Viola Davis achieved EGOT status (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, Tony) after winning a Grammy for Best Audio Book on February 5, 2023, for narrating her memoir 'Finding Me.'
On February 5, 2023, at the 65th Annual Grammy Awards, Viola Davis won the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for narrating her own memoir, Finding Me. This win made her an EGOT winner — one of a very small number of entertainers in history to win an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony Award.
Davis became the third Black woman, and one of fewer than twenty people overall, to achieve EGOT status, joining a list historically dominated by white performers and composers. Her achievement was particularly notable because it was completed through a deeply personal project — narrating her own memoir detailing her impoverished childhood, experiences with racism, and path to success — rather than through a traditional acting or musical role.
The significance of this achievement lies not only in the rarity of the EGOT itself but in what it represents for a Black woman born into poverty in the Jim Crow-adjacent conditions of the rural South and later urban New England. Davis's EGOT completion was celebrated across the industry as a testament to her extraordinary range as a performer — spanning stage, television, film, and now spoken-word audio narration.
Her win further cemented her legacy as one of the most versatile and decorated performers in entertainment history, and it added a literary and autobiographical dimension to a career already defined by boundary-breaking dramatic performances.