This is a list of winners of the Primetime Emmy Awards Actress of the Year. This now retired category was introduced in 1974, and subsequently absorbed into the Best Actress, Supporting Actress, and Guest Actress categories.
- 1974 Mary Tyler Moore - The Mary Tyler Moore Show (Series)
- 1974 Cicely Tyson - The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (Special)
- 1974 Joanna Miles - The Glass Menagerie (Supporting)
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