Jennifer Hudson Is One Award Away From A Rare Egot

R-e-s-p-e-c-t: you’ve got to give it to Egot winners.

Jennifer Hudson, currently starring in the Aretha Franklin biopic “Respect,” has got the Ego part down.

She even has an Ego ring to prove it.Egot stands for Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony.

It’s a rare bunch of artists, Renaissance women and men, who hold the distinction of having won all four of those awards.

Whoopi Goldberg and Rita Moreno are two examples of women who have already done it.Hudson actually won one of her two Grammys, a Best Musical Theater Album award, for her role in a Broadway revival of “The Color Purple.” The film adaptation…The post Jennifer Hudson is One Award Away From a Rare Egot appeared first on /Film.

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