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{{Short description|British police procedural TV series (1991–2006)}}
{{for-multi|the American series|Prime Suspect (American TV series)|the police term|Prime suspect|other uses|Prime suspect (disambiguation)}}
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{{Infobox television
| image         = Prime Suspect titles.png
| country       = United Kingdom
| language      = English
| genre         = [[Police procedural]]
| caption       = ''Prime Suspect'' title
| runtime       = 100 minutes
| creator       = [[Lynda La Plante]]
| starring      = [[Helen Mirren]]
| composer      = [[Stephen Warbeck]]
| channel       = [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]]
| first_aired   = {{Start date|1991|04|07|df=y}}
| last_aired    = {{End date|2006|10|22|df=y}}
| num_series    = 7
| num_episodes  = 15
| list_episodes = List of Prime Suspect (British TV series) episodes
| company       = [[ITV Granada|Granada Television]]/[[ITV Studios|ITV Productions]]<br>[[WGBH-TV|WGBH Boston]]/[[Masterpiece Mystery]]
}}

'''''Prime Suspect''''' is a British [[police procedural]] television series devised by [[Lynda La Plante]]. Broadcast on [[ITV (TV network)|ITV]] between 1991 and 2006, it stars [[Helen Mirren]] as Jane Tennison, one of the first female [[Detective Chief Inspector]]s in [[Greater London]]'s [[Metropolitan Police Service]], who rises to the rank of [[Detective Superintendent]] while confronting institutionalised sexism within the police force.

For her role as Tennison, Mirren received [[British Academy Television Award for Best Actress#1990s|three consecutive British Academy Television Awards for Best Actress]] between 1992 and 1994, two [[Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited or Anthology Series or Movie]], and in 2006, the British public ranked her number 29 in ITV's poll of [[TV's 50 Greatest Stars]].<ref name="ITV poll">{{cite news|url=http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/entertainment/5142726.stm|title=ITV to salute '50 greatest stars'|date=3 July 2006|publisher=[[BBC News]]|access-date=14 March 2025}}</ref>