Actors and Actresses with Multiple My Academy Award Wins

1. Katharine Hepburn

Katharine Houghton Hepburn was born on May 12, 1907 in Hartford, Connecticut to a suffragist, Katharine Martha (Houghton), and a doctor, Thomas Norval Hepburn, who both always encouraged her to speak her mind, develop it fully, and exercise her body to its full potential. An athletic tomboy as a ...

Wins: 3 Years: 1933, 1956, and 1981 Film 1: Morning Glory as Eva Lovelace (Lead) Film 2: The Rainmaker as Lizzie Curry (Lead) Film 3: On Golden Pond as Ethel Thayer (Lead)

2. Walter Huston

Actor | The Treasure of the Sierra Madre

For many years Walter Huston had two passions: his career as an engineer and his vocation for the stage. In 1909 he dedicated himself to the theatre, and made his debut on Broadway in 1924. In 1929 he journeyed to Hollywood, where his talent and ability made him one of the most respected actors in ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1936 and 1948 Film 1: Dodsworth as Samuel "Sam" Dodsworth (Lead) Film 2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Howard (Supporting)

3. Cary Grant

Actor | North by Northwest

Once told by an interviewer, "Everybody would like to be Cary Grant", Grant is said to have replied, "So would I."

Cary Grant was born Archibald Alec Leach on January 18, 1904 in Horfield, Bristol, England, to Elsie Maria (Kingdon) and Elias James Leach, who worked in a factory. His early years in ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1937 and 1959 Film 1: The Awful Truth as Jerry Warriner (Lead) Film 2: North by Northwest as Roger Thornhill (Lead)

4. Bette Davis

Actress | All About Eve

Ruth Elizabeth Davis was born April 5, 1908, in Lowell, Massachusetts, to Ruth Augusta (Favor) and Harlow Morrell Davis, a patent attorney. Her parents divorced when she was 10. She and her sister were raised by their mother. Her early interest was dance. To Bette, dancers led a glamorous life, but...

Wins: 3 Years: 1938, 1942, and 1950 Film 1: Jezebel as Julie Marsden (Lead) Film 2: Now, Voyager as Charlotte Vale (Lead) Film 3: All About Eve as Margo Channing (Lead)

5. James Stewart

Actor | Vertigo

James Maitland Stewart was born on May 20, 1908, in Indiana, Pennsylvania, to Elizabeth Ruth (Johnson) and Alexander Maitland Stewart, who owned a hardware store. He was of Scottish, Ulster-Scots, and some English descent. Stewart was educated at a local prep school, Mercersburg Academy, where he ...

Wins: 3 Years: 1939, 1946, and 1958 Film 1: Mr. Smith Goes to Washington as Jefferson Smith (Lead) Film 2: It's a Wonderful Life as George Bailey (Lead) Film 3: Vertigo as John "Scottie" Ferguson (Lead)

6. Vivien Leigh

Actress | A Streetcar Named Desire

If a film were made of the life of Vivien Leigh, it would open in India just before World War I, where a successful British businessman could live like a prince. In the mountains above Calcutta, a little princess is born. Because of the outbreak of World War I, she is six years old the first time ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1939 and 1951 Film 1: Gone with the Wind as Scarlett O'Hara (Lead) Film 2: A Streetcar Named Desire as Blanche DuBois (Lead)

7. Olivia de Havilland

Actress | Gone with the Wind

Olivia Mary de Havilland was born on July 1, 1916 in Tokyo, Japan to British parents, Lilian Augusta (Ruse), a former actress, and Walter Augustus de Havilland, an English professor and patent attorney. Her sister Joan, later to become famous as Joan Fontaine, was born the following year. Her ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1939 and 1949 Film 1: Gone with the Wind as Melanie Hamilton (Supporting) Film 2: The Heiress as Catherine Sloper (Lead)

8. Orson Welles

Actor | Citizen Kane

His father, Richard Head Welles, was a well-to-do inventor, his mother, Beatrice (Ives) Welles, a beautiful concert pianist; Orson Welles was gifted in many arts (magic, piano, painting) as a child. When his mother died in 1924 (when he was nine) he traveled the world with his father. He was ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1941 and 1949 Film 1: Citizen Kane as Charles Foster Kane (Lead) Film 2: The Third Man as Harry Lime (Supporting)

9. Gary Cooper

Actor | High Noon

Born to Alice Cooper and Charles Cooper. Gary attended school at Dunstable school England, Helena Montana and Grinnell College, Grinnell, Iowa (then called Iowa College). His first stage experience was during high school and college. Afterwards, he worked as an extra for one year before getting a ...

