Jennifer Hudson Achieves EGOT Status With A Strange Loop Tony Win

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Jennifer Hudson has gone from American Idol also-ran to Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and, now, Tony winner.

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On Sunday Hudson officially achieved EGOT status,

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winning a Tony as one of the celebrity producers for the night’s best musical winner, A Strange Loop.

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Hudson coproduced A Strange Loop—which won best musical and best book of a musical for scribe

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Michael R. Jackson—with other celebrities including RuPaul Charles, Don Cheadle, Mindy Kaling, Billy Porter, and Alan Cumming, among others.

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Hudson’s EGOT journey began when she won the best supporting actress Oscar for playing Effie White in Dreamgirls in 2007.

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She followed that up with two Grammys, winning best R&B album for Jennifer Hudson in 2009

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and best musical theater album for The Color Purple in 2017.

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In 2021 she won a Daytime Emmy for outstanding interactive media

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for a daytime program for executive producing the animated short “Baba Yaga.”

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thanks for reading

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