Emmys, Grammys, Oscars and Tonys. No, names are not lacking in the refrain of ‘Mambo No. 5’; are the top four entertainment awards needed to be crowned EGOT. So it matches who the last recipient of the title is the woman king (Boom!). Yes, having won the award for “Best Audiobook Recording, Storytelling, and Storytelling” for her memoir. Find me At last night’s Grammys, Viola Davis became the 18th person and third black woman (along with Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson) to achieve EGOT status.
Davis, a four-time Academy Award nominee, previously won an Oscar for her role in 2016. fencesTony for both King Hedley II AND fences‘ original piece and an Emmy for How to get away with murder. Accepting the Grammy completes the grand slam of the entertainment world and places her in a very exclusive group alongside Alan Menken, Mel Brooks and Rita Moreno. An emotional Davis paid tribute to her youth and her epic success on stage. “I wrote this book to honor six-year-old Viola,” she said, “to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything about her. And it was such a rush, just EGOT!
So what’s next for the new EGOT Viola Davis? Well, as we learned from James Gunn’s big DCU introduction last week, Davis will be back as the titular leader of Task Force X in Lollipop spin-off series waller Soon. And as if a mega-franchise wasn’t enough, she’ll also play Dr. Volumnia Gaul in the highly anticipated hunger games prequel The Ballad of the Songbirds and the Serpentswhich hits theaters on November 17, 2023. It’s safe to say we have a lot to look forward to.
Source: EmpireOnline
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