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.
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Viola Davis Biography / Wiki
| Name | Viola Davis |
| Also Know | Виола ДÑвиÑ, ë°”ì´ì˜¬ë¼ ë°ì´ë¹„스 |
| Gender | Female |
| Known For | Acting |
| Place of Birth | Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA |
| Date of Birth | 1965-08-11 |
| Age(as in 2022) | 57 |
| Deathday |
Viola Davis Acting Movies
| Movie Name | Character | Release Date | Overview |
| Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 | When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law sc… |
| Lila & Eve | Lila | 2015-07-31 | Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own… |
| Won’t Back Down | Nona Alberts | 2012-09-28 | Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission t… |
| Small Great Things | The story follows a labor and delivery nurse who cares for newborns at a hospital in Connecticut who’s ordered not touch the baby belonging to a whi… | ||
| The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | Set during the early 1900s in South Dakota, Rachel and Isaac Dupree, an African American couple, raise their family on an isolated ranch in the Badlan… | |
| Widows | Veronica Rawlings | 2018-11-06 | A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt lef… |
| A Touch of Sugar | Narrator | 2019-04-24 | A Touch of Sugar dives into the diabetes healthcare epidemic that affects every community in the United States, told through the voices of people unit… |
| The Woman King | Nanisca | 2022-09-15 | The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike… |
| Two Butterflies | Follows two estranged sisters who are torn apart by tragedy and forced to reunite when one sister must be transported to an Alzheimer’s facility…. | ||
| Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event | Self | 2022-04-22 | In this special event, Oprah Winfrey sits down with actor Viola Davis for an interview about her memoir, “Finding Me.”… |
| I Almost Forgot About You | Dr. Georgia Young | Dr. Georgia Young’s wonderful life—great friends, family, and successful career—aren’t enough to keep her from feeling stuck and restless. When sh… | |
| Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 | When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and in… |
| The Help | Aibileen Clark | 2011-08-09 | Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson … |
| The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 | An architect engages in conflict with an activist who lives in a dangerous complex the architect designed…. |
| Fences | Rose Maxson | 2016-12-16 | In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to r… |
| August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | Unprecedented access to Wilson’s theatrical archives, rarely seen interviews and new dramatic readings bring to life his seminal 10-play cycle chron… | |
| Troop Zero | Miss Rayleen | 2019-02-01 | In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NA… |
| Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 | In the Lifetime® movie, THE FANTASIA BARRINO STORY: LIFE IS NOT A FAIRYTALE, a single teenage mother overcomes all odds – sexual abuse, poverty and i… |
| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | 2020-11-25 | Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson’s play…. |
| The Unforgivable | Liz Ingram | 2021-11-24 | A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past…. |
| Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen | Self | 2020-12-18 | Viola Davis, Denzel Washington, George C. Wolfe and more share the heart, soul and history that brought August Wilson’s timeless play to the screen…. |
| Giving Voice | Self | 2020-01-26 | Every year, thousands of high schoolers enter the August Wilson monologue competition for a chance to perform on Broadway. This film follows these stu… |
| Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist | Self | 2021-04-17 | An intimate look at the Oscar-nominated actor’s incomparable artistry, and the acting process which informed his transformative performances. Viola … |
| Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 | A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet…. |
| Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 | Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishin… |
| Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 | In this prequel to ‘Stone Cold,’ LA cop, Jesse Stone relocates to a small town only to find himself immersed in one mystery after the other…. |
| The Pentagon Wars | Platoon Sgt. Fanning | 1998-02-28 | From the director of “Made In America†and “The Money Pit†comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. O… |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 | Told from the female perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may b… |
| It’s Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 | A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward…. |
| Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 | Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile w… |
| Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-02-27 | In 1964, a Catholic school nun questions a priest’s ambiguous relationship with a troubled young student, suspecting him of abuse. He denies the charg… |
| Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 | A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shiftin… |
| Ender’s Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 | Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender’s Game is the story of the Earth’s most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in t… |
| Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 | In 1971, in the small town of Shirley Falls, in Maine, the odd and lonely secretary Isabelle Goodrow raises her teenager daughter Amy alone. She has o… |
| Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 | Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena’s 16th birthday approaches she m… |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-05-14 | A New York couple’s relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her… |
| Get on Up | Susie Brown | 2014-08-01 | A chronicle of James Brown’s rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history…. |
| Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Abby Black | 2011-12-25 | A year after his father’s death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a s… |
| Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 | Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners as hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to … |
| Untitled Sonny Vaccaro Movie | Deloris Jordan | The story of Nike’s longshot effort to sign rising superstar basketball player Michael Jordan to its shoe company in the mid-1980s, an endorsement t… | |
| Far from Heaven | Sybil | 2002-09-02 | In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife faces a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in the outside world…. |
| Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 | A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone… |
| The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 | A young woman impersonates a shrink to win over her Prince Charming…. |
| Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2016-08-03 | From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, un… |
| The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Dr. Volumnia Gaul | 2023-11-15 | Years before he would become the tyrannical President of Panem, 18-year-old Coriolanus Snow is the last hope for his fading lineage, a once-proud fami… |
| Get Rich or Die Tryin’ | Grandma | 2005-11-09 | A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music…. |
| Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 | Liz Gilbert had everything a modern woman is supposed to dream of having – a husband, a house and a successful career – yet like so many others, s… |
| Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-18 | Keller Dover faces a parent’s worst nightmare when his 6-year-old daughter, Anna, and her friend go missing. The only lead is an old motorhome that ha… |
| The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-07-28 | Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X… |
| Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen | 2009-02-16 | After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Ha… |
| Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 | Some of 2011’s stand-out film actors appear in “a video gallery of cinematic villainy” for New York Times Magazine…. |
| The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 | Told from the male perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be … |
| Beyond All Boundaries | Hortense Johnson | 2009-11-09 | A visual, 4-D experience of the battles of World War II featuring stories, archival footage and advanced special effects…. |
| Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | 1998-12-13 | When a lonely ex-New Yorker moves into the home of a rural senior to act as a hospice worker, the two initially couldn’t seem to be less alike. Howeve… |
| Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-04-12 | Kale is a 17-year-old placed under house arrest after punching his teacher. He is confined to his house, and decides to use his free time spying on hi… |
| Live in Front of a Studio Audience: “All in the Family” and “Good Times” | Florida Evans | 2019-12-18 | Live performances of classic holiday-themed episodes from Norman Lear’s hit shows “All in the Family” and “Good Times.”… |
| The Substance of Fire | Nurse | 1996-09-11 | Isaac Geldhart is a Holocaust survivor who, overcome by grief at the recent death of his wife, seems determined to run his publishing firm into the gr… |
| Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 | A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and r… |
| Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 | Police Chief Jesse Stone’s relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he’s relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse… |
| Black Adam | Amanda Waller | 2022-10-19 | Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his… |
| Out of Sight | Moselle | 1998-06-26 | Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the ri… |
| Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 | Using the book ‘Fragments’, which collects Marilyn Monroe’s poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote … |
| State of Play | Dr. Judith Franklin | 2009-04-17 | When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend…. |
| World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 | Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001…. |
| Law Abiding Citizen | Mayor April Henry | 2009-10-15 | A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family’s killers free. He targets not only the killer… |
| Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 | When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time — and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it — a sk… |
| Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 | Examine the rise and fall of Hollywood media mogul Harvey Weinstein following the scandal in 2017. Learn from exclusive interviews with those who knew… |
| Traffic | Social Worker | 2000-03-23 | An exploration of the United States of America’s war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Poli… |
| Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | 2005-11-23 | The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer… |
| The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment “King Hedley II”) | 2006-05-02 | The Great White Way comes into your living room via this disc of rare performances from some of Broadway’s brightest luminaries. Culled from clips fro… |
| On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2021-08-20 | An all-star cast tells the inside story of the Broadway theater, and how it came back from the brink thanks to innovative work, a new attention to inc… |
| Ocean’s Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 | Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny’s hand-picked crew of spec… |
Viola Davis Production Movies
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Night Shift | Executive Producer | 2017-01-20 | Ollie Jeffries is an on-again, off-again actor. His long term gig as a bathroom attendant on this one night, forces Ollie to face a reality he’s not… |
| Troop Zero | Producer | 2019-02-01 | In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NA… |
| Emanuel | Executive Producer | 2019-06-17 | On June 17th, 2015, 21-year-old white supremacist Dylann Roof walked into a bible study and murdered nine African Americans during their closing praye… |
| The Woman King | Producer | 2022-09-15 | The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike… |
| Producer | A sexy, suspense-driven legal thriller about a group of ambitious law students and their brilliant, mysterious criminal defense professor. They become… | ||
| Executive Producer | This docu-series explores and exposes flaws in the American justice system through emotional, in-depth examinations of the death row cases of Darlie R… | ||
| Executive Producer | Four dynamic women embark on the journey of a lifetime as they transform into men to experience life from the opposite side. With the help of a specia… | ||
| Executive Producer | A revelatory reframing of American leadership through the lens of the First Ladies. Exploring everything from their journeys to Washington, family lif… | ||
| Executive Producer | A spinoff of The Suicide Squad and Peacemaker…. | ||
Other Info
| Movie Name | Job | Release Date | Overview |
| Creator | Four dynamic women embark on the journey of a lifetime as they transform into men to experience life from the opposite side. With the help of a specia… | ||
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