The musician, actor and patron joins an elite group of US impersonators after winning an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and now a Tony award
Jennifer Hudson at the Tony awards in New York.
Jennifer Hudson at the Tony awards in New York. snap Angela Weiss/ AFP/ Getty Images
Chris Wiegand
Mon 13 Jun 202211.45 BST
The pantomime and patron Jennifer Hudson has joined the elite group of EGOT winners with her palm at the Tony awards in New York on Sunday night.
Known as US entertainment’s grand slam, the outstanding acronym EGOT signifies a philanthropist of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. Hudson entered her Tony as one of the directors of A Strange Loop, which was named stylish musical comedy at the form at Radio City Music Hall. A Strange Loop entered the topmost number of nominations at this time’s awards, with 11, and also won stylish book of a musical for Michael R Jackson who has formerly entered the Pulitzer prize for his meta-musical about a black queer pen who's writing a musical about a black queer pen. In a five- star review, the Guardian critic Gloria Oladipo called it an “ uproarious and crushing ” account of one man’s hunt for himself.
Hudson is the 17th person to achieve EGOT status and, at the age of 40, the third youthful to do so. The most recent winners include Alan Menken, John Legend, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber and Robert Lopez, the tunesmith whose successes include firmed and who's the only person to achieve the status doubly.
Hudson won the stylish supporting actress Oscar in 2007 for her debut movie part as Effie White in Dreamgirls, an adaption of the Broadway musical comedy. Two times latterly, she won stylish R&B reader at the Grammy awards for her eponymous debut plant reader. A alternate Grammy came in 2017 as one of the top Broadway cast members in The Color Purple, which won stylish musical theatre reader. She entered a Daytime Emmy award last time as a patron on the short vitality Baba Yaga.
A Strange Loop has further than 40 directors including Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer and Mindy Kaling.
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