document_title: List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

question_text: who has a grammy oscar tony and emmy

question_tokens: who has a grammy oscar tony and emmy

text: List of people who have won Academy, Emmy, Grammy, and Tony Awards

text: Winners of all four awards[edit]

text: To date, twelve individuals have won all four awards in competitive categories.[2]

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Name
Year completed
Years to complete
Emmy
Grammy
Oscar
Tony
Category(s)

Rodgers, RichardRichard Rodgers
1962
17
1962
19601
1945
19501,2
Composer

Hayes, HelenHelen Hayes3
1977
45
1953
1977
19321
19471,2
Actress

Moreno, RitaRita Moreno3
1977
16
19771
1972
1961
1975
Actress/Singer

Gielgud, JohnJohn Gielgud
1991
30
1991
1979
1981
19611,2
Actor/Director

Hepburn, AudreyAudrey Hepburn
19945
41
19935
19945
19532
19542
Actress

Hamlisch, MarvinMarvin Hamlisch
1995
23
19951
19741
19731
1976
Composer

Tunick, JonathanJonathan Tunick
1997
20
1982
1988
1977
1997
Composer/Conductor

Brooks, MelMel Brooks
2001
34
19671
19981
1968
20011
Writer/Composer/Actor

Nichols, MikeMike Nichols
2001
40
20011
1961
1967
19641
Director/Actor

Goldberg, WhoopiWhoopi Goldberg
2002
17
20021,2,4
1985
1990
2002
Actress/Host/Producer

Rudin, ScottScott Rudin
2012
28
1984
2012
2007
19941
Producer

Lopez, RobertRobert Lopez
2014
10
20081,4
20121
2014
20041
Composer

text: Notes:

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^1 The artist also subsequently won one or more additional competitive awards.
^2 The artist also received one or more honorary or non-competitive awards.
^3 The artist also earned the Triple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in the Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards.
^4 The artist has won a Daytime Emmy Award, not a Primetime Emmy Award.
^5 The artist was awarded posthumously.

text: Additional major awards[edit]

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Marvin Hamlisch and Richard Rodgers have also won the Pulitzer Prize.
Gielgud, Goldberg, Hamlisch, Hepburn, Moreno, Nichols, and Rudin have been awarded one or more Golden Globe Awards.
Mel Brooks, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, Mike Nichols, and Richard Rodgers have also been awarded the Kennedy Center Honors.
Helen Hayes, Audrey Hepburn, and Rita Moreno have been awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
Mel Brooks, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, and Mike Nichols have been awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Mel Brooks and Mike Nichols have been awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award.
Audrey Hepburn and Rita Moreno have been awarded the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.
Audrey Hepburn has also been awarded the Cecil B. DeMille Award.

text: Including non-competitive or special[edit]

text: Six other artists – Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Barbra Streisand, Alan Menken, Harry Belafonte and Quincy Jones – have also received all four awards, even though at least one of the awards was non-competitive, i.e. special or honorary in nature (Streisand's Tony, both of Jones' Oscars, Minnelli's Grammy, Menken's Emmy and Belafonte's Oscar).[2]

text: The following are the six artists who also have won the four major awards but not exclusively in the main competitive categories.

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Artist
Year completed
Years to complete
1st Award
2nd Award
3rd Award
4th Award

Streisand, BarbraBarbra Streisand
1970

6

1964
Grammy
1965
Emmy
1968
Oscar
1970
Special Tony Award

Minnelli, LizaLiza Minnelli
1990

25

1965
Tony
1972
Oscar
1973
Emmy
1990
Grammy Legend Award

Jones, James EarlJames Earl Jones
2011

42

1969
Tony
1977
Grammy
1991
Emmy
2011
Academy Honorary Award (Oscar)

Alan Menken
2012

23

1989
Oscar
1990
Special Emmy Award
1991
Grammy
2012
Tony

Belafonte, HarryHarry Belafonte
2014

61

1953
Tony
1960
Emmy
1961
Grammy
2014
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar)

Jones, QuincyQuincy Jones
2016

52

1964
Grammy
1977
Emmy
1994
Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (Oscar)
2016
Tony

text: Additional major awards or honors[edit]

text:
James Earl Jones, Alan Menken, Liza Minnelli, and Barbra Streisand have been awarded one or more Golden Globe Awards.
Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, and Barbra Streisand have been awarded the Kennedy Center Honors.
Harry Belafonte, James Earl Jones, Quincy Jones, and Barbra Streisand have been awarded the National Medal of Arts.
Harry Belafonte, Quincy Jones, Alan Menken, Liza Minnelli, and Barbra Streisand have been inducted into the Hollywood Walk of Fame.
James Earl Jones and Liza Minnelli have been inducted into the American Theatre Hall of Fame.
Barbra Streisand has been awarded the AFI Life Achievement Award, Cecil B. DeMille Award, and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.
James Earl Jones has been awarded the Screen Actors Guild Life Achievement Award.

text: Qualifying awards summary (competitive only)[edit]

text: Richard Rodgers[edit]

text: Richard Rodgers (1902–1979), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1962. Between 1945 and 1979, Rodgers received a total of 13 awards.

text:
Academy Awards:

1945: Best Song – "It Might as Well Be Spring" from State Fair

Emmy Awards:

1962: Outstanding Achievement in Original Music Composed – Winston Churchill: The Valiant Years

Grammy Awards:

1960: Best Show Album (Original Cast) – The Sound of Music
1962: Best Original Cast Show Album – No Strings

Tony Awards:

1950: Best Musical – South Pacific
1950: Tony Award for Producers, Musical – South Pacific
1950: Best Score – South Pacific
1952: Best Musical – The King and I
1960: Best Musical – The Sound of Music
1962: Best Composer – No Strings

Special Awards:

1962: Special Tony Award "for all he has done for young people in the theatre and for taking the men of the orchestra out of the pit and putting them onstage in No Strings"
1972: Special Tony Award
1979: Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

text: Helen Hayes[edit]

text: Helen Hayes (1900–1993), an actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1932 and 1980, Hayes received a total of 7 awards. She was the first woman to win all four. Hayes was also the first person to win the Triple Crown of Acting, with singular (non-group/ensemble/company) acting wins in each of the Emmy, Oscar and Tony awards, winning her third in 1953. Counting only the first award of each type, she also has the distinction of the longest timespan (45 years) between her first and fourth award of any showbiz Grand Slam winner.

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Academy Awards:

1932: Best Actress in a Leading Role – The Sin of Madelon Claudet
1970: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Airport

Emmy Awards:

1953: Best Actress – Schlitz Playhouse of Stars for the episode "Not a Chance"

Grammy Awards:

1977: Best Spoken Word Recording – Great American Documents

Tony Awards:

1947: Best Actress, Dramatic – Happy Birthday
1958: Best Actress, Dramatic – Time Remembered

Special Awards:

1980: Special Tony Award, Lawrence Langner Memorial Award for Distinguished Lifetime Achievement in the American Theatre

text: Rita Moreno[edit]

text: Rita Moreno (born 1931), an actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1977. Between 1961 and 1978, Moreno received a total of five awards.[8] She is also the first Hispanic winner and the first winner to win a Grammy as their second award (both previous winners won Tonys as their second award). In addition, she became a Kennedy Center Honoree in 2015.

text:
Academy Awards:

1961: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – West Side Story

Emmy Awards:

1977: Outstanding Continuing or Single Performance by a Supporting Actress in Variety or Music – The Muppet Show
1978: Outstanding Lead Actress for a Single Appearance in a Drama or Comedy Series – The Rockford Files for the episode "The Paper Palace"

Grammy Awards:

1972: Best Recording for Children – The Electric Company

Tony Awards:

1975: Best Featured or Supporting Actress in a Play – The Ritz

text: John Gielgud[edit]

text: John Gielgud (1904–2000), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 1991. Between 1948 and 1991, Gielgud received a total of six awards. Gielgud was the first winner to win any award other than the Oscar as their first award (his first award was a Tony). At age 87 when he won his Emmy, he was also the oldest winner.

