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Tony Awards: Best Performance by an Actor in a Leading Role in a Musical | 2025 Emmy Awards: Outstanding Lead Actor In A Limited Series Or Movie | 2018

DARREN CRISS - EgoT 2/4

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in a kinder universe, we'd be getting a tracy chapman biopic starring ayo edebiri opening the same month as j.a.w.'s springsteen film. the parallel promotional tours would be adorable and mutually supportive and the lovefest would be off the charts. it would become the barbenheimer must-see double bill of autumn 2025. tracy chapman would make a bazillion dollars from this. ayo would achieve EGOT status. ireland rejoices.

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Rita Moreno for LIFE Magazine, 1954.

Photographer: Loomis Dean

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I KNEW IT Y’ALL WE ARE SO GETTING MARISKA AT THE OSCARS!!!

I’m so proud of her aaaaaaaa🥹🫶🏾🩷🩷🩷🩷

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Darren Criss would inch closer to EGOT with a Grammy win for ‘Maybe Happy Ending’

He took home an Emmy for 'The Assassination of Gianni Versace' and a Tony for 'Maybe Happy Ending.'

Darren Criss would inch closer to EGOT with a Grammy win for ‘Maybe Happy Ending’

Sadly, no one will achieve EGOT by winning a Grammy in 2026. There are currently 10 living performers who are a Grammy away from completing the grand slam (Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony) and none of them received noms this year. But there is an actor who could get one step closer to the crowning achievement of show business awards: Darren Criss. The 38-year-old performer is already halfway there. The first industry accolade he received was the Emmy. He won Best Movie/Limited Actor in 2018 for his performance as real-life spree killer Andrew Cunanan in The Assassination of Gianni Versace, which was the second season of the American Crime Story anthology series. That was a historic victory as it made Criss the first person of Filipino descent to win the award. And it was just the beginning as he would follow that victory with triumphs at the Golden Globes, Critics Choice Awards, and SAG Awards a few months later. Next for Criss was the Tony. He claimed Best Actor in a Musical in 2025 for his performance as love-struck helper robot Oliver in Maybe Happy Ending. That was also a historic moment as it was the first victory in that category for an Asian actor. He capped off the night by winning Best Musical as a coproducer of the same show.

Two industry awards down, two to go. Now Criss has the opportunity to get three-quarters of the way to EGOT. On Friday, he received his first ever Grammy nomination: Best Musical Theater Album for the Maybe Happy Ending cast recording. He shares that bid with fellow principal vocalists Marcus Choi, Dez Duron, and Helen J Shen, as well as lyricist Hue Park, composer and lyricist Will Aronson, and producers Deborah Abramson and Ian Kagey. If the show prevails as it did at the Tonys, Criss will only need an Oscar to finish his EGOT. Easier said than done. Though winning the Tony for Best Musical denotes significant industry esteem for the project, it's not a foolproof path towards Grammy glory. The last four Tony champs for Best Musical actually lost the Grammy for their cast recordings. The Outsiders (2024) lost the Grammy to Hell's Kitchen. Kimberly Akimbo (2023) lost the Grammy to Some Like It Hot. A Strange Loop (2022) lost the Grammy to Into the Woods. And Moulin Rouge! (2021) lost the Grammy to Hadestown, which won the Tony for Best Musical in 2019, marking the last time the Tony winner in that category lined up with the Grammy for Best Musical Theater Album. One reason for the disparity is that the Grammys often reward cast recordings that are related to music industry stalwarts even if they didn't win the top Tony. Consider that Hell's Kitchen featured the music of 17-time Grammy champion Alicia Keys, and that the Grammy victory for Into the Woods came a little more than a year following the death of beloved composer Stephen Sondheim. Before that, Grammys went to the cast recordings of Jagged Little Pill (featuring the music of Alanis Morissette), Beautiful (featuring the music of Carole King), American Idiot (featuring the music of Green Day), and Aida (composed by Elton John and Tim Rice). So Maybe Happy Ending will need to watch out for its rival Grammy nominees, particularly Buena Vista Social Club (featuring the music of the titular musical group), Gypsy (another Sondheim joint), and Just in Time (featuring the music of Bobby Darin sung by Hamilton Grammy winner Jonathan Groff). And don't rule out Death Becomes Her, whose principal vocalists include Destiny's Child Grammy winner Michelle Williams. Winning a Grammy would add Criss to the list of 28 individuals who need an Oscar to complete their EGOT: Andre De Shields, Cynthia Erivo, Anne Garefino, Hugh Jackman, Rachel Bay Jones, John Kander, Tom Kitt, Alex Lacamoire, Stan Lathan, Cyndi Lauper, Katrina Lenk, Frank Marshall, Audra McDonald, Bette Midler, Lin-Manuel Miranda, Cynthia Nixon, Trey Parker, Ben Platt, Billy Porter, Scott Sanders, Marc Shaiman, Bill Sherman, Ari'el Stachel, Matt Stone, Lily Tomlin, Dick Van Dyke, Scott Wittman, and David Yazbeck. That list may be as long as it is because of what an exclusive club the Oscars are, with fewer available categories than any of the other EGOT awards. Many artists, therefore, get stuck waiting for this particular milestone. To date, 21 people have achieved EGOT throughout their careers (in chronological order of achievement): Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, John Legend, Tim Rice, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Alan Menken, Jennifer Hudson, Viola Davis, Elton John, Benj Pasek, and Justin Paul. If Criss is the next to add his name to that list, he would be the first Asian individual to hold that distinction.

