Davis finally completed her EGOT on Sunday, when she won the GRAMMY for Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording. The 57-year-old actress took home the award for her performance of the audio version of Finding Me: A Memoir.
“I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola… I just EGOT!” Davis said while accepting the award.
Davis previously won an Emmy, Oscar and Tony — the Triple Crown of Acting — between 2001, when she was first recognized for her performance in the Broadway production of King Hedley II, and 2017, when she won at the Academy Awards for the film adaptation of Fences. She took home an Emmy in 2015 for the ABC drama, How to Get Away With Murder. Davis was in a challenging Grammy category. In fact, she was the only rookie nominee up against four previous Grammy champs: Jamie Foxx (“Act Like You Got Some Sense”), Lin-Manuel Miranda (“Aristotle and Dante Dive Into the Waters of the World”), Questlove (“Music is History”) and fellow EGOT recipient Mel Brooks (“All About Me!: My Remarkable Life in Show Business”). Davis adds this title to her two Tony Awards (“King Hedley II,” “Fences”), her Oscar (the film adaptation of “Fences”), and her Emmy (“How to Get Away with Murder”). From her first award (Tony for “King Hedley” in 2001) to her last (Grammy for “Finding Me” in 2023), it took Davis almost 22 years to complete her EGOT.
She joins an elite list of artists who have also won all four. In addition to Brooks, the EGOT list includes composer Richard Rodgers, actress Helen Hayes, actress Rita Moreno, actor and director John Gielgud, actress Audrey Hepburn, composer Marvin Hamlisch, composer and orchestrator Jonathan Tunick, director Mike Nichols, actor and producer Whoopi Goldberg, producer Scott Rudin, songwriter Robert Lopez, composer Andrew Lloyd Webber, lyricist Tim Rice, singer and producer John Legend, composer Alan Menken, and most recently singer and producer Jennifer Hudson.
