Welcome to the EGOT membership, Viola Davis! On Feb. 5, the “How to Get Away With Murder” actor grew to become the 18th particular person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony when she gained the Grammy for greatest audio guide, narration, and storytelling recording for her memoir, “Finding Me.”
Davis beforehand gained an Emmy in 2015 for enjoying the function of Annalise Keating on “HTGAWM,” an Oscar for her supporting function in “Fences,” and two Tonys for “King Hedley II” in 2001 and “Fences” in 2010. She joins a small however elite membership that features the likes of Rita Moreno, John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mike Nichols, and Jennifer Hudson.
“It has simply been such a journey,” Davis mentioned as she took the stage to simply accept her award. “I simply EGOT! Oh, my God. I wrote this guide to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, to honor her life, her pleasure, her trauma, her every little thing.”
The 57-year-old actor beforehand revealed that turning into an EGOT could be a serious second in her life. In a January interview with the Grammy Awards web site, Davis shared what the win would imply to her.
“I completely, positively give it some thought as an enormous accomplishment,” she mentioned of her award-winning profession. “I really feel this fashion, although it is in all probability a really dramatic assertion on my half: I feel that everyone desires their life to imply one thing . . . I do consider that you just actually wanna blow a gap by this world in no matter manner you’ll be able to.”
She continued, “Lots of people do not understand how to do this. Lots of people have not discovered that factor that they are keen about, that they will do. Some have. But all of us are in search of that, blowing a gap by this earth earlier than we go away it. I take into consideration that in my work loads. I actually discovered that factor that I like to do. So I all the time wanna make it significant.”