Jennifer Hudson Is Officially an EGOT Winner!!!!
In case you missed the Tony Awards last night, huge news: Jennifer Hudson officially became an EGOT winner. Jennifer won her first Tony Award on Sunday night when A Strange Loop took home Best Musical—and thanks to already having an Emmy, a Grammy, and an Oscar, she joined the elite ranks of incredibly talented celebs to have every. single. major. award. Per BBC, Jennifer is the 17th person to earn this achievement, and the second Black woman to do so. So yes, this is major!
Prior to winning her Emmy and Tony, Jennifer chatted to People about the possibility of becoming an EGOT winner, joking "I should get two more dogs. I got a dog and named it Oscar, and then I won my Oscar. And then I got a dog and named it Grammy, and then I won my Grammy. So I think I should get some dogs and name them Emmy and Tony — and it'll give me good luck, and I'll win. [They're] like my good luck charms."
Just FYI, Jennifer won her Oscar for Dreamgirls, her Emmy for Baby Yaga, and two Grammy Awards for The Color Purple cast album, as well as her self-titled debut.
Other casual EGOT winners include legends like Andrew Lloyd Webber, John Legend, Rita Moreno, Audrey Hepburn, Whoopi Goldberg, and Mel Brooks—to name a few. So Jennifer is in iconic company! She has yet to give a statement about this career milestone, but stay tuned.
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