Viola Davis Attains EGOT Status , With Grammy Win.<br />NPR reports that on Feb. 5, Davis won a <br />Grammy for best audiobook, narration and storytelling recording for 'Finding Me,' a memoir.<br />She beat nominees Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and Jamie Foxx. .<br />She beat nominees Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and Jamie Foxx. .<br />She beat nominees Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and Jamie Foxx. .<br />She beat nominees Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and Jamie Foxx. .<br />She beat nominees Mel Brooks, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Questlove and Jamie Foxx. .<br />Davis won Tonys for 'King Hedley II' <br />in 2001 and 'Fences' in 2010.<br />In 2015, she won an Emmy <br />for 'How to Get Away With Murder.'.<br />In 2017, she took home an Oscar for 'Fences.'.<br />Those awards have made her the third Black woman to ever achieve EGOT status.<br />I wrote this book to honor the 6-year-old Viola — to honor her life, <br />her joy, her trauma, her everything, Viola Davis, via acceptance speech.<br /> And it has been such a journey. <br />I just EGOT!, Viola Davis, via acceptance speech.<br />In total, only 18 people have <br />ever achieved the feat.
