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

Year	Winner	Nominated
1986	Martha Gibson, Seeing Things	Lally Cadeau, Hangin' In Janet-Laine Green, Seeing Things
1987	Dinah Christie, Check it Out	Lally Cadeau, Hangin' In Martha Gibson, Seeing Things Janet-Laine Green, Seeing Things

2010s

Year	Winner	Nominated
2011	Tracy Dawson, Call Me Fitz	Angela Asher, 18 to Life Grace Lynn Kung, InSecurity Brooke Nevin, 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, Michael: Tuesdays and Thursdays
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

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