Triple Crown of Acting

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. As of today, only twenty-four people have achieved the triple crown of acting (15 women, 9 men). Helen Hayes's 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 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 7 awards.

In the British entertainment industry, the same name has been given to the equivalent accolades in that industry; the BAFTA Film Awards, the BAFTA Television Awards and the Laurence Olivier Awards, or simply the Olivier awards. Eight actors have completed the British Triple crown. Of those, only Helen 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 (the year of the award ceremony)
  • 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 1940 1953 1953 3 [1]
Ingrid Bergman 1960 15 1945 1960 1947 6
Shirley Booth 1962 13 1953 1962 1949 6
Melvyn Douglas 1968 8 1964 1968 1960 4
Paul Scofield 1969 7 1967 1969 1962 3
Jack Albertson 1975 10 1969 1975 1965 4
Rita Moreno 1977 15 1962 1977 1975 4
Maureen Stapleton 1982 31 1982 1968 1951 4
Jason Robards 1988 29 1977 1988 1959 4
Jessica Tandy 1990 42 1990 1988 1948 5 [2]
Jeremy Irons 1997 13 1991 1997 1984 4 [3]
Anne Bancroft 1999 41 1963 1999 1958 4 [4]
Vanessa Redgrave 2003 25 1978 1981 2003 4 [5]
Maggie Smith 2003 33 1970 2003 1990 7 [6]
Al Pacino 2004 35 1993 2004 1969 5 [7]
Geoffrey Rush 2009 12 1997 2005 2009 3 [8]
Ellen Burstyn 2009 34 1975 2009 1975 4 [9]
Christopher Plummer 2012 38 2012 1977 1974 5 [10]
Helen Mirren 2015 19 2007 1996 2015 6 [11]
Frances McDormand 2015 18 1997 2015 2011 4 [12]
Jessica Lange 2016 33 1983 2009 2016 6 [13]
Viola Davis 2017 16 2017 2015 2001 4 [14]
Glenda Jackson 2018 47 1971 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Maureen Stapleton

American actress Maureen Stapleton (1925–2006) completed the triple crown in 1982. 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.

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.

Jessica Tandy

British-American actress Jessica Tandy (1909–1994) completed the triple crown in 1990. 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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Christopher Plummer

Canadian actor Christopher Plummer (1929–2021) completed the triple crown in 2012. 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 has won five awards.

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.

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 5-time Oscar (2), 2-time Tony (1), and 2-time (1) acting Emmy nominee, for a total of 9 TC nominations. McDormand has won four awards.

Note: McDormand has an additional Emmy win in a non-acting category, winning the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Limited Series for executive producing Olive Kitteridge.

Jessica Lange

American actress Jessica Lange (born 1949) completed the triple crown in 2016. She is an 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.

Viola Davis

American actress Viola Davis (born 1965) completed the triple crown in 2017.[16] She is the first African American actor to win the triple crown, and is also currently the youngest.[16][17] She is a 3-time Oscar (1), 3-time Tony (2), and 5-time Emmy (1) nominee, for a total of 11 TC nominations. Davis has won four awards.

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.

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. Lila Kedrova†
  15. Kevin Kline◊
  16. Vivien Leigh†
  17. Fredric March†,◊
  18. Walter Matthau†,◊
  19. Liza Minnelli1
  20. Patricia Neal†,◊
  21. Eddie Redmayne
  22. Anne Revere†
  23. Mercedes Ruehl
  24. Mark Rylance◊
  25. Kevin Spacey◊
  26. Jo Van Fleet†
  27. Denzel Washington2
  28. 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. Colleen Dewhurst†
  20. Stephen Dillane4
  21. Nanette Fabray†
  22. Laurence Fishburne◊
  23. Ed Flanders†
  24. Helen Gallagher3
  25. Vincent Gardenia†,◊
  26. George Grizzard†
  27. Julie Harris†,◊
  28. Neil Patrick Harris
  29. Rosemary Harris◊
  30. George Hearn
  31. Edward Herrmann†
  32. Judd Hirsch◊
  33. Hal Holbrook †, ◊
  34. Ken Howard†
  35. Derek Jacobi
  36. Cherry Jones
  37. James Earl Jones◊ NCA
  38. Madeline Kahn3 †,◊
  39. Shirley Knight†,◊
  40. Richard Kiley†
  41. Swoosie Kurtz
  42. Nathan Lane3
  43. Anthony LaPaglia
  44. John Larroquette
  45. Ron Leibman†
  46. Margaret Leighton†,◊
  47. Judith Light3
  48. John Lithgow◊
  49. Roddy McDowall†
  50. Laurie Metcalf◊
  51. Bette Midler◊
  52. Debra Monk
  53. Michael Moriarty
  54. Robert Morse
  55. Donna Murphy3
  56. Bebe Neuwirth
  57. Cynthia Nixon
  58. Mary-Louise Parker
  59. Mandy Patinkin
  60. David Hyde Pierce
  61. Amanda Plummer
  62. Billy Porter
  63. Diana Rigg†
  64. Tony Shalhoub
  65. Phil Silvers†
  66. Lily Tomlin◊
  67. Cicely Tyson †, ◊, NCA
  68. Dick Van Dyke
  69. Courtney B. Vance
  70. Jeffrey Wright

