Grammy Nomination Locations Viola Davis In Attain Of EGOT

After Tuesday morning’s Grammy nominations, Viola Davis may very well be the subsequent entertainer to win the EGOT, the acronym used for an artist profitable an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony.

As Leisure Weekly factors out, Davis already has an Emmy, an Oscar and two Tonys, and obtained a Grammy nomination within the Finest Audio E-book, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class, for her narration the audiobook model of her current memoir Discovering Me.

Davis is up towards a fairly steep area of competitors, with fellow nominees in that class together with Mel Brooks (who has already achieved the EGOT), Lin-Manuel Miranda (who has an Emmy, a Tony and a Grammy, and is simply an Oscar away from his personal EGOT), Jamie Foxx and Questlove.

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Davis received her first (and to this point, solely) Oscar and her second Tony for a similar position, Rose Maxson in “Fences”, profitable the Finest Supporting Actress Oscar for the 2016 movie adaptation and the Tony in 2010 for originating the position on “Broadway” (she received her first Tony in 2001, for her efficiency in “King Hedley II”.

Davis received an Emmy in 2015 within the Excellent Lead Actress class “How To Get Away With Homicide”, nominated for a similar position a complete of 5 occasions.

Davis will discover out whether or not she wins the award to finish her EGOT when the Grammys happen on Feb. 5.