Oscar Winners on the Small Screen

Winning an Academy Award used to mean you’d never have to stoop to doing television again. But nowadays, more than a dozen former Oscar winners are finding new dramatic challenges on the small screen. Click through to find out which award-winners you can watch at home every week.

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Anjelica Huston

Won For: Playing mob princess Maerose Prizzi alongside Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in 1985’s “Prizzi’s Honor.”

Now She Plays: Tireless Broadway producer Eileen Rand on NBC’s “Smash.”
Anjelica Huston

Won For: Playing mob princess Maerose Prizzi alongside Jack Nicholson and Kathleen Turner in 1985’s “Prizzi’s Honor.”

Now She Plays: Tireless Broadway producer Eileen Rand on NBC’s “Smash.”