Barack Obama: president, Nobel laureate, and now an Emmy winner

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[ICYMI] Barack Obama: president, Nobel laureate, and now an Emmy winner

Former US president Barack Obama attends the premiere of the Netflix film "Descendant," which his production company helped finance, during the Martha's Vineyard African-American Film Festival on August 05, 2022WASHINGTON - Hollywood newcomer Barack Obama was awarded an Emmy for narrating his Netflix documentary series"Our Great National Parks," the Television Academy announced Saturday.

According to an Entertainment Weekly tracker, only 17 people have achieved an EGOT, including Mel Brooks, Whoopie Goldberg, Audrey Hepburn and -- most recently -- Jennifer Hudson. After leaving office in 2017, both Obama and his wife Michelle have each written best-selling memoirs, and in addition to their non-profit foundation, have established a production company which has inked a major deal with Netflix, reportedly worth tens of millions of dollars.

Obama's successor to the presidency, Donald Trump, did not win an Emmy for his reality competition show"The Apprentice," although he was nominated twice.

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