Name some genuine triple threats!

CZJ!

Jamie Foxx

Liza!!!

Angela Lansbury

Melissa Beth Miller! She's a quintuple threat, really - acting, singing, dancing, burping on command and proficient in Pig Latin!

Ariana DeBose is one.

Beanie!

Huge Ackman

Teri Hatcher

Lisa Rinna

Liza

Micheal J. Fox

Stephen Hawkins

Heather McCartney

Selma Blair

Christina Applegate

Teri Garr

Christopher Reeve

Lady Gaga

Nasally Vegas acts are GARBAGE. My God! You KNOW NOTHING!!! I sing everything perfectly. Shut up!

Oh God on a wheel!

Shirley Booth

Dick Van Dyke, bitches!

Justin Timberlake.

I think he did fairly well in Alpha Dog and Black Snake Moan.

^ Also, 2006-2007 was really his moment. Two movies, a #1 hit song (SexyBack), and album. Dude was killing it.

J-Lo

Jennifer Lopez OBVIOUSLY

Jamie Foxx. Acting, singing and is actually a classically trained pianist.

James Marsden, Zac Efron, Travolta.

R1- And still so young!

Judy Garland

Ann Margret . Mitzi Gaynor, Carol Lawrence

Back in the day: Ruthie Henshall.

Toni Collette.

Kevin Spacey!

I don't count Ann-Margret as a triple threat. A triple threat should do all three equally well. A-M's singing was crummy.

Chita Rivera

“A-M's singing was crummy.“

Breathless intoning is not singing.

R1

Some of you blockerloonies need to get over yourselves.

Gene Kelly

Donald O’Connor

Debbie Reynolds

James Cagney

The idea of a Triple Threat nowadays is less important because dancing is less important than it used to be. Films don’t have (luckily) long dance sequences anymore, even if they are musicals. And even the worst dancers nowadays can still be presentable with enough edits and takes.

Pia Zadora

Mitzi Gaynor and Gene Kelly were passable but not great actors.

Triple threat? How about denary/tenfold threat?!

singer, dancer, comedienne, monologist, mistress of ceremonies, after-dinner speaker, saxophonist, star, bit player, or extra."

Frank Sinatra could sing, act and dance.

Emma Stone.

Jussie Smolett. He even does his own stunts!

Li'l Magic

Ahem.

Sammy Davis, Jr.

Ansel Elgort

The "acting" part of a lot of these triple threats seems dubious. Many of them are just a celebrity projections of themselves whatever they're supposed to be doing.

They can act that well enough not to look like they're in amateur theatricals, but they wouldn't be a threat to a real actor.

Chrissy Metz

Ray Bolger.

R2 you beat me to it. And he’s not the best singer bits pretty damned well versed.

Vanessa Williams

Erykah Badu

Jesse Martin, best known as Det. Green on Law & Order: He played Tom Collins in [italic]Rent[/italic]. He discussed working with Gregory Hines and being thrilled when Hines started to tap. Martin said he started as a dancer.

The Brady kids. Actors! Singers! Dancers!

Leslie Odom, Jr.

Meryl Streep Neil Patrick Harris Amy Adams

R3 With a Z!!

Judy Garland.

Others here seem to think just because you can do one of these means that you are a "threat" in that category.

Julie Andrews Rita Hayworth Rita Moreno Ginger Rogers

Jonathan Bailey

Meryl can sing? I never knew that.

Diana Ross if not mentioned already.

Chita is still the best!

No one starring in La La Land.

R55 out of control talent on parade

Madonna

Brandy

Joyce DeWitt

Rose Tyler

Jessie Buckley. I haven't seen her in the London Cabaret from last year, so I'm not sure if there's much dancing involved, but she sounds great on the cast recording, so she can at least do two of them.

Let's throw a bone to Alexis Smith who unlocked singing and dancing talents in middle age when she starred in Follies on Broadway. Bette Davis gave an interview where she expressed how shocked she was that Alexis could do all those things after never being given that many meaty roles during her studio system days.

