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At the fifth annual Primetime Emmy Awards in 1953, Helen Hayes won the Best Actress award, thereby becoming the first performer to ever achieve the Triple Crown of Acting. This past Oscar and Tony recipient had now won all three of the American entertainment industry’s most prestigious acting prizes, demonstrating remarkable talent across film, stage, and television. Over the years, 14 women and nine men have followed in her footsteps. Scroll through our photo gallery to learn which two dozen entertainers belong to this exclusive group.
To be included on this list, an individual must have won each award in a competitive acting category. This excludes, for example, James Earl Jones, who was lauded with an honorary Oscar in addition to competitive Emmys and Tonys. Also left out are artists like Mel Brooks, John Legend, and Elton John, all or some of whose wins from the three organizations were for non-acting achievements.
This roster’s 24 entrants are presented in order of when they completed the Triple Crown. Noted in addition to the wins that got them there are any competitive acting ones that occurred after they joined the club.
Life span: October 10, 1900 – March 17, 1993 (92 years)
Completed Triple Crown: February 5, 1953 (age 52)
OSCARS:
– 1932, Best Actress, “The Sin of Madelon Claudet”
– 1971, Best Supporting Actress, “Airport”
EMMY:
– 1953, Best Actress (no specific program)
TONYS:
– 1947, Best Actress (Play), “Happy Birthday”
– 1958, Best Actress (Play), “Time Remembered”
Life span: July 11, 1892 – December 17, 1962 (70 years)
Completed Triple Crown: March 29, 1953 (age 60)
OSCAR:
– 1940, Best Supporting Actor, “Stagecoach”
EMMY:
– 1953, Best Actor (no specific program)
TONY:
– 1953, Best Actor (Musical), “Hazel Flagg”
Life span: August 29, 1915 – August 29, 1982 (67 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 20, 1960 (age 44)
OSCARS:
– 1945, Best Actress, “Gaslight”
– 1957, Best Actress, “Anastasia”
– 1975, Best Supporting Actress, “Murder on the Orient Express”
EMMYS:
– 1960, Best Actress (Single Performance, “The Turn of the Screw”
– 1982, Best Limited Series Actress, “A Woman Called Golda” (posthumous)
TONY:
– 1947, Best Actress (Play), “Joan of Lorraine”
Life span: August 30, 1898 – October 16, 1992 (94 years)
Completed Triple Crown: May 22, 1962 (age 63)
OSCAR:
– 1953, Best Actress, “Come Back, Little Sheba”
EMMYS:
– 1962, Best Actress (Continuing Series), “Hazel”
– 1963, Best Actress (Continuing Series), “Hazel”
TONYS:
– 1949, Best Featured Actress (Play), “Goodbye, My Fancy”
– 1950, Best Actress (Play), “Come Back, Little Sheba”
– 1953, Best Actress (Play), “The Time of the Cuckoo”
Life span: April 5, 1901 – August 4, 1981 (80 years)
Completed Triple Crown: May 19, 1968 (age 67)
OSCARS:
– 1964, Best Supporting Actor, “Hud”
– 1980, Best Supporting Actor, “Being There”
EMMY:
– 1968, Best Actor (Single Performance), “Do Not Go Gentle Into That Good Night”
TONY:
– 1960, Best Actor (Play), “The Best Man”
Life span: January 21, 1922 – March 19, 2008 (86 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 8, 1969 (age 47)
OSCAR:
– 1967, Best Actor, “A Man for All Seasons”
EMMY:
– 1969, Best Actor (Single Performance), “Male of the Species”
TONY:
– 1962, Best Actor (Play), “A Man for All Seasons”
Life span: June 16, 1907 – November 25, 1981 (74 years)
Completed Triple Crown: May 19, 1975 (age 67)
OSCAR:
– 1969, Best Supporting Actor, “The Subject Was Roses”
EMMYS:
– 1975, Best Supporting Actor (Variety or Music), “Cher”
– 1976, Best Comedy Series Actor, “Chico and the Man”
TONY:
– 1965, Best Featured Actor (Play), “The Subject Was Roses”
Life span: December 11, 1931 – present (92 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 11, 1977 (age 45)
OSCAR:
– 1962, Best Supporting Actress, “West Side Story’
EMMY:
– 1977, Best Supporting Actress (Variety or Music), “The Muppet Show”
– 1978, Best Actress (Single Performance), “The Rockford Files”
TONY:
– 1975, Best Featured Actress (Play), “The Ritz”
Life span: June 21, 1925 – March 13, 2006 (80 years)
Completed Triple Crown: March 29, 1982 (age 56)
OSCAR:
– 1982, Best Supporting Actress, “Reds”
EMMY:
– 1968, Best Actress (Single Performance), “Among the Paths to Eden”
TONYS:
– 1951, Best Featured Actress (Play), “The Rose Tattoo”
– 1971, Best Actress (Play), “The Gingerbread Lady”
Life span: July 26, 1922 – December 26, 2000 (78 years)
Completed Triple Crown: August 28, 1988 (age 66)
OSCARS:
– 1977, Best Supporting Actor, “All the President’s Men”
– 1978, Best Supporting Actor, “Julia”
EMMY:
– 1988, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor, “Inherit the Wind”
TONY:
– 1959, Best Actor (Play), “The Disenchanted”
Life span: June 7, 1909 – September 11, 1994 (85 years)
Completed Triple Crown: March 26, 1990 (age 80)
OSCAR:
– 1990, Best Actress, “Driving Miss Daisy”
EMMY:
– 1988, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Foxfire”
TONYS:
– 1947, Best Actress (Play), “A Streetcar Named Desire”
– 1978, Best Actress (Play), “The Gin Game”
– 1983, Best Actress (Play), “Foxfire”
Life span: September 19, 1948 – present (75 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 7, 1997 (age 48)
OSCAR:
– 1991, Best Actor, “Reversal of Fortune”
EMMYS:
– 1997, Best Voice-over Performance, “The Great War and the Shaping of the 20th Century”
