8.2
8.2
The Help
2011
as Aibileen Clark
Viola Davis
Acting
Born:August 11, 1965(age 60)
Birthplace:St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Nationality:United States
Education:Rhode Island College, Juilliard School, Central Falls High School, Circle in the Square Theatre School
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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.
Filmography (78 movies)
8.1
8.1
Prisoners
2013
as Nancy Birch
8.0
8.0
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2024
as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
7.6
7.6
The Woman King
2022
Producer
7.5
7.5
The Suicide Squad
2021
as Amanda Waller
7.4
7.4
The Unforgivable
2021
as Liz Ingram
7.4
7.4
Law Abiding Citizen
2009
as Mayor April Henry
7.3
7.3
Air
2023
as Deloris Jordan
7.2
7.2
The Substance of Fire
1996
as Nurse
7.2
7.2
Silver Dollar Road
2023
Executive Producer
7.2
7.2
Doubt
2008
as Mrs. Miller
7.1
7.1
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
2022
as Self
7.0
7.0
Far from Heaven
2002
as Sybil
7.0
7.0
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009
as Self
7.0
7.0
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
7.0
7.0
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
as The Chameleon (voice)
7.0
7.0
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011
as Abby Black
7.0
7.0
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007
as Molly Crane
7.0
7.0
It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010
as Dr. Eden Minerva
6.9
6.9
Antwone Fisher
2002
as Eva May
6.9
6.9
Custody
2016
as Martha Schulman
6.9
6.9
Troop Zero
2019
Producer
6.9
6.9
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006
as Molly Crane
6.9
6.9
Fences
2016
as Rose Maxson
6.9
6.9
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006
as Officer Molly Crane
6.9
6.9
The Pentagon Wars
1998
as Sgt. Fanning
6.8
6.8
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005
as Grandma
6.8
6.8
Beyond All Boundaries
2009
as Hortense Johnson
6.8
6.8
Stone Cold
2005
as Molly Crane
6.8
6.8
State of Play
2009
as Dr. Judith Franklin
6.8
6.8
Get on Up
2014
as Susie Brown
6.7
6.7
Disturbia
2007
as Detective Parker
6.7
6.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014
as Professor Lillian Friedman
6.7
6.7
Out of Sight
1998
as Moselle
6.7
6.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014
as Professor Lillian Friedman
6.6
6.6
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020
as Ma Rainey
6.6
6.6
Love, Marilyn
2013
as Self
6.6
6.6
Ender's Game
2013
as Major Gwen Anderson
6.5
6.5
Trust
2010
as Gail Friedman
6.5
6.5
Widows
2018
as Veronica Rawlings
6.5
6.5
Madea Goes to Jail
2009
as Ellen
6.5
6.5
G20
2025
Producer
6.4
6.4
Giving Voice
2020
as Self
6.3
6.3
Grace & Glorie
1998
as Rosemary Allbright
6.3
6.3
Nights in Rodanthe
2008
as Jean
6.2
6.2
Knight and Day
2010
as CIA Director Isabel George
6.2
6.2
Eat Pray Love
2010
as Delia Shiraz
6.2
6.2
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
2006
as Diane Barrino
6.2
6.2
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014
as Professor Lillian Friedman
6.1
6.1
Won't Back Down
2012
as Nona Alberts
6.1
6.1
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
2019
as Florida Evans
6.1
6.1
Emanuel
2019
Executive Producer
6.1
6.1
Lila & Eve
2015
as Lila Walcott
6.0
6.0
Beautiful Creatures
2013
as Amma Treadeau
5.9
5.9
Suicide Squad
2016
as Amanda Waller
5.9
5.9
Solaris
2002
as Gordon
5.6
5.6
The Architect
2006
as Tonya Neely
5.5
5.5
Blackhat
2015
as Carol Barrett
5.4
5.4
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
2018
as Self (archive footage)
5.2
5.2
Amy & Isabelle
2001
as Dottie
4.8
4.8
The Shrink Is In
2001
as Robin
Ally Clark
TBA
Producer
A Touch of Sugar
2019
as Narrator
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998
as Sharon Hughes
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
as Mama Agba
Operation Othello
TBA
Executive Producer
Untitled Jordan Peele Film
TBA
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015
as Self
House of Games
TBA
Producer
Small Great Things
TBA
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
TBA
as Rachel Dupree
Two Butterflies
TBA
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
2025
as Narration
I Almost Forgot About You
TBA
as Dr. Georgia Young
Black Boys Don't Sew
TBA
Executive Producer
Night Shift
2017
Executive Producer
ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
2025
Executive Producer
Mfinda
TBA
Executive Producer
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