‘I just EGOT!’ Actor Viola Davis wins at 2023 Grammys
LA TimesWith her Grammy win Sunday, Viola Davis is the 18th person to reach EGOT status. Davis was nominated for narrating the audio versions of her 2022 memoir, “Finding Me.” EGOT status, most recently achieved in 2021 by Jennifer Hudson, indicates a person has won at least one of each of the “big four” awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony. The 57-year-old performer won her Emmy the first of the five times she’s been nominated, in 2015, for lead actress in a drama series, “How to Get Away With Murder.” The four-time Academy Award nominee won the supporting actress Oscar in 2017 for “Fences.” The Tony for best actress in a play came years earlier, in 2010, for the stage version of playwright August Wilson’s “Fences.” Davis was up for Sunday’s Grammy against fellow nominees Jamie Foxx, Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda and Questlove. In addition to Hudson, the other 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. Later in 2023, Davis will appear in the movies “The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds and Snakes” and “Air,” in which she plays Michael Jordan’s mom, Deloris.
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