LOS ANGELES – Viola Davis has achieved EGOT status.
The actor won a Grammy Awards Sunday for Best Audiobook, Best Narrative, and Best Storytelling Recording for her memoir, Finding Me.
“I just EGOT!” she yelled from the stage as she accepted the trophy, using the term for the rare person to have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony over the course of her career.
The acclaimed actress has two Tonys, most recently for Fences in 2010, won an Emmy for How to Get Away with Murder in 2015 and won an Oscar for the film adaptation of Fences in 2017.
“Oh my god,” she said. “I wrote this book to honor 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. And it was just such a journey.”
There were some seriously famous winners in the audio book category, including Michelle Obama and ex-presidents Barack Obama, Bill Clinton and Jimmy Carter.
Davis’ other nominees that year included Lin-Manuel Miranda, Jamie Foxx and one of the other 17 members of the EGOT club, Mel Brooks.
Other EGOT winners include Jennifer Hudson, John Legend and Rita Moreno.
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