Triple Crown of Acting

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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, the highest accolades recognized in American film, television, and theatre respectively. Its term is related to terms from other competitive areas, such as the Triple Crown of horse racing.

As of 2021, 24 people—15 women and nine men—have achieved this.

Helen Hayes became the first actor to do so with her Emmy Award on February 5, 1953. Less than two months later, Thomas Mitchell became the first man to do so when he received a Tony Award on March 29, 1953. Hayes and Rita Moreno are the only Triple Crown winners in competitive acting categories who have also won a Grammy Award to complete the EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony). Dame Maggie Smith has the most Triple Crown wins, with seven.

Winners of the Triple Crown of Acting who are still alive are: Rita Moreno, Jeremy Irons, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Helen Mirren, Geoffrey Rush, Al Pacino, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange, Ellen Burstyn, Glenda Jackson, and Viola Davis.

The British entertainment industry has a Triple Crown of its own, consisting of the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards and the Laurence Olivier Awards. Eight actors have completed the British Triple Crown: Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Nigel Hawthorne, Albert Finney, Julie Walters, Helen Mirren, Mark Rylance, and Anthony Hopkins. Only Mirren has completed both the American and British Triple Crowns.

Summary[]

  • The year in the Oscar, Emmy, and Tony columns indicates the year the actor first won the award
    • For the Emmy and Tony this is the year of the award ceremony, for the Oscar the year when the film was released
  • The total wins column indicates the total number of competitive Oscar, Emmy, and Tony wins
Actor Completed Years to
complete 		Oscar Emmy Tony Total
wins 		Ref.
Helen Hayes 1953 21 1932 1953 1947 5
Thomas Mitchell 1953 13 1939 1953 1953 3 [1]
Ingrid Bergman 1960 15 1944 1960 1947 6
Shirley Booth 1962 13 1952 1962 1949 6
Melvyn Douglas 1968 8 1963 1968 1960 4
Paul Scofield 1969 7 1966 1969 1962 3
Jack Albertson 1975 10 1968 1975 1965 4
Rita Moreno 1977 15 1961 1977 1975 4
Maureen Stapleton 1981 31 1981 1968 1951 4
Jason Robards 1988 29 1976 1988 1959 4
Jessica Tandy 1989 42 1989 1988 1948 5 [2]
Jeremy Irons 1997 13 1990 1997 1984 4 [3]
Anne Bancroft 1999 41 1962 1999 1958 4 [4]
Vanessa Redgrave 2003 25 1977 1981 2003 4 [5]
Maggie Smith 2003 33 1969 2003 1990 7 [6]
Al Pacino 2004 35 1992 2004 1969 5 [7]
Geoffrey Rush 2009 12 1996 2005 2009 3 [8]
Ellen Burstyn 2009 34 1974 2009 1975 4 [9]
Christopher Plummer 2011 38 2011 1977 1974 5 [10]
Helen Mirren 2015 19 2006 1996 2015 6 [11]
Frances McDormand 2015 18 1996 2015 2011 5 [12]
Jessica Lange 2016 33 1982 2009 2016 6 [13]
Viola Davis 2016 16 2016 2015 2001 4 [14]
Glenda Jackson 2018 47 1970 1972 2018 6 [15]

Triple Crown winners[]

Years given are the years of the respective ceremonies. Performers are listed in order of completing the Triple Crown.

Helen Hayes[]

American actress Helen Hayes (1900–1993) was the first performer to achieve the triple crown of acting, doing so 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 Best Actress
  • 1958: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Time Remembered
  • 1970: 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.

  • 1939: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Stagecoach
  • 1953: Primetime Emmy Award for Best Actor
  • 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 won six awards.

  • 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 - The Turn of the Screw
  • 1974: 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
  • 1952: 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
  • 1963: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Hud
  • 1968: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or a Movie – CBS Playhouse - Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night
  • 1979: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – Being There

Paul Scofield[]

English 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. His seven-year completion is the fastest of any triple crown recipient.

  • 1962: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – A Man for All Seasons
  • 1966: 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
  • 1968: 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 Hispanic actor to win the Triple Crown and is one of only two Triple Crown winners who have also achieved the EGOT.

  • 1961: 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 Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Comedy or 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), 6-time Tony (2), and 4-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of 17 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
  • 1981: 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
  • 1976: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor – All the President's Men
  • 1977: 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
  • 1989: 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 3-time acting Emmy (2), 1-time Oscar (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of five TC nominations. Irons has won four TC awards.

