Best female characters in TV?

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I'm currently rewatching The West Wing for the billionth time and honestly, is there a greater female character in television than CJ Cregg? I just absolutely love her.

Also a huge fan of Moira Rose from Schitts Creek 😁

Meemaw
The Golden Girls
Lesley Knope

Moira in Schitts Creek. Perfect!

And Audrey fforbes-Hamilton from To The Manor Born!

Detective Superintendent Sandra Pullman from New Tricks

WPC Diane Priest from Oliver's Travels

Mrs Proudie as played by Geraldine McEwan in The Barchester Chronicles

Emma Peel.

I love Missy in Young Sheldon and Mandy as well as Meemaw.

Penélope Grazia from criminal minds. Love her brains, her personality and how quirky she is

Not sure how I haven't seen Donna from Suits yet. She's perfect.

Sarah and Clare France After Henry.

The divinely funny and insanely clever Natasha Lyonne as Natalia Vulvokov in Russian Doll or as Charlie in Poker Face.
She ibrings a lot of herself to her roles but that's a great thing.

Miranda Bailey - Grey’s
Jane Tennyson - Prime Suspect
Temperance Brennan - Bones
Penelope Garcia - Criminal Minds

Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley.
Nicola Walker in Spooks.
Denise Royale in The Royale family.

Donna in Dr who
Fleabag ( awful by times as she was , ve y human)

Echo other posters' choice of Catherine Cawood, Happy Valley. A grandmother who takes on the arch villain in a fisticuffs fight and wins and rescues her young grandson. She is an example to us all. Kind, fierce, intelligent, down to earth. I want her to be my friend!

Jessica Jones and Trish Walker in Jessica Jones
Liz Lemon in 30 Rock
Anna in This Life
All the Golden Girls, but especially Dorothy
Elaine in Sienfeld
Rebecca in Cheers
Roz in Frasier
Roseanne
Captain Janeway in Star Trek Voyager
Eddie and Patsy in Ab Fab
Dee in It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Debbie in GLOW
Lucille in Arrested Development
Agatha / Agnes in Wandavision
Pretty much everyone in Unbreakable Kimmy Schmidt and Orange Is The New Black

and obviously Margo Leadbetter in The Good Life

Oh and Ma Boswell of course! (though I longed to be as glamorous as Aveline).

Sarah Lancashire in Happy Valley.

Off Red - the Handmaids Tale

the Maid

Major Nina Grishina (Joanna Kanska) in Sleepers. KGB agent sent to London to find two sleepers who hadn't been heard from in 25 years, and the only one (save the agent who sent them) out of the KGB, CIA and MI5 who had the slightest idea what was going on. Brilliant series, so funny.