“‘It has usually been such a journey. we usually EGOT!’ ”
That was behaving fable Viola Davis usurpation her initial Grammy Award on Sunday — in the audio book, exegesis and storytelling recording difficulty — for narrating a audio versions of her 2022 discourse “Finding Me.”
This Grammy was a final endowment that Davis, 57, indispensable to bind desired EGOT standing — that is, winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony endowment over one’s career.
Just 18 people (including Davis) have achieved EGOT status, and Davis is usually a third Black lady — and fourth Black person, duration — to explain a honor, alongside Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.
“Oh my God,” Davis pronounced while usurpation a endowment on Sunday afternoon, usually hours before a primetime Grammy Awards promote was set to begin. “I wrote this book to respect a 6-year-old Viola, to respect her, to respect her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything.”
Previously, Davis scored a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress in 2017 for personification Rose Maxson in a film instrumentation of “Fences.” She also won a Tony endowment for best lead singer in a play for a theatre prolongation of “Fences,” as good as a Tony for best featured singer in a play for “King Hedley II” in 2001.
And she won her Emmy personification shameful rapist invulnerability profession and law highbrow Annalise Keating in “How to Get Away with Murder.”
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Davis was also set to be one of a presenters during a 65th Grammy Awards on Sunday, that was being hosted by Trevor Noah.