Missing a Tony Award
  1. Julie Andrews◊
  2. Patricia Arquette
  3. Kathy Bates◊
  4. Halle Berry
  5. Marlon Brando†
  6. Bette Davis†
  7. Laura Dern
  8. Michael Douglas
  9. Patty Duke†
  10. Faye Dunaway
  11. Robert Duvall
  12. Sally Field◊
  13. Jane Fonda◊
  14. John Gielgud5 †,◊,NCA
  15. Ruth Gordon†,◊
  16. Louis Gossett Jr.
  17. Lee Grant
  18. Anne Hathaway
  19. Katharine Hepburn†,◊
  20. Dustin Hoffman◊
  21. William Holden†
  22. Anthony Hopkins
  23. Helen Hunt
  24. Holly Hunter
  25. Allison Janney◊
  26. Nicole Kidman
  27. Regina King
  28. Cloris Leachman†
  29. Tommy Lee Jones
  30. Melissa Leo
  31. Jack Lemmon†,◊
  32. Karl Malden†
  33. Rami Malek
  34. Julianne Moore
  35. Paul Newman†,◊
  36. Laurence Olivier†,◊
  37. Geraldine Page†,◊
  38. Gwyneth Paltrow
  39. Cliff Robertson†
  40. Eva Marie Saint
  41. George C. Scott†,◊
  42. Simone Signoret†
  43. Meryl Streep◊
  44. Emma Thompson
  45. Claire Trevor†
  46. Peter Ustinov†,◊
  47. Dianne Wiest
  48. Kate Winslet
  49. Shelley Winters†
  50. Joanne Woodward
  51. 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. Stockard Channing
  20. Glenn Close
  21. Toni Collette
  22. Gladys Cooper†,N/A
  23. Tom CourtenayN/A
  24. Bryan Cranston
  25. Hume Cronyn†
  26. Judi Dench
  27. Adam DriverN/A
  28. Charles Durning†
  29. José Ferrer†
  30. Sally Field
  31. Ralph Fiennes
  32. Albert Finney†
  33. Laurence Fishburne
  34. Henry Fonda†
  35. Jane Fonda
  36. Vincent Gardenia†
  37. Marcia Gay Harden
  38. John Gielgud†
  39. Jack Gilford†
  40. Jackie Gleason†
  41. Ruth Gordon
  42. Joel Grey
  43. Alec Guinness†
  44. Tom Hanks
  45. Ed HarrisN/A
  46. Julie Harris†
  47. Rosemary Harris
  48. Katharine Hepburn†
  49. Judd Hirsch
  50. Dustin Hoffman
  51. Hal Holbrook†
  52. Ian Holm†
  53. Tom Hulce
  54. William Hurt
  55. Hugh Jackman
  56. Allison Janney
  57. James Earl Jones
  58. Madeline Kahn†
  59. Anna KendrickN/A
  60. Kevin Kline
  61. Shirley Knight†
  62. Angela Lansbury
  63. Eva Le Gallienne†
  64. Margaret Leighton†
  65. Jack Lemmon†
  66. Laura Linney
  67. John Lithgow
  68. Walter Matthau†
  69. Ian McKellen
  70. Janet McTeer
  71. Laurie Metcalf
  72. Bette Midler
  73. Mildred Natwick†
  74. Patricia Neal†
  75. Kate NelliganN/A
  76. Paul Newman†
  77. Laurence Olivier†
  78. Geraldine Page†
  79. Joan Plowright
  80. Sidney Poitier
  81. Jonathan Pryce
  82. Anthony Quayle
  83. Anthony Quinn†
  84. Stephen ReaN/A
  85. Lynn Redgrave†,N/A
  86. Debbie Reynolds†,N/A
  87. Beah Richards†
  88. Thelma Ritter†
  89. Mickey Rooney†
  90. Mark Ruffalo
  91. Mark Rylance
  92. George C. Scott†
  93. Gary Sinise
  94. Kevin Spacey
  95. Meryl Streep
  96. Lily Tomlin
  97. Rip Torn†
  98. Cicely Tyson†
  99. Stanley Tucci
  100. Peter Ustinov†
  101. Christopher Walken
  102. Sam WaterstonN/A
  103. Sigourney WeaverN/A
  104. James Whitmore†
  105. Michelle Williams
  106. Mare Winningham

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

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