1965-08-11 ( 59 years old ) in St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
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.
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Movies
Children of Blood and Bone
2027-01-15
G20
2025-04-09
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024-03-02
Air
2023-04-05
Black Adam
2022-10-19
The Woman King
2022-09-16
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
2022-04-22
The Unforgivable
2021-11-24
The Suicide Squad
2021-07-28
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
2020-11-25
Giving Voice
2020-01-26
On Broadway
2019-10-12
A Touch of Sugar
2019-04-24
Troop Zero
2019-02-01
Widows
2018-11-06
Fences
2016-12-16
Suicide Squad
2016-08-03
Custody
2016-04-17
Lila & Eve
2015-07-31
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
2015-02-20
Blackhat
2015-01-13
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
2014-10-10
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
2014-10-10
Get on Up
2014-08-01
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
2014-05-14
Ender's Game
2013-10-24
Prisoners
2013-09-19
Love, Marilyn
2013-05-30
Beautiful Creatures
2013-02-13
Won't Back Down
2012-09-28
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
2011-12-25
Touch of Evil
2011-12-06
The Help
2011-08-09
It's Kind of a Funny Story
2010-10-08
Trust
2010-09-10
Eat Pray Love
2010-08-12
Knight and Day
2010-06-15
Beyond All Boundaries
2009-11-09
Law Abiding Citizen
2009-10-15
State of Play
2009-04-17
Doubt: Stage to Screen
2009-04-07
Madea Goes to Jail
2009-02-20
Doubt
2008-12-12
Nights in Rodanthe
2008-09-26
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
2007-05-22
Disturbia
2007-03-27
The Architect
2006-12-01
World Trade Center
2006-08-09
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
2006-05-02
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
2006-04-30
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
2006-01-15
Syriana
2005-11-23
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
2005-11-09
Stone Cold
2005-02-20
Antwone Fisher
2002-12-19
Solaris
2002-11-27
Far from Heaven
2002-11-08
Kate & Leopold
2001-12-25
Ocean's Eleven
2001-12-07
The Shrink Is In
2001-08-01
Amy & Isabelle
2001-03-04
Traffic
2000-12-27
Grace & Glorie
1998-12-13
Out of Sight
1998-06-26
The Pentagon Wars
1998-02-28
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
1998-01-01
The Substance of Fire
1996-09-11
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