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Viola Davis, one of the greatest actors of this generation, has just entered entertainment’s most exclusive and admired club with her Grammy win on Sunday, Feb. 5, 2023. By winning her first Grammy Award for her audiobook performance of her memoir, Finding Me, Davis became just the fourth African American entertainer to achieve the rare […]
It’s official — RI’s Viola Davis is an “EGOT.” The acronym stands for the small circle of artists who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony (EGOT) — and it is an exclusive club.
Following her new GRAMMY win, Viola Davis has become the 18th person in history to achieve the EGOT status. Davis has won two Tony Awards for King Hedley II in 2001 and then for Fences in 2010. She won an Emmy Award for How to Get Away With Murder and an Oscar for reprising her stage role in the film adaptation of Fences.
Davis won the GRAMMY Award for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording.
Poised to star as both Michelle Obama and blues legend Ma Rainey, Viola Davis says the key to a character is discovering what they're fighting for and what holds them back. She talked to V.F. about her own extraordinary journey out of poverty and into the deeply troubling Hollywood system