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Academy Awards:

1981: Best Actor in a Supporting Role – Arthur

Emmy Awards:

1991: Outstanding Lead Actor in a Miniseries or Special – Summer's Lease

Grammy Awards:

1979: Best Spoken Word, Documentary or Drama Recording – Ages of Man

Tony Awards:

1948: Outstanding Foreign Company – The Importance of Being Earnest
1961: Best Director of a Drama – Big Fish, Little Fish

Special Awards:

1959: Special Tony Award "for contribution to theatre for his extraordinary insight into the writings of Shakespeare as demonstrated in his one-man play Ages of Man"

text: Audrey Hepburn[edit]

text: Audrey Hepburn (1929–1993), an actress, received her fourth distinct award posthumously in 1994. Between 1953 and 1994, Hepburn received a total of six awards. She was the fifth person to complete the feat and the first to do so posthumously. She was also the first winner to win two of their awards in consecutive awards shows (the 1994 Grammys were the first Grammys since her posthumous win at the 1993 Emmys). She is one of the only two EGOT winners (the other being Jonathan Tunick) to not win multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

text:
Academy Awards:

1953: Best Actress in a Leading Role – Roman Holiday

Emmy Awards:

1993: Outstanding Individual Achievement, Informational Programming – Gardens of the World with Audrey Hepburn

Grammy Awards:

1994: Best Spoken Word Album for Children – Audrey Hepburn's Enchanted Tales

Tony Awards:

1954: Best Actress in a Drama – Ondine

Special Awards:

1968: Special Tony Award, Special Achievement Award
1993: Special Academy Award, Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award

text: Marvin Hamlisch[edit]

text: Marvin Hamlisch (1944–2012), a composer, received his fourth distinct award in 1995. Between 1973 and 2001, Hamlisch received a total of 12 awards. Hamlisch has the most Oscars of any Grand Slam winners (three). In 1974 he became the first winner to have won a "General Field" Grammy – taking Song of the Year and Best New Artist. He was also the first Grand Slam winner to have won multiple legs of the feat for the same work – an Oscar and a Grammy for song "The Way We Were".

text:
Academy Awards:

1973: Best Music, Original Dramatic Score – The Way We Were
1973: Best Music, Original Song – "The Way We Were"
1973: Best Music, Scoring Original Song Score and/or Adaptation – The Sting

Emmy Awards:

1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music Direction – Barbra: The Concert
1995: Outstanding Individual Achievement in Music and Lyrics – Barbra: The Concert
1999: Outstanding Music and Lyrics – AFI's 100 Years... 100 Movies
2001: Outstanding Music Direction – Timeless: Live in Concert

Grammy Awards:

1974: Song of the Year – "The Way We Were"
1974: Best New Artist of the Year
1974: Best Pop Instrumental Performance – The Entertainer
1974: Album of Best Original Score Written for a Motion Picture or a Television Special – The Way We Were

Tony Awards:

1976: Best Musical Score – A Chorus Line

text: Jonathan Tunick[edit]

text: Jonathan Tunick (born 1938), a composer, conductor, and music arranger, received his fourth distinct award in 1997. Between 1977 and 1997, Tunick received a total of four awards. Tunick is the first Grand Slam winner to have won an Emmy as their second award as well as the first to win the Tony as their fourth award. He is also the second person (after Audrey Hepburn) to not win any multiple awards in any of the four award fields.

text:
Academy Awards:

1977: Best Music, Original Song Score and Its Adaptation or Best Adaptation Score – A Little Night Music

Emmy Awards:

1982: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction – Night of 100 Stars

Grammy Awards:

1988: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocals – "No One is Alone," Cleo Laine

Tony Awards:

1997: Best Orchestrations – Titanic

text: Mel Brooks[edit]

text: Mel Brooks (born 1926), a director, writer and actor, received his fourth distinct award in June 2001. Between 1968 and 2002, Brooks received a total of 11 awards.[9] Brooks was the first person to win the Emmy as the first award, and the first winner to have won his Oscar for screenwriting.

text:
Academy Awards:

1968: Best Writing, Story and Screenplay Written Directly for the Screen – The Producers

Emmy Awards:

1967: Outstanding Writing Achievement in Variety – The Sid Caesar, Imogene Coca, Carl Reiner, Howard Morris Special
1997: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You
1998: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You
1999: Outstanding Guest Actor in a Comedy Series – Mad About You

Grammy Awards:

1998: Best Spoken Comedy Album – The 2000 Year Old Man in the Year 2000
2002: Best Long Form Music Video – Recording 'The Producers': A Musical Romp with Mel Brooks
2002: Best Musical Show Album – The Producers

Tony Awards:

2001: Best Book of a Musical – The Producers
2001: Best Original Score – The Producers
2001: Best Musical – The Producers

text: When he appeared on January 30, 2015 episode of Real Time with Bill Maher, Brooks called himself an EGOTAK, noting that he had also received awards from the American Film Institute and Kennedy Center.

text: Mike Nichols[edit]

text: Mike Nichols (1931–2014), a director, received his fourth distinct award in November 2001. Between 1961 and 2012, Nichols received a total of 15 awards. Nichols was the first slam winner to win the Grammy as their first award, the first winner to have won multiple awards (an Oscar, several Tonys, and two Emmys) for directing. When counting all awards won—not just the first of each type—Nichols has the longest timespan of awards among Grand Slam winners, at 51 years.

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Academy Awards:

1967: Best Director – The Graduate

Emmy Awards:

2001: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special – Wit
2001: Outstanding Made for Television Movie – Wit (as Executive Producer)
2004: Outstanding Directing for a Miniseries, Movie or a Special – Angels in America
2004: Outstanding Miniseries – Angels in America (as Executive Producer)

Grammy Awards:

1961: Best Comedy Performance – An Evening With Mike Nichols And Elaine May

Tony Awards:

1964: Best Director, Dramatic – Barefoot in the Park
1965: Best Director, Dramatic – Luv and The Odd Couple
1968: Best Director, Dramatic – Plaza Suite
1972: Best Director, Dramatic – The Prisoner of Second Avenue
1977: Best Musical – Annie (as producer)
1984: Best Director, Play – The Real Thing
1984: Best Play – The Real Thing (as producer)
2005: Best Director, Musical – Monty Python's Spamalot
2012: Best Director, Play – Death of a Salesman

text: Whoopi Goldberg[edit]

text: Whoopi Goldberg (born 1955), an actress, comedian and talk-show host, received her fourth distinct award in 2002. Between 1985 and 2009, Goldberg received a total of 6 awards.[10] Goldberg is the first African American winner, the first to win the Oscar as their second award, and the first to win two of their awards in the same year (she won both her first Daytime Emmy and her Tony in 2002).

text:
Academy Awards:

1990: Best Actress in a Supporting Role – Ghost

Daytime Emmy Awards:

2002: Outstanding Special Class Special – Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel (Host)
2009: Outstanding Talk Show Host – The View

Grammy Awards:

1985: Best Comedy Recording – Whoopi Goldberg: Original Broadway Show Recording

Tony Awards:

2002: Best Musical – Thoroughly Modern Millie

Special Awards:

1997: Special Emmy Award, Governors Award, for the seven Comic Relief Benefit Specials

text: Notes: Although she has never won a competitive Primetime Emmy award, she has been nominated several times. The fact that she does not have a competitive Primetime Emmy Award has led to debate over her inclusion in the "official list." In the 30 Rock episode "Dealbreakers Talk Show*#0001", Goldberg (playing herself) addresses this when questioned by character Tracy Jordan about her Daytime Emmy: "It still counts! Girl's gotta eat!"

