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Viola Davis' Best Performances: Legacy Makers
Viola Davis conscionable recovered herself 1 measurement person to an exclusive award-winning circle.
The Suicide Squad star conscionable secured her archetypal Grammy grant information successful the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class for her 2022 memoir Finding Me. If she wins, Viola volition articulation the tiny radical of EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony—winners arsenic its 18th member.
Throughout her three-decade agelong career, the histrion has picked up respective awards—including 2 Tony Awards for her enactment connected Broadway, 1 Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress successful a Drama Series for How To Get Away with Murder and an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, which she earned for the 2016 movie Fences. (Fun Fact: She won her 2nd Tony successful 2010 for the signifier accumulation of Fences.)
And respective of her awards marked large milestones. Viola became the archetypal histrion of colour to triumph the Emmy for Lead Actress successful a play successful 2015, for her relation arsenic ruthless lawyer Annalise Keating successful the ABC drama. She is besides archetypal Black performer to triumph the Triple Crown of Acting by winning a competitory Oscar, Emmy and Tony, a feat she accomplished successful 2016.
And her Grammy triumph could marque her the 3rd Black woman—alongside Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson—to triumph an EGOT.
"What keeps maine successful the concern is hope," Viola said astatine the 2011 Elle Women successful Hollywood event. "And that's the anticipation that women of colour are besides a portion of the narrative, that our stories are conscionable arsenic potent, due to the fact that we besides person the powerfulness of transformation. We besides person the powerfulness to beryllium quirky, and sexy, and different, funny, heartfelt and each of those things."
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Facing disconnected against Viola for the Best Audio Book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording Grammy are Mel Brooks (who is already an EGOT winner), Jamie Foxx, Questlove and Lin-Manuel Miranda, who conscionable needs an Oscar for his ain EGOT.
The 65th yearly Grammy Awards volition beryllium held connected Feb. 5, 2023.
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