Few golf equipment in Hollywood are as unique as that reserved for EGOT winners. The acronym refers to successful the grand slam of all 4 main leisure awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony. Which means the immensely proficient particular person can have displayed excellence in tv, recording, movie, and theater — clearly selecting up an EGOT is not an on a regular basis prevalence.

On the Tony Awards on June 12, 2022, one other actor joined the EGOT membership. Jennifer Hudson was a producer of the musical “A Unusual Loop,” which took residence the award for greatest musical on the ceremony. That gave Hudson — who beforehand starred on Broadway within the revival of “The Coloration Purple” — her first Tony, securing the final award she wanted for her EGOT. She is the second Black girl to EGOT after Whoopi Goldberg, and the third black particular person after Goldberg and John Legend. At 40, she can be the third-youngest particular person to EGOT, after Legend and “Frozen” songwriter Robert Lopez, who had been each 39.

Whereas it took some winners their whole careers to nail all 4 corners of the leisure trade, some had been in a position to knock out an EGOT fairly rapidly (like Legend). There are serveral artists who’re near snagging an EGOT as effectively, like Viola Davis, who may be a part of the membership if she wins the Grammy for greatest spoken phrase album for her audiobook recording of her memoir, “Discovering Me,” on the 2023 Grammys on Feb. 5.

Learn on to see who’s earned this unique honor (and the primary awards that acquired them there), then take a look at all of the Hollywood stars who’re *this shut* to getting their very own EGOTs.