text: Scott Rudin[edit]

text: Scott Rudin (born 1958) received his fourth distinct award in 2012. Between 1984 and 2017, Rudin received a total of 18 awards making him the record holder for most awards won among the people who have won all four awards in competitive categories. Rudin is the first winner who is primarily a producer.

text:
Academy Awards:

2007: Best Picture – No Country For Old Men

Primetime Emmy Awards:

1984: Outstanding Children's Program – He Makes Me Feel Like Dancin'

Grammy Awards:

2012: Best Musical Theater Album – The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording

Tony Awards:

1994: Best Musical – Passion
2000: Best Play – Copenhagen
2002: Best Play – The Goat, or Who Is Sylvia?
2005: Best Play – Doubt
2006: Best Play – The History Boys
2009: Best Play – God of Carnage
2010: Best Revival of a Play – Fences
2011: Best Musical – The Book of Mormon
2012: Best Revival of a Play – Death of a Salesman
2014: Best Revival of a Play – A Raisin in the Sun
2015: Best Play – The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
2015: Best Revival of a Play – Skylight
2016: Best Play – The Humans
2016: Best Revival of a Play – A View From the Bridge
2017: Best Revival of a Musical – Hello, Dolly!

text: Robert Lopez[edit]

text: Robert Lopez (born 1975), a songwriter, received his fourth distinct award in 2014. Between 2004 and 2015, Lopez received a total of 9 awards. Like fellow EGOT winner Whoopi Goldberg, his Emmy awards are Daytime Emmys (although he has been nominated for a competitive Primetime Emmy award). Lopez is the youngest winner to receive all four awards in competitive categories, as well as the fastest to complete his qualifying run of EGOT award wins (10 years), and has the shortest time to complete any run of EGOT wins (4 years). He received his Grammy Award for The Book of Mormon in collaboration with fellow EGOT winner Scott Rudin (among others), making them the first pair of Grand Slam winners to have been co-winners of the same award. Lopez is also the first person to have won the Oscar last, which he won with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez.[11] He is also the second Grand Slam winner, behind Marvin Hamlisch, to have won multiple legs of the feat for the same work – an Oscar and a Grammy for the song "Let It Go."

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Academy Awards

2014: Best Original Song - "Let It Go" from Frozen

Daytime Emmy Awards

2008: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Wonder Pets
2010: Outstanding Achievement in Music Direction and Composition - Wonder Pets

Grammy Awards

2012: Best Musical Theater Album - The Book of Mormon: Original Broadway Cast Recording
2015: Best Compilation Soundtrack for Visual Media - Frozen
2015: Best Song Written for Visual Media - "Let It Go" from Frozen

Tony Awards

2004: Best Original Score - Avenue Q
2011: Best Book of a Musical - The Book of Mormon
2011: Best Original Score - The Book of Mormon

text: Qualifying awards summary (including non-competitive awards)[edit]

text: The following artists have also received all of the four major awards. However, in each case, one of these awards has been received only in an honorary or other non-competitive category. (Streisand has never received a competitive Tony, Minnelli has never received a competitive Grammy, Menken has never received a competitive Emmy and Belafonte and Jones have never received a competitive Oscar.)

text: Barbra Streisand[edit]

text: Barbra Streisand (born 1942), a singer and actress, received her fourth distinct award in 1970. Between 1963 and 2001, Streisand received a total of 18 awards. Having completed the showbiz Grand Slam at age 28, she is the youngest winner, and with just six years elapsing between her first award (a 1964 Grammy) and her final award (a 1970 Special Tony), Streisand also completed the Grand Slam in the shortest amount of time. She is also the only winner to have won an Oscar in both a music and an acting category. She is also the only winner to have won all of her competitive awards for her debut performances (her first musical album, feature film and television special, respectively). In addition, she also received the AFI Life Achievement Award, the Kennedy Center Honor, the Cecil B. DeMille Award, the National Medal of Arts, the American Society of Cinematographers Board of Governors Award, the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

text: Academy Awards:

text:
1968: Best Actress in a Leading Role – Funny Girl
1976: Best Music, Song – "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"

text: Emmy Awards:

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1965: Outstanding Individual Achievements in Entertainment – Actors and Performers – My Name is Barbra
1995: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program – Barbra Streisand: The Concert
1995: Outstanding Variety, Music or Comedy Special – Barbra Streisand: The Concert
2001: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program – Timeless: Live in Concert

text: Grammy Awards:

text:
1964: Best Vocal Performance, Female – The Barbra Streisand Album
1964: Album Of The Year (Other Than Classical) – The Barbra Streisand Album
1965: Best Vocal Performance, Female – "People" (from the musical Funny Girl)
1966: Best Vocal Performance, Female – My Name Is Barbra
1977: Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female – "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
1977: Song Of The Year, "Evergreen (Love Theme from A Star Is Born)"
1980: Best Pop Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal – "Guilty" (with Barry Gibb)
1986: Best Pop Vocal Performance, Female – The Broadway Album
1992: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Legend Award (non-competitive)
1995: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award (non-competitive)

text: Tony Awards:

text: 1970: Special Tony Award: Star of the Decade (non-competitive)

text: Liza Minnelli[edit]

text: Liza Minnelli (born 1946), an actress and singer, received her fourth distinct award in 1990. Between 1965 and 2009, Minnelli received a total of 7 awards.

text: Academy Awards:

text: 1972: Best Actress in a Leading Role (Cabaret)

text: Emmy Awards:

text: 1973: Outstanding Single Program − Variety and Popular Music (Liza with a 'Z'. A Concert for Television)

text: Grammy Awards:

text: 1990: Special Grammy Award: Grammy Legend Award (non-competitive)

text: Tony Awards:

text:
1965: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (Flora the Red Menace)
1974: Special Tony Award for "adding lustre to the Broadway season" (non-competitive)
1978: Best Leading Actress in a Musical (The Act)
2009: Best Special Theatrical Event (Liza's at The Palace...!)

text: James Earl Jones[edit]

text: James Earl Jones (born 1931), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 2011. Between 1969 and 2011, Jones received a total of 7 awards.

text: Academy Awards:

text: 2011: Academy Honorary Award (non-competitive)

text: Emmy Awards:

text:
1991: Outstanding Lead Actor − Drama Series (Gabriel's Fire)
1991: Outstanding Supporting Actor − Miniseries or a Movie (Heat Wave)

text: Daytime Emmy Awards:

text: 2000: Outstanding Performer − Children's Special (Summer's End)

text: Grammy Awards:

text: 1977: Best Spoken Word Recording (Great American Documents)

text: Tony Awards:

text:
1969: Best Leading Actor in a Play (The Great White Hope)
1987: Best Leading Actor in a Play (Fences)
2017: Special Tony Award for Lifetime Achievement in the Theatre (non-competitive)

text: Alan Menken[edit]

text: Alan Menken (born 1949), composer and songwriter, received his fourth distinct award in 2012. Between 1989 and 2012, Menken received a total of 21 awards. He has the most Oscar wins (8) by a grand slam winner and is the second most prolific Oscar winner in the music categories after Alfred Newman. He is also notable for frequently having multiple songs from the same film nominated for major awards.

text: Academy Awards:

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1989: Best Original Score – The Little Mermaid
1989: Best Original Song – "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
1991: Best Original Score – Beauty and the Beast
1991: Best Original Song – "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
1992: Best Original Score – Aladdin
1992: Best Original Song – "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
1995: Best Original Musical or Comedy Score – Pocahontas
1995: Best Original Song – "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas

text: Emmy Awards:

text: 1990: Outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy's anti-drug special for children – "Wonderful Ways to Say No" from the TV special Cartoon All-Stars to the Rescue (non-competitive)

text: Grammy Awards:

