Viola Davis

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Viola Davis (/vaɪˈoʊlə/ vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Davis joined the DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). She has also starred in the crime drama Widows(2018), and historical action film The Woman King (2022). Davis and her husband are founders of the production company JuVee Productions, and she is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support for human rights and women of color. She became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me won her the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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  • wc Gender: Female
  • calendar_month Birth Date: 1965-08-11
  • event Death Date Unknown
  • school Known for: Acting
  • star Popularity: 2.5
  • info Birth Place St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
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Doubt: Stage to Screen

2009-04-07

6

Solaris

2002-11-27

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Operation Othello

6.8

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2005-11-09

6.2

World Trade Center

2006-08-09

7

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

7.3

Doubt

2008-12-12

6.5

Madea Goes to Jail

2009-02-20

6.3

Knight and Day

2010-06-15

6.2

Eat Pray Love

2010-08-12

6.6

Trust

2010-09-10

6.9

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

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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

6.1

Beautiful Creatures

2013-02-13

8.1

Prisoners

2013-09-19

7

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

2022-04-22

6.2

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

2014-05-14

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I Almost Forgot About You

5.6

Blackhat

2015-01-13

7.2

The Substance of Fire

1996-09-11

6.8

Get on Up

2014-08-01

7.3

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

6.9

Black Adam

2022-10-19

7

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

2025-04-09

5.9

The Architect

2006-12-01

10

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2024-02-13

7

It's Kind of a Funny Story

2010-10-08

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Miss Apprehension and Squirt

1998-01-01

6.4

Giving Voice

2020-01-26

7.5

Ocean's Eleven

2001-12-07

6.9

Touch of Evil

2011-12-06

6.9

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

2007-05-22

7

Custody

2016-04-17

6.9

Fences

2016-12-16

6.4

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

6.9

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

5.7

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

2018-08-21

0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006-05-02

7.5

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

7.5

The Unforgivable

2021-11-24

6.1

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

6.3

Grace & Glorie

1998-12-13

0

Children of Blood and Bone

2027-01-15

7.9

Third Watch

1999-09-23

7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

2000-10-06

7.1

Threshold

2005-09-16

7

The Division

2001-01-07

6.5

Providence

1999-01-08

7.5

Judging Amy

1999-09-19

6.7

Traveler

2007-05-10

7.3

Without a Trace

2002-09-26

7.1

NYPD Blue

1993-09-21

7.8

The Practice

1997-03-04

6.7

60 Minutes

1968-09-24

7

Century City

2004-03-16

6.5

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

2015-09-08

8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame

1951-12-24

7.2

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

6.9

The Oscars

1953-03-19

7.8

How to Get Away with Murder

2014-09-25

4.6

Tony Awards

1956-04-01

2

C ce soir, le débat

2021-01-25

7.1

Brothers and Sisters

2006-09-24

5.6

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

2003-01-26

7.2

The Problem with Jon Stewart

2021-09-30

8.3

Peacemaker

2022-01-13

5

Dear...

2020-06-05

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

6.7

The Jennifer Hudson Show

2022-09-12

5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

2015-08-02

4.4

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014-12-21

4.5

The View

1997-08-11

6.4

Honest Trailers

2012-02-13

5

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

6.4

The First Lady

2022-04-17

7.2

The Graham Norton Show

2007-02-22

0

Father Lefty

6.6

CBS News Sunday Morning

1979-01-28

8

Creature Commandos

2024-12-05

7.2

Sofia the First

2013-01-11

10

Number One on the Call Sheet

2025-03-27

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