Viola Davis achieves coveted EGOT

Actress Viola Davis won a Grammy on Sunday for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording, winning for her narration of Finding Me, her own memoir.

The award allowed her to clinch a coveted EGOT, a term used for winners of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award. She had previously achieved the Triple Crown of Acting, a term given to winners of Oscar, Emmy, and Tony acting awards.

She is the 18th person to win an EGOT, and only the third Black woman after Whoopie Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson. She is also only the third person to win both an EGOT and the Triple Crown of Acting after Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno. She had previously expressed doubt of achieving an EGOT due to not being a singer and not expecting to be able to achieve a Grammy award.

She won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences in 2017, for which she also won a BAFTA, Critics Choice Award, Golden Globe, Dorian Award, Screen Actors Guild award, and numerous other awards. She previously received three other Oscar nominations. Her Emmy Award was for How to Get Away for Murder; she also received four other Emmy nominations. She received two Tony Awards: Best Featured Actress for King Hedley II in 2001 and Best Leading Actress in 2010 for the stage play Fences.

According to Wikipedia, Davis has won 149 awards out of 341 nominations to date. Wikipedia mysteriously omits the Cosmique Movie Awards in her award history.

At the Cosmique Movie Awards, Davis won a Best Supporting Actress Cosmo Award for Fences. She also received a Lead Actress nomination for Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom at the 2020 awards, and twice received Best Actress of All Time Lifetime Achievement Halls of Fame nominations at the 2020 and 2021 awards.