  • 1984: Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play – The Real Thing
  • 1990: 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
  • 1962: 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 the variety program category, as the star of the special Annie, the Women in the Life of a Man.

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.

  • 1977: 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 and only Triple Crown winner to win seven awards.

  • 1969: Academy Award for Best Actress – The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie
  • 1978: 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 a 9-time Oscar (1), 3-time Emmy (2), and 3-time Tony (2) nominee, for a total of 15 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
  • 1992: 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
  • 2011: 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), 2-time Emmy (1), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of seven TC nominations. Rush has won three awards.

  • 1996: 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.

  • 1974: 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 (1929–2021) completed the triple crown in 2011. He was a 7-time Emmy (2), 7-time Tony (2), and 3-time Oscar (1) nominee, for a total of 17 TC nominations. Plummer 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
  • 2011: 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
  • 2006: 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

Helen Mirren is the only person to have also won the British Triple Crown of Acting by being awarded the three equivalent honours in the British entertainment industry, the BAFTA Film Award, the BAFTA Television Award and the Laurence Olivier Award. It took her twenty-one years to complete the British Triple Crown, beginning with a BAFTA Television Award for Best Actress for Prime Suspect in 1992 and finishing in 2013 with the Laurence Olivier Award for Best Actress in a Play for The Audience. In the meantime, she also won two more Television BAFTAs for Prime Suspect in 1993 and 1994 and the Film BAFTA for Best Leading Actress for The Queen in 2007. She was the seventh of eight people to have won the British Triple Crown of Acting, with Virginia McKenna, Peggy Ashcroft, Judi Dench, Nigel Hawthorne, Albert Finney and Julie Walters all preceding her to the honour and Mark Rylance succeeding her.

Frances McDormand[]

American actress Frances McDormand (born 1957) completed the triple crown in 2015. She is a 6-time acting Oscar (3), 2-time Tony (1), and 2-time acting Emmy (1) nominee, for a total of 10 TC nominations. McDormand has won five awards.

  • 1996: 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
  • 2017: Academy Award for Best Actress – Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri
  • 2020: Academy Award for Best Actress – Nomadland

Note: McDormand has two additional Emmy and Oscar wins in non-acting categories, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for executive producing Olive Kitteridge, and the Academy Award for Best Picture for producing Nomadland.

Jessica Lange[]

American actress Jessica Lange (born 1949) completed the triple crown in 2016. She is a 10-time Emmy (3), 6-time Oscar (2), and 1-time Tony (1) nominee, for a total of 17 TC nominations. Lange has won six awards.

  • 1982: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Tootsie
  • 1994: 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: Murder House
  • 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 2016.[16] She is the first African American actor to win the triple crown, and is also currently the youngest.[16][17] She is a 4-time Oscar (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 5-time Emmy (1) nominee, for a total of 12 TC nominations. Davis has won four awards.

  • 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
  • 2016: Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress – Fences

Glenda Jackson[]

British actress Glenda Jackson (born 1936) completed the triple crown in 2018. She is a 5-time Tony (1), 5-time Emmy (3), and 4-time Oscar (2) nominee, for a total of 14 TC nominations. Jackson has won six awards.

  • 1970: Academy Award for Best Actress – Women in Love
  • 1972: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Single Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role – Elizabeth R
  • 1972: Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Continued Performance by an Actress in a Leading Role in a Dramatic Series – Elizabeth R
  • 1973: Academy Award for Best Actress – A Touch of Class
  • 2018: Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play – Three Tall Women
  • 2020: International Emmy Award for Best Actress – Elizabeth Is Missing

Two competitive awards[]

The following people have each won two out of the three major entertainment awards that honour acting in competitive categories.[18]

Missing an Emmy Award[]

  1. Alan Arkin◊
  2. Martin Balsam†,◊
  3. Ed Begley†,◊
  4. Yul Brynner†
  5. Judi Dench◊
  6. Sandy Dennis†
  7. José Ferrer†,◊
  8. Henry Fonda†,◊
  9. Marcia Gay Harden◊
  10. Joel Grey◊
  11. Alec Guinness†,◊
  12. Rex Harrison†
  13. Audrey Hepburn†1
  14. Judy Holliday†
  15. Lila Kedrova†
  16. Kevin Kline◊
  17. Vivien Leigh†
  18. Fredric March†,◊
  19. Walter Matthau†,◊
  20. Liza Minnelli1
  21. Paul Muni†,◊
  22. Patricia Neal†,◊
  23. Eddie Redmayne
  24. Anne Revere†
  25. Mercedes Ruehl
  26. Mark Rylance◊
  27. Kevin Spacey◊
  28. Beatrice Straight†,◊
  29. Jo Van Fleet†
  30. Denzel Washington2
  31. Catherine Zeta-Jones

