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Viola Davis
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Viola Davis
Known For
Acting
Birthday
1965-08-11,St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Gender
Female
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.

Filmography

Doubt: Stage to Screen

7

Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009-04-07

5.915

Solaris
2002-11-27

Operation Othello

0

Operation Othello

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

6.8

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005-11-09

World Trade Center

6.142

World Trade Center
2006-08-09

Far from Heaven

7.049

Far from Heaven
2002-11-08

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

6.9

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006-04-30

Law Abiding Citizen

7.387

Law Abiding Citizen
2009-10-15

6.808

Stone Cold
2005-02-20

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

6.9

Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006-01-15

6.691

Disturbia
2007-03-27

The Pentagon Wars

6.8

The Pentagon Wars
1998-02-28

Nights in Rodanthe

6.3

Nights in Rodanthe
2008-09-26

7.193

Doubt
2008-12-12

Madea Goes to Jail

6.5

Madea Goes to Jail
2009-02-20

6.224

Knight and Day
2010-06-15

6.242

Eat Pray Love
2010-08-12

6.557

Trust
2010-09-10

6.806

State of Play
2009-04-17

The Shrink Is In

5

The Shrink Is In
2001-08-01

6.589

Ender's Game
2013-10-24

8.206

The Help
2011-08-09

Two Butterflies

0

Two Butterflies

Won't Back Down

6.13

Won't Back Down
2012-09-28

8.7

On Broadway
2019-10-12

6.582

Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30

5.25

Amy & Isabelle
2001-03-04

Beautiful Creatures

6.037

Beautiful Creatures
2013-02-13

8.1

Prisoners
2013-09-19

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

7.1

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
2022-04-22

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

6.2

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014-05-14

I Almost Forgot About You

0

I Almost Forgot About You

5.514

Blackhat
2015-01-13

The Substance of Fire

7.2

The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11

6.766

Get on Up
2014-08-01

7.325

Air
2023-04-05

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

6.7

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014-10-10

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

7

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

6.684

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014-10-10

6.859

Black Adam
2022-10-19

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

7.011

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023-11-15

Kung Fu Panda 4

7.058

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02

5.92

Suicide Squad
2016-08-03

6.104

Lila & Eve
2015-07-31

6.5

G20
2025-04-10

5.7

The Architect
2006-12-01

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

8

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2024-02-13

It's Kind of a Funny Story

6.965

It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010-10-08

Miss Apprehension and Squirt

0

Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998-01-01

6.391

Giving Voice
2020-01-26

7.448

Ocean's Eleven
2001-12-07

7.014

Touch of Evil
2011-12-06

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

6.9

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007-05-22

6.971

Custody
2016-04-17

6.865

Fences
2016-12-16

6.33

Kate & Leopold
2001-12-25

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

0

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015-02-20

6.672

Out of Sight
1998-06-26

6.927

Antwone Fisher
2002-12-19

7.082

Traffic
2000-12-27

Small Great Things

0

Small Great Things

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

0

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

6.419

Syriana
2005-11-23

6.49

Widows
2018-11-06

6.942

Troop Zero
2019-02-01

Beyond All Boundaries

6.833

Beyond All Boundaries
2009-11-09

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

5.7

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018-08-21

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

0

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02

The Suicide Squad

7.486

The Suicide Squad
2021-07-28

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

6.5

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006-08-19

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

6.652

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020-11-25

The Unforgivable

7.425

The Unforgivable
2021-11-24

Live in Front of a Studio Audience:

6.143

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019-12-18

A Touch of Sugar

0

A Touch of Sugar
2019-04-24

7.665

The Woman King
2022-09-16

6.3

Grace & Glorie
1998-12-13

Children of Blood and Bone

0

Children of Blood and Bone
2027-01-15

The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality

0

The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
2025-02-13

0

Ally Clark

0

House of Games

7.918

Third Watch
1999-09-23

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.64

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06

7.013

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

Without a Trace

7.2

Without a Trace
2002-09-26

7

NYPD Blue
1993-09-21

7.7

The Practice
1997-03-04

6.696

60 Minutes
1968-09-24

6.333

Century City
2004-03-16

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.351

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.571

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

United States of Tara

7.073

United States of Tara
2009-01-18

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.562

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

9

City of Angels
2000-01-16

The Andromeda Strain

6.1

The Andromeda Strain
2008-05-26

E! Live from the Red Carpet

3.679

E! Live from the Red Carpet
2002-01-13

7.1

The Oscars
1953-03-19

How to Get Away with Murder

7.833

How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25

5.545

Tony Awards
1956-04-01

C ce soir, le débat

2

C ce soir, le débat
2021-01-25

Brothers and Sisters

7.1

Brothers and Sisters
2006-09-24

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

5.5

Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003-01-26

8.247

Peacemaker
2022-01-13

5

Dear...
2020-06-05

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.351

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08

0

Waller

4.43

The View
1997-08-11

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17

The Jennifer Hudson Show

6.2

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022-09-12

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

5.972

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

5

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21

4.43

The View
1997-08-11

Honest Trailers

6.609

Honest Trailers
2012-02-13

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

5.1

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009-07-16

7.136

Scandal
2012-04-05

7.5

Hot Ones
2015-03-12

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.9

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17

7.722

Hack
2002-09-27

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.935

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
1999-09-20

6.385

Celebrity IOU
2020-04-13

6.354

The First Lady
2022-04-17

The Graham Norton Show

7.194

The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22

0

Father Lefty

CBS News Sunday Morning

6.905

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979-01-28

Creature Commandos

7.842

Creature Commandos
2024-12-05

Sofia the First

7.186

Sofia the First
2013-01-11

Number One on the Call Sheet

9

Number One on the Call Sheet
2025-03-27

The Kelly Clarkson Show

6.5

The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019-09-09

Hot Ones Versus

9.667

Hot Ones Versus
2024-01-31

8.7

The Grammys
1959-11-29

Golden Globe Awards

7.2

Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20

Golden Globe Awards

7.2

Golden Globe Awards
1944-01-20

6.8

The Guardian
2001-09-25