Twenty seven performers have achieved EGOT status, meaning they’ve won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award. These include composer-producer Richard Rogers, Audrey Hepburn, Elton John, and Jennifer Hudson. More have won at least two or three of the aforementioned awards, while 10 actors share the distinction of having won a Tony and Oscar for the same role.
Below are some of the male performers who have won an Oscar and Tony for various roles.
1. Denzel Washington
One of the most celebrated actors of the modern era, Denzel Washington is a two-time Oscar winner with more than 60 film credits and eight appearances on Broadway. He won his first Oscar for Best Actor in a Supporting Role for Glory (1990) and later won Best Actor in a Leading Role for Training Day (2002). He is also known for his Oscar-nominated roles in Malcolm X (1993), Flight (2013), and Fences (2017).
In Fences, Washington reprised his Tony-winning role as former Negro League baseball star Troy Maxson. He starred in the August Wilson play and won the Tony for Best Actor in 2010. He has since starred on Broadway in A Raisin in the Sun (2013), The Iceman Cometh (2018), and Othello (2025). He received a Best Actor Tony nomination for The Iceman Cometh.
Washington is also one of 93 non-EGOT winners to be nominated in all four categories. He earned a pair of Emmy nominations for documentaries on photographer Gordon Parks and baseball player Hank Aaron and was nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Spoken Word Album for Children for John Henry in 1996.
2. Al Pacino
Pacino is another one of the 93 non-EGOT winners to be nominated in all four categories. In fact, the legendary actor only needs a Grammy to complete the “grand slam” of American show business. He is a two-time Emmy winner for his performances in the HBO series Angels in America (2003) and You Don’t Know Jack (2010).
On the big screen, Pacino has earned nine Oscar nominations, with his lone win coming for Best Actor in Scent of a Woman (1993). He was also a Best Actor nominee for Serpico (1974), The Godfather Part II (1975), Dog Day Afternoon (1976), and ...And Justice for All (1980). Pacino has been in 13 Broadway productions and won a Tony for Best Featured Actor in a Play for Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? (1969) and Best Actor in a Play for The Basic Training of Pavlo Hummel (1977). He also earned a Best Actor nomination for The Merchant of Venice (2011).
3. Henry Fonda
Henry Fonda, a Hollywood and Broadway icon who passed away in 1982, was an Emmy win short of achieving EGOT status. He won a Grammy for Best Spoken Word Album in 1977 and was a three-time runner-up for a Primetime Emmy Award. A two-time Oscar winner, Fonda won Best Actor for On Golden Pond (1981) and received an Academy Honorary Award in 1980. He also earned Oscar nominations for The Grapes of Wrath (1940) and 12 Angry Men (1957).
Fonda hosted the Tony Awards twice and appeared in more than 15 Broadway shows, including The Game of Love and Death (1929) and First Monday in October (1978). He won a Tony for Best Actor in a Play for Mister Roberts (1948) and received a Special Tony Award in 1979. His daughter, Jane, has also earned Tony, Oscar, Grammy, and Emmy nominations.
4. Jeremy Irons
A 77-year-old English actor, Jeremy Irons is a Grammy win away from EGOT status. He is a three-time Emmy winner and won the Best Actor Oscar for Reversal of Fortune (1990). Irons hosted the 45th Annual Tony Awards in 1991 and has appeared in three Broadway plays: The Real Thing (1984), Impressionism (2009), and Camelot (2011). He won the Tony for Best Actor in a Play for The Real Thing, in which he starred as a married playwright in an affair with a married actress.
5. Geoffrey Rush
Australian actor Geoffrey Rush is just a Grammy win away from EGOT status, having won an Emmy for his performance as Albert Einstein in the National Geographic anthology series Genius (2017). He made his lone appearance on Broadway in Eugene Ionesco’s Exit the King (2009) and won a Tony for Best Actor in a Play. He also received acting awards from the Drama League, Outer Critics Circle, Theatre World, and Drama Desk.
Rush won the Best Actor Oscar for Shine (1997). He also received nominations for Shakespeare in Love (1999), Quills (2001), and The King’s Speech (2011).
6. Christopher Plummer
Perhaps best known for The Sound of Music film adaptation, Christopher Plummer is a seven-time Tony nominee and two-time winner, having won Best Actor in a Musical for Cyrano (1974) and Best Actor in a Play for Barrymore (1997). He won the Oscar for Best Supporting Actor for Beginners (2012) and was a nominee in the same category for The Last Station (2010) and All the Money in the World (2018).