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1991: Best Recording for Children – The Little Mermaid: Original Walt Disney Records Soundtrack
1991: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Under the Sea" from The Little Mermaid
1993: Best Musical Album for Children – Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television – Beauty and the Beast: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Beauty and the Beast" from Beauty and the Beast
1993: Song of the Year – "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" from Aladdin
1993: Best Musical Album for Children – Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television – Aladdin: Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
1993: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "A Whole New World" from Aladdin
1996: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or Television – "Colors of the Wind" from Pocahontas
2012: Best Song Written for Visual Media – "I See the Light" from Tangled

text: Tony Awards:

text: 2012: Best Original Score – Newsies

text: Harry Belafonte[edit]

text: Harry Belafonte (born 1927), an actor, received his fourth distinct award in 2014. Between 1953 and 2014, Belafonte received a total of 6 awards.

text: Academy Awards:

text: 2014: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (non-competitive)

text: Emmy Awards:

text: 1960: Outstanding Individual Performance in a Variety or Music Program (Tonight with Belafonte - The Revlon Revue)

text: Grammy Awards:

text:
1961: Best Performance Folk – Swing Dat Hammer
1966: Best Folk Performance – An Evening With Belafonte/Makeba
2000: Grammy Hall of Fame Award

text: Tony Awards:

text: 1953: Best Featured Actor in a Musical – John Murray Anderson's Almanac

text: Quincy Jones[edit]

text: Quincy Jones (born 1933), an American record producer, actor and composer, received his fourth distinct award in 2016. Between 1964 and 2016, Jones received a total of 31 awards — the highest number of awards of any grand slam winner. He also has the most Grammy wins (28) by a grand slam winner.

text: Academy Awards:

text: 1994: Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award (non-competitive)

text: Emmy Awards:

text: 1977: Outstanding Music Composition for a Series (for Roots)

text: Grammy Awards:

text:
1964: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "I Can't Stop Loving You"
1970: Best Instrumental Jazz Performance - Large Group Or Soloist With Large Group – Walking in Space
1972: Best Pop Instrumental Performance – Smackwater Jack
1974: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "Summer in the City"
1979: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "The Wiz Main Title (Overture, Part One)"
1981: Best Instrumental Arrangement – "Dinorah, Dinorah"
1982: Producer Of The Year
1982: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "Ai No Corrida"
1982: Best Arrangement On An Instrumental Recording – "Velas"
1982: Best Cast Show Album – Lena Horne: The Lady and Her Music
1982: Best R&B Performance By A Duo Or Group With Vocal – The Dude
1984: Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)
1984: Best Recording For Children – E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial
1984: Album Of The Year – Thriller
1984: Record Of The Year – "Beat It"
1985: Best Arrangements On An Instrumental – "Grace (Gymnastics Theme)"
1986: Best Music Video, Short Form – "We Are the World – The Video Event"
1986: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocal – "We Are the World"
1986: Record Of The Year – "We Are the World"
1990: Producer Of The Year (Non-Classical)
1990: Best Instrumental Arrangement Accompanying Vocal(s) – "The Places You Find Love"
1990: Best Arrangement On An Instrumental – "Birdland"
1990: Best Jazz Fusion Performance – "Birdland"
1990: Best Rap Performance By A Duo Or Group – "Back on the Block"
1990: Album Of The Year – Back on the Block
1991: Grammy Legend Award
1994: Best Large Jazz Ensemble Performance – Miles & Quincy Live At Montreux
2002: Best Spoken Word Album – Q: The Autobiography Of Quincy Jones

text: Tony Awards:

text: 2016: Best Revival of a Musical (The Color Purple)

text: Three competitive awards[edit]

text: The following people have each won three out of the four major entertainment awards in competitive categories.[12]

text:
Missing a Tony Award

John Addison†
Julie Andrews[note 1]◊
Burt Bacharach◊
Alan Bergman
Marilyn Bergman
George Burns†
Cher
Common
Michael Giacchino
Brian Grazer◊
Ron Howard
James Moll
Randy Newman
Sid Ramin
Martin Scorsese
Barbra Streisand◊, NCA
Peter Ustinov†, ◊
John Williams
Robin Williams†
Kate Winslet

Missing a Grammy Award

Jack Albertson†, TC
Anne Bancroft†, TC
Ingrid Bergman†, TC
Shirley Booth†, TC
Ralph Burns†
Ellen BurstynTC
Viola DavisTC
Melvyn Douglas†, TC
Bob Fosse[note 2]†
Jeremy Irons◊, TC
Jessica LangeTC
Frances McDormandTC
Liza Minnelli◊, NCA
Helen MirrenTC
Thomas Mitchell†, TC
Al PacinoTC
Christopher Plummer[note 3]TC
Vanessa RedgraveTC
Jason Robards†, TC
Geoffrey RushTC
Paul Scofield†, TC
Maggie SmithTC
Maureen Stapleton†, TC
Jessica Tandy†, TC
Tony Walton[note 4]

Missing an Emmy Award

Henry Fonda†, ◊
Oscar Hammerstein II†, P
Elton John
John Legend
Alan Jay Lerner†
Andrew Lloyd Webber
Frank Loesser†, P
Alan Menken◊, NCA
Tim Rice
Stephen SondheimP
Jule Styne†

Missing an Academy Award (Oscar)

Harry BelafonteNCA
Leonard Bernstein†, ◊
Jerry Bock†
Martin Charnin
Cy Coleman†, ◊
Fred Ebb†, ◊
Cynthia Erivo
Anne Garefino
Julie Harris†, ◊
James Earl Jones◊, NCA
Quincy Jones◊, NCA
John Kander◊
Cyndi Lauper
Audra McDonald
Bette Midler◊
Lin-Manuel Miranda[note 5]◊, P
Cynthia Nixon
Trey Parker[note 6]◊
Marc Shaiman◊
Bill Sherman[14]
Matt Stone
Charles Strouse
Lily Tomlin◊
Dick Van Dyke
James Whitmore†, ◊

text: Notes[edit]

text:
Jump up ^ In 1996, Julie Andrews refused a Tony Award nomination for her role in Victor/Victoria in protest that the production received no other nominations.[13] She was also Tony-nominated for My Fair Lady and Camelot.
Jump up ^ Bob Fosse won all three awards in the same year, 1973.
Jump up ^ With his 2012 Oscar win, Plummer became the oldest (82) to win the “Triple Crown Of Acting”
Jump up ^ Tony Walton is the only costume/set designer to win three different awards.
Jump up ^ Miranda would also be the first MacArthur Fellow to win the EGOT
Jump up ^ Trey Parker placed second in the narrative/dramatic division of 1993's Student Academy Awards for his college short American History.

text: Three awards (non-competitive)[edit]

text: In addition to the above winners, the following people have each won three out of the four major entertainment awards in either competitive categories or non-competitive special and honorary categories.

text:
Howard Ashman won two competitive Oscars, five competitive Grammy Awards, and a Special Award for outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy of Television Arts and Sciences' anti-drug special for children.
Fred Astaire won three competitive Emmy awards, a Special Academy Award, and a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award.
Robert Russell Bennett won a competitive Emmy Award, a competitive Oscar, and two Special Tony Awards.
Irving Berlin won an Academy Award, a Grammy Lifetime Achievement Award, and a competitive Tony award.
Carol Burnett won 6 competitive Emmy awards, a competitive Grammy, and a Special Tony award.
Walt Disney won 26 competitive Academy Awards, seven competitive Emmy Awards, and a Grammy Trustees Award.
Ray Dolby won an Academy Scientific and Technical Award, two Technology & Engineering Emmy Awards, and a Special Merit/Technical Grammy Award.
Judy Garland won an Academy Juvenile Award, two competitive Grammy Awards, and a Special Tony Award.
Eileen Heckart won a competitive Academy Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and a Special Tony Award.
Barry Manilow won two competitive Emmy Awards, a competitive Grammy Award, and a Special Tony Award.
Steve Martin won the Honorary Academy Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and five competitive Grammy Awards.
Stephen Schwartz won three competitive Oscars, three competitive Grammys and the Isabelle Stevenson Award, a non-competitive Tony Award.
Eli Wallach won a competitive Tony Award, a competitive Emmy Award, and an Academy Honorary Award.
Oprah Winfrey won competitive Emmy Awards, a competitive Tony Award, and the Jean Hersholt Humanitarian Award, a non-competitive Academy Award.