Raquel Welch might not have been a great singer, dancer, or actor, but she could technically do them all to a competent level. That counts as something.

Was Rita Moreno serious with this shit?

G

RDJ acts, sings and plays the piano. Not sure about dancing, though.

Danny Kaye could dance and sing and was pretty good in the anti-Nazi drama Skokie.

[quote] Frank Sinatra could sing, act and dance.

Sort of. He could sing better than anyone, of course, and he was a fine dancer; but he was lazy about acting and often refused to do multiple takes, and as a result, his acting suffered.

LucyMame

Jason Dottley - can't sing, can't act, can't dance

[quote] Meryl can sing? I never knew that.

Meryl has quite a nice voice. She did all her own singing in (among other films) "Postcards from the Edge," "Ironweed," "Into the Woods," and, most memorably, "Death Becomes Her" (where she shows she can not only sing but belt).

Dame Edna.

Singing sensation Pierce Brosnan.

Broadway is full of them!!

I’m tired of THAT kind of performer and so is everybody else. They’re exhausting!

SHIRLEY MACLAINE

Janet Jackson is a nipple threat.

R77 . . .

87 responses and no one has mentioned DL's original triple-threat, Karen Ziemba??!!

Lina Lamont!

Meryl's voice was at it's strongest in, of all things, The Prom on Netflix. She sounded excellent in that and appeared to be having the time of her life.

James Marsden and I'm not even kidding or being facetious

Ok Meryl can sing and obviously act but she can dance? I doubt it.

Mary J Blige

R24 R28 R30 Ann leaves it all on the field here.

THIS is the best Ann-Margret clip

Triple threat DORIS DAY - she really could sing, act and dance. She did a lot of dancing in her early Warner Brothers movies.

Beth Howland was more than an exploding box of straws. She acted like Vera, she sang Sondheim on Broadway, and she tap-tap-tapped our cares away.

Googie Gomez

Well, not Janet Jackson. She can't do any of those three things. It must be so embarrassing for her.

R99, no worries: Janet easily qualifies for the the Lina Lamont Triple Threat prize.

R96 Doris wasn't much of an actress if you measure acting by how someone cries. She cried the way Mitzi Gaynor did - putting her face in her hands and shaking her head.

R61 - not Rita Hayworth. Her singing was always dubbed in production numbers. It's said that she sang with her own voice in one scene in Gilda and then later on The Carol Burnett Show.

Gwen Verdon.

Lizah. With a Zhee.

Barbra.

Ben Vereen. The real thing. Legend.

Can Chris Messina sing well? I can't find any evidence for or against.

Ann Miller

Ginger Rogers

Ginger's a pretty weak example. That she won the Oscar over Bette Davis in The Letter, Joan Fontaine in Rebecca and Katharine Hepburn in The Philadelphia Story is unbelievable.

Are you kidding me, OP? As if anyone even gives a Ganges-filled shit about India outside of our IT and spice needs. Go back to pooping in the street you three-armed Dengue faggot. Bollywood is garbage. Indian men are asshole rapists with ugly dicks.

Diana Ross and Sammy Davis Jr

Prince

I saw Prince do Hamlet with a 12 minute guitar solo.

Goldie Hawn. Sort of.

Any Kardashian.

They can suck, fuck, and take it up the butt in 60 seconds flat, including the tranny.

I’ve had them all.

Ann Reinking?

No, r117

And why not, R118?

Shirley Temple Michael Jackson Stephanie Mills Dionne Warwick

Bob Barker, slaughterhouse worker.

Vanessa Williams

R61 & R102: Rita wanted singing lessons, but her studio wouldn’t pay for them and didn’t give her the time she needed to learn on her own. The public didn’t know that her songs in the movies were dubbed. She was embarrassed when she was asked to sing by the troops at USO shows.

Miss Joey Heatherton!

R124, Have you ever seen her act?