Actors Who Won Both a Tony and an Oscar: Complete Verified List

Actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar occupy one of American show business’s most exclusive clubs — performers who conquered Broadway’s American Theatre Wing prizes and the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences in competitive acting categories. The overlap includes legends from Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno to Al Pacino, Viola Davis, and Christopher Plummer, plus theatre-first stars like Joel Grey and José Ferrer who never completed the Triple Crown of Acting. This guide names every verified member, explains EGOT context, breaks wins down by category, and cross-links Tony and Oscar Pillar G sibling hubs — without red-carpet outfit breakdowns (Pillar F owns fashion analysis). For production sweep records, see our most Tony Awards won by a show leaderboard. Category definitions appear in our Tony Awards categories explained guide. For the full quadruple-crown roster, see our EGOT winners complete list.

We cite TonyAwards.com, Oscars.org, and established theatre-history archives. Competitive wins count; honorary citations are noted separately. Most names below also appear among the 24 Triple Crown of Acting winners — performers who added a primetime Emmy to their Tony and Oscar hauls. A smaller group holds the Tony-Oscar double without that television leg. Understanding both rosters clarifies why trivia answers differ depending on whether fans ask about stage-and-screen doubles or full Triple Crown membership.

Actors Who Won Both a Tony and an Oscar: The Quick Answer

Approximately 29 performers have won at least one competitive Tony Award and one competitive Oscar in acting categories, per TonyAwards.com and Academy records cross-checked through 2026. The core group comprises the 24 Triple Crown of Acting winners — every Triple Crown member automatically qualifies because the Triple Crown requires Oscar, Emmy, and Tony acting prizes. Five additional names hold Tony-Oscar doubles without a competitive primetime Emmy: José Ferrer, Yul Brynner, Rex Harrison, Joel Grey, and Lila Kedrova.

Three actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar — Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, and Viola Davis — also completed the EGOT by adding competitive Grammy wins. Davis became the first Black performer to achieve the Triple Crown in 2017 and later added her Grammy for audiobook narration. Moreno remains the first Hispanic Triple Crown winner. Hayes anchored both clubs decades earlier.

Full Verified List: Triple Crown Members (24)

Every performer below won competitive acting Oscars, Tonys, and Emmys — and therefore belongs on any actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar ranking:

• Helen Hayes — Oscar: The Sin of Madelon Claudet (1932), Airport (1970); Tony: Happy Birthday (1947)
• Thomas Mitchell — Oscar: Stagecoach (1940); Tony: Hazel Flagg (1953)
• Ingrid Bergman — Oscars: Gaslight (1945), Anastasia (1957), Murder on the Orient Express (1975); Tony: Joan of Lorraine (1947)
• Shirley Booth — Oscar: Come Back, Little Sheba (1953); Tonys: Goodbye, My Fancy (1949), Come Back, Little Sheba (1950)
• Melvyn Douglas — Oscars: Hud (1964), Being There (1979); Tony: The Best Man (1960)
• Paul Scofield — Oscar: A Man for All Seasons (1967); Tony: A Man for All Seasons (1962)
• Jack Albertson — Oscar: The Subject Was Roses (1968); Tony: The Subject Was Roses (1965)
• Rita Moreno — Oscar: West Side Story (1962); Tony: The Ritz (1975)
• Maureen Stapleton — Oscar: Reds (1982); Tonys: The Rose Tattoo (1951), The Gingerbread Lady (1971)
• Jason Robards — Oscars: All the President’s Men (1977), Julia (1978); Tony: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (1959)
• Jessica Tandy — Oscar: Driving Miss Daisy (1990); Tony: A Streetcar Named Desire (1948)
• Jeremy Irons — Oscar: Reversal of Fortune (1991); Tony: The Real Thing (1984)
• Anne Bancroft — Oscar: The Miracle Worker (1963); Tony: The Miracle Worker (1960), Two for the Seesaw (1958)
• Vanessa Redgrave — Oscar: Julia (1978); Tonys: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2003), Driving Miss Daisy (2011)
• Maggie Smith — Oscar: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie (1969); Tony: Lettice and Lovage (1990)
• Al Pacino — Oscar: Scent of a Woman (1993); Tonys: Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969), The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977)
• Geoffrey Rush — Oscar: Shine (1997); Tony: Exit the King (2009)
• Ellen Burstyn — Oscar: Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore (1975); Tony: Same Time, Next Year (1975)
• Christopher Plummer — Oscar: Beginners (2012); Tonys: Cyrano (1974), Barrymore (1997)
• Helen Mirren — Oscar: The Queen (2007); Tony: The Audience (2015)
• Frances McDormand — Oscars: Fargo (1997), Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri (2018), Nomadland (2021); Tony: Good People (2011)
• Jessica Lange — Oscars: Tootsie (1983), Blue Sky (1995); Tony: Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2016)
• Viola Davis — Oscar: Fences (2017); Tonys: King Hedley II (2001), Fences (2010)
• Glenda Jackson — Oscars: Women in Love (1971), A Touch of Class (1974); Tony: Three Tall Women (2018)

