She could have been unfairly snubbed for an Academy Award nomination for her efficiency in “The Woman King,” however Viola Davis has one thing greater to rejoice this month. During a pre-broadcast ceremony this afternoon, Davis gained a Grammy Award within the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class for her personal memoir, “Finding Me.” She now has gained all 4 main leisure awards touchdown her within the coveted EGOT membership.
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How did she do it? Davis first gained a Tony Award in 2001 for Best Featured Actress in a Play for “King Hedley II” (she subsequently gained a second Tony in 2010 for “Fences”). She gained an Emmy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for “How To Get Away With Murder.” Two years later she gained an Oscar within the Best Supporting Actress class for the display screen model of “Fences.” Today, her Grammy award accomplished a 22-year journey to achieve EGOT standing.
It was Davis’ first Grammy Award nomination. Previous winners in her class embrace Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton, Martin Luther King, Jr., Maya Angelou, Ben Kingsley, Earvin “Magic” Johnson, Sidney Poitier, Betty White, Michael J. Fox, Jimmy Carter, Michelle Obama, and Don Cheadle.
The South Carolina native turns into simply the third African-American girl to win EGOT after Whoopi Goldberg in 2022 and Jennifer Hudson, who pulled off the quadrupole crown final 12 months. Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno are the one different ladies to have gained within the “traditional” method. Barbra Streisand certified by receiving a Special Tony Award in 1970 whereas Liza Minnelli gained in the event you depend her 1990 Grammy Legend Award (barely doubtful).
There at the moment are 18 “traditional” EGOT winners and 4 further which can be up for debate.
Over her profession, Davis has additionally gained a BAFTA Award, a Golden Globe, and, remarkably, six SAG Awards. Her upcoming characteristic movie credit embrace Ben Affleck’s “Air” and Francis Lawrence’s “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” which is able to hit theaters later this 12 months. She’s additionally anticipated to star within the new DC Studios and HBO Max sequence “Waller.” When that lately introduced challenge goes earlier than cameras is unclear right now.