Moreno won her first EGOT award -- the Oscar -- in April 1962. You may know that 15 people have attained EGOT status by winning an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar and Tony in competition.
You may not know that only three of the 15 EGOTs won all four awards as performers – rather than as writers, producers or directors.
That's not to diminish the importance of behind-the-scenes contributions. But there's something special about winning all four EGOT-level awards for work as performers.
And the only people who have done that are Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno and Audrey Hepburn. And the only one of those three artists who is still living is Moreno, still active and vital at 88.
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