Viola Davis
Acting
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.
How to Get Away with Murder
as Annalise Keating
Age 49 (now 60)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
Age 46 (now 60)
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Narrator (voice)
Age 60ASALI: Power of the Pollinators
Executive Producer
Age 60
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
as Narration
Age 59 (now 60)
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
Age 58 (now 60)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Age 58 (now 60)
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
as Self
Age 56 (now 60)
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Florida Evans
Age 54 (now 60)
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
Age 53 (now 60)
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self
Age 49 (now 60)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Age 49 (now 60)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Age 49 (now 60)
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Age 48 (now 60)
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
Age 46 (now 60)
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino
Age 41 (now 60)
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
Age 40 (now 60)
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
Age 40 (now 60)
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane
Age 40 (now 60)
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
Age 36 (now 60)
Number One on the Call Sheet
Executive Producer
Age 59 (now 60)
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
Age 50 (now 60) The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Age 50 (now 60)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Age 49 (now 60)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 49 (now 60) How to Get Away with Murder
as Annalise Keating
Age 49 (now 60)
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
Age 48 (now 60)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 48 (now 60) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Age 48 (now 60)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 43 (now 60)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Terry Randolph
Age 36 (now 60)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Attorney Campbell
Age 35 (now 60)
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Donna Emmett
Age 34 (now 60)
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
as Self
Age 29 (now 60)
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
Age 26 (now 60)
Gathering insights...
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