text: Four nominations[edit]

text: The following people have not won all four awards in competitive categories, but have received at least one nomination for each of them:

text:
Lynn Ahrens
Alan Alda
Woody Allen
Judith Anderson
Julie Andrews
Howard Ashman*
Elmer Bernstein
Leonard Bernstein
Ralph Burns
Ellen Burstyn
Richard Burton
Sammy Cahn
Keith Carradine
Diahann Carroll
Glenn Close
Cy Coleman
Fred Ebb
Henry Fonda
Jane Fonda
Judy Garland*
Brian Grazer
Joel Grey
Julie Harris
Katharine Hepburn
Jeremy Irons
Hugh Jackman
James Earl Jones
Quincy Jones
John Kander
Angela Lansbury
Michel Legrand
John Lithgow
Kenny Loggins
Steve Martin*
Alan Menken
Bette Midler
Liza Minnelli
Lin-Manuel Miranda
Trey Parker
Dolly Parton
Sidney Poitier
André Previn
Lynn Redgrave
Diana Ross*
Adam Schlesinger
Paul Scofield
Marc Shaiman
Paul Simon
Glenn Slater
Tom Snow
Kevin Spacey
Sting
Barbra Streisand
Meryl Streep
Lily Tomlin
Stanley Tucci
Peter Ustinov
Jimmy Van Heusen
James Whitmore
Paul Williams
Hans Zimmer

text: Notes: While Judy Garland and Diana Ross never received any Tony nominations, they have each won a Special Tony Award, in addition to receiving at least one nomination in competitive categories for each of the other four awards. Howard Ashman has never received an Emmy nomination, but has won an Outstanding contribution to the success of the Academy's anti-drug special for children, in addition to receiving at least one nomination in competitive categories for each of the other four awards. Steve Martin has never received an Oscar nomination, but has won an Academy Honorary Award, in addition to receiving nominations in competitive categories for each of the other four awards. Only one artist, Lynn Redgrave, has been nominated at least once for each of the four awards without winning any.

text: PEGOT[edit]

text: A PEGOT winner is someone who has won all four EGOT awards as well as a Pulitzer Prize.[15]

text: PEGOT winners:

text:
Richard Rodgers
Marvin Hamlisch

text: People who have won a Pulitzer, and are only missing one EGOT award:

text:
Jerry Bock (missing an Oscar)
Oscar Hammerstein II (missing an Emmy)
Frank Loesser (missing an Emmy)
Lin-Manuel Miranda (missing an Oscar)
Stephen Sondheim (missing an Emmy)

text: Of these five, only Miranda and Sondheim are still alive. Miranda was nominated for a 2017 Oscar for Best Original Song but did not win.

text: Franchises[edit]

text: To date, five franchises have won the EGOT.[1]

text: The Lion King[edit]

text: The Lion King won its fourth distinct award in 1998. With a span of four years between its first and fourth distinct awards, The Lion King is the fastest-ever EGOT in any form.

text: Academy Awards

text:
1995: Best Original Score: Hans Zimmer
1995: Best Original Song: "Can You Feel the Love Tonight" Music by Elton John; Lyrics by Tim Rice

text: Daytime Emmy Award

text: 1996: Outstanding Performer in an Animated Program: Nathan Lane in Timon & Pumbaa

text: Grammy Awards

text:
1995: Best Musical Album for Children: Mark Mancina, Jay Rifkin, Chris Thomas, Hans Zimmer (producers) & various artists
1995: Best Spoken Word Album for Children: Ted Kryczko, Randy Thornton (producers) & Robert Guillaume for The Lion King Read-Along
1999: Best Musical Show Album: Mark Mancina (producer) for The Lion King

text: Tony Awards

text:
1998: Best Musical
1998: Best Scenic Design: Richard Hudson
1998: Best Costume Design: Julie Taymor
1998: Best Lighting Design: Donald Holder
1998: Best Direction of a Musical: Julie Taymor
1998: Best Choreography: Garth Fagan

text: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street[edit]

text: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street won its fourth distinct award in 2008.

text:
Academy Awards

2008: Best Art Direction: Dante Ferretti and Francesca Lo Schiavo for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Primetime Emmy Awards

1985: Outstanding Performance In A Variety Or Music Program: George Hearn as Sweeney Todd for Great Performances: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1985: Outstanding Directing in a Variety or Music Program: Terry Hughes for Great Performances: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
1985: Outstanding Videotape Editing for a Limited Series or a Special: Jimmy B. Frazier for Great Performances: Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street
2015: Outstanding Special Class Program: Live from Lincoln Center – Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street in Concert with the New York Philharmonic

Grammy Awards

1980: Best Cast Show Album: Stephen Sondheim (composer & lyricist), Thomas Z. Shepard (producer) for Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street

Tony Awards

1979: Best Musical
1979: Best Book of a Musical: Hugh Wheeler
1979: Best Original Score (Music and/or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre: Stephen Sondheim
1979: Best Performance by a Leading Actor in a Musical: Len Cariou as Sweeney Todd
1979: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Angela Lansbury as Mrs. Lovett
1979: Best Direction of a Musical: Harold Prince
1979: Best Scenic Design: Eugene Lee
1979: Best Costume Design: Franne Lee
2006: Best Direction of a Musical: John Doyle
2006: Best Orchestrations: Sarah Travis

text: The Wizard of Oz[edit]

text: The Wizard of Oz (or works directly based on the same) won its fourth distinct award in 2008.

text:
Academy Awards

1940: Best Original Score: Herbert Stothart
1940: Best Original Song: "Over the Rainbow" Music by Harold Arlen; Lyrics by Yip Harburg

Tony Awards

1975: Best Musical: The Wiz
1975: Best Original Score: Charlie Smalls for The Wiz
1975: Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: Ted Ross as The Cowardly Lion for The Wiz
1975: Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical: Dee Dee Bridgewater as Glinda for The Wiz
1975: Best Direction of a Musical: Geoffrey Holder for The Wiz
1975: Best Costume Design: Geoffrey Holder for The Wiz
1975: Best Choreography: George Faison for The Wiz
2004: Best Actress in a Musical: Idina Menzel as Elphaba for Wicked
2004: Best Costume Design: Susan Hilferty for Wicked
2004: Best Scenic Design: Eugene Lee for Wicked

Grammy Awards

1975: Best Musical Theatre Album: Music composed by Charlie Smalls and Produced by Jerry Wexler for The Wiz
2004: Best Musical Theatre Album: Music composed, written, and produced by Steven Schwartz for Wicked

Emmy Awards

2008: Outstanding Make-up for a Series or a Movie (non prosthetic): Tin Man
2016: Outstanding Costumes for a Variety, Nonfiction, or Reality Programming: The Wiz Live!

text: Aladdin[edit]

text: Aladdin won its fourth distinct award in 2014.

text: Academy Awards

text:
1993: Best Original Score: Alan Menken
1993: Best Original Song: "A Whole New World" Music by Alan Menken; Lyrics by Tim Rice

text: Daytime Emmy Award

text:
1995: Outstanding Music Direction and Composition: Mark Watters, John Given, Harvey Cohen, Carl Johnson and Thomas Richard Sharp for Aladdin
1995: Outstanding Film Sound Mixing: Deb Adair, Melissa Ellis, Jim Hodson, Timothy J. Garrity, Timothy J. Borquez and Bill Koepnick for Aladdin
1995: Outstanding Film Sound Editing: 18 individuals for Aladdin
1996: Outstanding Sound Mixing - Special Class: Michael Jiron, Allen L. Stone and Deb Adair for Aladdin

text: Grammy Awards

text:
1994: Best Musical Album for Children: Alan Menken, Tim Rice (producers) & various artists
1994: Best Song Written Specifically for a Motion Picture or for Television: Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) for "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" performed by Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson
1994: Song of the Year: Alan Menken & Tim Rice (songwriters) for "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)" performed by Regina Belle & Peabo Bryson
1994: Best Pop Performance by a Duo or Group with Vocals: Peabo Bryson & Regina Belle for "A Whole New World (Aladdin's Theme)"
1994: Best Instrumental Composition Written for a Motion Picture or for Television: Alan Menken (composer)

text: Tony Awards

text: 2014: Best Performance by a Featured Actor in a Musical: James Monroe Iglehart as the Genie for Aladdin

text: The Sound of Music[edit]

text: The Sound of Music won its fourth distinct award in 2014.

