The 66th Annual Emmy Awards take place Monday night, live on NBC. We can talk 'til we lose our voices discussing the snubs (Tatiana Maslany, Broad City, Amy Schumer etc) and perennial darlings (Modern Family, Downton Abbey, etc). But before the Academy of Television Arts & Sciences celebrates the "best" (ha!) in TV, we wanted to highlight the major accomplishments and riveting performances of the nominated actresses in every acting category. And by major accomplishments and riveting performances, we mean anytime they've been nude on-screen:
Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series
Lena Dunham for Girls
Dunham got noticed for her indie film Tiny Furniture but it's the groundbreaking, Judd Apatow-produced, HBO series Girls that's made her a star. You might've heard but she's nude quite a lot on her show.
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Edie Falco for Nurse Jackie
Falco is a great actress, as anyone who saw her Emmy-winning portrayal as boss wife Carmela Soprano on HBO's The Sopranos could attest. Falco's a seasoned thespian and showed off her nice naked rack in 2005's The Quiet.
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Julia Louis-Dreyfus for Veep
Julia has proven the alleged "Seinfeld curse" to be not true after her Emmy-winning, star turns on The New Adventures Of Old Christine and the awesome Veep. It was hard to gage her hotness as Elaine Benes due to the 90s fashion and hair but she's a hottie. Julia posed for funny and sexy spreads issues of Rolling Stone and GQ this year and looked wet and hot in a bra from this The New Adventures... clip.
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Melissa McCarthy for Mike & Molly
McCarthy was a fan (and my favorite) on Gilmore Girls but thanks to Bridesmaids, she's one of the hottest comedians in Hollywood. The Emmy-winning, Mike & Molly star hasn't done any nudity but she did make a "sextape" with her hubby.
Amy Poehler for Parks & Recreation
Funny person Poehler slayed sketch and improv audiences as a member of the Second City mainstage and the Upright Citizens Brigade before SNL made her a comedy superstar. Leslie Knope unsurprisingly has no on-screen nakedness in her past but a funny lady is sexy enough. Here she is in a bikini from the underrated Spring Breakers.
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Taylor Schilling for Orange Is the New Black
Schilling makes prison life funny, sexy, poignant and terrifying as Piper Chapman on the popular Netflix series Orange Is the New Black. The has a big LGBT following and it's nudes scenes like this one that shows us why.
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