Missing an Academy Award (Oscar)[]

  1. Jane Alexander◊
  2. Mary Alice
  3. Judith Anderson†,◊
  4. Bea Arthur†
  5. Christine Baranski
  6. Ellen Barkin
  7. Gertrude Berg†
  8. Philip Bosco3 †
  9. David Burns†
  10. Stockard Channing◊
  11. Kristin Chenoweth
  12. Glenn Close◊
  13. James Corden
  14. Bryan Cranston◊
  15. Hume Cronyn†,◊
  16. Billy Crudup
  17. Tyne Daly
  18. Blythe Danner
  19. André De Shields
  20. Colleen Dewhurst†
  21. Stephen Dillane4
  22. Nanette Fabray†
  23. Laurence Fishburne◊
  24. Ed Flanders†
  25. Helen Gallagher3
  26. Vincent Gardenia†,◊
  27. George Grizzard†
  28. Julie Harris†,◊
  29. Neil Patrick Harris
  30. Rosemary Harris◊
  31. George Hearn
  32. Edward Herrmann†
  33. Gregory Hines3 †
  34. Judd Hirsch◊
  35. Hal Holbrook †, ◊
  36. Ken Howard†
  37. Hugh Jackman◊
  38. Derek Jacobi
  39. Cherry Jones
  40. James Earl Jones◊ NCA
  41. Madeline Kahn3 †,◊
  42. Shirley Knight†,◊
  43. Richard Kiley†
  44. Swoosie Kurtz
  45. Nathan Lane3
  46. Anthony LaPaglia
  47. John Larroquette
  48. Ron Leibman†
  49. Margaret Leighton†,◊
  50. Judith Light3
  51. John Lithgow◊
  52. Mary Martin†
  53. Roddy McDowall†
  54. Laurie Metcalf◊
  55. Bette Midler◊
  56. Debra Monk
  57. Michael Moriarty
  58. Robert Morse
  59. Donna Murphy3
  60. Bebe Neuwirth
  61. Cynthia Nixon
  62. Mary-Louise Parker
  63. Mandy Patinkin
  64. David Hyde Pierce
  65. Amanda Plummer
  66. Billy Porter
  67. Diana Rigg†
  68. Tony Shalhoub
  69. Phil Silvers†
  70. Lily Tomlin◊
  71. Cicely Tyson †, ◊, NCA
  72. Dick Van Dyke
  73. Courtney B. Vance
  74. Eli Wallach †, NCA
  75. Jeffrey Wright

Missing a Tony Award[]

  1. Julie Andrews◊
  2. Patricia Arquette
  3. Kathy Bates◊
  4. Halle Berry
  5. Marlon Brando†
  6. Art Carney†,◊
  7. Olivia Colman
  8. Bette Davis†
  9. Laura Dern
  10. Michael Douglas
  11. Patty Duke†
  12. Faye Dunaway
  13. Robert Duvall
  14. Sally Field◊
  15. Jane Fonda◊
  16. John Gielgud5 †,◊,NCA
  17. Ruth Gordon†,◊
  18. Louis Gossett Jr.
  19. Lee Grant
  20. Anne Hathaway
  21. Katharine Hepburn†,◊
  22. Dustin Hoffman◊
  23. William Holden†
  24. Anthony Hopkins
  25. Helen Hunt
  26. Holly Hunter
  27. Allison Janney◊
  28. Nicole Kidman
  29. Regina King
  30. Cloris Leachman†
  31. Tommy Lee Jones
  32. Melissa Leo
  33. Jack Lemmon†,◊
  34. Karl Malden†
  35. Rami Malek
  36. Julianne Moore
  37. Paul Newman†,◊
  38. Lupita Nyong'o3,◊
  39. Laurence Olivier†,◊
  40. Geraldine Page†,◊
  41. Jack Palance†
  42. Gwyneth Paltrow
  43. Cliff Robertson†
  44. Eva Marie Saint
  45. George C. Scott†,◊
  46. Simone Signoret†
  47. Meryl Streep◊
  48. Emma Thompson
  49. Claire Trevor†
  50. Peter Ustinov†,◊
  51. Dianne Wiest
  52. Robin Williams†
  53. Kate Winslet
  54. Shelley Winters†
  55. Joanne Woodward
  56. Loretta Young†

Notes[]

  • † – Person is deceased.
  • ◊ – Person has been nominated at least once for a competitive acting category of the missing award, but has failed to win.
  • NCA – Person won a Non-Competitive Award in this category.

