{"id":1135637,"date":"2023-02-05T13:14:12","date_gmt":"2023-02-05T18:14:12","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/viola-davis-earns-coveted-egot\/1135637\/"},"modified":"2023-02-05T13:14:12","modified_gmt":"2023-02-05T18:14:12","slug":"viola-davis-earns-coveted-egot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bugaluu.com\/news\/viola-davis-earns-coveted-egot\/1135637\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis earns coveted EGOT"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viola Davis has earned the rare and coveted EGOT status \u2014 becoming the third Black woman in history to achieve the honor.<\/p>\n

On Sunday<\/a>, the 57-year-old actress earned her first Grammy for her performance of the audiobook for her memoir \u201cFinding Me.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cIt has just been such a journey,” Davis said while accepting the award. “I just EGOT!\u201d<\/p>\n

The awards term \u201cEGOT\u201d refers to people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony over the course of their careers in entertainment. Only 18 people have achieved the status, and Davis is the fourth Black person alongside Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson to complete the EGOT.\u00a0<\/p>\n

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Davis already has an Oscar, two Tony\u2019s and an Emmy.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cOh my God,” Davis said on Sunday. “I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for her role as housewife Rose Maxson in 2016\u2019s \u201cFences.\u201d She earned an Emmy in 2015 for her role as Annalise Keating in “How to Get Away with Murder”, making her the first Black woman to win the lead drama actress award. She has two Tony awards, one for \u201cKing Hedley II\u201d and the Broadway production of \u201cFences.\u201d<\/p>\n

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Davis reflected on her career and Grammy nod in a January interview<\/a>, and said achieving EGOT status would be a \u201chuge accomplishment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cI think that everybody wants their life to mean something,\u201d she said. \u201cI believe in the Cherokee birth blessing, which is, \u2018May you live long enough to know why you were born.\u2019 I do believe that you literally wanna blow a hole through this world in whatever way you can.\u00a0<\/p>\n

\u201cA lot of people don\u2019t know how to do that. A lot of people haven\u2019t found that thing that they\u2019re passionate about, that they can do. Some have. But we all are looking for that, blowing a hole through this earth before we leave it. I think about that in my work a lot. I really found that thing that I love to do. So I always wanna make it meaningful.\u201d<\/p>\n

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