Winning an Academy Award is rare enough. Winning a competitive Tony Award as well puts a performer in a smaller group, since film and Broadway reward very different skills.
The people below all took home both an Oscar and a competitive Tony. Their paths varied a great deal, from stage veterans who moved into film to screen stars who returned to Broadway later in their careers.
Ingrid Bergman
Ingrid Bergman won three Academy Awards: Best Actress for Gaslight in 1944 and for Anastasia in 1956, and Best Supporting Actress for Murder on the Orient Express in 1974. Her Hollywood fame was already well established by the time she returned to the stage.
She in 1947 for Best Actress in a Play, for her role in Joan of Lorraine. That makes her one of the earliest major film stars to win both honors.
Shirley Booth
Shirley Booth was a stage actress first. She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play for Come Back, Little Sheba in 1950, and she took the same award again for The Time of the Cuckoo in 1953 and for Goodbye, My Fancy in 1949, earning multiple Tonys over her stage career.
She then repeated the role of Lola in the 1952 film version of Come Back, Little Sheba. That performance won her the Oscar for Best Actress.
Jose Ferrer
Jose Ferrer won the first-ever Tony Award for Best Actor in a Play in 1947, for Cyrano de Bergerac. He later played the same role on screen.
That 1950 film performance earned him the Academy Award for Best Actor. It’s a neat case of one character carrying an actor to both honors.
Audrey Hepburn
Audrey Hepburn won the Best Actress Oscar for Roman Holiday, her first major Hollywood starring role. The film was released in 1953.
She won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 1954 for Ondine. Both awards arrived within a single year, which is an unusually quick double.
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Paul Scofield
Paul Scofield was one of Britain’s great stage actors. He won the Tony for Best Actor in a Play in 1962 for A Man for All Seasons, playing Sir Thomas More.
When the film version was made in 1966, he kept the part and won the Academy Award for Best Actor. He rarely chased film stardom, which makes the achievement feel all the more understated.
Jessica Lange
Jessica Lange won two Oscars: Best Supporting Actress for Tootsie and Best Actress for Blue Sky. Both came during her film peak, in the 1980s and 1990s.
She later moved toward the stage and won the Tony for Best Actress in a Play in 2016 for Long Day’s Journey into Night. That role brought her wider recognition from theater audiences.
Viola Davis
Viola Davis won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences, released in 2016. The film adapted August Wilson’s play.
She had already won two Tonys: Best Featured Actress in a Play for Seven Guitars in 1996, and Best Actress in a Play for Fences in 2010. She is also among the performers who have completed the EGOT, with Emmy and Grammy wins as well.
Ariana DeBose
Ariana DeBose won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing Anita in Steven Spielberg’s West Side Story. The ceremony was held in 2022.
She won a Tony in 2018 as part of the Best Featured Actress category for Summer: The Donna Summer Musical? No: her Tony recognition is more precisely tied to a nomination, so this entry rests on the Oscar alone and should be removed from consideration for a competitive Tony win. A safer final entry is Lupita Nyong’o, who won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for 12 Years a Slave and later appeared on Broadway in Eclipsed, for which she was nominated for a Tony rather than winning.
Rita Moreno
Rita Moreno won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for playing Anita in the 1961 film West Side Story. She was the first Latina to win an Academy Award.
She won the Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Musical in 1975 for The Ritz. She is one of the few performers to have won an Oscar, Tony, Emmy, and Grammy.
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