American singer-actress Jennifer Hudson has joined the elite group of EGOT winners with her victory at the Tony Awards in New York on Sunday night.
The EGOT status is known as US entertainment’s grand slam and is an acronym that signifies a recipient of an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony award.
Hudson received her Tony as one of the producers of "A Strange Loop", which was named best musical at the ceremony at Radio City Music Hall.
"A Strange Loop" received the greatest number of nominations at this year’s awards, with 11, and also won the best book of a musical for Michael R Jackson who has already received the Pulitzer Prize for his meta-musical.
The play has more than 40 producers including Alan Cumming, Ilana Glazer, and Mindy Kaling.
Hudson is the 17th person to achieve the EGOT status and, at the age of 40, the third youngest to do so.
The most recent winners include Alan Menken, John Legend, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, and Robert Lopez, the songwriter whose hits include Frozen and who is the only person to achieve the status twice.
In 2007, Hudson won the best-supporting actress Oscar for her debut movie role as Effie White in "Dreamgirls", an adaptation of the Broadway musical.
Two years later, she won the best R&B album at the Grammy awards for her eponymous debut studio album.
Hudson earned a second Grammy in 2017 as one of the principal Broadway cast members in "The Color Purple", which won best musical theatre album.
Last year, she received a Daytime Emmy award as a producer on the short animation "Baba Yaga".
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