Another EGOT winner has been named and added to the list!
Viola Davis, who has recently scored her latest entertainment award, finally completed the holy grail - with a Grammy Award for Best Audiobook Narration, Storytelling Recording for her audiobook "Finding Me."
While accepting her award during the Grammy Awards 2023 Premiere Ceremony, Davis had this to say:
"I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola," she said. "To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. And, it has just been such a journey - I just EGOT!"
Davis won against Jamie Foxx's "Act Like You Got Some Sense," and Mel Brooks' "All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business," Lin Manuel Miranda's "Aristotle and Dante Dive into the Waters of the World," and Questlove's "Music Is History."
Later in the evening, Davis will also be present during the main ceremony as she was announced as an awards presenter along with Olivia Rodrigo, Cardi B, Shania Twain, Dwayne the Rock Johnson, and even First Lady Jill Biden.
An EGOT awardee is someone who has received an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award during their career in the entertainment industry.
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Viola Davis Emmy Award
Davis earned her Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Award the first time she was nominated in 2015 for her outstanding role as Annalise Keating in the legal drama "How To Get Away With Murder."
She was subsequently nominated for the same role three times in the same category and also earned a nod for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series on her crossover episode with "Scandal."
Viola Davis Oscar Award
Meanwhile, Davis earned her Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for "Fences" with Denzel Washington.
She was also nominated for the same category for "Doubt" in 2009 and was nominated for Best Actress in "The Help" and "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
Viola Davis Tony Award
Davis has two Tony Awards on her belt, Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley III" and Best Leading Actress in a Play for "Fences." She was also nominated for "Seven Guitars" in 1996.
Davis is now the third Black woman who has achieved all four awards - she follows Jennifer Hudson and Whoopi Goldberg.
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