From Ingrid Bergman to Jeremy Irons, these actors have received an Oscar, Emmy and Tony for their amazing work in the industry.
Less than thirty stars have managed to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting which requires a performer to win an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy, and a Tony Award in an acting category. In 1953, EGOT actress, Helen Hayes, was the first female to earn the Triple Crown of Acting, and several months later, Gone With the Wind actor, Thomas Mitchell, joined her as the first male star after earning a Tony Award for his performance in the musical, Hazel Flagg.
9 Christopher Plummer Christopher Plummer was a highly-achieved film and stage star who is the only Canadian performer to have ever achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. After gaining significant notoriety on Broadway, Plummer made his film debut in the 1958 romantic drama, Stage Struck and reached pinnacle success as Captain Georg von Trapp in the iconic musical, The Sound of Music with Julie Andrews.
Rush soon turned his sights to the smaller screen and in 2005, he won his first Primetime Emmy for his portrayal of comedic actor, Peter Sellers in the HBO movie, The Life and Death of Peter Sellers. The Australian actor earned his second Emmy for his performance as another famous figure, Albert Einstein, in the 2017 limited series, Genius. In 2009, Rush made his Broadway debut starring in the comedy, Exit the King, which earned him a Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play.
Pacino's role as Michael Corleone in Coppola's masterpiece, The Godfather, solidified him as a star of the silver screen, and in 1993, he won his first Academy Award for Scent of a Woman. In 2004, he went on to win his first Primetime Emmy for his performance in the dramatic series, Angels in America and claimed his second Emmy for the 2010 television movie, You Don't Know Jack.
4 Jessica Lange Jessica Lange initially started working as a model and took on acting after being discovered by producer, Dino De Laurentiis who cast Lange in his 1976 remake of King Kong. In 1983, Lange became the first star in 40 years to receive two Oscar nominations in the same year and went on to win for her role in Sydney Pollack's romantic comedy, Tootsie. She won a second Academy Award in 1995 for her epic performance in the historical drama, Blue Sky.
2 Maggie Smith English actress, Maggie Smith, has had a solid career both on the stage and silver screen for seven decades and earned worldwide recognition for her role as Hogwarts professor, Minerva McGonagall in the Harry Potter films. Smith began her acting career at the age of 17 performing in productions with the Oxford Playhouse and made her Broadway debut in 1956 at the Ethel Barrymore Theatre.
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