text:
Academy Awards

1966: Best Picture: Robert Wise
1966: Best Director: Robert Wise
1966: Best Sound: James Corcoran and Fred Hynes
1966: Best Film Editing: William H. Reynolds
1966: Best Music, Scoring of Music – Adaptation or Treatment: Irwin Kostal

Primetime Emmy Awards

2014: Outstanding Technical Direction, Camerawork, Video Control for a Miniseries, Movie, or Special: The Sound of Music Live!

Grammy Awards

1961: Best Show Album (Original Cast): Oscar Hammerstein II and Richard Rodgers for The Sound of Music

Tony Awards

1960: Best Musical
1960: Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Musical: Mary Martin as Maria Von Trapp for The Sound of Music
1960: Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Musical: Patricia Neway as Mother Abbess for The Sound of Music
1960: Best Conductor and Musical Director: Frederick Dvonch for The Sound of Music
1960: Best Scenic Design (Musical): Oliver Smith for The Sound of Music

text: Three competitive awards (franchises)[edit]

text: Thirty-six franchises have won three of the four awards. They are as follows, along with which awards they have won:

text:
A Little Night Music Tony, Grammy, & Oscar
Amadeus Tony, Grammy, & Oscar
Annie Tony, Grammy, & Emmy
Annie Get Your Gun Oscar, Tony, & Grammy
Batman Grammy, Oscar, & Emmy
Beauty and the Beast Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Cabaret Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Chicago Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
The Color Purple Grammy, Emmy, & Tony
Dracula Tony, Oscar, & Emmy
Dreamgirls Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Evita Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Gigi Oscar, Grammy, & Tony
Gypsy Grammy, Tony, & Emmy
Hairspray Tony, Grammy, & Emmy
Hello, Dolly! Tony, Grammy, & Oscar
How the Grinch Stole Christmas! Grammy, Emmy, & Oscar
Indiana Jones Oscar, Grammy, & Emmy
Les Misérables Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
The Lion in Winter Tony, Oscar, & Emmy
Looney Tunes Oscar, Emmy & Grammy
Mary Poppins Grammy, Oscar & Tony
Men in Black Grammy, Oscar, & Emmy
The Miracle Worker Tony, Oscar, & Emmy
The Muppets Emmy, Grammy, & Oscar
The Music Man Grammy, Oscar & Tony
Once Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Peter Pan Tony, Emmy, & Oscar
Porgy and Bess Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
The Producers Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
South Pacific Tony, Oscar & Emmy
Star Wars Emmy, Grammy, & Oscar
Toy Story Emmy, Grammy, & Oscar
West Side Story Grammy, Oscar, & Tony
Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf? Tony, Grammy, & Oscar
Winnie the Pooh Oscar, Grammy, & Emmy

text: Four competitive nominations (franchises)[edit]

text:
The Addams Family Grammy, Oscar, Emmy, & Tony
Grease Tony, Grammy, Oscar, & Emmy
Peanuts Tony, Grammy, Emmy, & Oscar
The Phantom of the Opera Oscar, Grammy, Tony, & Emmy
Shrek Oscar, Grammy, Emmy, & Tony
Spider-Man Tony, Oscar, Grammy, & Emmy


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text: Pam Beesly

text: Casting and character development[edit]

text: The character was originally created to be very similar to the British counterpart, Dawn Tinsley. Even minute details, such as how Pam wore her hair each day, were considered by executive producer, Greg Daniels.[2]

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text: "When I went in for The Office, the casting director said to me, 'Please look normal'," recalls Jenna Fischer. "Don't make yourself all pretty, and dare to bore me with your audition. Those were her words. Dare to bore me."[3]

text: Heeding the advice, Fischer said little during the auditions, during which she was interviewed in character by show producers, in an improvisational format, to imitate the show's documentary premise. "My take on the character of Pam was that she didn't have any media training, so she didn't know how to be a good interview. And also, she didn't care about this interview," she told NPR. "So, I gave very short one-word answers and I tried very hard not to be funny or clever, because I thought that the comedy would come out of just, you know, the real human reactions to the situation...and they liked that take on it."[3]

text: "When I went in to the audition, the first question that they asked me in the character of Pam — they said, 'Do you like working as a receptionist?' I said, 'No.' And that was it. I didn't speak any more than that. And they started laughing."[3]

text: Fischer found herself creating a very elaborate backstory for the character. For the first few seasons, she kept a list of the character history revealed on-screen by the creators, as well as her own imaginative thoughts on Pam's history.[4] She created a rule with the set's hair and make-up department that it couldn't look as though it took Pam more than 30 minutes to do her hair,[5] and she formulated ideas as to who gave Pam each piece of jewelry she wore [6] or where she went to college.[6] Fischer also carefully crafted Pam's quiet persona. "Well, my character of Pam is really stuck," she explained to NPR. "I mean, she's a subordinate in this office. And so, I think that for her, the only way she can express herself is in the silences, but you can say so much by not saying anything."[3]

text: Originally meek and passive, the character grew more assertive as the seasons passed, prompting Fischer to reassess her portrayal. "I have to approach Pam differently [now]," she explained in Season 4, a defining season in which her character finally begins a long-awaited relationship with Jim and is accepted into the Pratt Institute. "She is in a loving relationship, she has found her voice, she has started taking art classes. All of these things must inform the character and we need to see changes in the way she moves, speaks, dresses, etc."[4]

text: Character history[edit]

text: Seasons 1–3[edit]

text: At the beginning of the series, Pam and Roy have been dating for eight years and engaged for three years. Their open-ended engagement has become one of Michael's running gags and a sore spot for Pam.

text: Pam does not want her current job to become permanent, remarking that "I don't think it's many little girls' dream to be a receptionist." Pam is apathetic toward her work, evidenced by her frequent games of FreeCell on her office computer. However, in the pilot episode, she breaks down crying when Michael pulls an ill-advised prank by telling her that she will be fired.

text: Michael has criticized Pam for simply forwarding calls to voice mail without answering and (in a deleted scene) for not sounding enthusiastic enough when speaking on the telephone. Pam is usually happy to abandon her work if asked to do something else by Jim. She will do extra, unnecessary work (such as making a casket for a dead bird or paper doves for the Office Olympics) to make other people happy.

text: Despite the abuse she takes from Michael, she never goes any further than calling him a jerk in the pilot. In later seasons, however, she becomes more honest and forward with Michael and will often make sarcastic comments toward him.

text: While engaged to Roy, Pam denies, or is in denial about, having any romantic feelings for Jim. When Jim confesses his love for her at the Dunder Mifflin "Casino Night" she turns him down. She later talks to her mom on the phone and says Jim is her best friend (though she doesn't say his name), and says "Yeah, I think I am" to an unheard question. She is interrupted by Jim, who enters and kisses her; she responds by kissing back.

