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Kristen Bell is an American actress and producer in film and television. She has received a Children's and Family Emmy Award as well as nominations for two Critics' Choice Television Awards, two Golden Globe Awards, a Daytime Emmy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and a Screen Actors Guild Award. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2019 and the #SeeHer Award in 2020.
In her career, she received forty-three award nominations and won ten awards. Bell's first award nomination was for a Saturn Award for Best Actress on Television for her performance as the title character in the television series Veronica Mars in 2005. [1] She won her first award at the Gold Derby Awards in the 'Drama Lead Actress' category the same year.
In 2016, Bell won a People's Choice Award for House of Lies . From 2016–2020, she starred in the lead role of Eleanor Shellstrop on the critically acclaimed NBC comedy series The Good Place (2016–2020), [2] winning two more People's Choice Awards and receiving a Golden Globe Award nomination for her role. In 2019, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame. In 2024, Bell starred in the series Nobody Wants This and was nominated for a second time at the Golden Globes in addition to her first Primetime Emmy Award nomination for her role following year.
Until 2025, Bell has never been nominated for a Primetime Emmy Awards, which Vanity Fair has described as a "snub". [3] [4] She has, however, been nominated for two Children's and Family Emmy Awards as a producer, [5] winning in 2025.
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Critics' Choice Movie Awards | ||||
| 2020 | #SeeHer Award | Herself | Won | [6] | 
| Critics' Choice Television Awards | ||||
| 2018 | Best Actress in a Comedy Series | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [8] | 
| 2025 | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [9] [10] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Primetime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2025 | Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [11] | 
| Daytime Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2019 | Outstanding Special Class Short Format Daytime | Momsplaining with Kristen Bell | Nominated | [4] | 
| Children's and Family Emmy Awards | ||||
| 2024 | Outstanding Preschool Animated Series (as an executive producer) | The Tiny Chef Show | Nominated | [5] [12] | 
| 2025 | Won | [5] [13] | ||
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | Best Actress – Television Series Musical or Comedy | The Good Place | Nominated | [14] | 
| 2025 | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [9] [15] | |
| Year | Category | Nominated work | Result | Ref. | 
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 [a] | Outstanding Female Actor in a Comedy Series | Nobody Wants This | Nominated | [17] | 
| Award | Year [b] | Category | Role | Work | Result | Ref(s) | 
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Alliance of Women Film Journalists | 2013 | Best Animated Female | Anna | Frozen | Won | [18] | 
| 2020 | Frozen 2 | Nominated | [19] [20] | |||
| Gold Derby Awards | 2005 | Drama Lead Actress | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Won | [21] | 
| Breakthrough Performer of the Year | — | Filmography | Nominated | |||
| 2006 | Drama Lead Actress | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Won | [22] | |
| 2018 | Comedy Actress | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [23] | |
| Ensemble of the Year | Nominated | |||||
| 2019 | Comedy Actress of the Decade | Nominated | [24] | |||
| Gotham Awards | 2012 | Best Ensemble Performance | Belinda | Safety Not Guaranteed | Nominated | [25] [26] | 
| Hollywood Walk of Fame | 2019 | Motion picture star | — | Filmography | Inducted | [27] | 
| MTV Movie Awards | 2009 | Best WTF Moment (shared with Jason Segel) | Sarah Marshall | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Nominated | [7] | 
| Nickelodeon Kids' Choice Awards | 2019 | Favorite Female Voice from an Animated Movie | Jade Wilson | Teen Titans Go! To the Movies | Nominated | [28] | 
| 2020 | Anna | Frozen 2 | Nominated | [29] | ||
| 2024 | Janet | Paw Patrol: The Mighty Movie | Nominated | [30] | ||
| People's Choice Awards | 2015 | Favorite Cable TV Actress | Jeannie van der Hooven | House of Lies | Nominated | [31] [32] | 
| 2016 | Favorite Premium Cable TV Actress | Won | [32] [33] | |||
| 2017 | Favorite Comedic Movie Actress | Kiki Moore & Claire Rawlings | Bad Moms & The Boss | Nominated | [7] [34] [35] | |
| Favorite Actress in a New TV Series | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Won | [7] [34] [36] | ||
| 2018 | Comedy TV Star of 2018 | Nominated | [7] [37] | |||
| 2019 | Comedy TV Star of 2019 | Won | [7] [38] | |||
| 2020 | Comedy TV Star of the Year | Nominated | [39] | |||
| Satellite Awards | 2005 | Outstanding Actress in a Series, Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] | 
| Saturn Awards | 2005 | Best Actress on Television | Nominated | [7] | ||
| 2006 | Won | [7] | ||||
| 2007 | Nominated | [1] [7] | ||||
| 2009 | Best Guest Starring Role in a Television Series | Elle Bishop | Heroes | Nominated | [40] [41] | |
| Scream Awards | 2011 | Best Cameo (shared with Anna Paquin) | Chloe Patterson | Scream 4 | Nominated | [42] [43] | 
| Streamy Awards | 2013 | Best Female Performance: Comedy | Mandy | Burning Love | Nominated | [44] [45] | 
| TCA Awards | 2005 | Individual Achievement in Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] [46] | 
| 2017 | Individual Achievement in Comedy | Eleanor Shellstrop | The Good Place | Nominated | [7] [47] | |
| Teen Choice Awards | 2008 | Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Sarah Marshall | Forgetting Sarah Marshall | Nominated | [7] [48] | 
| Choice Movie Breakout Female | Nominated | |||||
| 2009 | Choice TV Actress: Action/Adventure | Elle Bishop | Heroes | Nominated | [41] [49] | |
| 2010 | Choice Movie Actress: Romantic Comedy | Beth | When in Rome | Nominated | [50] [51] | |
| Choice Movie Actress: Comedy | Cynthia | Couples Retreat | Nominated | [50] [52] | ||
| 2014 | Choice Movie Actress: Drama | Veronica Mars | Veronica Mars | Nominated | [7] [53] | 
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