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Lila
Kedrova
won the 1964 Best Supporting Actress Oscar as
Madame Hortense in Zorba the Greek, and 20 years later
won a Tony for the same role in the musical Zorba.
Anthony
Quinn played Zorba in both productions,
winning an Oscar nomination for the film but going unrewarded
for the stage version. He did receive a Tony nomination in
1961 for playing Henry II in Becket.
Eight
performers have won the Tony and later the Oscar for the same role:
- José
Ferrer in Cyrano de Bergerac (Tony: 1947/Oscar: 1950)
- Shirley Booth
in Come Back, Little Sheba (1950/1953)
- Yul Brynner
in The King and I (1952/1956)
- Rex Harrison
in My Fair Lady (1957/1964)
- Anne Bancroft
in The Miracle Worker (1960/1962)
- Paul Scofield
in A Man for All Seasons (1962/1966)
- Jack Albertson
in The Subject Was Roses (1965/1968),
- Joel Grey
in Cabaret (1967/1973).
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