Eden Riegel and Tamara Braun were on All My Children for about six months (Eden was only on for four from October to February and Tamara stayed around until Eden came back in April) and
put out some fantastic performances within a ground-breaking storyline in Daytime Television History and...
DID NOT submit themselves for an Emmy because they felt they were on long enough to deserve it.
Eden Riegel actually SAID this:
Neither of us submitted ourselves for prenoms. We just weren't on long enough to feel we deserved it. T did get a prenom for Days! :)
There's something really classy about some actresses who WOULD HAVE WON, but were humble enough to stay away from it because they thought they didn't deserve it. You know, instead of an actress who only appears in HALF a series' seasonal episodes and submits herself for BEST ACTRESS.