Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer. The recipient of numerous accolades, Davis is one of the few performers to have been awarded an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar, and a Tony (EGOT); additionally, she is the sole African-American to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting as well as the third person to achieve both statuses. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017, and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, she won an Obie Award in 1999 for her performance as Ruby McCollum in Everybodys Ruby. She played minor roles in film and television in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before earning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the 2001 Broadway production of August Wilsons King Hedley II. Her film breakthrough came with her role as a troubled mother in the drama Doubt (2008), for which she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Davis won the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her role as Rose Maxson in the Broadway revival of August Wilsons play Fences.For starring as a 1960s housemaid in the comedy-drama The Help (2011), Davis received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Actress. From 2014 to 2020, she played lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC drama series How to Get Away with Murder, for which she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. In 2016, Davis reprised the role of Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences, winning the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She played Amanda Waller in the DC Extended Universe, beginning with Suicide Squad (2016). In 2020, she portrayed Ma Rainey in the biopic Ma Raineys Black Bottom, for which she received a fourth Academy Award nomination, becoming the most-Oscar-nominated black actress. Her performances in Widows (2018) and The Woman King (2022) earned her further nominations for the BAFTA Best Actress Award, making her the most-BAFTA-nominated black actress.Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, are founders of a production company, JuVee Productions. Davis is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support of human rights and equal rights for women and women of color. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 and became a LOréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me earned Davis a Grammy Award in 2023.

Kino niedostępny od Viola Davis

Doubt: Stage to Screen

Self

Film 2009

Operation Othello

Narrator

Film

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Grandma

Film 2005

World Trade Center

Mother in Hospital with Donna

Film 2006

Stone Cold

Molly Crane

Film 2005

Two Butterflies

Film

Won't Back Down

Nona Alberts

Film 2012

On Broadway

Self (archive footage)

Film 2019

Love, Marilyn

Self

Film 2013

Beautiful Creatures

Amma Treadeau

Film 2013

Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event

Self

Film 2022

I Almost Forgot About You

Dr. Georgia Young

Film

Air

Deloris Jordan

Film 2023

Black Adam

Amanda Waller (uncredited)

Film 2022

G20

Taylor Sutton

Film

Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)

Film 2024

It's Kind of a Funny Story

Dr. Eden Minerva

Film 2010

Miss Apprehension and Squirt

Sharon Hughes

Film 1998

Giving Voice

Self

Film 2020

Ocean's Eleven

Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)

Film 2001

Custody

Martha Schulman

Film 2016

August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand

Film 2015

Small Great Things

Film

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

Rachel Dupree

Film

Troop Zero

Miss Rayleen

Film 2019

Beyond All Boundaries

Hortense Johnson

Film 2009

Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal

Self (archive footage)

Film 2018

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")

Film 2006

Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story

Diane Barrino

Film 2006

Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"

Florida Evans

Film 2019

A Touch of Sugar

Narrator

Film 2019

The Woman King

Nanisca

Film 2022

Grace & Glorie

Rosemary Allbright

Film 1998

Seriale telewizyjne niedostępny od Viola Davis

Third Watch

Margo Rodriguez

Tv 1999

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Attorney Campbell

Tv 2000

Threshold

Tv 2005

The Division

Tv 2001

Providence

Dr. Eleanor Weiss

Tv 1999

The Practice

Aisha Crenshaw

Tv 1997

60 Minutes

Self

Tv 1968

Century City

Tv 2004

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self

Tv 2015

United States of Tara

Tv 2009

Law & Order: Criminal Intent

Sergeant Terry Randolph

Tv 2001

E! Live from the Red Carpet

Self

Tv 2002

The Oscars

Self

Tv 1953

Tony Awards

Self - Presenter

Tv 1956

C ce soir, le débat

Self - Guest

Tv 2021

Brothers and Sisters

Ellen Snyder

Tv 2006

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Self

Tv 2003

The Problem with Jon Stewart

Self (archive footage)

Tv 2021

Peacemaker

Amanda Waller (uncredited)

Tv 2022

Dear...

Self

Tv 2020

The Late Show with Stephen Colbert

Self - Guest

Tv 2015

Waller

Amanda Waller

Tv

The View

Self - Guest

Tv 1997

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self

Tv 2014

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Self

Tv 2022

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Self

Tv 2015

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Self

Tv 2014

The View

Self

Tv 1997

Honest Trailers

Dr. Volumnia Gaul (archive footage)

Tv 2012

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Self - Guest

Tv 2009

Hot Ones

Self

Tv 2015

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Self - Guest

Tv 2014

Hack

Stevie Morgan

Tv 2002

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

Donna Emmett

Tv 1999

Celebrity IOU

Self

Tv 2020

The Graham Norton Show

Self

Tv 2007

Father Lefty

Tv

CBS News Sunday Morning

Self

Tv 1979