Few clubs in Hollywood are as unique as that reserved for EGOT winners. The acronym refers to winning the grand slam of all four major enjoyment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. That usually means the immensely gifted particular person will have displayed excellence in television, recording, movie, and theater — obviously choosing up an EGOT isn’t really an daily occurrence.
At the Grammy Awards back in February, the hottest actor joined the EGOT club: Viola Davis. Davis received her very first Grammy for best audio ebook, narration, and storytelling for narrating the audio version of her 2022 memoir, “Getting Me.” Davis was the third Black girl to realize EGOT position after Jennifer Hudson and Whoopi Goldberg, and the fourth black individual following Hudson, Goldberg, and John Legend.
Davis’s entry arrived about eight months just after Hudson joined the club. Again in June 2022, Hudson won her Tony many thanks to her do the job as a producer of the Broadway musical “A Strange Loop,” which took property the award for very best musical at the ceremony. That gave Hudson — who earlier starred on Broadway in the revival of “The Coloration Purple” — her initially Tony, securing the final award she needed for her EGOT. At 40, Hudson was the third-youngest person to EGOT, right after Legend and “Frozen” songwriter Robert Lopez, who ended up both equally 39.
Even though it took some winners their total occupations to nail all 4 corners of the entertainment field, some were in a position to knock out an EGOT very rapidly (like Legend).
In honor of the information that EGOT winner Mel Brooks just included an additional award to his title with an honorary Oscar set to be introduced in 2024, study on to see who else has attained this exclusive distinction (and the very first awards that bought them there). Then look at out all the Hollywood stars who are *this shut* to having their possess EGOTs.
