The ‘Bold and the Beautiful’ Star Who Could Could Set a Daytime Emmy Record

When the 53rd Annual Daytime Emmys are presented on Friday, October 30th, The Bold and the Beautiful’s Heather Tom will be competing against four other accomplished performers for the lead actress trophy, per the official Emmys website. If she wins, she will find herself setting a Daytime Emmy record for the most Daytime Emmy wins by a female performer.

According to IMDb, Tom has won six Daytime Emmy Awards in three different categories. In 1993, Tom took home her first Emmy trophy in the Outstanding Younger Leading Actress category for her role as Victoria Newman on The Young and the Restless. Six years later, she won again in the same category for the same role.

It was another dozen years until Tom took home her third Emmy in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category for playing Katie Logan on The Bold and the Beautiful. She made it a trifecta when she won the next two years, as well, this time for Outstanding Lead Actress.

In 2020, Tom tied the record for most female Daytime Emmy wins with One Life to Live’s Erika Slezak, who won all six of her Emmys in the Lead Actress category for playing Victoria Lord on the now-defunct ABC soap, per IMDb. Ironically, Tom appeared on OLTL as Kelly Cramer from 2003 to 2006, where she earned two Emmy nods in the Outstanding Supporting Actress category. Slezak made her last soap appearace as General Hospital’s Ronnie Bard in 2025.

This year, Tom has the chance to break Slezak’s record with her whopping 20th Daytime Emmy nomination. This year, Tom submitted scenes of Katie making her way back to ex-husband, Bill, and dealing with the fallout from Luna Nozawa announcing she was pregnant with Katie’s son’s child.

“I love that Katie and Bill have been really trying to find their way back to each other for, honestly, five years,” Tom said in an interview with Michael Fairman TV. “However, they come together, especially over their son, Will, and they have a very real relationship-type of discussion. It wasn’t an argument. It was more about, ‘I know you. Don’t do this.’ That’s always kind of been Katie’s relationship with Bill. The scenes with Don Diamont were about Katie and Bill’s history, the pain, and the drama, and especially about their son, seemed very familiar to me.”