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바이올라 데이비스, ヴィオラ・デイヴィス, ვიოლა დევისი, 薇拉·戴維絲, Вайола Дейвіс
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Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of numerous accolades, Davis is one of the few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT); additionally, she is the sole African-American to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting as well as the third person to achieve both statuses. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century. Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, she won an Obie Award in 1999 for her performance as Ruby McCollum in Everybody's Ruby. She played minor roles in film and television in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before earning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the 2001 Broadway production of August Wilson's King Hedley II. Her film breakthrough came with her role as a troubled mother in the drama Doubt (2008), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Davis won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the Broadway revival of August Wilson's play Fences. For starring as a 1960s housemaid in the comedy-drama The Help (2011), Davis received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. From 2014 to 2020, she played lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC drama series How to Get Away with Murder, for which she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. In 2016, Davis reprised the role of Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Amanda Waller in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Suicide Squad (2016). In 2020, she portrayed Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Rainey's Black Bottom, for which she received a fourth Academy Award nomination, becoming the most-Oscar-nominated black actress. Her performances in Widows (2018) and The Woman King (2022) earned her further nominations for the BAFTA Best Actress Award, making her the most-BAFTA-nominated black actress. Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are founders of a production company, JuVee Productions. Davis is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support of human rights and equal rights for women and women of color. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 and became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me earned Davis a Grammy Award in 2023.
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- wc Gender: Female
- calendar_month Birth Date: 1965-08-11
- event Death Date Unknown
- school Known for: Acting
- star Popularity: 19.6
- info Birth Place Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
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smart_display Movies and TV shows by Viola Davis
7
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009-04-07
5.9
Solaris
2002-11-27
0
Operation Othello
6.8
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005-11-09
6.2
World Trade Center
2006-08-09
7.1
Far from Heaven
2002-11-08
6.9
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006-04-30
7.4
Law Abiding Citizen
2009-10-15
6.8
Stone Cold
2005-02-20
6.9
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006-01-15
6.7
Disturbia
2007-03-27
6.8
The Pentagon Wars
1998-02-28
6.3
Nights in Rodanthe
2008-09-26
7.2
Doubt
2008-12-12
6.6
Madea Goes to Jail
2009-02-16
6.3
Knight and Day
2010-06-15
6.3
Eat Pray Love
2010-08-12
6.6
Trust
2010-09-10
6.8
State of Play
2009-04-17
5
The Shrink Is In
2001-08-01
6.6
Ender's Game
2013-10-24
8.3
The Help
2011-08-09
0
Two Butterflies
6.1
Won't Back Down
2012-09-28
8.7
On Broadway
2019-10-12
6.7
Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30
6.7
Amy & Isabelle
2001-03-04
6
Beautiful Creatures
2013-02-13
8.1
Prisoners
2013-09-19
6.9
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
2022-04-22
6.2
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014-05-14
0
I Almost Forgot About You
5.5
Blackhat
2015-01-13
6.3
The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11
6.8
Get on Up
2014-08-01
7.4
Air
2023-04-05
6.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014-10-10
7
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25
6.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014-10-10
7
Black Adam
2022-10-19
7.1
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023-11-15
7.1
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02
6
Suicide Squad
2016-08-03
6.1
Lila & Eve
2015-07-31
0
G20
5.9
The Architect
2006-12-01
0
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2024-02-13
7
It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010-10-08
0
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998-01-01
6.3
Giving Voice
2020-01-26
7.4
Ocean's Eleven
2001-12-07
6.9
Touch of Evil
2011-12-06
7
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007-05-22
7.1
Custody
2016-04-17
0
The Warrior, The Myth, The Wonder
2016-07-19
6.9
Fences
2016-12-16
6.3
Kate & Leopold
2001-12-25
0
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015-02-20
6.7
Out of Sight
1998-06-26
7
Antwone Fisher
2002-12-19
7.1
Traffic
2000-12-27
0
Small Great Things
0
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
6.5
Syriana
2005-11-23
6.5
Widows
2018-11-06
7
Troop Zero
2019-02-01
6.5
Beyond All Boundaries
2009-11-09
5.6
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018-08-21
0
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
7.6
The Suicide Squad
2021-07-28
6.5
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006-08-19
6.7
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020-11-25
7.4
The Unforgivable
2021-11-24
6
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019-12-18
0
A Touch of Sugar
2019-04-24
7.7
The Woman King
2022-09-16
6.8
Grace & Glorie
1998-12-13
7.9
Third Watch
1999-09-23
7.7
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06
7
Threshold
2005-09-16
7
The Division
2001-01-07
6.5
Providence
1999-01-08
7.5
Judging Amy
1999-09-19
6.8
Traveler
2007-05-10
7.3
Without a Trace
2002-09-26
7
NYPD Blue
1993-09-21
7.7
The Practice
1997-03-04
6.6
60 Minutes
1968-09-24
7
Century City
2004-03-16
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08
8.8
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24
7
United States of Tara
2009-01-18
7.6
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30
9
City of Angels
2000-01-16
6.2
The Andromeda Strain
2008-05-26
3.2
E! Live from the Red Carpet
2002-01-13
7
The Oscars
1953-03-19
7.9
How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25
5
Tony Awards
1956-04-01
2
C ce soir, le débat
2021-01-25
7.1
Brothers and Sisters
2006-09-24
5.5
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003-01-26
7.1
The Problem with Jon Stewart
2021-09-30
8.3
Peacemaker
2022-01-13
5
Dear...
2020-06-05
0
Creature Commandos
2024-12-05
6.5
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08
0
Waller
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17
6.4
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022-09-12
5.7
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02
4.3
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21
4.5
The View
1997-08-11
6.3
Honest Trailers
2012-02-13
4.9
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16
7.2
Scandal
2012-04-05
7.4
Hot Ones
2015-03-12
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17
7.9
Hack
2002-09-27
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20
6.1
Celebrity IOU
2020-04-13
6.3
The First Lady
2022-04-17
7.2
The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22
0
Father Lefty
6.2
CBS News Sunday Morning
1979-01-28
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6.2
Silver Dollar Road
2023-10-13
6.2
G20
6.2
Operation Othello
6.2
Night Shift
2017-01-20
6.2
Troop Zero
2019-02-01
6.2
Emanuel
2019-06-17
6.2
The Woman King
2022-09-16
6.2
How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25
6.2
The Last Defense
2018-06-12
6.2
The First Lady
2022-04-17
6.2
In a Man's World
2019-10-01
6.2
Waller
6.2
In a Man's World
2019-10-01