Viola Davis 1965 60
Viola Davis 1965 60
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.
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2027 Children of Blood and Bone as Mama Agba
2025 Operation Othello as Narrator Executive Producer
2025 The Personal History of Rachel DuPree as Rachel Dupree
2025 Small Great Things
2025 I Almost Forgot About You as Dr. Georgia Young
2025 Two Butterflies
2025 G20 as President Danielle Sutton Producer
2024 Kung Fu Panda 4 as The Chameleon (voice)
2024 Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
2023 The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
2023 Silver Dollar Road Executive Producer
2023 Air as Deloris Jordan
2022 Black Adam as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
2022 The Woman King as Nanisca Producer
2022 Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event as Self
2021 The Unforgivable as Liz Ingram
2021 The Suicide Squad as Amanda Waller
2020 Ma Rainey's Black Bottom as Ma Rainey
2020 Giving Voice as Self
2019 Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" as Florida Evans
2019 On Broadway as Self (archive footage)
2019 Emanuel Executive Producer
2019 A Touch of Sugar as Narrator
2019 Troop Zero as Miss Rayleen Producer
2018 Widows as Veronica Rawlings
2018 Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal as Self (archive footage)
2017 Night Shift Executive Producer
2016 Fences as Rose Maxson
2016 Suicide Squad as Amanda Waller
2016 Custody as Martha Schulman
2015 Lila & Eve as Lila Walcott
2015 August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand as Self
2015 Blackhat as Carol Barrett
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
2014 The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them as Professor Lillian Friedman
2013 Ender's Game as Major Gwen Anderson
2013 Prisoners as Nancy Birch
2013 Love, Marilyn as Self
2013 Beautiful Creatures as Amma Treadeau
2012 Won't Back Down as Nona Alberts
2011 Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close as Abby Black
2011 Touch of Evil as The Vengeful Caretaker
2011 The Help as Aibileen Clark
2010 It's Kind of a Funny Story as Dr. Eden Minerva
2010 Trust as Gail Friedman
2010 Eat Pray Love as Delia Shiraz
2010 Knight and Day as CIA Director Isabel George
2009 Beyond All Boundaries as Hortense Johnson
2009 Law Abiding Citizen as Mayor April Henry
2009 State of Play as Dr. Judith Franklin
2009 Doubt: Stage to Screen as Self
2009 Madea Goes to Jail as Ellen
2008 Doubt as Mrs. Miller
2008 Nights in Rodanthe as Jean
2007 Jesse Stone: Sea Change as Molly Crane
2007 Disturbia as Detective Parker
2006 The Architect as Tonya Neely
2006 Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story as Diane Barrino
2006 World Trade Center as Mother in Hospital with Donna
2006 The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
2006 Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise as Molly Crane
2006 Jesse Stone: Night Passage as Officer Molly Crane
2005 Syriana as CIA Chairwoman
2005 Get Rich or Die Tryin' as Grandma
2005 Stone Cold as Molly Crane
2002 Antwone Fisher as Eva May
2002 Solaris as Gordon
2002 Far from Heaven as Sybil
2001 Kate & Leopold as Policewoman
2001 Ocean's Eleven as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
2001 The Shrink Is In as Robin
2001 Amy & Isabelle as Dottie
2000 Traffic as Social Worker
1998 Grace & Glorie as Rosemary Allbright
1998 Out of Sight as Moselle
1998 The Pentagon Wars as Sgt. Fanning
1998 Miss Apprehension and Squirt as Sharon Hughes
1996 The Substance of Fire as Nurse