text: Season three marks a turning point for Pam's character: she gains self-confidence and appears less passive and more self-assured as the season progresses. In "Gay Witch Hunt," the season's opener, it is revealed that Pam got cold feet before her wedding and did not marry Roy after all, and that Jim transferred to a different Dunder Mifflin branch, in Stamford, shortly after Pam rejected him a second time, after their kiss. Pam moves into her own apartment, begins taking art classes, a pursuit that Roy had previously dismissed as a waste of time, and buys a new car, a blue Toyota Yaris. Jim returns to Scranton later on as a result of "The Merger", and brings along a female co-worker, Karen Filippelli, whom he begins dating. Jim and Pam appeared to have ended all communication after Jim transfers to the Stamford branch (aside from an episode in which Jim accidentally calls Pam at the end of the work day), and their episodes together following the branch merge are tense, despite both admitting to still harboring feelings for the other during the presence of the documentary cameras.

text: Meanwhile, Roy vows to win Pam back. Roy's efforts to improve his relationship with Pam are quite successful, but once Pam and Roy are back together, he falls back into old habits almost immediately. When Roy and Pam attend an after work get-together at a local bar with their co-workers, Pam, feeling that she should be more honest with Roy, tells him about Jim kissing her at, "Casino Night." Roy yells, smashes a mirror, and trashes the bar. Pam, frightened and embarrassed by his reaction, breaks up with Roy immediately. Roy vows to kill Jim and in, "The Negotiation", Roy unsuccessfully tries to attack Jim at work (Jim is saved by Dwight's intervention), and is subsequently fired. Pam later reluctantly agrees to meet Roy for coffee at his request, and after the polite but brief meeting, it appears that their relationship has ended amicably with Roy encouraging Pam to pursue Jim.

text: Pam participates in an art show, but few people attend. Her co-worker, Oscar, brings his partner along who, not knowing that Pam is standing behind him, criticizes her work by proclaiming that "real art requires courage." Oscar then goes on to say that courage isn't one of Pam's strong points. Affected by this statement, Pam tells the documentary crew that she is going to be more honest, culminating in a dramatic coal walk during the next-to-last episode of the season, "Beach Games", and a seemingly sincere speech to Jim in front of the entire office about their relationship. Michael also comes to the art show and reveals his erratically kind heart and loyalty by buying, framing and hanging Pam's drawing of the Dunder Mifflin building in the office. In the season finale, "The Job," she leaves a friendly note in Jim's briefcase and an old memento depicting the 'gold medal' yogurt lid from the Office Olympics, which he sees during an interview for a job at Corporate in New York City. While he is asked how he "would function here in New York", Jim is shown to have his mind back in Scranton, still distracted by the thought of Pam. Jim withdraws his name from consideration and drives back to the office, where he interrupts a talking head Pam is doing for the documentary crew by asking her out for dinner. She happily accepts, visibly moved, abandoning a train of thought about how she would be fine if Jim got the job and never came back to Scranton. Karen quits soon after, becoming the regional manager at Dunder Mifflin's Utica branch.

text: Seasons 4–6[edit]

text: In Season 4, Pam retains the assertiveness she developed in the third season. She wears her hair down and has updated her old dowdy wardrobe.

text: In the season 4 premiere, "Fun Run", Jim and Pam confess that they have started dating after the camera crew catches them kissing. The office ultimately learns of their relationship in "Dunder Mifflin Infinity". In "Chair Model", after teasing Pam about his impending proposal, Jim tells the documentary crew he is not kidding around about an engagement and shows them a ring he bought a week after he and Pam started dating. In the next few episodes, Jim fake-proposes to Pam multiple times. In "Goodbye, Toby", Pam discovers she's been accepted at Pratt Institute, an art and design school in Brooklyn . In an interview later in the episode, Jim announces that he will propose to Pam that evening. Just as Jim is preparing to propose, however, Andy Bernard stands up and makes his own impromptu proposal to Angela. Having had his thunder stolen by Andy, Jim reluctantly puts the ring back in his jacket pocket, leaving Pam visibly disappointed as she was expecting Jim to propose that night.

text: In the Season 5 premiere, "Weight Loss", Pam begins her three-month course at the Pratt Institute. In this episode, Jim proposes in the pouring rain at a rest stop, saying that he "can't wait". In "Business Trip", Pam learns that she is failing one of her classes and will have to remain in New York another three months to retake it. Although Jim is supportive and tells her he will wait for her to come back "the right way", she ultimately makes the decision to return home, saying that she realized she hated graphic design and missed Scranton. A deleted scene for the episode shows Jim looking through Pam's graphic design projects, which he thinks are "cool", as well as a notebook filled with pencil sketches, which he finds a lot more impressive than her graphic design projects, implying her talents lie in hand-drawn works. In "Two Weeks", Pam agrees to become Michael's first saleswoman in his not-yet-established company, The Michael Scott Paper Co., as a supportive Jim looks on. When David Wallace makes an offer to buy the company Michael negotiates in order to get their jobs at Dunder Mifflin back instead, including adding Pam to the sales team. In "Company Picnic", Pam, after dominating the company volleyball tournament, injures her ankle during a game and is taken to the hospital against her wishes. At the hospital, the camera crew is stationed outside an exam room while a doctor updates Jim and Pam on her condition. There is no audio as the camera shows Jim and Pam embrace, looking shocked and ecstatic. It is implied that she is pregnant and is confirmed in the Season 6 premiere, "Gossip".

text: Jim and Pam marry early in the season, at Niagara Falls, during the highly anticipated, hour long episode, "Niagara". The ending of the episode, in which their co-workers dance down the aisle, is an imitation of a viral YouTube video — JK Wedding Entrance Dance.[7] Following the wedding, a multi-episode story arc begins in which it is revealed that Michael hooked up with Pam's mother the night of the wedding. The two break up during "Double Date", an episode that ends with Pam slapping Michael in response to his actions.

text: In "The Delivery" of Season 6, Pam and Jim have their first child, a daughter named Cecelia Marie Halpert. Jenna Fischer was granted naming rights by show producers, and chose to name her after her own niece.[8]

text: Season 7[edit]

text: In "Counseling", Pam feels inadequate about her poor performance in sales and tricks Gabe into promoting her to a phony new salaried position called office administrator. In "China", Pam tries to use her authority as office administrator to force building manager Dwight to stop his annoying cost-cutting measures. Pam threatens to move the office to a new building, which Dwight discovers doesn't exist. Pam saves face, however, when Dwight secretly has his assistant provide her with a book on building regulations that proves Dwight's measures were not allowed. The episode is another example of Dwight's covert protectiveness and fondness for Pam (as previously demonstrated in "The Injury", "Back from Vacation", "The Job" and "Diwali"); Mindy Kaling said during an online Q&A session that Dwight has a soft spot for her that he does not extend to anyone else at the office. She also uses her position to buy Erin Hannon an expensive desk top computer to replace the terrible one she had to use for years, as well as discreetly giving Andy a new computer, and giving Darell three sick days. At the end of the episode she proudly says that she is, "Full on corrupt."

text: In "Goodbye, Michael", Pam almost misses saying good-bye to Michael, as she spends most of the day out of the office trying to price shredders. Jim figures out Michael's plan to leave early and tells her by text. Pam reaches the airport in time and is the last person to see Michael before he leaves.

text: Season 8[edit]

text: At the beginning of Season 8, Pam is revealed to be pregnant with her and Jim's second child, Philip Halpert. The child coincided with Jenna Fischer's actual pregnancy. She begins her maternity leave after "Pam's Replacement". Pam returns in "Jury Duty", where she and Jim bring Cece and Phillip into the office. In both "Tallahassee" and "Test the Store" Pam is shown helping, and developing her friendship with Andy.

text: Season 9[edit]

text: Early in season 9, Jim is restless about his life in Scranton and helps a friend start a Sports Marketing business, Athlead, in Philadelphia but he keeps it a secret from Pam until the third episode "Andy's Ancestry". Although Pam is happy for his decision, she is concerned about the fact that he had kept it a secret from her and she is later disturbed to hear about just how much of their money he had invested. Jim begins spending part of each work week in Philadelphia, but in "Customer Loyalty", the strain of this on Pam is evident when she breaks down in tears, and is comforted by Brian, the boom mic operator of the film crew.

