The World Is a Much Better Place Now That Viola Davis Has Officially Achieved EGOT Status

A lot of history was made during the 65th Grammy Awards. Beyoncé broke the record for most wins and Petras became the first transwoman to win a trophy for Best Pop or Group Performance with "Unholy."

Viola Davis made some history of her own, as well. Picking up a win for the audiobook of her memoir Finding Me, the actress becomes just the 18th person ever to achieve the coveted EGOT title.

"I wrote this book to honor the six-year-old Viola," she said at the pre-telecast ceremony. "To honor her life, her joy, her trauma, everything. And, it has just been such a journey—I just EGOT!"

Winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony is no easy feat, after all. Davis' Best Audio Book, Narration and Storytelling Recording award was a culmination of the 57-year-old's barrier-breaking body of work. Since the 2010s, Davis has become one of the most recognizable actresses in the world today.

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In 2015, she became the first African-American woman to win an Emmy for Best Actress in a Drama for her role as Annalise Keating in How to Get Away with Murder. Two years later, she became the first African-American woman to bag three Academy Award nominations, going on to win the Best Supporting Actress trophy for Fences. Meanwhile, for her stage triumphs, she would win two Tonys: the first for Best Featured Actress in a Play for King Hedley II and for Best Leading Actress in a Play for Fences on Broadway.

Davis also becomes just the third African-American to achieve EGOT status after Whoopi Goldberg and Jennifer Hudson. She joins a list of EGOT icons such as Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and John Legend, among others.

The actress' most recent film, The Woman King, has her starring in a period piece set in the 1820s, where she plays a general who trains a new generation of female warriors. Unfortunately, it was shut out of the 2023 Oscars race.