Tony-Oscar Doubles Without the Triple Crown (5 More)

These five performers belong on every actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar list but never won a competitive primetime Emmy in an acting category:

• José Ferrer — Tony: Cyrano de Bergerac (1947); Oscar: Cyrano de Bergerac (1950). First Hispanic actor to win a competitive Oscar.
• Yul Brynner — Tony: The King and I (1952, featured); Oscar: The King and I (1956, lead). Won Tony in a supporting category and Oscar in a leading category for the same role.
• Rex Harrison — Tony: My Fair Lady (1957); Oscar: My Fair Lady (1964)
• Joel Grey — Tony: Cabaret (1967); Oscar: Cabaret (1972). One of eleven performers to win Tony and Oscar for portraying the same character.
• Lila Kedrova — Oscar: Zorba the Greek (1964); Tony: Zorba (1984). Waited twenty years between wins — the longest gap among same-role Tony-Oscar pairs.

Same Role, Both Trophies: The Elite Eleven

Eleven performers won Tony and Oscar honors for portraying the same character — the rarest subset within actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar:

José Ferrer (Cyrano), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba), Yul Brynner (King of Siam), Anne Bancroft (Annie Sullivan), Rex Harrison (Henry Higgins), Paul Scofield (Thomas More), Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses), Joel Grey (Emcee), Lila Kedrova (Madame Hortense), Helen Mirren (Queen Elizabeth II — different storylines in The Queen vs. The Audience), and Viola Davis (Rose Maxson in Fences — Tony for lead, Oscar for supporting).

Category Breakdown: Leading vs. Supporting, Play vs. Musical

Actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar rarely sweep identical category types on both sides. Yul Brynner and Viola Davis each won a Tony in one tier and an Oscar in another for the same property. Al Pacino collected two Tonys — one featured (Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?) and one lead (Pavlo Hummel) — before his Oscar for Scent of a Woman.

Play categories dominate the Tony half: Paul Scofield, Anne Bancroft, and Jessica Lange all won Tony lead-actress or lead-actor play prizes paired with Oscar film wins. Musical categories appear through Joel Grey, Shirley Booth, and the Billy Elliot-era Broadway crossovers. For envelope definitions behind each trophy type, see our Tony sibling guides and Oscar Pillar G coverage. Compare Academy benchmarks in our best actor Oscar winners list by year.

EGOT Context: Three Tony-Oscar Icons Who Went Further

Winning Tony and Oscar trophies opens the door to EGOT status — Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony across a career. Helen Hayes added a Grammy for spoken-word recording in 1977. Rita Moreno completed her EGOT with a children’s Grammy for The Electric Company in 1973. Viola Davis joined them after her 2023 Grammy for audiobook narration — making her the only one of the three still adding hardware in the 2020s.

Other actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar — including Al Pacino, Christopher Plummer, and Jessica Lange — remain one or two legs short of EGOT. Pacino lacks a competitive Grammy; Plummer never won an Emmy. These near-misses populate a different trivia board from the 22-name competitive EGOT list but still demonstrate cross-medium dominance.

Triple Crown Overlap and What It Means

The Triple Crown of Acting — Oscar plus Emmy plus Tony in competitive categories — is a subset of actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar. All 24 Triple Crown members qualify for this guide; the five non-Triple-Crown names above do not. Fans searching actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar often conflate the two lists because Viola Davis, Rita Moreno, and Helen Hayes headline both.

Living Triple Crown holders as of 2026 include Moreno, Irons, Redgrave, Pacino, Rush, Burstyn, Mirren, McDormand, Lange, and Davis. Living Tony-Oscar doubles without the Triple Crown include Joel Grey. The distinction matters for awards-trivia accuracy — and for predicting who might join the club next when Broadway transfers collide with Oscar season.

Who Might Join the Club Next?

Near-miss performers with two of three Triple Crown legs often surface in Oscar-Tony speculation. Stars with competitive Tonys but no Oscar — or Oscar winners awaiting a Broadway transfer win — populate every awards-season preview. Broadway-to-film adaptations of stage hits remain the most reliable pipeline for new actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar entries, following the paths of Grey, Scofield, and Davis through Cabaret, A Man for All Seasons, and Fences.

Track June Tony envelopes and spring Oscar results across our Pillar G sibling hubs. Fresh 2026 Broadway winners may add nominees — but joining the historical actors who won both a Tony and an Oscar board requires competitive wins in both bodies, not nominations alone.

Explore More Awards Coverage

• Live Broadway tracking via our Tony Awards 2026 winners list hub.
• Production records in our most Tony Awards won by a show leaderboard.
• Category definitions in our Tony Awards categories explained guide.
• Age benchmarks in our youngest Tony Award winners ever and youngest Oscar winners of all time guides.
• Quadruple-crown context in our EGOT winners complete list.
• Academy history in our best actor Oscar winners list by year.
• Browse our Awards archive for ceremony history, records, and ranked guides.