Welcome to the EGOT membership, Viola Davis! On Feb. 5, the “How to Get Away With Murder” actor turned the 18th particular person to win an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony when she gained the Grammy for greatest audio e-book, narration, and storytelling recording for her memoir, “Finding Me.”
Davis beforehand gained an Emmy in 2015 for enjoying the function of Annalise Keating on “HTGAWM,” an Oscar for her supporting function in “Fences,” and two Tonys for “King Hedley II” in 2001 and “Fences” in 2010. She joins a small however elite membership that features the likes of Rita Moreno, John Legend, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Mike Nichols, and Jennifer Hudson.
“It has just been such a journey,” Davis stated as she took the stage to simply accept her award. “I just EGOT! Oh, my God. I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola, to honor her, to honor her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything.”
The 57-year-old actor beforehand revealed that turning into an EGOT can be a significant second in her life. In a January interview with the Grammy Awards web site, Davis shared what the win would imply to her.
“I absolutely, definitely think about it as a huge accomplishment,” she stated of her award-winning profession. “I feel this way, even though it’s probably a very dramatic statement on my part: I think that everybody wants their life to mean something . . . I do believe that you literally wanna blow a hole through this world in whatever way you can.”
She continued, “A lot of people don’t know how to do that. A lot of people haven’t found that thing that they’re passionate about, that they can do. Some have. But we all are looking for that, blowing a hole through this earth before we leave it. I think about that in my work a lot. I really found that thing that I love to do. So I always wanna make it meaningful.”
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