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 For: Acting

Born: St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA, 1965-08-11

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1996	The Substance of Fire	Nurse	72
2	1998	The Pentagon Wars	Sgt. Fanning	68
3	2001	Amy & Isabelle	Dottie	53
4	2002	Far from Heaven	Sybil	70
5	2002	Solaris	Gordon	59
6	2005	Stone Cold	Molly Crane	68
7	2005	Get Rich or Die Tryin'	Grandma	68
8	2006	Jesse Stone: Night Passage	Officer Molly Crane	69
9	2006	Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise	Molly Crane	69
10	2006	World Trade Center	Mother in Hospital with Donna	61
11	2009	Doubt: Stage to Screen	Self	70
12		Operation Othello	Narrator	0
13	2001	The Shrink Is In	Robin	50
14	2007	Disturbia	Detective Parker	67
15	2008	Nights in Rodanthe	Jean	63
16	2008	Doubt	Mrs. Miller	72
17	2009	Madea Goes to Jail	Ellen	65
18	2009	State of Play	Dr. Judith Franklin	68
19	2009	Law Abiding Citizen	Mayor April Henry	74
20	2010	Knight and Day	CIA Director Isabel George	62
21	2010	Eat Pray Love	Delia Shiraz	62
22	2010	Trust	Gail Friedman	66
23	2011	The Help	Aibileen Clark	82
24	2011	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close	Abby Black	70
25	2013	Ender's Game	Major Gwen Anderson	66
26		Two Butterflies		0
27	2012	Won't Back Down	Nona Alberts	61
28	2013	Beautiful Creatures	Amma Treadeau	60
29	2013	Love, Marilyn	Self	66
30	2013	Prisoners	Nancy Birch	81
31	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them	Professor Lillian Friedman	62
32	2014	Get on Up	Susie Brown	68
33	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her	Professor Lillian Friedman	67
34	2014	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him	Professor Lillian Friedman	67
35	2015	Blackhat	Carol Barrett	55
36	2019	On Broadway	Self (archive footage)	87
37	2022	Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event	Self	71
38		I Almost Forgot About You	Dr. Georgia Young	0
39	1998	Miss Apprehension and Squirt	Sharon Hughes	0
40	1998	Out of Sight	Moselle	67
41	1998	Grace & Glorie	Rosemary Allbright	63
42	2000	Traffic	Social Worker	71
43	2001	Ocean's Eleven	Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)	74
44	2001	Kate & Leopold	Policewoman	63
45	2002	Antwone Fisher	Eva May	69
46	2005	Syriana	CIA Chairwoman	64
47	2006	The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays	Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")	0
48	2006	Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story	Diane Barrino	65
49	2006	The Architect	Tonya Neely	57
50	2007	Jesse Stone: Sea Change	Molly Crane	69
51	2009	Beyond All Boundaries	Hortense Johnson	68
52	2010	It's Kind of a Funny Story	Dr. Eden Minerva	70
53	2011	Touch of Evil	The Vengeful Caretaker	70
54	2015	August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand	Self	0
55	2015	Lila & Eve	Lila Walcott	61
56	2016	Custody	Martha Schulman	70
57	2016	Suicide Squad	Amanda Waller	59
58	2016	Fences	Rose Maxson	69
59	2018	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal	Self (archive footage)	57
60	2018	Widows	Veronica Rawlings	65
61	2019	Troop Zero	Miss Rayleen	69
62	2019	A Touch of Sugar	Narrator	0
63	2019	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"	Florida Evans	61
64	2020	Giving Voice	Self	64
65	2020	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom	Ma Rainey	67
66	2021	The Suicide Squad	Amanda Waller	75
67	2021	The Unforgivable	Liz Ingram	74
68	2022	The Woman King	Nanisca	77
69	2022	Black Adam	Amanda Waller (uncredited)	69
70	2023	Air	Deloris Jordan	73
71	2023	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	Dr. Volumnia Gaul	70
72	2024	Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes	Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)	80
73	2024	Kung Fu Panda 4	The Chameleon (voice)	71
74	2025	The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality	Narration	0
75	2025	G20	President Danielle Sutton	65
76		Small Great Things		0
77		The Personal History of Rachel DuPree	Rachel Dupree	0
78	2027	Children of Blood and Bone	Mama Agba	0
79		Ally Clark	Ally Clark	0
80		House of Games		0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Presenter	72
2	1944	Golden Globe Awards	Self - Nominee	72
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Rosemary Allbright	86
4	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
5	1956	Tony Awards	Self - Presenter	51
6	1959	The Grammys	Self	87
7	1968	60 Minutes	Self	67
8	1979	CBS News Sunday Morning	Self	68
9	1993	NYPD Blue	Woman	70
10	1997	The Practice	Aisha Crenshaw	77
11	1997	The View	Self - Guest	45
12	1997	The View	Self	45
13	1999	Providence	Dr. Eleanor Weiss	65
14	1999	Judging Amy	Celeste	75
15	1999	Law & Order: Special Victims Unit	Donna Emmett	79
16	1999	Third Watch	Margo Rodriguez	79
17	2000	City of Angels	Lynnette Peeler	90
18	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Attorney Campbell	76
19	2001	The Division	Dr. Georgia Davis	70
20	2001	The Guardian	Suzanna Clemons' Attorney	68
21	2001	Law & Order: Criminal Intent	Sergeant Terry Randolph	76
22	2002	E! Live from the Red Carpet	Self	32
23	2002	Without a Trace	Audrey Williams	72
24	2002	Hack	Stevie Morgan	77
25	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
26	2004	Century City		63
27	2005	Threshold		70
28	2006	Brothers and Sisters	Ellen Snyder	71
29	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
30	2007	Traveler	Agent Jan Marlow	67
31	2008	The Andromeda Strain	Dr. Charlene Barton	61
32	2009	United States of Tara		71
33	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
34	2012	Honest Trailers	Dr. Volumnia Gaul (archive footage)	65
35	2012	Scandal	Annalise Keating	71
36	2013	Sofia the First	Helen Hanshaw (voice)	72
37	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
38	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self - Guest	59
39	2014	How to Get Away with Murder	Annalise Keating	78
40	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
41	2015	Hot Ones	Self	75
42	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
43	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self	64
44	2015	The Late Show with Stephen Colbert	Self - Guest	64
45	2020	Celebrity IOU	Self	64
46	2020	Dear...	Self	50
47	2021	C ce soir, le débat	Self - Guest	20
48	2021	The Problem with Jon Stewart	Self (archive footage)	72
49	2022	Peacemaker	Amanda Waller (uncredited)	82
50		Waller	Amanda Waller	0
51	2022	The First Lady	Michelle Obama	64
52	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
53		Father Lefty		0
54	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
55	2024	Hot Ones Versus	Self	97
56	2024	Creature Commandos	Amanda Waller (voice)	79
57	2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Self	90

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