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Viola Davis' Best Performances: Legacy Makers
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Viola Davis has officially go the 18th EGOT recipient pursuing her 2023 Grammy Award triumph for Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording for her memoir, Finding Me.
The actress—who volition besides contiguous astatine the Feb. 5 grant amusement hosted by Trevor Noah—beat retired Jamie Foxx, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and chap EGOT victor Mel Brooks to get the highly coveted grant astatine the Premiere Ceremony, which was livestreamed connected YouTube.
"Oh my God," she said portion accepting her award. "I wrote this publication to grant the 6-year-old Viola, to grant her, to grant her life, her joy, her trauma, her everything."
"It has conscionable been specified a journey," she said. "I conscionable EGOT!"
The Grammy Award present completes Davis' quest for EGOT status, which already included her 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress successful a Play for King Hedley II, her 2015 Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder and her 2017 Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for Fences.
Davis antecedently discussed the possibility of reaching EGOT level aft Grammy voting had closed, admitting the academy should propulsion her a bone.
"I person to archer you—the Grammy thing. I'm a superior actor. I am," she said connected Jimmy Kimmel Live successful January. "I went to Juilliard; I consciousness it's astir the work. It's similar my niece Annabella, who had a meltdown astatine Circus Circus erstwhile she was 6 years old. Snot dripping and crying, and each she was saying was, 'I wanna win! I wanna win!' In my brain, with the Grammy, I'm like, 'I wanna win! I wanna win!'"
"There's thing successful maine that says that I merit it," Davis said of her competition. "All of them person already won it!"
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Prior to 2023, Jennifer Hudson was the most caller summation to the list pursuing her 2022 Tony Awards win. They are some joined by Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend and Alan Menken, to sanction a few.
Don't miss E!'s 2023 Grammy Awards reddish carpet Sunday, Feb. 5, starting astatine 4 p.m. ET/1 p.m. PT followed by the Grammys telecast astatine 8 p.m. ET/5 p.m. PT connected CBS.
