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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
August 11, 1965
Place of Birth
St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
- 바이올라 데이비스
- ვიოლა დევისი
- Вайола Дейвіс
- وایولا دیویس
Viola Davis
2.8 Popularity
Biography
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
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Mama Agba
Children of Blood and Bone
2027
6.4
President Danielle Sutton
G20
2025
5.3
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
0.0
Narration
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
2025
7.8
Amanda Waller (voice)
Creature Commandos
2024
7.0
The Chameleon (voice)
Kung Fu Panda 4
2024
8.0
Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2024
9.7
Self
Hot Ones Versus
2024
7.0
Dr. Volumnia Gaul
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
2023
7.3
Deloris Jordan
Air
2023
Credits
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Children of Blood and Bone
as Mama Agba
2027
0.0
G20
as President Danielle Sutton
2025
6.4
Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self
2025
5.3
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
as Narration
2025
0.0
Creature Commandos
as Amanda Waller (voice)
2024
7.8
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice)
2024
7.0
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
2024
8.0
Hot Ones Versus
as Self
2024
9.7
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
2023
7.0
Air
as Deloris Jordan
2023
7.3
Food 2050
as Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
0.0
Black Adam
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
2022
6.8
The Woman King
as Nanisca
2022
7.6
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
as Self
2022
7.1
The First Lady
as Michelle Obama
2022
5.8
Peacemaker
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
2022
8.2
The Unforgivable
as Liz Ingram
2021
7.4
The Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
2021
7.5
C ce soir, le débat
as Self - Guest
2021
2.0
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey
2020
6.6
Dear...
as Self
2020
5.0
Celebrity IOU
as Self
2020
6.6
Giving Voice
as Self
2020
6.4
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Florida Evans
2019
6.1
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
2019
8.7
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
2019
6.3
A Touch of Sugar
as Narrator
2019
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Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen
2019
6.9
Widows
as Veronica Rawlings
2018
6.5
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
2018
5.4
Fences
as Rose Maxson
2016
6.9
Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
2016
5.9
Custody
as Martha Schulman
2016
6.9
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
2015
6.2
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
2015
6.2
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
2015
6.2
Lila & Eve
as Lila Walcott
2015
6.1
Hot Ones
as Self
2015
7.2
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self
2015
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Blackhat
as Carol Barrett
2015
5.5
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
2014
6.7
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
2014
6.7
How to Get Away with Murder
as Annalise Keating
2014
7.8
Get on Up
as Susie Brown
2014
6.8
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
2014
6.2
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
2014
5.3
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
2014
5.9
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2014
5.9
Ender's Game
as Major Gwen Anderson
2013
6.6
Prisoners
as Nancy Birch
2013
8.1
Love, Marilyn
as Self
2013
6.6
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau
2013
6.0
Sofia the First
as Helen Hanshaw (voice)
2013
7.2
Won't Back Down
as Nona Alberts
2012
6.1
Scandal
as Annalise Keating
2012
7.2
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
2011
7.0
The Help
as Aibileen Clark
2011
8.2
It's Kind of a Funny Story
as Dr. Eden Minerva
2010
7.0
Trust
as Gail Friedman
2010
6.5
Eat Pray Love
as Delia Shiraz
2010
6.2
Knight and Day
as CIA Director Isabel George
2010
6.2
Beyond All Boundaries
as Hortense Johnson
2009
6.8
Law Abiding Citizen
as Mayor April Henry
2009
7.4
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
State of Play
as Dr. Judith Franklin
2009
6.8
Doubt: Stage to Screen
as Self
2009
7.0
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen
2009
6.5
United States of Tara
2009
7.1
Doubt
as Mrs. Miller
2008
7.2
Nights in Rodanthe
as Jean
2008
6.3
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charlene Barton
2008
6.1
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane
2007
7.0
Traveler
as Agent Jan Marlow
2007
6.7
Disturbia
as Detective Parker
2007
6.7
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
2007
7.2
The Architect
as Tonya Neely
2006
5.6
Brothers and Sisters
as Ellen Snyder
2006
7.1
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino
2006
6.2
World Trade Center
as Mother in Hospital
2006
6.1
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
2006
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Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
2006
6.9
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane
2006
6.9
Syriana
as CIA Chairwoman
2005
6.4
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
as Grandma
2005
6.8
Threshold
2005
7.0
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane
2005
6.8
Century City
2004
5.0
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
2003
5.5
Antwone Fisher
as Eva May
2002
6.9
Solaris
as Gordon
2002
5.9
Far from Heaven
as Sybil
2002
7.0
Hack
as Stevie Morgan
2002
7.7
Without a Trace
as Audrey Williams
2002
7.2
Live from E!
as Self
2002
3.7
Kate & Leopold
as Policewoman
2001
6.3
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
2001
7.5
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Terry Randolph
2001
7.6
The Guardian
as Suzanna Clemons' Attorney
2001
6.9
The Shrink Is In
as Robin
2001
4.8
Amy & Isabelle
as Dottie
2001
5.2
The Division
as Dr. Georgia Davis
2001
7.1
Traffic
as Social Worker
2000
7.1
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Attorney Campbell
2000
7.6
City of Angels
as Lynnette Peeler
2000
9.0
Third Watch
as Margo Rodriguez
1999
7.9
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Donna Emmett
1999
7.9
Judging Amy
as Celeste
1999
7.5
Providence
as Dr. Eleanor Weiss
1999
6.5
Grace & Glorie
as Rosemary Allbright
1998
6.3
Out of Sight
as Moselle
1998
6.7
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning
1998
6.9
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Miss Apprehension and Squirt
as Sharon Hughes
1998
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The View
as Self - Guest
1997
4.3
The View
as Self
1997
4.3
The Practice
as Aisha Crenshaw
1997
7.6
The Substance of Fire
as Nurse
1996
7.1
NYPD Blue
as Woman
1993
7.0
The Simpsons
as Narrator (voice)
1989
8.0
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
1979
6.9
60 Minutes
as Self
1968
6.6
The Grammys
as Self
1959
8.6
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
1956
5.9
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rosemary Allbright
1951
8.6
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
1944
7.2
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee
1944
7.2
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Ally Clark
as Ally Clark
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Small Great Things
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Waller
as Amanda Waller
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Operation Othello
as Narrator
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I Almost Forgot About You
as Dr. Georgia Young
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House of Games
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Two Butterflies
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The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
as Rachel Dupree
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