Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance

This is a list of winners and nominees of the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance.

In 2014, the award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance was separated into two categories – Outstanding Narrator and Outstanding Character Voice-Over Performance. As with longform and reality, this split acknowledges and accommodates a general industry uptrend in the distinctly different achievements that are VO narration and VO character performance.

Performers with multiple wins
Totals include wins for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.


 * 4 wins
 * Hank Azaria
 * Dan Castellaneta
 * Seth MacFarlane


 * 3 wins
 * Maya Rudolph


 * 2 wins


 * Ja'net Dubois
 * Maurice LaMarche

Performers with multiple nominations
Totals include nominations for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance.


 * 11 nominations
 * Seth MacFarlane


 * 9 nominations
 * Hank Azaria


 * 8 nominations
 * Dan Castellaneta


 * 6 nominations
 * Seth Green


 * 4 nominations
 * Alex Borstein
 * Maya Rudolph


 * 3 nominations
 * Julie Andrews
 * Nancy Cartwright
 * Maurice LaMarche


 * 2 nominations
 * Bob Bergen
 * Ja'net Dubois
 * Harry Shearer
 * Wanda Sykes
 * Stanley Tucci
 * Jessica Walter