She won her Grammy for Best Comedy Recording in 1985 and both an Emmy for “Beyond Tara: The Extraordinary Life of Hattie McDaniel” and a Tony for “Thoroughly Modern Millie” to complete her EGOT in 2002. Having been in over 150 films, during a period in the 1990s she was the highest-paid actress of all time and she is the first African-American to have received Academy Award nominations for both Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress.
Whoopi Goldberg