^1 Won an Emmy in a non-acting category.
^2 Nominated for an Emmy in a non-acting category.
^3 Won a Daytime Emmy.
^4 Won an International Emmy.
^5 Won a Tony in a non-acting category.

Three nominations[]

The following people have not won all three awards in competitive acting categories, but have received at least one nomination for each of them:

  1. Alan Alda
  2. Jane Alexander
  3. Joan Allen
  4. Judith Anderson†
  5. Julie Andrews
  6. Alan Arkin
  7. Lauren Bacall†
  8. Alec Baldwin
  9. Martin Balsam†
  10. Antonio BanderasN/A
  11. Barbara Barrie
  12. Kathy Bates
  13. Ed Begley†
  14. Ralph Bellamy†
  15. Annette BeningN/A
  16. Cate Blanchett
  17. Richard Burton†
  18. Diahann Carroll†
  19. Art Carney†
  20. Stockard Channing
  21. Patricia Clarkson
  22. Glenn Close
  23. James Coco†
  24. Claudette Colbert†
  25. Toni Collette
  26. Chris Cooper
  27. Gladys Cooper†,N/A
  28. Tom CourtenayN/A
  29. Bryan Cranston
  30. Hume Cronyn†
  31. Judi Dench
  32. Adam DriverN/A
  33. Charles Durning†
  34. Cynthia Erivo
  35. José Ferrer†
  36. Sally Field
  37. Ralph Fiennes
  38. Albert Finney†
  39. Laurence Fishburne
  40. Henry Fonda†
  41. Jane Fonda
  42. Morgan Freeman
  43. Vincent Gardenia†
  44. Marcia Gay Harden
  45. John Gielgud†
  46. Jack Gilford†
  47. Jackie Gleason†
  48. Ruth Gordon†
  49. Joel Grey
  50. Alec Guinness†
  51. Tom Hanks
  52. Ed HarrisN/A
  53. Julie Harris†
  54. Rosemary Harris
  55. Katharine Hepburn†
  56. Judd Hirsch
  57. Dustin Hoffman
  58. Philip Seymour Hoffman†
  59. Hal Holbrook†
  60. Ian Holm†
  61. Tom Hulce
  62. William Hurt
  63. Hugh Jackman
  64. Allison Janney
  65. James Earl Jones
  66. Madeline Kahn†
  67. Anna KendrickN/A
  68. Kevin Kline
  69. Shirley Knight†
  70. Angela Lansbury
  71. Eva Le Gallienne†
  72. Margaret Leighton†
  73. Jack Lemmon†
  74. Laura Linney
  75. John Lithgow
  76. Walter Matthau†
  77. Ian McKellen
  78. Janet McTeer
  79. Laurie Metcalf
  80. Bette Midler
  81. Paul Muni†
  82. Mildred Natwick†
  83. Patricia Neal†
  84. Kate NelliganN/A
  85. Paul Newman†
  86. Lupita Nyong'o
  87. Leslie Odom, Jr.
  88. Sophie Okonedo
  89. Laurence Olivier†
  90. Geraldine Page†
  91. Joan Plowright
  92. Sidney Poitier+
  93. Jonathan Pryce
  94. Anthony Quayle+
  95. Anthony Quinn†
  96. Stephen ReaN/A
  97. Lynn Redgrave†,N/A
  98. Debbie Reynolds†,N/A
  99. Beah Richards†
  100. Thelma Ritter†
  101. Mickey Rooney†
  102. Mark Ruffalo
  103. Mark Rylance
  104. George C. Scott†
  105. Gary Sinise
  106. Kevin Spacey
  107. Kim Stanley†
  108. Beatrice Straight†
  109. Meryl Streep
  110. Lily Tomlin
  111. Rip Torn†
  112. Cicely Tyson†
  113. Stanley Tucci
  114. Peter Ustinov†
  115. Christopher Walken
  116. Sam WaterstonN/A
  117. Sigourney WeaverN/A
  118. James Whitmore†
  119. Michelle Williams
  120. Mare Winningham

Notes[]

† – Person is deceased.
N/A – Person has not won any of the three awards (excluding non-acting awards and non-competitive awards).

See also[]

  • EGOT
  • Academy Awards
  • Emmy Awards
    • Daytime Emmy Awards
    • International Emmy Awards
    • Primetime Emmy Awards
  • Tony Awards

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