text: In "Moving On", Pam interviews for a job in Philadelphia to be closer to Jim, but she is turned off by the idea when her prospective new boss bears a striking resemblance in behavior to Michael Scott. Over dinner, Pam reveals to Jim that she doesn't really want to move to Philadelphia after all. However, in "Livin' the Dream", when Athlead is bought out and Jim is offered a large sum of money for 3 months to pitch the company across the country, Pam overhears Jim refuse the opportunity because of her and appears to have mixed feelings about this decision. In "A.A.R.M.", Pam tells Jim that she's afraid that he will resent her for making him stay and that she might not be enough for him. Jim asks the camera crew to compile documentary footage of the two of them to show her. When she finishes the montage, which shows Jim taking back a letter he intended to give her with his teapot gift during Christmas; Jim finally gives her that letter, and she reads it, visibly moved. In the series finale, which takes place a year later, she reveals to Jim that she secretly put the house on the market, so that they can move to Austin, Texas, and take his job back at Athlead (now Athleap).

text: Coworker relations[edit]

text: From her years working the front desk, Pam has become well-acquainted with the Dunder-Mifflin staff and is consistently shown to have a thorough understanding of her coworkers' personalities, including the more eccentric individuals Dwight Schrute and Michael Scott. She uses this familiarity to manipulate them, often for their and the company's best interests (such as her giving the staff elaborate instructions on how to handle a heartbroken Michael in "The Chump") but also occasionally for her own. This familiarity plays a large part in her efficiency as office administrator and was crucial to her being promoted to the previously non-existent position.

text: Jim Halpert[edit]

text: The "will they or won't they" tension between Jim and Pam is a strong storyline in the early episodes of The Office, encompassing much of Seasons 1 to 3. In the opener of Season 4, the two characters are revealed to be dating, and as such, other character romances, such as the romance between fellow co-workers Dwight Schrute and Angela Martin, begin to move more toward the forefront of episodes. In Season 6, Jim and Pam are married in the season's 4th and 5th episodes (hour long), a feat considered noteworthy by many television critics, as bringing together the two lead love interests in a television series is often thought to be a risky venture.[9] Their child is born in the second half of the season, during another hour long, "The Delivery". Pam and Jim's second child is born during season 8. In season 9, their marriage becomes strained when Jim takes up a second job in Philadelphia. They ultimately decide to leave Dunder Mifflin together so Jim can pursue his dream job.

text: Roy Anderson[edit]

text: When the series begins, Pam is engaged to her high school sweetheart Roy Anderson; this engagement is revealed to be three years old and running. They finally set a date, but Pam calls off the wedding at the last minute. They get back together once, briefly, but Pam is much more assertive, and finally breaks up with him after he has a violent outburst. Roy is deeply flawed - he is overbearing, neglectful, dismissive of her desire to be an artist, and offers her sex as a gift on Valentine's Day. Jim comments in Season 2 that Pam does not like to "bother" Roy with her "thoughts or feelings". He tells the camera crew that the only two problems in Pam's life seemed to be Roy and her job at Dunder Mifflin.

text: In the early seasons, there is a great deal of tension between Jim and Roy, with Roy often acting threateningly towards Jim. In "Basketball", when Jim starts to impress Pam with his basketball skills, Roy elbows Jim in the nose. In season 2, when Jim encourages Pam to pursue a graphic arts internship offered by Dunder Mifflin, Roy objects to the opportunity and eventually convinces her that the idea is foolish. Pam ultimately calls off her wedding to Roy, but they remain friendly and he is determined to win her back by being less of a jerk. She reconciles with Roy at Phyllis's wedding as a response to watching Jim date Karen. In an attempt at a fresh start with Roy, Pam comes clean about Jim kissing her during "Casino Night". Roy flies into a violent rage and Pam ends the relationship on the spot. The next day, Roy attempts to attack Jim in the office but is stopped by Dwight's pepper spray and is summarily fired. After losing his job, Roy meets Pam for coffee and says that even though Jim is dating Karen, she should at least make an effort to date him (inasmuch as she called off the wedding because of him).

text: In season 5, Jim and Roy run into each other at a bar and Roy learns that Jim and Pam are engaged. The mood is somewhat awkward, but Roy is congratulatory, but then makes a somewhat passive-aggressive comment, seemingly meant to make Jim feel insecure about his current role in Pam's life, which tempts him to drive to Pratt, where she is attending art classes. Jim gets on the freeway, but changes his mind and remembers that he trusts Pam. Jim didn't want to treat Pam the same way Roy treated her.

text: Michael Scott[edit]

text: In the series pilot, Michael is overtly rude to Pam and at one point fakes her firing, leaving her in tears. He often makes suggestive if harmless remarks about her beauty and general appearance, and at one point lies to the camera that they used to date (inspiring a horrified "WHAT???" from Pam when an interviewer relays the message to her). However, his impulsive attempt to kiss her during Diwali is shot down and marked the end of any romantic dreams for Michael with Pam. Over time, the combination of Michael being supportive of her goals, her transition from a bad relationship with Roy to a great one with Jim as well as her finding a job she not only enjoys but is effective at in the office administrator position and Michael finding his own soulmate in Holly Flax made Pam soften her stance towards Michael, and the experience at the Michael Scott Paper Company further bonded them (as did Michael's decision to choose Pam instead of Ryan Howard as the only MSPC salesman to keep that job when Michael returned as Branch Manager). Pam was furious at Michael for dating her mom Helene, and excoriated him at length during "The Lover" before eventually slapping him in "Double Date", but they once again were able to be civil to each other afterward. Pam does set up boundaries around her personal life that Michael can't cross, like telling him that he wasn't Cece's godfather. By Season 7, Pam acts as something of a guardian angel for Michael, steering him away from (numerous) bad ideas and towards his (fewer but real) good ones, such as his successful efforts to propose to Holly. In Michael's finale "Goodbye, Michael", Pam spends the whole day looking for a shredder, believing that the next day Michael was leaving. As Michael takes off his microphone and heads down the airport concourse, Pam runs to him with no shoes and hugs him as he kisses her cheek. The two have a nice moment and he walks off, leaving her holding her shoes. She then tells the camera that he was happy, wanting to be an advanced rewards member, and was glad to be going home to see Holly. She then is there to watch Michael's plane take off. In a deleted scene from "The Inner Circle", we learn Pam is flattered that Michael named his new puppy "Pamela Beagsley", and in "The List" she playfully teases Jim by calling their second child "Little Michael Scott", further proving that the two have developed a genuine friendship.

text: Toby Flenderson[edit]

text: Toby, the Human Resources Representative for Dunder Mifflin in the Scranton branch, has a secret crush on Pam. In "A Benihana Christmas" she gives him her Dunder-Mifflin bathrobe, a display of friendly affection, after he spent the day feeling bad that Dwight took his. In "Night Out", Toby awkwardly rubs her knee while they share a laugh (and while Jim sits just on her other side), and the rest of the office watches in horror. In his mortification, Toby immediately announces that he is moving to Costa Rica before jumping over the locked gate and fleeing. In "Goodbye, Toby", he purchases a DSLR camera just to get a picture with Pam. On the eve of his departure, she confesses to the cameras that she always thought he was "kind of cute". The crush receives less attention after Toby's return. However, in "Niagara", Pam and Jim are late for their wedding and he is visibly excited at the prospect that the wedding might not happen. In "Finale", Pam and Toby dance with each other at Dwight's wedding, with Toby beginning to cry as Pam comforts him. When she asks, "is it me?", he replies that "it's everything!".

text: Appearances[edit]

text: Pam Halpert has appeared in every episode with the exceptions of "Business Ethics" (except for the deleted scenes), "St. Patrick's Day", and "New Leads" in which only her voice is heard, and several season 8 episodes from "Mrs. California" to "Pool Party", where she did not appear at all as Fischer was on maternity leave.[10]