Viola Davis
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.
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Operation Othello
as Narrator
Children of Blood and Bone
as Mama Agba
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
as Self
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
as Narrator (voice)
G20
as President Danielle Sutton
Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
as Self - Guest
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
as Narration
Creature Commandos
as Amanda Waller (voice)
Hollywood Black
as Self (archive footage)
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
Hot Ones Versus
as Self
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Air
as Deloris Jordan
Food 2050
as Self - Narrator (voice)
The Woman King
as Nanisca
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
as Self
The First Lady
as Michelle Obama
Peacemaker
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
The Unforgivable
as Liz Ingram
C ce soir
as Self - Guest
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey
Dear...
as Self
Celebrity IOU
as Self
Giving Voice
as Self
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
as Florida Evans
On Broadway
as Self (archive footage)
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
A Touch of Sugar
as Narrator
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen
Widows
as Veronica Rawlings
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage)
Fences
as Rose Maxson
Custody
as Martha Schulman
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
as Self - Guest
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Lila & Eve
as Lila Walcott
Hot Ones
as Self
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
as Self
Blackhat
as Carol Barrett
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
How to Get Away with Murder
as Annalise Keating
Get On Up
as Susie Brown
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Ender's Game
as Major Gwen Anderson
Prisoners
as Nancy Birch
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau
Sofia the First
as Helen Hanshaw (voice)
Won't Back Down
as Nona Alberts
Scandal
as Annalise Keating
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
Dark Girls
as Self
The Help
as Aibileen Clark
It's Kind of a Funny Story
as Eden Minerva
Trust
as Gail Friedman
Eat Pray Love
as Delia Shiraz
Knight and Day
as CIA Director Isabel George
Beyond All Boundaries
as Hortense Johnson
Law Abiding Citizen
as Mayor April Henry
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
State of Play
as Dr. Judith Franklin
Doubt: Stage to Screen
as Self
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen
United States of Tara
as Unknown
Doubt
as Mrs. Miller
Nights in Rodanthe
as Jean
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charlene Barton
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane
Traveler
as Agent Jan Marlow
Disturbia
as Detective Parker
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Architect
as Tonya Neely
Brothers and Sisters
as Ellen Snyder
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino
World Trade Center
as Mother in Hospital
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane
Syriana
as CIA Chairwoman
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
as Grandma
Threshold
as Unknown
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane
Century City
as Hannah Crane
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
as Self - Guest
Antwone Fisher
as Eva May
Solaris
as Gordon
Far from Heaven
as Sybil
Hack
as Stevie Morgan
Without a Trace
as Audrey Williams
Live from E!
as Self
Kate & Leopold
as Policewoman
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
as Terry Randolph
The Guardian
as Suzanna Clemons' Attorney
The Shrink Is In
as Robin
Amy & Isabelle
as Dottie
The Division
as Dr. Georgia Davis
Traffic
as Social Worker
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Attorney Campbell
City of Angels
as Lynnette Peeler
Third Watch
as Margo Rodriguez
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
as Donna Emmett
Judging Amy
as Celeste
Providence
as Dr. Eleanor Weiss
Grace & Glorie
as Rosemary Allbright
Out of Sight
as Moselle
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
as Sharon Hughes
The View
as Self - Guest
The View
as Self
The Practice
as Aisha Crenshaw
The Substance of Fire
as Nurse
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
as Self
NYPD Blue
as Woman
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
as Self - Guest
The Simpsons
as Narrator (voice)
CBS News Sunday Morning
as Self
60 Minutes
as Self
The Grammys
as Self
Tony Awards
as Self - Presenter
The Oscars
as Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Rosemary Allbright
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Presenter
Golden Globe Awards
as Self - Nominee