Barack Obama is halfway to becoming an Egot after winning an Emmy award to go with his two Grammys.

The former president won the best narrator Emmy on Saturday for his work on the Netflix documentary series Our Great National Parks.

The five-part show, which features national parks from around the world, is produced by Barack and Michelle Obama’s production company, Higher Ground.

He was the biggest name in a category full of famous nominees for the award, handed out at Saturday night’s creative arts Emmys, including Kareem Abdul-Jabbar, David Attenborough and Lupita Nyong’o.

Ex-Barack Obama is the second president to have an Emmy. Dwight D Eisenhower was given a special Emmy in 1956.

Obama previously won Grammy awards for his audiobook reading of two of his memoirs, The Audacity of Hope and A Promised Land. Michelle Obama won her own Grammy for reading her audiobook in 2020.

Egot refers to a special category of entertainers who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony. To date, 17 people have done it.

The late Chadwick Boseman also won an Emmy on Saturday for his voice work. The Black Panther actor won for outstanding character voiceover for the Disney+ and Marvel Studios animated show “What If...?”

On the show, Boseman voiced his Black Panther character, T’Challa, in an alternate universe where he becomes Star-Lord from Guardians of the Galaxy. It was one of the last projects for Boseman, who died of colon cancer in 2020 aged 43.

Source: The Guardian 

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