Wins: 2 Year: 1942 and 1952 Film 1: The Pride of the Yankees as Lou Gehrig (Lead) Film 2: High Noon as Marshal Will Kane (Lead)

10. Agnes Moorehead

Actress | The Magnificent Ambersons

Agnes was born of Anglo-Irish ancestry near Boston, the daughter of a Presbyterian minister (her mother was a mezzo-soprano) who encouraged her to perform in church pageants. Aged three, she sang 'The Lord is my Shepherd' on a public stage and seven years later joined the St. Louis Municipal Opera ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1942 and 1964 Film 1: The Magnificent Ambersons as Fanny Minafer (Supporting) Film 2: Hush... Hush, Sweet Charlotte as Velma Cruther (Supporting)

11. Humphrey Bogart

Actor | Casablanca

Humphrey DeForest Bogart was born in New York City, New York, to Maud Humphrey, a famed magazine illustrator and suffragette, and Belmont DeForest Bogart, a moderately wealthy surgeon (who was secretly addicted to opium). Bogart was educated at Trinity School, NYC, and was sent to Phillips Academy ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1943 and 1948 Film 1: Casablanca as Rick Blaine (Lead) Film 2: The Treasure of the Sierra Madre as Fred C. Dobbs (Lead)

12. Ingrid Bergman

Actress | Casablanca

Ingrid Bergman was one of the greatest actresses from Hollywood's lamented Golden Era. Her natural and unpretentious beauty and her immense acting talent made her one of the most celebrated figures in the history of American cinema. Bergman is also one of the most Oscar-awarded actresses, tied with ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1943 and 1946 Film 1: Casablanca as Ilsa Lund (Lead) Film 2: Notorious as Alicia Huberman (Lead)

13. Claude Rains

Actor | Casablanca

William Claude Rains, born in the Clapham area of London, was the son of the British stage actor Frederick Rains. The younger Rains followed, making his stage debut at the age of eleven in "Nell of Old Drury." Growing up in the world of theater, he saw not only acting up close but the down-to-earth...

Wins: 2 Years: 1943 and 1946 Film 1: Casablanca as Captain Louis Renault (Supporting) Film 2: Notorious as Alexander Sebastian (Supporting)

14. Marlon Brando

Actor | Apocalypse Now

Marlon Brando is widely considered the greatest movie actor of all time, rivaled only by the more theatrically oriented Laurence Olivier in terms of esteem. Unlike Olivier, who preferred the stage to the screen, Brando concentrated his talents on movies after bidding the Broadway stage adieu in ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1951 and 1954 Film 1: A Streetcar Named Desire as Stanley Kowalski (Lead) Film 2: On the Waterfront as Terry Malloy (Lead)

15. Karl Malden

Actor | A Streetcar Named Desire

Born to a Czech mother and a Serbian father in Chicago as Mladen Sekulovich, on March 22, 1912, Karl Malden did not speak English until he was in kindergarten. After graduating from high school in the nearby steel town of Gary, Indiana, Malden worked in the industry for three years until 1934, when...

Wins: 2 Years: 1951 and 1970 Film 1: A Streetcar Named Desire as Harold "Mitch" Mitchell (Supporting) Film 2: Patton as General Omar Bradley (Supporting)

16. Ernest Borgnine

Actor | Marty

Ernest Borgnine was born Ermes Effron Borgnino on January 24, 1917 in Hamden, Connecticut. His parents were Anna (Boselli), who had emigrated from Carpi (MO), Italy, and Camillo Borgnino, who had emigrated from Ottiglio (AL), Italy. As an only child, Ernest enjoyed most sports, especially boxing, ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1953 and 1955 Film 1: From Here to Eternity as Staff Sergeant James R. "Fatso" Judson (Supporting) Film 2: Marty as Marty Piletti (Lead)

