Danielle Brooks is latest actor to land Oscar and Tony nominations for the same role

Tony and Oscar are quite the pair.

On Tuesday morning, Danielle Brooks became the latest actor to land an Oscar nomination for a role that also earned her a Tony nomination. Brooks' nods came for her work as Sofia in The Color Purple, first in 2016 for the Broadway revival and now for the 2023 big screen adaptation of the film.

Brooks also becomes the second woman nominated for an Oscar for portraying Sofia, following Oprah Winfrey's 1986 Academy Award nomination for her work in the non-musical film adaptation. Winfrey, who produced both the Broadway musical and the new film, congratulated Brooks on Instagram, writing, "Woke up to the news of [Danielle Brooks] being nominated for an Academy Award for Actress in a Supporting Role in [The Color Purple]. Talked to her immediately and we screamed and cried and jumped for joy together on the phone. Look what God has done."

The Color Purple star is the first since Viola Davis to snag dual Tony and Oscar nominations for the same role. Davis won an Oscar in 2017 for her work in Fences, which was preceded by a Tony win for the same part in 2010. Helen Mirren also occupies this rarefied air, albeit for playing the same character, Queen Elizabeth II, in two different Peter Morgan projects — an Oscar for 2006's The Queen and a Tony win in 2015 for The Audience.

Here are all of the performers who have earned both Oscar and Tony nominations for the same role:

• José Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac (Tony: 1947/Oscar: 1950)*
• Shirley Booth in Come Back, Little Sheba (Tony: 1950/Oscar: 1953)*
• Yul Brynner in The King and I (1952/1956)*
• Anthony Franciosa in A Hatful of Rain (Tony: 1956/Oscar: 1958)
• Rosalind Russell in Auntie Mame (Tony: 1957/Oscar: 1958)
• Stanley Holloway in My Fair Lady (Tony: 1957/Oscar: 1964)
• Rex Harrison in My Fair Lady (Tony: 1957/Oscar: 1964)*
• Laurence Olivier in The Entertainer (Tony: 1958/Oscar: 1960)
• Anne Bancroft in The Miracle Worker (Tony: 1960/Oscar: 1962)*
• Geraldine Page in Sweet Bird of Youth (Tony: 1960/Oscar: 1962)
• Paul Scofield in A Man for All Seasons (Tony: 1962/Oscar: 1966)*
• Barbra Streisand in Funny Girl (Tony: 1964/Oscar: 1969)
  
• Jack Albertson in The Subject Was Roses (1965/1968)*
• Joel Grey in Cabaret (Tony: 1967/Oscar: 1973)*
• Ron Moody in Oliver! (Oscar: 1968/Tony: 1984)
• James Earl Jones in The Great White Hope (Tony: 1969/Oscar: 1970)
• Topol in Fiddler on the Roof (Oscar: 1971/Tony: 1991)
• Peter Firth in Equus (Tony: 1975/Oscar: 1977)
• Tom Courtenay in The Dresser (Tony: 1982/ Oscar: 1983)
• Stockard Channing in Six Degrees of Separation (Tony: 1991/Oscar: 1993)
• Frank Langella in Frost/Nixon (Tony: 2004/Oscar: 2008)
• Helen Mirren in The Queen and The Audience (Oscar: 2006/Tony: 2015)*
  
• Viola Davis in Fences (Tony: 2010/Oscar: 2017)*
• Danielle Brooks in The Color Purple (Tony: 2016/Oscar: 2024)
  

*Denotes they won both.

The 96th Academy Awards will air on Sunday, March 10, at 7 p.m. ET/4 p.m. PT on ABC. See the full list of 2024 Oscar nominations.

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