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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Liza Minnelli

Won For: Playing nightclub performer Sally Bowles in the 1972 film adaptation of “Cabaret.”

Now She Plays: Buster’s often-dizzy love interest Lucille 2 on “Arrested Development,” resuming this May on Netflix.
Liza Minnelli

Won For: Playing nightclub performer Sally Bowles in the 1972 film adaptation of “Cabaret.”

Now She Plays: Buster’s often-dizzy love interest Lucille 2 on “Arrested Development,” resuming this May on Netflix.