Viola Davis was already the GOAT, but now she’s also an EGOT, with a win at the 2023 Grammy Awards for the audiobook narration of her debut memoir, Finding Me.
Davis, who has had some of this generation’s most iconic roles in films such as “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom” and “The Woman King,” was the only one in the Best Narrative Audiobook category not to receive a Grammy before Sunday . Night.
He faced Questlove, Jamie Foxx, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Mel Brooks, who became an EGOT winner in 2001.
The win makes Davis, 57, the fourth black person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony, following Whoopi Goldberg, Jennifer Hudson and John Legend. Quincy Jones, James Earl Jones and Harry Belafonte’s respective honorary awards also make them EGOT winners. He is the eighteenth person to receive this status.
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Davis has collected these awards since 2001, when she won her first Tony for best actress in “King Hedley II.”
She won her second Tony in 2010 as a leading actress in the Broadway production of “Fences” by August Wilson.
In 2015, she received an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her lead role in How to Get Away With Murder. In 2017, she won Best Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards for the film adaptation of Fences.
