Viola Davis

Viola Davis

Biography: 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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Birthday: August 11, 1965

Deathday: N/A

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Known For

Doubt: Stage to Screen
Doubt: Stage to Screen

2009-04-07

Solaris
Solaris

2002-11-27

Operation Othello
Operation Othello

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Get Rich or Die Tryin'

2005-11-09

World Trade Center
World Trade Center

2006-08-09

Far from Heaven
Far from Heaven

2002-11-08

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

2006-04-30

Law Abiding Citizen
Law Abiding Citizen

2009-10-15

Stone Cold
Stone Cold

2005-02-20

Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Jesse Stone: Night Passage

2006-01-15

Disturbia
Disturbia

2007-03-27

The Pentagon Wars
The Pentagon Wars

1998-02-28

Nights in Rodanthe
Nights in Rodanthe

2008-09-26

Doubt
Doubt

2008-12-12

Madea Goes to Jail
Madea Goes to Jail

2009-02-16

Knight and Day
Knight and Day

2010-06-15

Eat Pray Love
Eat Pray Love

2010-08-12

Trust
Trust

2010-09-10

State of Play
State of Play

2009-04-17

The Shrink Is In
The Shrink Is In

2001-08-01

Ender's Game
Ender's Game

2013-10-24

The Help
The Help

2011-08-09

Two Butterflies
Two Butterflies

Won't Back Down
Won't Back Down

2012-09-28

On Broadway
On Broadway

2019-10-12

Love, Marilyn
Love, Marilyn

2013-05-30

Amy & Isabelle
Amy & Isabelle

2001-03-04

Beautiful Creatures
Beautiful Creatures

2013-02-13

Prisoners
Prisoners

2013-09-19

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

2022-04-22

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

2014-05-14

I Almost Forgot About You
I Almost Forgot About You

Blackhat
Blackhat

2015-01-13

The Substance of Fire
The Substance of Fire

1996-09-11

Air
Air

2023-04-05

Get on Up
Get on Up

2014-08-01

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

2014-10-10

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

2011-12-25

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

2014-10-10

Black Adam
Black Adam

2022-10-19

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2023-11-15

Kung Fu Panda 4
Kung Fu Panda 4

2024-03-02

Suicide Squad
Suicide Squad

2016-08-03

Lila & Eve
Lila & Eve

2015-07-31

G20
G20

2025-04-10

The Architect
The Architect

2006-12-01

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

2024-02-13

It's Kind of a Funny Story
It's Kind of a Funny Story

2010-10-08

Miss Apprehension and Squirt
Miss Apprehension and Squirt

1998-01-01

Giving Voice
Giving Voice

2020-01-26

Ocean's Eleven
Ocean's Eleven

2001-12-07

Touch of Evil
Touch of Evil

2011-12-06

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Jesse Stone: Sea Change

2007-05-22

Custody
Custody

2016-04-17

Fences
Fences

2016-12-16

Kate & Leopold
Kate & Leopold

2001-12-25

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

2015-02-20

Out of Sight
Out of Sight

1998-06-26

Antwone Fisher
Antwone Fisher

2002-12-19

Traffic
Traffic

2000-12-27

Small Great Things
Small Great Things

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Syriana
Syriana

2005-11-23

Widows
Widows

2018-11-06

Troop Zero
Troop Zero

2019-02-01

Beyond All Boundaries
Beyond All Boundaries

2009-11-09

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

2018-08-21

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

2006-05-02

The Suicide Squad
The Suicide Squad

2021-07-28

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

2006-08-19

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

2020-11-25

The Unforgivable
The Unforgivable

2021-11-24

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

2019-12-18

A Touch of Sugar
A Touch of Sugar

2019-04-24

The Woman King
The Woman King

2022-09-16

Grace & Glorie
Grace & Glorie

1998-12-13

Children of Blood and Bone
Children of Blood and Bone

2027-01-15

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