17. Jack Lemmon

Actor | The Apartment

Jack Lemmon was born in Newton, Massachusetts, to Mildred Lankford Noel and John Uhler Lemmon, Jr., the president of a doughnut company. His ancestry included Irish (from his paternal grandmother) and English. Jack attended Ward Elementary near his Newton, MA home. At age 9 he was sent to Rivers ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1955 and 1973 Film 1: Mister Roberts as Ensign Frank Thurlowe Pulver (Supporting) Film 2: Save the Tiger as Harry Stoner (Lead)

18. Alec Guinness

Actor | Star Wars

Alec Guinness was an English actor. He is known for his six collaborations with David Lean: Herbert Pocket in Great Expectations (1946), Fagin in Oliver Twist (1948), Col. Nicholson in The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957), for which he won the Academy Award for Best Actor), Prince Faisal in Lawrence...

Wins: 2 Years: 1957 and 1977 Film 1: The Bridge on the River Kwai as Colonel Nicholson (Lead) Film 2: Star Wars as Obi-Wan Kenobi (Supporting)

19. Elizabeth Taylor

Actress | Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?

Elizabeth Rosemond Taylor was considered one of the last, if not the last, major star to have come out of the old Hollywood studio system. She was known internationally for her beauty, especially for her violet eyes, with which she captured audiences early in her youth and kept the world hooked ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1958 and 1966 Film 1: Cat on a Hot Tin Roof as Margaret "Maggie the Cat" Pollitt (Lead) Film 2: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? as Martha (Lead)

20. Anne Bancroft

Actress | The Graduate

Anne Bancroft was born on September 17, 1931 in The Bronx, NY, the middle daughter of Michael Italiano (1905-2001), a dress pattern maker, and Mildred DiNapoli (1907-2010), a telephone operator. She made her cinema debut in Don't Bother to Knock (1952) in 1952, and over the next five years appeared...

Wins: 2 Years: 1962 and 1967 Film 1: The Miracle Worker as Anne "Annie" Sullivan (Lead) Film 2: The Graduate as Mrs. Robinson (Lead)

21. George C. Scott

Actor | Patton

George C. Scott was an immensely talented actor, a star of the big screen, stage and television. He was born on October 18, 1927 in Wise, Virginia, to Helena Agnes (Slemp) and George Dewey Scott. At the age of eight, his mother died, and his father, an executive at Buick, raised him. In 1945, he ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1964 and 1970 Film 1: General Buck Turgidson (Supporting) Film 2: Patton as General George S. Patton, Jr. (Lead)

22. Dustin Hoffman

Actor | Tootsie

Dustin Lee Hoffman was born in Los Angeles, California, to Lillian (Gold) and Harry Hoffman, who was a furniture salesman and prop supervisor for Columbia Pictures. He was raised in a Jewish family (from Ukraine, Russia-Poland, and Romania). Hoffman graduated from Los Angeles High School in 1955, ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1969 and 1988 Film 1: Midnight Cowboy as Enrico Salvatore "Ratso" Rizzo (Lead) Film 2: Rain Man as Raymond Babbitt (Lead)

23. Maggie Smith

Actress | Gosford Park

One of the world's most famous and distinguished actresses, Dame Maggie Smith was born Margaret Natalie Smith in Essex. Her Scottish mother, Margaret (Hutton), worked as a secretary, and her English father, Nathaniel Smith, was a teacher at Oxford University. Smith has been married twice: to actor ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1969 and 2001 Film 1: The Prime of Miss Jean Brodie as Jean Brodie (Lead) Film 2: Gosford Park as Constance, Countess of Trentham (Supporting)

24. Gene Hackman

Actor | The French Connection

Eugene Allen Hackman was born in San Bernardino, California, the son of Anna Lyda Elizabeth (Gray) and Eugene Ezra Hackman, who operated a newspaper printing press. He is of Pennsylvania Dutch (German), English, and Scottish ancestry, partly by way of Canada, where his mother was born. After ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1971 and 1992 Film 1: The French Connection as Detective Jimmy "Popeye" Doyle (Lead) Film 2: Unforgiven as Little Bill Daggett (Supporting)

