That’s the dream, girl!
Following her win at the Tony Awards in 2022 as producer of “A Strange Loop”, which won Best Musical, Jennifer Hudson received her physical award in the mail and shared a photo of her with the trophy on Instagram on Friday – which also literally solidifies her hard-won EGOT status.
“Look what arrived!!!” she captioned the photo, for which she posed with her Tony in a button-down violet dress.
The 40-year-old multi-hyphenated performer honed the Tony for her role as one of the producers of the Broadway production of the critically acclaimed Pulitzer Prize-winning musical “A Strange Loop,” starring industry legends such as Billy Porter, RuPaul, Don Cheadle and Mindy Kaling are also the show’s producers.
Named one of Time’s 100 Most Influential People in 2020, Hudson began collecting the four high-profile wins needed for a full EGOT — an acronym for the iconic entertainment industry awards of an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony — after winning Best Supporting Actress at the 2007 Oscars for the 2006 musical drama ‘Dreamgirls’.
Not long after, she won a Grammy for her 2008 album of the same name, which won Best R&B Album at the 2009 ceremony. She then scored her first Emmy when she took home the “Outstanding Interactive Media for a Daytime Program” award as producer of the animated short film “Baba Yaga” at the 2021 Daytime Emmys.
Hudson – who began the third season of “American Idol” in 2004 and eventually finished seventh in the contest – is the 17th person in history to achieve EGOT status, as well as the youngest woman of color to achieve this feat. .
The first woman of color for EGOT was Whoopi Goldberg, who won both the Emmy and Tony completing her EGOT accolades in 2002.