Viola Davis
Born August 11, 1965 (Age: 60)
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St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
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.
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.
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
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as Rachel Dupree
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
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as Mama Agba
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Age: 61
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
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as The Chameleon (voice)
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Age: 58
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023
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as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
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Age: 58
Air
2023
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as Deloris Jordan
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Age: 57
Black Adam
2022
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as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
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Age: 57
The Woman King
2022
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as Nanisca
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Age: 57
The Suicide Squad
2021
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as Amanda Waller
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Age: 55
Giving Voice
2020
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as Self
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Age: 54
Widows
2018
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as Veronica Rawlings
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Age: 53
Fences
2016
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as Rose Maxson
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Age: 51
Suicide Squad
2016
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as Amanda Waller
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Age: 50
Blackhat
2015
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as Carol Barrett
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Age: 49
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
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as Professor Lillian Friedman
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Age: 49
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
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as Professor Lillian Friedman
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Age: 49
Get On Up
2014
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as Susie Brown
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Age: 48
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
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as Professor Lillian Friedman
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Age: 48
Ender's Game
2013
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as Major Gwen Anderson
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Age: 48
Beautiful Creatures
2013
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as Amma Treadeau
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Age: 47
Won't Back Down
2012
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as Nona Alberts
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Age: 47
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
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as Abby Black
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Age: 46
The Help
2011
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as Aibileen Clark
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Age: 45
It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010
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as Dr. Eden Minerva
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Age: 45
Trust
2010
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as Gail Friedman
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Age: 45
Eat Pray Love
2010
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as Delia Shiraz
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Age: 45
Knight and Day
2010
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as CIA Director Isabel George
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Age: 44
Law Abiding Citizen
2009
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as Mayor April Henry
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Age: 44
State of Play
2009
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as Dr. Judith Franklin
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Age: 43
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
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as Ellen
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Age: 43
Doubt
2008
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as Mrs. Miller
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Age: 43
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
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as Jean
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Age: 43
Disturbia
2007
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as Detective Parker
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Age: 41
World Trade Center
2006
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as Mother in Hospital
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Age: 40
Syriana
2005
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as CIA Chairwoman
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Age: 40
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
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as Grandma
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Age: 40
Antwone Fisher
2002
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as Eva May
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Age: 37
Solaris
2002
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as Gordon
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Age: 37
Far from Heaven
2002
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as Sybil
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Age: 37
Kate & Leopold
2001
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as Policewoman
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Age: 36
Ocean's Eleven
2001
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as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
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Age: 36
Traffic
2000
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as Social Worker
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Age: 35
Out of Sight
1998
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as Moselle
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Age: 32
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Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998
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as Sharon Hughes
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Age: 32