25. Jane Fonda

Actress | Klute

Born in New York City to legendary screen star Henry Fonda and Ontario-born New York socialite Frances Seymour Brokaw, Jane Seymour Fonda was destined early to an uncommon and influential life in the limelight. Although she initially showed little inclination to follow her father's trade, she was ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1971 and 1981 Film 1: Klute as Bree Daniels (Lead) Film 2: On Golden Pond as Chelsea Thayer Wayne (Supporting)

26. Ellen Burstyn

Actress | Requiem for a Dream

Ellen Burstyn was born in Detroit, Michigan, to Correine Marie (Hamel) and John Austin Gillooly. She is of Irish, French/French-Canadian, Pennsylvania Dutch (German), and Native American ancestry.. She worked a number of jobs before she became an actress. At 14, she was a short-order cook at a ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1971 and 1973 Film 1: The Last Picture Show as Lois Farrow (Supporting) Film 2: The Exorcist as Chris MacNeil (Lead)

27. Al Pacino

Actor | Serpico

Alfredo James "Al" 'Pacino established himself as a film actor during one of cinema's most vibrant decades, the 1970s, and has become an enduring and iconic figure in the world of American movies.

He was born April 25, 1940 in Manhattan, New York City, to Italian-American parents, Rose (nee Gerardi)...

Wins: 2 Years: 1972 and 1974 Film 1: The Godfather as Michael Corleone (Lead) Film 2: The Godfather Part II as Michael Corleone (Lead)

28. Robert De Niro

Actor | Cape Fear

One of the greatest actors of all time, Robert De Niro was born on August 17, 1943 in Manhattan, New York City, to artists Virginia (Admiral) and Robert De Niro Sr. His paternal grandfather was of Italian descent, and his other ancestry is Irish, English, Dutch, German, and French. He was trained ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1974 and 1980 Film 1: The Godfather Part II as Vito Corleone Film 2: Raging Bull as Jake LaMotta (Lead)

29. Jack Nicholson

Actor | Chinatown

Jack Nicholson, an American actor, producer, director and screenwriter, is a three-time Academy Award winner and twelve-time nominee. Nicholson is also notable for being one of two actors - the other being Michael Caine - who have received an Oscar nomination in every decade from the '60s through ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1975 and 2002 Film 1: One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest as Randle Patrick McMurphy (Lead) Film 2: About Schmidt as Warren R. Schmidt (Lead)

30. Christopher Walken

Actor | The Deer Hunter

Lead and supporting actor of the American stage and films, with sandy colored hair, and pale complexion. He won an Oscar as Best Supporting Actor for his performance in The Deer Hunter (1978), and has been seen in mostly character roles, often portraying psychologically unstable individuals, though...

Wins: 2 Years: 1978 and 2002 Film 1: The Deer Hunter as Corporal Nikanor "Nick" Chevotarevich (Supporting) Film 2: Catch Me If You Can as Frank W. Abagnale, Sr. (Supporting)

31. Robert Duvall

Actor | The Apostle

Veteran actor and director Robert Selden Duvall was born on January 5, 1931, in San Diego, CA, to Mildred Virginia (Hart), an amateur actress, and William Howard Duvall, a career military officer who later became an admiral. Duvall majored in drama at Principia College (Elsah, IL), then served a ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1979 and 1983 Film 1: Apocalypse Now as Lieutenant Colonel Bill Kilgore (Supporting) Film 2: Tender Mercies as Mac Sledge (Lead)

32. Meryl Streep

Actress | Out of Africa

Considered by many critics to be the greatest living actress, Meryl Streep has been nominated for the Academy Award an astonishing 21 times, and has won it three times. Meryl was born Mary Louise Streep in 1949 in Summit, New Jersey, to Mary Wolf (Wilkinson), a commercial artist, and Harry William ...

Wins: 3 Years: 1979, 1982, and 1983 Film 1: Kramer vs. Kramer as Joanna Kramer (Supporting) Film 2: Sophie's Choice as Sophie Zawistowski (Lead) Film 3: Silkwood as Karen Silkwood (Lead)

33. Glenn Close

Actress | Fatal Attraction

Eight time Academy Award-nominated actress Glenn Close was born and raised in Greenwich, Connecticut. She is the daughter of Elizabeth Mary H. "Bettine" (Moore) and William Taliaferro Close (William Close), a prominent doctor. Both of her parents were from upper-class families.

