EGOT Winners | POPSUGAR Leisure

Few golf equipment in Hollywood are as unique as that reserved for EGOT winners. The acronym refers to successful the grand slam of all 4 main leisure awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. Which means the immensely gifted particular person can have displayed excellence in tv, recording, movie, and theater — clearly choosing up an EGOT is not an on a regular basis prevalence.

On the Grammy Awards on Feb. 5, one other actor joined the EGOT membership: Viola Davis. Davis received her first Grammy for greatest audio e-book, narration, and storytelling for narrating the audio model of her 2022 memoir, “Discovering Me.” Davis is the third Black girl to attain EGOT standing after Jennifer Hudson and Whoopi Goldberg, and the fourth black individual after Hudson, Goldberg, and John Legend.

Davis’s entry comes about eight months after Hudson joined the membership. Again in June 2022, Hudson received her Tony due to her work as a producer of the Broadway musical “A Unusual Loop,” which took house the award for greatest musical on the ceremony. That gave Hudson — who beforehand starred on Broadway within the revival of “The Colour Purple” — her first Tony, securing the final award she wanted for her EGOT. At 40, Hudson was the third-youngest individual to EGOT, after Legend and “Frozen” songwriter Robert Lopez, who have been each 39.

Whereas it took some winners their whole careers to nail all 4 corners of the leisure trade, some have been in a position to knock out an EGOT fairly rapidly (like Legend).

Learn on to see who’s earned this unique honor (and the primary awards that acquired them there), then try all of the Hollywood stars who’re *this shut* to getting their very own EGOTs.