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The Triple Crown of Acting is a term used in the American entertainment industry to describe actors who have won a competitive Academy Award, Emmy Award and Tony Award in the acting categories. 23 people have achieved the triple crown of acting (14 women, 9 men). Helen Hayes' Emmy Award win on February 5, 1953, made her the first person to achieve the triple crown. Thomas Mitchell became the first man to achieve the triple crown with his Tony Award win later the same year on March 29, 1953. Hayes and Rita Moreno are the only triple crown winners who have also won a Grammy Award to complete the EGOT.

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Triple Crown winners

  • The year in the Oscar, Emmy and Tony columns indicates the year the actor first won the award.
  • The year in the Oscar, Emmy and Tony columns indicates the year of the award ceremony.
  • The total wins column indicates the total number of competitive Oscar, Emmy and Tony wins achieved.

    • Summary

    Year given is year of ceremony.

    Helen Hayes

    American actress Helen Hayes (1900–1993) was the first performer to achieve the triple crown of acting. She completed the triple crown in 1953. Hayes was a 9-time Emmy (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 2-time Oscar (2) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. She won two Oscars, two Tonys and an Emmy for a total of five competitive triple crown awards. She also won a Grammy in 1977 for Best Spoken Word Recording to complete the EGOT, for competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony wins. Hayes is one of only two Triple Crown winners (along with Rita Moreno) to have achieved the EGOT.

  • 1932 Academy Award for Best Actress – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
  • 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Happy Birthday
  • 1953 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars: Not a Chance
  • 1958 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Time Remembered
  • 1971 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Airport

    • Thomas Mitchell

    American actor Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962) completed the triple crown in 1953, two months after Helen Hayes. He was a 3-time Emmy (1), 2-time Oscar (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of six TC nominations. Mitchell won three awards.

  • 1940 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Stagecoach
  • 1952 Primetime Emmy Award
  • 1953 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical – Hazel Flagg

    • Ingrid Bergman

    Swedish actress Ingrid Bergman (1915–1982) completed the triple crown in 1960. She was a 7-time Oscar (3), 3-time Emmy (2) , and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 11 TC nominations. Bergman is the only Triple Crown winner to win three Oscars.

  • 1944 Academy Award for Best Actress – Gaslight
  • 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Joan of Lorraine
  • 1957 Academy Award for Best Actress – Anastasia
  • 1960 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress – Startime (episode: "The Turn of the Screw")
  • 1975 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Murder on the Orient Express
  • 1982 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – A Woman Called Golda

    • Shirley Booth

    American actress Shirley Booth (1898–1992) completed the triple crown in 1962. She was a 4-time Emmy (2), 3-time Tony (3), and 1-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of eight TC nominations. Booth won six awards.

  • 1949 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Goodbye, My Fancy
  • 1950 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Come Back, Little Sheba
  • 1953 Academy Award for Best Actress – Come Back, Little Sheba
  • 1953 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – The Time of the Cuckoo
  • 1962 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Hazel
  • 1963 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Comedy Series – Hazel

    • Melvyn Douglas

    American actor Melvyn Douglas (1901–1981) completed the triple crown in 1968. He was a 3-time Oscar (2), 2-time Emmy (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of six TC nominations. Douglas won four awards.

  • 1960 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – The Best Man
  • 1964 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Hud
  • 1968 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – CBS Playhouse
  • 1980 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Being There

    • Paul Scofield

    British actor Paul Scofield (1922–2008) completed the triple crown in 1969. He was a 2-time Oscar (1), 1-time Emmy (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of four TC nominations. Scofield won three awards.

  • 1962 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – A Man for All Seasons
  • 1967 Academy Award for Best Actor – A Man for All Seasons
  • 1969 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – Male of the Species

    • Jack Albertson

    American actor Jack Albertson (1907–1981) completed the triple crown in 1975. He was a 5-time Emmy (2), 2-time Tony (1), and 1-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of eight TC nominations. Albertson won four awards.

  • 1965 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play – The Subject Was Roses
  • 1969 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – The Subject Was Roses
  • 1975 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actor in Variety or Music – Cher
  • 1976 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Comedy Series – Chico and the Man

    • Rita Moreno

    Puerto Rican actress Rita Moreno (born 1931) completed the triple crown in 1977. She is a 6-time Emmy (2), 1-time Oscar (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of eight TC nominations. Her Emmy win saw her complete the EGOT for competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony wins. Her Grammy win was in 1972 in the Best Recording for Children category. Moreno is the first Latino actor win the Triple Crown and is one of only two Triple Crown winners who have also achieved the EGOT.

  • 1962 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – West Side Story
  • 1975 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – The Ritz
  • 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music – The Muppet Show
  • 1978 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series – The Rockford Files

    • Maureen Stapleton

    American actress Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006) completed the triple crown in 1981. She was a 7-time Emmy (1), 5-time Tony (2), and 4-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of 16 nominations. Stapleton won four awards.

  • 1951 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – The Rose Tattoo
  • 1967 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Among the Paths to Eden
  • 1971 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – The Gingerbread Lady
  • 1982 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Reds

    • Jason Robards

    American actor Jason Robards (1922–2000) completed the triple crown in 1988. He was an 8-time Tony (1), 5-time Emmy (1), and 3-time Oscar (2) nominee, for a total of 16 TC nominations. Robards won four awards.

  • 1959 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – The Disenchanted
  • 1977 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – All the President's Men
  • 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Julia
  • 1988 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – Inherit the Wind

    • Jessica Tandy

    British-American actress Jessica Tandy (1909–1994) completed the triple crown in 1989. She was a 5-time Tony (3), 3-time Emmy (1), and 2-time Oscar nominee (1), for a total of 10 TC nominations. Tandy won five awards.

