Viola Davis earned the rare EGOT status with her first Grammy Award on Sunday for her audiobook memoir, titled “Finding Me.”
Davis has already earned an Oscar Award, 2 Tony Awards and an Emmy, which are required for EGOT status.
With her Grammy win, Davis, 57, becomes the third Black woman in history to achieve the EGOT.
Only 18 stars have achieved EGOT status — and only 4 are Black. They are Davis, Whoopi Goldberg, John Legend and Jennifer Hudson.
“Oh, my God,” Davis said during her acceptance speech. “It has just been such a journey. I just EGOT!”
“I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything.”
Davis won the Academy Award for best supporting actress in 2017 for her role in the 2016 movie “Fences”. She won an Emmy in 2015 for TV’s “How to Get Away with Murder.” And she earned 2 Tony awards, for “King Hedley II” and the Broadway production of “Fences.”
“I think that everybody wants their life to mean something,” she said in an interview with The Recording Academy in January. “I believe in the Cherokee birth blessing, which is, ‘May you live long enough to know why you were born.’ I do believe that you literally wanna blow a hole through this world in whatever way you can.”
The 65th Annual Grammy Awards air on Sunday, Feb. 5 at 8 PM EST.
