Jennifer Hudson Reaches EGOT Status After Tony Award Win

06/13/2022 Entertainment News

The best of Broadway for the 2021-22 season were named at the 75th annual Tony Awards. And it was a big night for Jennifer Hudson: at the Tony Awards on Sunday, she became only the 17th person to achieve the entertainment industry’s equivalent of the triple crown.

Hudson has achieved EGOT status, having won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and now a Tony.

Hudson was a producer on the award-winning musical A Strange Loop.

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The show is “a musical about a young Black gay man named Usher who works as an usher at a Broadway show who is writing a musical about a young Black gay man named Usher who works as an usher at a Broadway show… who is caught in a self-referential loop of his own self hatred,” according to the show’s creator, Michael R. Jackson.

Hudson has received Daytime Emmys for her work as an executive producer on Baby Yaga, Grammys for The Color Purple and her debut self-titled solo album, and an Oscar for best supporting actress in Dreamgirls.

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Congratulations @IAMJHUD on your well-deserved Tony Award as producer of @StrangeLoopBway! This makes her the 17th EGOT in history, the 3rd-youngest EGOT, the 3rd-fastest journey to EGOT & the 2nd Black woman to achieve EGOT status. We can’t think of anymore more deserving! pic.twitter.com/DaFlIAsuxa
— The Princess of Soul (@princessofsoul_) June 13, 2022

Jennifer Hudson becomes the second Black woman in HISTORY to achieve EGOT status, joining Whoopi Goldberg. pic.twitter.com/dsmBKdzlEi
— Pop Crave (@PopCrave) June 13, 2022

LEGEND.

Jennifer Hudson becomes the 17th person to reach EGOT status 🏆 pic.twitter.com/nIP5Ujlyxn
— Complex (@Complex) June 13, 2022

E.G.O.T.

EMMY: Executive Producer for Baby Yaga

GRAMMY(s):
• “The Color Purple” cast album
• best R&B album, her debut studio album “Jennifer Hudson”

OSCAR: best supporting actress- “Dreamgirls”

TONY: best musical (Executive Producer)- “A Strange Loop”

Iconic. pic.twitter.com/LKP8x3AoB8
— LookAtDustin (@LookAtDustin) June 13, 2022

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