LOS ANGELES — Add one more honor to Viola Davis’ lengthy listing of accolades.
On Sunday, the acclaimed actor turned the 18th EGOT winner when she earned a Grammy Award within the audio ebook, narration and storytelling recording class. Davis was nominated for narrating the audio variations of her 2022 memoir, “Finding Me.”
EGOT standing, most not too long ago achieved in 2021 by Jennifer Hudson, signifies an individual has received at the very least considered one of every of the “big four” awards: Emmy (tv), Grammy (recording arts), Oscar (movie) and Tony (stage). Sunday’s Grammy sealed the deal for the “The Woman King” actor-producer.
The 57-year-old performer received her Emmy the primary of the 5 instances she’s been nominated, in 2015, for lead actress in a drama collection, “How to Get Away With Murder.”
The four-time Academy Award nominee received the supporting actress Oscar in 2017 for “Fences.” The Tony for greatest actress in a play got here years earlier, in 2010, for the stage model of playwright August Wilson’s “Fences.”
Davis was up for Sunday’s Grammy towards fellow nominees Jamie Foxx (“Act Like You Got Some Sense”), Mel Brooks (“All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business by Mel Brooks”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World”) and Questlove (“Music Is History”).
In addition to Hudson, the opposite EGOT winners are — in reverse chronological order — Alan Mencken, John Legend, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Robert Lopez, Scott Rudin, Whoopi Goldberg, Mike Nichols, Mel Brooks, Jonathan Tunick, Marvin Hamlisch, Audrey Hepburn, John Gielgud, Rita Moreno, Helen Hayes and Richard Rodgers.
Other entertainers — together with Barbra Streisand and Harry Belafonte — have received all 4 awards, however at the very least considered one of them was in a non-competitive class (equivalent to particular or honorary).
Legend was the youngest individual to log all 4 awards (when he was 39); Gielgud (who did it at 87) was the oldest.
Later in 2023, Davis will seem within the motion pictures “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” (as Dr. Volumnia Gaul) and “Air,” wherein she performs Michael Jordan’s mother, Deloris.
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