EGOT

Viola Davis accepts the award for best audio book, narration and storytelling recording for "Finding Me: A Memoir" at the 65th annual Grammy Awards on February ...

“To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. Davis’ Sunday win for the audiobook of her memoir “Finding Me” completes her EGOT collection. Davis’ career has been studded with awards and firsts.

The actress picked up her trophy for best audio book, narration, and storytelling recording at the event's preshow ceremony on Sunday.

“To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. “I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola,” Davis, 57, said at the podium. It was also her first nomination.

"I just EGOT!" the 57-year-old actor said after winning best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for her memoir, Finding Me, at the Grammys ...

"I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola — to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything," Davis said in her acceptance speech. "And it has been such a journey. The honor follows her Emmy win for How to Get Away With Murder (2015), an Oscar for Fences (2017), and a Tony for both King Hedley II (2001) and Fences (2010).

Actor Viola Davis just became the 18th member of the EGOT club, an elite group of entertainers who have won at least one Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony.

Sunday’s Grammy sealed the deal for the [“The Woman King” actor-producer](https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/awards/story/2022-12-28/viola-davis-julius-tennon-woman-king). Volumnia Gaul) and “Air,” in which she plays Michael Jordan’s mom, Deloris. Davis was nominated for narrating the audio versions of her 2022 memoir, “Finding Me.”

Actress Viola Davis won a Grammy Award on Sunday for narrating the audiobook of her memoir Finding Me, becoming only the 18th person in history to achieve the ...

I just EGOT.” [said](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E1FfCHeDsY8): “I wrote this book to honor the six-year-old Viola. Davis won her first Tony Award in 2001 for her supporting role in the play King Hedley II and in 2010 she would win her second Tony for her leading role in the Broadway revival of the play Fences.

Viola Davis is an EGOT winner after winning a Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording.

( [Every EGOT winner](https://www.vulture.com/2016/06/egot-emmy-grammy-oscar-tony-contenders-odds.html) should be required to do this onstage from now on.) The acclaimed actress joined the small but illustrious group of creatives to snag an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony after winning a gramophone for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording for her 2022 memoir, Finding Me. “I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola,” Davis said in her acceptance speech. [shouted](https://twitter.com/Phil_Lewis_/status/1622349725159538690) from the podium at the Grammys telecast on Sunday evening.

With her Grammy win for best audiobook, Davis becomes the first actor in nearly 30 years to achieve a particularly impressive type of EGOT status.

[John Legend](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2018/09/john-legend-emmy-egot), and, most recently, [Jennifer Hudson](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2022/06/jennifer-hudson-achieves-egot-status-with-a-strange-loop-tony-win). Until then, Davis holds the distinction of being the 18th EGOT member and one of the very best to ever do it. Producing, of course, is a vital part of the artistic process that deserves to be celebrated, and an EGOT is an EGOT no matter how you achieve it. Plenty of people, from rappers Common and Eminem, to actors including Kate Winslet, Frances McDormand, Cynthia Erivo, and Hugh Jackman, to musicians like Elton John and Cyndi Lauper are one competitive award win away from achieving EGOT status. Many performers on the EGOT list have earned at least one of their competitive awards via producing: Jennifer Hudson’s best-musical Tony for A Strange Loop in 2022 and her Daytime Emmy for outstanding interactive media for a daytime program for Baba Yaga in 2021; John Legend for best revival of a play for August Wilson’s Jitney in 2017; and Whoopi Goldberg’s best-musical Tony for Thoroughly Modern Millie in 2002. [Coming to (and Leaving) Netflix](https://www.vanityfair.com/hollywood/2023/01/new-on-netflix-the-best-movies-and-tv-shows-coming-and-leaving-in-february-2023?itm_content=footer-recirc&itm_campaign=more-great-stories-011823)in February Not since Audrey Hepburn won best spoken word album for children in 1994 has an actor achieved EGOT status by winning all of their awards in a performance-based category. Still, her recent EGOT achievement solidifies that Davis— She becomes just the 18th person in history to win a competitive Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony. Davis is no stranger to breaking down barriers. Davis’s journey to EGOT began with her Tony-award-winning performance as Tonya in August Wilson’s King Hedley II in 2001. “To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything.