Viola Davis wins a Grammy and achieves EGOT status

Viola Davis wins a Grammy and achieves EGOT status

Viola Davis wins a Grammy and achieves EGOT status

Viola Davis joins the shortlist of artists to reach EGOT!

Last Sunday (05) was the Grammy, the premier music awards show that this edition presented awards to Kendrick Lamar, Taylor Swift, and Viola Davis. With her new award, the actress reached EGOT status, having already received Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony joining John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Whoopi Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and Rita Moreno.

Davis received the award for Best Audiobook, Narrative or Narrative Recordingfor the audio version of his autobiography, Looking for me Other big names competed in their category such as Questlove, Mel Brooks, Jamie Foxx and Lin-Manuel Miranda. In her speech she said:

“I wrote this book to honor six-year-old Viola, her life, her joy, her trauma, everything… It was an incredible journey. I just became an EGOT!”

Viola Davis received a Grammy from EGOT

Journey EGOT out Viola Davis began many years ago, with his first Tony in 2001 King Headley II and then in 2010 Fences. A few years later, in 2015 Emmy for her role as Annalize Keating in How to Get Away with Murder and then in 2017 your Oscar for the role of Rose Maxson in The border between us it matches the part Fences.

In theaters, Davis regained attention in 2022 with her performance in woman kingtranslation dwarf commander of the army of the Dahomey kingdom, one of the most powerful places in Africa in the 17-19 centuries. Despite being highly acclaimed, she failed to win a Best Actress nomination at the Oscars this year. One of her next theater projects will be in The Hunger Games: Song of the Birds and Snakeswhere will she live doctor Volumnia Gaulthe villain of the play.

Although the date has not yet been set, the film is expected to be released in 2023.

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