Viola Davis simply discovered herself one step nearer to an unique award-winning circle.
The Suicide Squad star simply secured her first Grammy award nomination within the Greatest Audio Guide, Narration, and Storytelling Recording class for her 2022 memoir Discovering Me. If she wins, Viola will be a part of the small group of EGOT—Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony—winners as its 18th member.
All through her three-decade lengthy profession, the actress has picked up a number of awards—together with two Tony Awards for her work on Broadway, one Primetime Emmy Award for Excellent Lead Actress in a Drama Sequence for How To Get Away with Homicide and an Academy Award for Greatest Supporting Actress, which she earned for the 2016 film Fences. (Enjoyable Reality: She gained her second Tony in 2010 for the stage manufacturing of Fences.)
And several other of her awards marked main milestones. Viola grew to become the primary actress of shade to win the Emmy for Lead Actress in a drama in 2015, for her function as ruthless lawyer Annalise Keating within the ABC drama. She can be first Black performer to win the Triple Crown of Appearing by profitable a aggressive Oscar, Emmy and Tony, a feat she achieved in 2016.