Robert Lopez | |
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_(cropped).jpg) Lopez in 2018 | |
| Born | February 23, 1975 New York City, U.S. |
| Alma mater | Yale University (BA) |
| Occupation(s) | Songwriter playwright |
| Spouse | |
| Children | 2 |
| Awards | Full list |
Robert Lopez (born February 23, 1975) is an American songwriter for musicals and playwright, best known for co-creating The Book of Mormon and Avenue Q, and for co-writing the songs featured in the Disney animated films Frozen, its sequel Frozen II, and Coco, with his wife Kristen Anderson-Lopez. He is signed to Disney Music Publishing.[1]
Lopez is one of only twenty-one people who have won an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony Award, nicknamed by Philip Michael Thomas in 1984 as the "EGOT". He additionally holds the distinctions of being the youngest person to win an EGOT, the only Filipino to win an EGOT, and winning the awards across the shortest period of time: he won all four in the span of ten years and completed the set at the age of 39. He is also the only person to have won all four awards more than once, having won two Oscars, three Tonys, three Grammys, and four Emmys.[2] With a second set of competitive wins beginning with his June 27, 2010, Emmy and concluding with his March 4, 2018, Academy Award, he has broken his own 'fastest to complete' record, establishing a new fastest EGOT interval at 7 years and 8 months.
- ^ "Songwriters | Disney Music Publishing". disneymusicpublishing.com. Retrieved September 8, 2024.
- ^ Schwartz, Dana (March 5, 2018). "Oscars 2018: Robert Lopez becomes the first person in history to double EGOT". Entertainment Weekly. Retrieved March 5, 2018.