Viola Davis has won an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award, making her the 18th person to do it at the Grammy Awards held at Los Angeles.
‘Finding Me,’ Davis’ autobiography, completed her collection after she won best audio book.
For the award-winning American Actress, her audio book references her experiences at a tender age of six years.
“I wrote this book to honour the six-year-old Viola,” said the star. “To honour her life, her joy, her trauma, everything.”
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For Fences, the actress received the 2016 Best Supporting Actress Oscar.
She won two Tony Awards for her theatre work—featured actress in a play for King Hedley II (2001) and lead actress in a play for Fences—and received an Emmy Award for the television drama How To Get Away With Murder (2010).
The Grammys’ star, who was visibly overcome with emotion as she praised her family for being “the best chapter in my book,” exclaimed, “I just EGOT!”
Sir John Gielgud, Rita Moreno, Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, and Jennifer Hudson are among the 17 other EGOT recipients.
Davis accepted her award during the Grammys’ “premiere ceremony,” which primarily recognises technical and genre categories.
By: Jude Tackie