  • 1947 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – A Streetcar Named Desire
  • 1978 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – The Gin Game
  • 1983 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Foxfire
  • 1988 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Foxfire
  • 1990 Academy Award for Best Actress – Driving Miss Daisy

    • Jeremy Irons

    British actor Jeremy Irons (born 1948) completed the triple crown in 1997. He is a 4-time acting Emmy (2), 1-time Oscar (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of six TC nominations. Irons has won four TC awards.

  • 1984 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – The Real Thing
  • 1991 Academy Award for Best Actor – Reversal of Fortune
  • 1997 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance – The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century
  • 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – Elizabeth I

    • Note: Irons has an additional Emmy win in a non-acting category, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Narrator in 2014 for Game of Lions.

    Anne Bancroft

    American actress Anne Bancroft (1931–2005) completed the triple crown in 1999. She was a 6-time (1) acting Emmy, 5-time Oscar (1), and 3-time Tony (2) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. Bancroft won four triple crown awards.

  • 1958 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – Two for the Seesaw
  • 1960 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – The Miracle Worker
  • 1963 Academy Award for Best Actress – The Miracle Worker
  • 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Deep in My Heart

    • Note: Bancroft won an additional Emmy in 1970 in a non-acting category.

    Vanessa Redgrave

    British actress Vanessa Redgrave (born 1937) completed the triple crown in 2003. She is a 6-time Oscar (1), 6-time Emmy (2), and 3-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 15 TC nominations. Redgrave has won four awards.

  • 1978 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Julia
  • 1981 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Playing for Time
  • 2000 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – If These Walls Could Talk 2
  • 2003 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Long Day's Journey into Night

    • Maggie Smith

    British actress Maggie Smith (born 1934) completed the triple crown in 2003. She is a 9-time Emmy (4), 6-time Oscar (2), and 3-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 18 TC nominations. Smith is the first Triple Crown winner to win seven awards.

  • 1970 Academy Award for Best Actress – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • 1979 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – California Suite
  • 1990 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Lettice and Lovage
  • 2003 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – My House in Umbria
  • 2011 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Downton Abbey
  • 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Downton Abbey
  • 2016 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series – Downton Abbey

    • Al Pacino

    American actor Al Pacino (born 1940) completed the triple crown in 2004. He is an 8-time Oscar (1), 3-time Emmy (2), and 3-time Tony (2) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. Pacino has won five awards.

  • 1969 Tony Award for Best Featured Actor in a Play – Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?
  • 1977 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel
  • 1993 Academy Award for Best Actor – Scent of a Woman
  • 2004 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – Angels in America
  • 2010 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – You Don't Know Jack

    • Geoffrey Rush

    Australian actor Geoffrey Rush (born 1951) completed the triple crown in 2009. He is a 4-time Oscar (1), 1-time Emmy (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of six TC nominations. Rush has won three awards.

  • 1997 Academy Award for Best Actor – Shine
  • 2005 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – The Life and Death of Peter Sellers
  • 2009 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – Exit the King

    • Ellen Burstyn

    American actress Ellen Burstyn (born 1932) completed the triple crown in 2009. She is an 8-time Emmy (2), 6-time Oscar (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 15 TC nominations. Burstyn has won four awards.

  • 1975 Academy Award for Best Actress – Alice Doesn't Live Here Anymore
  • 1975 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Same Time, Next Year
  • 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series – Law and Order: Special Victims Unit
  • 2013 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Political Animals

    • Christopher Plummer

    Canadian actor Christopher Plummer (born 1929) completed the triple crown in 2012. He is a 7-time Emmy (2), 7-time Tony (2), and 2-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of 16 TC nominations. Plummer has won five awards.

  • 1974 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Musical – Cyrano
  • 1977 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – The Moneychangers
  • 1994 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Voice-Over Performance – Madeline
  • 1997 Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – Barrymore
  • 2012 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Beginners

    • Helen Mirren

    British actress Helen Mirren (born 1945) completed the triple crown in 2015. She is an 11-time Emmy (4), 4-time Oscar (1), and 3-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 18 TC nominations. Mirren has won six awards.

  • 1996 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Prime Suspect: The Scent of Darkness
  • 1999 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – The Passion of Ayn Rand
  • 2006 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Elizabeth I
  • 2007 Academy Award for Best Actress – The Queen
  • 2007 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Prime Suspect: The Final Act
  • 2015 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – The Audience

    • Frances McDormand

    American actress Frances McDormand (born 1957) completed the triple crown in 2015. She is a 4-time Oscar (1), 2-time Tony (1), and 2-time (1) acting Emmy nominee, for a total of eight TC nominations. McDormand has won three awards.

  • 1997 Academy Award for Best Actress – Fargo
  • 2011 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Good People
  • 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Olive Kitteridge

    • Note: McDormand has an additional Emmy win in a non-acting category.

    Jessica Lange

    American actress Jessica Lange (born 1949) completed the triple crown in 2016. She is a 7-time Emmy (3), 6-time Oscar (2), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. Lange has won six awards.

  • 1983 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Tootsie
  • 1995 Academy Award for Best Actress – Blue Sky
  • 2009 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – Grey Gardens
  • 2012 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – American Horror Story
  • 2014 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie – American Horror Story: Coven
  • 2016 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Long Day's Journey into Night

    • Viola Davis

    American actress Viola Davis (born 1965) completed the triple crown in 2017. She is the first black actor to win the triple crown. She is a 3-time Oscar (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 2-time Emmy (1) nominee, for a total of 8 TC nominations.

  • 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play – King Hedley II
  • 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Fences
  • 2015 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series – How to Get Away with Murder
  • 2017 Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Fences

    • References

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