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Viola Davis

Viola Davis

Birthday: 1965-08-11 | Place of Birth: Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Known primarily as a stage actress, Davis won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role in Fences. She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). Her films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Solaris (2002). Her performance in Doubt (2008) was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

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Known For

Acting

Year
Title

Role

2022
The First Lady

as    Michelle Obama

2021
The Suicide Squad

as    Amanda Waller

2021
The Unforgivable

as    Liz Ingram

2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

as    Ma Rainey

2020
Giving Voice

as    Self

2019
Troop Zero

as    Miss Rayleen

2018
Widows

as    Veronica Rawlings

2016
Suicide Squad

as    Amanda Waller

2016
Custody

as    Martha Schulman

2016
Fences

as    Rose Maxson

2015
Blackhat

as    Carol Barrett

2015
Lila & Eve

as    Lila Walcott

2014
How to Get Away with Murder

as    Annalise Keating

2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

as    Professor Lillian Friedman

2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

as    Professor Lillian Friedman

2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

as    Professor Lillian Friedman

2014
Get on Up

as    Susie Brown

2013
Beautiful Creatures

as    Amma Treadeau

2013
Ender's Game

as    Major Gwen Anderson

2013
Prisoners

as    Nancy Birch

2012
Won't Back Down

as    Nona Alberts

2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close

as    Abby Black

2011
The Help

as    Aibileen Clark

2010
Knight and Day

as    CIA Director Isabel George

2010
Eat Pray Love

as    Delia Shiraz

2010
It's Kind of a Funny Story

as    Dr. Eden Minerva