Julianna Marguiles - "Alicia Florrick", The Good Wife
Elisabeth Moss - "Peggy Olson", Mad Men
Katey Sagal - "Gemma Teller Morrow", Sons of Anarchy
Anna Torv - "Olivia Dunham", Fringe
Jeanne Tripplehorn - "Barb Henrickson", Big Love
Britton has always been wonderful, and the final season of Friday Night Lights was no exception - I particularly loved her scenes with Aimee Teegarden as Tami processed the fallout from Julie's romantic debacle. Marguiles was great all season, but she completely knocked it out of the park in the final episodes after Alicia learned about Peter and Kalinda. Some actors get a single-episode showcase so good that they deserve a nomination solely on those merits - I truly believe "The Suitcase" was an episode like that for Moss, showing Peggy with all her ambition and regret, her anger and wistfulness. Sagal served as an important connective thread throughout a season of Sons of Anarchy that sometimes felt like it was meandering off into tangents, always reinforcing the importance of family - both by blood and by choice. Torv gave shades and nuances that carefully defined the two Olivias as similar but not identical women, and then added a killer Leonard Nimoy impersonation to boot. (If this were the Daytime Emmys, she'd be golden - they love dual roles.) Tripplehorn was the saving grace of Big Love's final season, crafting a beautiful portrait of a woman struggling with deep ambivalence regarding her religion and her faith.
Honorable Mention: Mireille Enos, The Killing; Kathryn Erbe, Law and Order: Criminal Intent; Hayley Hasselhoff, Huge; Lena Headey, Game of Thrones; January Jones, Mad Men; Melissa Leo, Treme; Anna Paquin, True Blood; Ellen Pompeo, Grey's Anatomy; Maggie Q, Nikita
I wouldn't be surprised to see: Kathy Bates, Harry's Law; Dana Delany, Body of Proof; Emily Deschanel, Bones; Sally Field, Brothers and Sisters; Mariska Hargitay, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit; Angie Harmon, Rizzoli and Isles; Piper Perabo, Covert Affairs; Emmy Rossum, Shameless; Kyra Sedgwick, The Closer; Sarah Wayne Callies, The Walking Dead
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