Viola Davis
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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- Born:
- Aug 11, 1965 In Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 83
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
- Latest Project:
- Movie Unforgiven 2021-12-31
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Fighting Shirley Chisholm | Shirley Chisholm | 2022 |
| Movie | Small Great Things | 2022 | |
| Movie | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | 2022 |
| Movie | Unforgiven | 2021-12-31 | |
| Movie | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-08-04 |
| Movie | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | 2020-11-25 |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Florida Evans | 2019-12-18 |
| Movie | Troop Zero | Miss Rayleen | 2019-02-01 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Herself (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Movie | Widows | Veronica | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | Fences | Rose Maxson | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2016-08-03 |
| Movie | DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League | Herself | 2016-01-19 |
| Movie | Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Herself | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Lila & Eve | Lila | 2015-07-31 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Get on Up | Susie Brown | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Series | How to Get Away with Murder | Annalise Keating | 2014-09-25 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-18 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Herself | 2012-09-12 |
| Movie | Won't Back Down | Nona Alberts | 2012-09-28 |
| Movie | The Help | Aibileen Clark | 2011-08-09 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Abby Black | 2011-12-24 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 |
| Movie | Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 |
| Movie | Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 |
| Movie | Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 |
| Series | United States of Tara | Unknown | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | Law Abiding Citizen | Mayor April Henry | 2009-10-15 |
| Movie | State of Play | Dr. Judith Franklin | 2009-04-17 |
| Movie | Beyond All Boundaries | Hortense Johnson | 2009-11-09 |
| Movie | Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen | 2009-02-16 |
| Movie | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-02-27 |
| Series | The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 2008-05-26 |
| Movie | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 |
| Series | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 2007-05-10 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 |
| Movie | Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-04-12 |
| Series | Brothers and Sisters | Ellen Snyder | 2006-09-24 |
| Movie | The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 |
| Movie | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment "King Hedley II") | 2006-05-02 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 |
| Series | Threshold | Unknown | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Grandma | 2005-11-09 |
| Movie | Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | 2005-11-23 |
| Series | Century City | 2004-03-16 | |
| Series | E! Live from the Red Carpet | Herself | 2002-01-13 |
| Movie | Far from Heaven | Sybil | 2002-09-02 |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 |
| Series | Without a Trace | Unknown | 2002-09-26 |
| Series | The Division | Unknown | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 |
| Movie | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 |
| Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 |
| Series | City of Angels | Lynnette Peeler | 2000-01-16 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Movie | Traffic | Social Worker | 2000-03-23 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Series | Third Watch | Unknown | 1999-09-23 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Unknown | 1999-09-19 |
| Series | Providence | Unknown | 1999-01-08 |
| Movie | Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | 1998-12-13 |
| Movie | Out of Sight | Moselle | 1998-06-26 |
| Movie | The Pentagon Wars | Platoon Sgt. Fanning | 1998-02-28 |
| Series | The View | Herself | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | The Practice | Unknown | 1997-03-04 |
| Movie | The Substance of Fire | Nurse | 1996-09-11 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |