Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series

Black Reel Award for Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series
Awarded for	Outstanding Actress, TV Movie or Limited Series
Country	United States
Presented by	Black Reel Awards
First awarded	2000
Currently held by	Michaela Coel, I May Destroy You (2021)
Website	blackreelawards.com

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
	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
	Sanaa Lathan	Disappearing Acts	HBO
	Alfre Woodard	Holiday Heart	Showtime
2002
	Angela Bassett	Ruby's Bucket of Blood	Showtime
	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
	Kerry Washington	Lift	Showtime
	Vanessa L. Williams	Keep the Faith, Baby	Showtime
2004
	Suzzanne Douglas	Sounder	ABC
	Whoopi Goldberg	Good Fences	Showtime
	Raven-Symoné	The Cheetah Girls	Disney Channel
2005
	Lynn Whitfield	Redemption: The Stan Tookie Williams Story	FX
	Monica Calhoun	Justice	Starz
	Anna Maria Horsford
2006
	S. Epatha Merkerson	Lackawanna Blues	HBO
	Halle Berry	Their Eyes Were Watching God	ABC
	Roselyn Sanchez	Kojak	USA Network
2007
	Alexa Vega	Walkout	HBO
2008	—

2010s

Year	Actress	Film	Network	Ref
2010–11	—
2012
	Taraji P. Henson	Taken from Me: The Tiffany Rubin Story	Lifetime
	Rosario Dawson	Five	Lifetime
	Jenifer Lewis
	Anika Noni Rose	Bag of Bones	A&E Network
	Tracee Ellis Ross	Five	Lifetime
2013
	Aunjanue Ellis	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
	Whoopi Goldberg	A Day Late and a Dollar Short	Lifetime
	Imani Hakim	The Gabby Douglas Story	Lifetime
	LeToya Luckett	Seasons of Love	Lifetime
	Zoe Saldana	Rosemary's Baby	NBC
2016
	Queen Latifah	Bessie	HBO
	Yaya DaCosta	Whitney	Lifetime
	Aunjanue Ellis	The Book of Negroes	BET
	Regina Hall	With This Ring	Lifetime
	Shanice Williams	The Wiz Live!	NBC
2017
	Kerry Washington	Confirmation	HBO
	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
	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
	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
	Aunjanue Ellis	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
	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	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 Bassett Regina King (2)
Actress with most nominations	Aunjanue Ellis (4)
Actress with most nominations without ever winning	Whoopi Goldberg Jenifer Lewis Keke Palmer (2)

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

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