Jim Parsons won four Primetime Emmy Awards for playing Sheldon Cooper.
Parsons received the award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series for The Big Bang Theory in 2010, 2011, 2013, and 2014. His wins recognized different episodes of the sitcom, including “The Agreement Dissection” and “The Habitation Configuration.” He was also nominated for the role in 2009 and 2012, so his total number of nominations for Sheldon was higher than his number of wins.
The figure is sometimes confused with Parsons’s broader awards record. He earned other Emmy nominations for projects such as The Normal Heart, Special, and Hollywood, but those were separate performances and do not add to his Sheldon total. His Golden Globe wins for Sheldon are also separate from the Emmys.
Parsons played Sheldon from 2007 through 2019, across all 12 seasons of the series. The four Emmy victories made him one of the show’s most decorated performers and helped establish Sheldon as his signature television role.