Which means on February 5th, Viola Davis could become our 23rd EGOT winner. Davis was nominated for a Grammy on Tuesday in the 'Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording' category for narrating the audiobook to her own memoir Finding Me.

And as of this week, she's in a position to make that happen. Only 22 people have ever achieved this, with the most recent to earn the distinction being Jennifer Hudson, after her Tony Award this past spring for producing the musical A Strange Loop.Īn even larger group are stranded one award away, and that's where Davis sits, needing a Grammy to complete the quartet.

Artists who have won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award include such legends as Richard Rodgers, Audrey Hepburn, Rita Moreno, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, and Andrew Lloyd Webber. Along with her Emmy win in 2015 for How to Get Away With Murder and two Tony Awards (in 2001 for King Hedley II and in 2010 for Fences), Davis stands one award away from the prestigious EGOT disctinction.

Ever since she won the Academy Award for her performance in Fences in 2017, Viola Davis has found herself in rarefied air among entertainers.

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