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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

5.932

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

6.1

World Trade Center
2006-08-09

Far from Heaven

7

Far from Heaven
2002-11-08

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

6.9

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006-04-30

Law Abiding Citizen

7.4

Law Abiding Citizen
2009-10-15

6.8

Stone Cold
2005-02-20

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

6.9

Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006-01-15

6.688

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

7.2

Doubt
2008-12-12

Madea Goes to Jail

6.5

Madea Goes to Jail
2009-02-20

6.219

Knight and Day
2010-06-15

6.2

Eat Pray Love
2010-08-12

6.6

Trust
2010-09-10

6.802

State of Play
2009-04-17

The Shrink Is In

5

The Shrink Is In
2001-08-01

6.586

Ender's Game
2013-10-24

8.2

The Help
2011-08-09

Two Butterflies

0

Two Butterflies

Won't Back Down

6.1

Won't Back Down
2012-09-28

8.7

On Broadway
2019-10-12

6.652

Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30

6.7

Amy & Isabelle
2001-03-04

Beautiful Creatures

6.033

Beautiful Creatures
2013-02-13

8.1

Prisoners
2013-09-19

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

6.929

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

5.507

Blackhat
2015-01-13

The Substance of Fire

7.2

The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11

7.3

Air
2023-04-05

6.762

Get on Up
2014-08-01

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

6.7

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

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

6.976

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

6.7

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

6.873

Black Adam
2022-10-19

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

7.028

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

Kung Fu Panda 4

7.071

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02

5.918

Suicide Squad
2016-08-03

6.094

Lila & Eve
2015-07-31

0

G20
2025-04-09

5.9

The Architect
2006-12-01

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

10

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

It's Kind of a Funny Story

6.966

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

7.444

Ocean's Eleven
2001-12-07

6.9

Touch of Evil
2011-12-06

Jesse Stone: Sea Change

6.9

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007-05-22

7

Custody
2016-04-17

6.862

Fences
2016-12-16

6.321

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

6.671

Out of Sight
1998-06-26

6.9

Antwone Fisher
2002-12-19

7.1

Traffic
2000-12-27

Small Great Things

0

Small Great Things

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

0

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

6.4

Syriana
2005-11-23

6.491

Widows
2018-11-06

6.938

Troop Zero
2019-02-01

Beyond All Boundaries

6.5

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

7.5

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

6.656

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020-11-25

The Unforgivable

7.432

The Unforgivable
2021-11-24

Live in Front of a Studio Audience:

6.1

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

7.7

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

7.9

Third Watch
1999-09-23

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

7.6

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000-10-06

7.026

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

7.3

Without a Trace
2002-09-26

7.026

NYPD Blue
1993-09-21

7.717

The Practice
1997-03-04

6.7

60 Minutes
1968-09-24

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.441

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08

7

Century City
2004-03-16

Hallmark Hall of Fame

8.7

Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951-12-24

United States of Tara

7.101

United States of Tara
2009-01-18

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

7.6

Law & Order: Criminal Intent
2001-09-30

9

City of Angels
2000-01-16

The Andromeda Strain

6.2

The Andromeda Strain
2008-05-26

E! Live from the Red Carpet

3.2

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

6.9

The Oscars
1953-03-19

How to Get Away with Murder

7.8

How to Get Away with Murder
2014-09-25

4.6

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

The Problem with Jon Stewart

7.103

The Problem with Jon Stewart
2021-09-30

8.259

Peacemaker
2022-01-13

5

Dear...
2020-06-05

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

6.441

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
2015-09-08

0

Waller

4.5

The View
1997-08-11

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.851

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17

The Jennifer Hudson Show

6.7

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022-09-12

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

5.7

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015-08-02

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

4.4

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014-12-21

4.5

The View
1997-08-11

Honest Trailers

6.446

Honest Trailers
2012-02-13

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

5

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

7.1

Scandal
2012-04-05

7.4

Hot Ones
2015-03-12

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

5.851

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014-02-17

7.9

Hack
2002-09-27

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

7.9

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

6.1

Celebrity IOU
2020-04-13

6.304

The First Lady
2022-04-17

The Graham Norton Show

7.2

The Graham Norton Show
2007-02-22

0

Father Lefty

CBS News Sunday Morning

6.6

CBS News Sunday Morning
1979-01-28

Creature Commandos

8

Creature Commandos
2024-12-05

Sofia the First

7.2

Sofia the First
2013-01-11

Number One on the Call Sheet

10

Number One on the Call Sheet
2025-03-27