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Viola Davis

Viola Davis

Born August 11, 1965 · St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA

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.

Movies

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The Suicide Squad

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The Suicide Squad

7.52021
Prisoners

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Prisoners

8.12013
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The Help

The Help

8.22011
Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven

Ocean's Eleven

7.52001
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

7.02023
Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad

Suicide Squad

5.92016
Air

Air

Air

7.32023
Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen

Law Abiding Citizen

7.42009
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The Woman King

The Woman King

7.62022
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Knight and Day

6.22010
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Ender's Game

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Eat Pray Love

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Disturbia

Disturbia

Disturbia

6.72007
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Blackhat

5.52015
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Widows

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6.52018
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World Trade Center

6.12006
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Trust

Trust

Trust

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Custody

Custody

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Jesse Stone: Sea Change

7.02007
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Troop Zero

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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

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Antwone Fisher

Antwone Fisher

6.92002
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6.62014
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The Pentagon Wars

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Beyond All Boundaries

Beyond All Boundaries

6.82009
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

5.42018
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Love, Marilyn

Love, Marilyn

6.62013

TV Shows

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The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.82014
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The Graham Norton Show

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NYPD Blue

7.01993
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7.22002
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7.02015
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Third Watch

Third Watch

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Brothers and Sisters

Brothers and Sisters

7.12006
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7.12001
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4.22014
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2.02021
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6.22015
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Hack

Hack

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Providence

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Number One on the Call Sheet

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5.02020
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United States of Tara

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The First Lady

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Threshold

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0.02025
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6.22008
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Century City

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Hollywood Black

3.02024
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Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.81951
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Traveler

6.62007
Creature Commandos

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Creature Commandos

6.42014
The Grammys

The Grammys

The Grammys

8.61959
Waller
Unreleased

Waller

Waller

0.0

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Amy & Isabelle

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Grace & Glorie

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10.02022