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Sir John Gielgud was an acclaimed British actor on the stage, film, and television. He was best known for his Shakespearean roles, but internationally he may be best remembered for the imperious butler in the movie “Arthur” (1982) which starred Dudley Moore as a perpetually drunk millionaire. Gielgud won an Oscar (Best Supporting Actor category) for the role. This helped make him a rare breed of actors - achieving an EGOT - winning awards in four major categories: Emmy (television) 2, Grammy (recordings) - 1, Oscar (film) - 1, Tony (American stage) - 3.

Gielgud also had a less known distinction - a criminal record for exposing his cock to a cop. The actor was gay, and most in the acting community knew it. But at the time, sex between men was illegal. In 1953 (the same year he was knighted as “Sir”), Gielgud was arrested for "persistently importuning for immoral purposes" (aka cruising for sex in a men’s public lavatory in 1953). Gielgud had used a stage name on the arrest record. When he appeared before a judge, he was only fined £10. But a journalist recognized him.

A few days later, Gielgud was in Liverpool preparing to go on stage. But he was shown the latest newspaper headline - the notorious British press had gotten hold of the story of his arrest. Gielgud was horrified and afraid he’d be jeered off the stage - that his career was over. But castmate Sybil Thorndike grabbed him and dragged him on stage, saying:

"Come on, John, darling, they won't boo me!”

To Gielgud’s surprise, the audience gave him a standing ovation.

The same year Gielgud met Paul Anstee, a young stage designer 24 years younger than the actor. The duo often traveled together and socialized with people such as Truman Capote and Somerset Maugham. But Gielgud always seemed to find time to see other men. They neatly broke up in 1956 when Anstee discovered Gielgud was having an affair with a professor at Princeton.

Gielgud did feel some remorse for seeing the professor behind Anstee back. He admitted to a friend:

“I do feel such a treacherous bitch… (but) I cannot be bothered with intrigues, lies, and subsequent recriminations.”

Gielgud’s relationship with Anstee finally ended when the actor met Martin Hensler in 1962, at an art exhibition. Hensler was a temperamental Hungarian and 28 years younger than Gielgud.

Hensler went from being an “agreeable once-a-week diversion” to becoming Gielgud’s long-term partner. After ending his relationship with Anstee amicably, Gielgud invited Hensler to live with him.

In 1988, in the program notes for Gielgud’s final stage performance, he acknowledged Martin Hensler as his partner. Considering his age and the era, this was a significant step for the actor.

They would be together for 37 years until Hensler’s death in 1999. Gielgud died of natural causes the next year at the age of 96.

Note: Although Gielgud and Hensler were together nearly four decades, I could not find any photos of the two men together. There are a few of Gielgud and Anstee, but they are watermarked.