Viola Davis joins the elite group of EGOT winners with her Grammy award on Sunday.
Known as America’s entertainment grand slam, the glorious acronym EGOT stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony winners. He is the 18th person to achieve this status, after Viola Davis, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Andrew Lloyd Webber and John Gielgud.
Viola Davis won her first Grammy on Sunday for the audiobook recording of her memories. find me. She is the third black woman to win a Grammy, after Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson. Musician John Legend was EGOT’s first black male winner in 2018.
“I wrote this book to honor little six-year-old Viola.” said Viola Davis on stage at the ceremony in Los Angeles. “To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. And it was such a journey.”
In the audiobook category, Viola Davis faced off against her EGOT friend Mel Brooks, composer and actor Lin-Manuel Miranda, who had just won an Oscar for EGOT status, and both Oscar and Grammy winner actor Jamie Foxx and musician Questlove.
The 57-year-old actress has four Oscar nominations, making her the most nominated black actress in history. She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for playing the wife of a baseball player. fences. She also won a Tony for Best Actress in 2010 for the same role in the original Broadway play.
She was also nominated for five Emmy Awards and won in 2015 for her performance in the television series. How to Survive Murder? She won a Tony for Best Actress in 2001 for her role in the Broadway play King Hedley II, before winning the Tony award for Fences in 2010.
Her memories detail the racial bullying she suffered as a child in Rhode Island, as well as her journey from being an admirable actress limited to small roles to starring. How to Survive Murder?the series that made him famous.
Melissa Tella
Source: Programme Television
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