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BENJAMONSTER AWARDS 2025: Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series

Today's award is Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series!

Past Awards in This Category: 2024   2023   2022   2021   2020

This year's nominees are...










STEPHANIE BEATRIZ as Didi in A Man on the Inside (Netflix)
MEREDITH HAGNER as Eve Stripling in Bad Monkey (Apple TV+)
JANELLE JAMES as Ava Coleman in Abbott Elementary (ABC)
JUSTINE LUPE as Morgan in Nobody Wants This (Netflix)
MEGAN STALTER as Kayla in Hacks (Max)
LISA ANN WALTER as Melissa Schemmenti in Abbott Elementary (ABC)
JESSICA WILLIAMS as Gaby in Shrinking (Apple TV+)

And the Winner Is...
JANELLE JAMES
Abbott Elementary (ABC)
For the third time in four years, Janelle James takes home the Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series award. She is the modern day equivalent of Steve Carell's Michael Scott in my eyes: a boss who is not very good at her job on the surface but one who proves to actually be quite effective as the show gives her character more breadth and depth. This season, James' Ava was fired, started a new relationship and re-connected (to a degree) with her father. James can still zing one-liners with the best of them but those stories this season really helped us get to know the character on a deeper level and James was up for the task. She just keeps getting better in the part.

Thoughts on the Rest of the Nominees:
There was a pretty even mix between actresses on returning shows and actresses on new shows. Megan Stalter continues to be pitch perfect and hilarious on Hacks. She just never is a big enough role to actually win this award. James' Abbott co-star Lisa Ann Walter continues to be the show's secret weapon who is consistently funny. Jessica Williams found more depth and humor, like the rest of her castmates, in the second season of Shrinking. Among the actresses from new shows, Stephanie Beatriz took on a character who was so different from her Rosa Diaz on Brooklyn Nine-Nine and gave us another character to root for. Justine Lupe was a goofy and fun presence on Nobody Wants This, and she had great moments with Kristen Bell. Finally, Meredith Hagner was definitely a threat here with a larger than life performance to match the absurdity of the plot on Bad Monkey.

Tomorrow: Outstanding Lead Actor of a Limited/Anthology Series!
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