television comedy was dominated by sketch comedy rather than narrative sitcoms in the late 1980s, the awards for Best Actress and Best Actor in a Comedy Series were discontinued after 1987, with only a single gender-neutral award presented for Best Individual Performance in a Comedy Series thereafter. With the revival of scripted narrative comedy series in the 2000s, separate awards for actors and actresses were reinstated in 2011, and have been presented since then as part of the Canadian Screen Awards.

1980s

2010s

YearWinnerNominated
2011 Tracy Dawson, Call Me Fitz
2012 Wendel Meldrum, Less Than Kind
  • Jennifer Irwin, Mr. D
  • Cathy Jones, This Hour Has 22 Minutes
  • Natalie Lisinska, InSecurity
  • Tommie-Amber Pirie, '
    • 2013 Tracy Dawson, Call Me Fitz
  • Wendel Meldrum, Less Than Kind
  • Carrie-Lynn Neales, Seed
  • Nancy Sorel, Less Than Kind
    • 2014 Joanna Cassidy, Call Me Fitz
  • Andrea Martin, Working the Engels
  • Carrie-Lynn Neales, Seed
  • Kacey Rohl, Working the Engels
  • Julia Voth, Package Deal
    • 2015 Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek
  • Brittany LeBorgne, Mohawk Girls
  • Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek
  • Belinda Cornish, Tiny Plastic Men
    • 2016 Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek
  • Andrea Bang, Kim's Convenience
  • Kim Cattrall, Sensitive Skin
  • Jennifer Dale, What Would Sal Do?
  • Jean Yoon, Kim's Convenience
    • 2017 Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek
  • Andrea Bang, Kim's Convenience
  • Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek
  • Catherine Reitman, Workin' Moms
  • Jean Yoon, Kim's Convenience
    • 2018 Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek
  • Dani Kind, Workin' Moms
  • Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek
  • Catherine Reitman, Workin' Moms
  • Cindy Sampson, Private Eyes
    • 2019 Catherine O'Hara, Schitt's Creek'
  • Jann Arden, Jann
  • Annie Murphy, Schitt's Creek
  • Michelle Mylett, Letterkenny
  • Jean Yoon, Kim's Convenience''