Celebrity Jennifer Hudson joined a select group of artistes who are EGOTs after she won an award for “A Strange Loop” at the 75th Tony Awards held on Sunday. EGOTs are artists who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony award. She gained the prestigious title after she won a Tony award as a producer for the film. It won the Best Musical award.

Hudson’s journey towards becoming an EGOT club member in 2022 is as follows:
In 2006, she won an Academy Award (Oscar) for Best Supporting Actress in Dreamgirls.
In 2009 she won a Grammy for Best R&B for her self titled album and for the Color Purple cast recording in 2017.
She won an Daytime Emmy as executive producer of a 2020 VR short called Baba Yaga. She also starred in the film.
In 2022, she won a Tony as one of the producers of the film A Strange Loop.

Jennifer Hudson is the 17th person to join the exclusive group of people who have won awards in all the top four competitive American awards. The celebrity singer-actress is the second black woman to become a part of this select group of artistes, the first one being Whoopi Goldberg.

In 2020, the American singer with a sense of humor told People magazine that she got a dog and named it Oscar. Then she won an Oscar award. She got a dog and named it Grammy and she won a Grammy. Jennifer Hudson added that she should get more dogs and name them Emmy and Tony and it would give her good luck and she would win those awards as well. She called them her good luck charms

Dogs or no dogs, 40-year old American singer and actress Jennifer Hudson is now the winner of all the four prestigious awards: Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony and can rightfully take her place as the 17th member of the exclusive EGOT group.