“I just EGOT!” a visibly emotional Viola Davis exclaimed onstage at the Grammys, as she achieved the rare distinction of adding a Grammy trophy to complete her EGOT (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) awards.
Davis won a Grammy for the audio book of her memoir Finding Me. It was her first nomination in the best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording category.
“I wrote this book to honor the six-year-old Viola,” said the star. “To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything.”
Davis won her Oscar for supporting actress playing Rose Maxson in the 2016 movie adaptation of the Pulitzer
Prize-winning 1985 play Fences by August Wilson.
She snatched a Tony Best Actress award for the same role in 2010, making her one of nine actors to have achieved such a feat. Her first Tony award was in 2001, as featured actress in King Hedley II.
In September 2015, Davis also made history by being the first African-American to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series as the astute Annalise Keating in the legal drama series, How to Get Away with Murder.
Other notable EGOT recipients include Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Helen Hayes, Jennifer Hudson, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend, and director Mike Nichols.