BENJAMONSTER AWARDS 2026: Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series

Today's award is Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress in a Limited/Anthology Series! To qualify for this category, they had to appear in four episodes or less than half, whichever is smaller.

Past Awards in This Category: 2025   2024   2023   2022   2021   2020

This year's nominees are...










LISA GILROY as Christine Westbrook-Clark in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video)
JESSICA HARPER as Ethel Kennedy in Love Story (FX)
ZELJKO IVANEK as Doctor Willard Bliss in Death by Lightning (Netflix)
IAN ROBERTS as Scott Norris in Jury Duty Presents: Company Retreat (Prime Video)
NAOMI WATTS as Jackie Kennedy Onassis in Love Story (FX)
CONSTANCE ZIMMER as Ann Marie Messina in Love Story (FX)

And the Winner Is...
CONSTANCE ZIMMER
Love Story (FX)

Since her acclaimed run on Mad Men, it feels like we haven't seen that much of Christina Hendricks aside from her run on Good Girls. I'm still waiting for that real great vehicle for her, but she made her presence known in the final three episodes of Good American Family. Her character popped up right when the show pivoted to a different point of view and she provided an interesting perspective as a character who embraced Imogen Faith Reid's Natalia Grace. And as warm and sweet as she could be, there was some element of her that also felt like she might not be in it for entirely pure motives. Hendricks walked that line carefully and delivered a strong performance.

Thoughts on the Rest of the Nominees:
Coincidentally, it is all actresses this year in the category. Felicity Huffman and Debra Winger both headlined an episode of Accused and we really got to know them through that one episode that relied an awful lot on their performance. Sissy Spacek gave a really dynamic performance as Michelle Williams' mother in Dying For Sex while Paula Pell turned up in the last episode as the hospice nurse everyone probably would wish they'd have if they ever have to go through that horrible ordeal (apologies for not having a photo of Pell from the series above so I had to go with a late night appearance). The biggest threat to Hendricks though was Erin Doherty, who went one on one with Owen Cooper in the riveting third episode of Adolescence and really sold it.

Tomorrow: Outstanding Guest Actor or Actress of a Drama Series!

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