
Viola Davis
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.
- Known ForActing
- Born11 August 1965 (age 60)
- Place of BirthSt. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Viola Davis

- Known ForActing
- Born11 August 1965 (age 60)
- Place of BirthSt. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Children of Blood and Bone
2027

G20
2025

Kung Fu Panda 4
2024

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

Air
2023

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023

The Woman King
2022

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
2022

Black Adam
2022

The Suicide Squad
2021

The Unforgivable
2021

Giving Voice
2020

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020

Troop Zero
2019

On Broadway
2019

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

A Touch of Sugar
2019

Widows
2018

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018

Suicide Squad
2016

Custody
2016

Fences
2016

Blackhat
2015

Lila & Eve
2015

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014

Get on Up
2014

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014

Ender's Game
2013

Love, Marilyn
2013

Beautiful Creatures
2013

Prisoners
2013

Won't Back Down
2012

The Help
2011

Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011

Touch of Evil
2011

Knight and Day
2010

Eat Pray Love
2010

Trust
2010

It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010

Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009

Law Abiding Citizen
2009

Madea Goes to Jail
2009

State of Play
2009

Beyond All Boundaries
2009

Nights in Rodanthe
2008

Doubt
2008

Disturbia
2007

Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007

World Trade Center
2006

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006

Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006

The Architect
2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006

Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005

Stone Cold
2005

Syriana
2005

Solaris
2002

Far from Heaven
2002

Antwone Fisher
2002

The Shrink Is In
2001

Amy & Isabelle
2001

Ocean's Eleven
2001

Kate & Leopold
2001

Traffic
2000

The Pentagon Wars
1998
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998

Out of Sight
1998

Grace & Glorie
1998
