Actress Viola Davis achieved EGOT status Sunday after her win at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards. She previously won an Emmy, an Oscar and two Tony awards. In doing so, she became the 18th person — and third Black woman — to ever achieve the honor.
Davis began her work in theater, but her career has spanned from Shondaland to the DC Comics universe .
Her journey to the EGOT started in earnest in 2001, when she won the Tony for best featured actress for her role as Tonya in the play “King Hedley II,” which examined the life of Black Americans throughout the twentieth century. But she really became a household name with her Emmy-winning role of Annalise Keating in Shonda Rhimes’s “How to Get Away with Murder,” which made her the first Black woman to win in the lead actress drama category.
The famous acronym was coined by “Miami Vice” actor Philip Michael Thomas in 1984, who stated his desire to win all four awards within five years. The EGOT-less actor later tried to backtrack his statements, claiming EGOT stood for “Energy, Growth, Opportunity, and Talent” in an interview with the Miami Herald.
The term wouldn’t gain traction in the mainstream until NBC’s “30 Rock” made it into a bit circa 2009. Fictional eccentric comedian Tracy Jordan , perhaps the least likely candidate for the honor, aspired to this lofty goal after encountering Thomas’ bejeweled EGOT necklace, and its relevance exploded from there.Technically, composer Richard Rodgers became the first EGOT winner in 1962, more than two decades before the term was actually coined.
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