Glenn was a noted ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1982 and 1988 Film 1: The World According to Garp as Jenny Fields Film 2: Dangerous Liaisons as Marquise Isabelle de Merteuil (Lead)

34. William Hurt

Actor | A History of Violence

William McChord Hurt was born in Washington, D.C., to Claire Isabel (McGill) and Alfred McChord Hurt, who worked at the State Department. He was trained at Tufts University and The Juilliard School and has been nominated for four Academy Awards, including the most recent nomination for his ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1985 and 2005 Film 1: Kiss of the Spider Woman as Luis Molina (Lead) Film 2: A History of Violence as Richie Cusack (Supporting)

35. Dianne Wiest

Actress | The Birdcage

One of three children (she has two brothers, Greg and Don), Dianne Wiest was born in Kansas City, Missouri, USA on 28 March 1946. Her original ambition was to be a ballerina, but she was bitten by acting bug after some stage work, most notably playing Desdemona to James Earl Jones' Othello on ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1986 and 1994 Film 1: Hannah and Her Sisters as Holly (Supporting) Film 2: Bullets Over Broadway as Helen Sinclair (Supporting)

36. Holly Hunter

Actress | Broadcast News

Holly Hunter was born in Conyers, Georgia, to Opal Marguerite (Catledge), a homemaker, and Charles Edwin Hunter, a part-time sporting goods company representative and farmer with a 250 acre farm. She is the youngest of seven children. Her parents encouraged her talent at an early age, and her first...

Wins: 2 Years: 1987 and 1993 Film 1: Broadcast News as Jane Craig (Lead) Film 2: The Piano as Ada McGrath (Lead)

37. Albert Brooks

Actor | Drive

Albert Brooks was born on July 22, 1947 in Beverly Hills, California, USA. He is an actor and writer, known for Drive (2011), Broadcast News (1987) and Defending Your Life (1991). He has been married to Kimberly Shlain since March 15, 1997. They have two children.

Wins: 2 Years: 1987 and 2011 Film 1: Broadcast News as Aaron Altman (Supporting) Film 2: Drive as Bernie Rose (Supporting)

38. Daniel Day-Lewis

Actor | There Will Be Blood

Born in London, England, Daniel Michael Blake Day-Lewis is the second child of Cecil Day-Lewis, Poet Laureate of the U.K., and his second wife, actress Jill Balcon. His maternal grandfather was Sir Michael Balcon, an important figure in the history of British cinema and head of the famous Ealing ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1989 and 2007 Film 1: My Left Foot as Christy Brown (Lead) Film 2: There Will Be Blood as Daniel Plainview (Lead)

39. Kate Winslet

Actress | Titanic

Ask Kate Winslet what she likes about any of her characters, and the word "ballsy" is bound to pop up at least once. The British actress has made a point of eschewing straightforward pretty-girl parts in favor of more devilish damsels; as a result, she's built an eclectic resume that runs the gamut...

Wins: 4 Years: 1994, 1995, 2004, and 2008 Film 1: Heavenly Creatures as Juliet Hulme (Lead) Film 2: Sense and Sensibility as Marianne Dashwood (Supporting) Film 3: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (Clementine Kruczynski) Film 4: The Reader as Hanna Schmitz (Supporting)

40. Kevin Spacey

Actor | L.A. Confidential

Kevin Spacey Fowler, better known by his stage name Kevin Spacey, is an American actor of screen and stage, film director, producer, screenwriter and singer. He began his career as a stage actor during the 1980s before obtaining supporting roles in film and television. He gained critical acclaim in...

Wins: 2 Years: 1995 and 1999 Film 1: The Usual Suspects as Roger "Verbal" Kint (Supporting) Film 2: American Beauty as Lester Burnham (Lead)

41. Cate Blanchett

Actress | Carol

Cate Blanchett was born on May 14, 1969 in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, to June (Gamble), an Australian teacher and property developer, and Robert DeWitt Blanchett, Jr., an American advertising executive, originally from Texas. She has an older brother and a younger sister. When she was ten ...

Wins: 2 Years: 1998 and 2004 Film 1: Elizabeth as Queen Elizabeth I of England Film 2: The Aviator as Katharine Hepburn