– 2006, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actor, “Elizabeth I”
TONY:
– 1984, Best Actor (Play), “The Real Thing”
Life span: September 17, 1931 – June 6, 2005 (73 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 12, 1999 (age 67)
OSCAR:
– 1963, Best Actress, “The Miracle Worker”
EMMY:
– 1999, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress, “Deep in My Heart”
TONYS:
– 1958, Best Featured Actress (Play), “Two for the Seesaw”
– 1960, Best Actress (Play, “The Miracle Worker”
Life span: January 30, 1937 – present (87 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 8, 2003 (age 66)
OSCAR:
– 1978, Best Supporting Actress, “Julia”
EMMYS:
– 1981, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Playing for Time”
– 2000, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress, “If These Walls Could Talk 2”
TONY:
– 2003, Best Actress (Play), “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
Life span: December 28, 1934 – present (89 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 21, 2003 (age 68)
OSCARS:
– 1970, Best Actress, “The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie”
– 1979, Best Supporting Actress, “California Suite”
EMMYS:
– 2003, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “My House in Umbria”
– 2011, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress, “Downton Abbey”
– 2012, Best Drama Series Supporting Actress, “Downton Abbey”
– 2016, Best Drama Series Supporting Actress, “Downton Abbey”
TONY:
– 1990, Best Actress (Play), “Lettice and Lovage”
Life span: April 25, 1940 – present (83 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 19, 2004 (age 64)
OSCAR:
– 1993, Best Actor, “Scent of a Woman”
EMMYS:
– 2004, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor, “Angels in America”
– 2011, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor, “You Don’t Know Jack”
TONYS:
– 1969, Best Featured Actor (Play), “Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie?”
– 1977, Best Actor (Play), “The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel”
Life span: July 6, 1951 – present (72 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 7, 2009 (age 57)
OSCAR:
– 1997, Best Actor, “Shine”
EMMY:
– 2005, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actor, “The Life and Death of Peter Sellers”
TONY:
– 2009, Best Actor (Play), “Exit the King”
Life span: December 7, 1932 – present (91 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 20, 2009 (age 76)
OSCAR:
– 1975, Best Actress, “Alice Doesn’t Live Here Anymore”
EMMYS:
– 2009, Best Drama Series Guest Actress, “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit”
– 2013, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress, “Political Animals”
TONY:
– 1975, Best Actress (Play), “Same Time, Next Year”
Life span: December 13, 1929 – February 5, 2021 (91 years)
Completed Triple Crown: February 26, 2012 (age 82)
OSCAR:
– 2012, Best Supporting Actor, “Beginners”
EMMYS:
– 1977, Best Limited Series Actor, “The Moneychangers”
– 1994, Best Voice-over Performance, “Madeline”
TONYS:
– 1974, Best Actor (Musical), “Cyrano”
– 1997, Best Actor (Play), “Barrymore”
Life span: July 26, 1945 – present (78 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 7, 2015 (age 69)
OSCAR:
– 2007, Best Actress, “The Queen”
EMMYS:
– 1996, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Prime Suspect”
– 1999, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “The Passion of Ayn Rand”
– 2006, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Elizabeth I”
– 2007, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Prime Suspect”
TONY:
– 2015, Best Actress (Play), “The Audience”
Life span: June 23, 1957 – present (66 years)
Completed Triple Crown: September 20, 2015 (age 58)
OSCARS:
– 1997, Best Actress, “Fargo”
– 2018, Best Actress, “Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri”
– 2021, Best Actress, “Nomadland”
EMMY:
– 2015, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Olive Kitteridge”
TONY:
– 2011, Best Actress (Play), “Good People”
Life span: April 20, 1949 – present (74 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 12, 2016 (age 67)
OSCARS:
– 1983, Best Supporting Actress, “Tootsie”
– 1995, Best Actress, “Blue Sky”
EMMYS:
– 2009, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “Grey Gardens”
– 2012, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Supporting Actress, “American Horror Story”
– 2014, Best TV Movie/Limited Series Actress, “American Horror Story”
TONY:
– 2016, Best Actress (Play), “Long Day’s Journey Into Night”
Life span: August 11, 1965 – present (58 years)
Completed Triple Crown: February 26, 2017 (age 51)
OSCAR:
– 2017, Best Supporting Actress, “Fences”
EMMY:
– 2015, Best Drama Series Actress, “How to Get Away with Murder”
TONYS:
– 2001, Best Featured Actress (Play), “King Hedley II”
– 2010, Best Actress (Play), “Fences”
Life span: May 9, 1936 – June 15, 2023 (87 years)
Completed Triple Crown: June 10, 2018 (age 82)
OSCARS:
– 1971, Best Actress, “Women in Love”
– 1974, Best Actress, “A Touch of Class”
EMMYS:
– 1972, Best Actress (Single Performance), “Elizabeth R”
– 1972, Best Drama Series Actress, “Elizabeth R”
TONY:
– 2018, Best Actress (Play), “Three Tall Women”
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