Viola Davis
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.
Acted Movies
Director: Mike Mitchell
Writers: Darren Lemke,
Cast: Awkwafina, Bryan Cranston, Dustin Hoffman, Ian McShane, Jack Black, James Hong, Ke Huy Quan, Lori Tan Chinn, Ronny Chieng, Viola Davis,
Director: Ben Affleck
Writers: Alex Convery,
Cast: Ben Affleck, Chris Messina, Chris Tucker, Damian Young, Gustaf Skarsgård, Jason Bateman, Julius Tennon, Matt Damon, Matthew Maher, Viola Davis,
Director: Gina Prince-Bythewood
Writers: Dana Stevens,
Cast: Hero Fiennes Tiffin, Jayme Lawson, Jimmy Odukoya, John Boyega, Jordan Bolger, Lashana Lynch, Masali Baduza, Sheila Atim, Thuso Mbedu, Viola Davis,
Director: Nora Fingscheidt
Writers: Courtenay Miles,
Cast: Aisling Franciosi, Emma Nelson, Jon Bernthal, Linda Emond, Richard Thomas, Sandra Bullock, Tom Guiry, Vincent D'Onofrio, Viola Davis, Will Pullen,
Director: James Gunn
Writers: James Gunn,
Cast: Daniela Melchior, David Dastmalchian, Idris Elba, Jai Courtney, Joel Kinnaman, John Cena, Margot Robbie, Michael Rooker, Sylvester Stallone, Viola Davis,
Director: Bert
Writers: Lucy Alibar,
Cast: Allison Janney, Ashley Brooke, Bella Higginbotham, Charlie Shotwell, Jim Gaffigan, Johanna Colón, Mckenna Grace, Mike Epps, Milan Ray, Viola Davis,
Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Steven Baigelman,
Cast: Chadwick Boseman, Dan Aykroyd, Fred Melamed, Jill Scott, Lennie James, Nelsan Ellis, Nick Eversman, Octavia Spencer, Tika Sumpter, Viola Davis,
Director: Ned Benson
Writers: Ned Benson,
Cast: Bill Hader, Ciarán Hinds, Isabelle Huppert, James McAvoy, Jess Weixler, Jessica Chastain, Nina Arianda, Ryan Eggold, Viola Davis, William Hurt,
Director: Gavin Hood
Writers: Gavin Hood,
Cast: Abigail Breslin, Aramis Knight, Asa Butterfield, Ben Kingsley, Hailee Steinfeld, Harrison Ford, Moisés Arias, Nonso Anozie, Suraj Partha, Viola Davis,
Director: Denis Villeneuve
Writers: Aaron Guzikowski,
Cast: Dylan Minnette, Erin Gerasimovich, Hugh Jackman, Jake Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Melissa Leo, Paul Dano, Terrence Howard, Viola Davis, Zoë Soul,
Director: Richard LaGravenese
Writers: Richard LaGravenese,
Cast: Alden Ehrenreich, Alice Englert, Eileen Atkins, Emma Thompson, Emmy Rossum, Jeremy Irons, Margo Martindale, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis, Zoey Deutch,
Director: Daniel Barnz
Writers: Brin Hill,
Cast: Emily Alyn Lind, Lance Reddick, Liza Colón-Zayas, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Rosie Perez, Sarab Kamoo, Stephen Weigand, Teri Clark, Ving Rhames, Viola Davis,
Director: Stephen Daldry
Writers: Eric Roth,
Cast: Dennis Hearn, Jeffrey Wright, John Goodman, Max von Sydow, Paul Klementowicz, Sandra Bullock, Thomas Horn, Tom Hanks, Viola Davis, Zoe Caldwell,
Director: Tate Taylor
Writers: Tate Taylor,
Cast: Ahna O'Reilly, Allison Janney, Anna Camp, Bryce Dallas Howard, Eleanor Henry, Emma Henry, Emma Stone, Jessica Chastain, Octavia Spencer, Viola Davis,
Director: Ryan Fleck
Writers: Anna Boden,
Cast: Bernard White, Emma Roberts, Jeremy Davies, Jim Gaffigan, Keir Gilchrist, Lauren Graham, Thomas Mann, Viola Davis, Zach Galifianakis, Zoë Kravitz,
Director: David Schwimmer
Writers: Robert Festinger,
Cast: Aislinn DeButch, Catherine Keener, Chris Henry Coffey, Clive Owen, Jason Clarke, Liana Liberato, Noah Emmerich, Olivia Wickline, Spencer Curnutt, Viola Davis,
Director: Ryan Murphy
Writers: Ryan Murphy,
Cast: A. Jay Radcliff, Billy Crudup, Hadi Subiyanto, I. Gusti Ayu Puspawati, James Franco, Javier Bardem, Julia Roberts, Mike O'Malley, Richard Jenkins, Viola Davis,
Director: James Mangold
Writers: Patrick O'Neill,
Cast: Cameron Diaz, Celia Weston, Falk Hentschel, Jordi Mollà, Maggie Grace, Marc Blucas, Paul Dano, Peter Sarsgaard, Tom Cruise, Viola Davis,
Director: John Patrick Shanley
Writers: John Patrick Shanley,
Cast: Alice Drummond, Amy Adams, Audrie Neenan, Carrie Preston, John Costelloe, Lloyd Clay Brown, Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Susan Blommaert, Viola Davis,
Director: D.J. Caruso
Writers: Christopher Landon,
Cast: Aaron Yoo, Brandon Caruso, Carrie-Anne Moss, David Morse, Jose Pablo Cantillo, Luciano Rauso, Matt Craven, Sarah Roemer, Shia LaBeouf, Viola Davis,
Director: Robert Harmon
Cast: Alexis Dziena, Cindy Sampson, Jane Adams, Kohl Sudduth, Mimi Rogers, Polly Shannon, Reg Rogers, Shawn Roberts, Tom Selleck, Viola Davis,
Director: Steven Soderbergh
Writers: Steven Soderbergh,
Cast: Donna Kimball, George Clooney, Jeremy Davies, John Cho, Michael Ensign, Morgan Rusler, Natascha McElhone, Shane Skelton, Ulrich Tukur, Viola Davis,
Director: Todd Haynes
Writers: Todd Haynes,
Cast: Bette Henritze, Dennis Haysbert, Dennis Quaid, James Rebhorn, Julianne Moore, Lindsay Andretta, Michael Gaston, Patricia Clarkson, Ryan Ward, Viola Davis,