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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

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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
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Children of Blood and Bone
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2027
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G20
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6.506
2025
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The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
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2025
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Kung Fu Panda 4
star
7.1
2024
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Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
star
8.0
2024
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Air
star
7.321
2023
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The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
star
7.006
2023
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The Woman King
star
7.658
2022
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Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
star
7.1
2022
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Black Adam
star
6.854
2022
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The Suicide Squad
star
7.485
2021
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The Unforgivable
star
7.429
2021
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Giving Voice
star
6.391
2020
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Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
star
6.653
2020
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Troop Zero
star
6.949
2019
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On Broadway
star
8.7
2019
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Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
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6.143
2019
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A Touch of Sugar
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2019
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Widows
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6.489
2018
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Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
star
5.7
2018
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Suicide Squad
star
5.92
2016
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Custody
star
6.971
2016
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Fences
star
6.866
2016
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Blackhat
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5.5
2015
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Lila & Eve
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6.103
2015
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August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
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2015
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
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6.2
2014
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Get on Up
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6.774
2014
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
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6.7
2014
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The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
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6.684
2014
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Ender's Game
star
6.587
2013
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Love, Marilyn
star
6.582
2013
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Beautiful Creatures
star
6.039
2013
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Prisoners
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8.098
2013
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Won't Back Down
star
6.13
2012
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The Help
star
8.2
2011
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Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
star
6.979
2011
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Touch of Evil
star
7.014
2011
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Knight and Day
star
6.223
2010
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Eat Pray Love
star
6.245
2010
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Trust
star
6.559
2010
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It's Kind of a Funny Story
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6.962
2010
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Doubt: Stage to Screen
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7.0
2009
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Law Abiding Citizen
star
7.387
2009
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Madea Goes to Jail
star
6.493
2009
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State of Play
star
6.8
2009
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Beyond All Boundaries
star
6.833
2009
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Nights in Rodanthe
star
6.264
2008
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Doubt
star
7.196
2008
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Disturbia
star
6.688
2007
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Jesse Stone: Sea Change
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6.9
2007
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World Trade Center
star
6.1
2006
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
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6.9
2006
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Jesse Stone: Night Passage
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6.9
2006
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The Architect
star
5.7
2006
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The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
star
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2006
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Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
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6.5
2006
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Get Rich or Die Tryin'
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6.809
2005
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Stone Cold
star
6.808
2005
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Syriana
star
6.418
2005
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Solaris
star
5.916
2002
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Far from Heaven
star
7.049
2002
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Antwone Fisher
star
6.925
2002
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The Shrink Is In
star
5.0
2001
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Amy & Isabelle
star
5.25
2001
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Ocean's Eleven
star
7.448
2001
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Kate & Leopold
star
6.337
2001
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Traffic
star
7.082
2000
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The Pentagon Wars
star
6.779
1998
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Miss Apprehension and Squirt
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1998
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Out of Sight
star
6.7
1998
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Grace & Glorie
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6.3
1998
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The Substance of Fire
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7.2
1996