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:
- 90
- First Appeared:
- In the movie The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes 2023-11-15
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | 2024 |
| Movie | The Fighting Shirley Chisholm | Shirley Chisholm | 2024 |
| Movie | Small Great Things | 2024 | |
| Movie | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Dr. Volumnia Gaul | 2023-11-15 |
| Series | The First Lady | Michelle Obama | 2022-04-17 |
| Movie | Black Adam | Amanda Waller (uncredited) | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | The Woman King | Nanisca | 2022-09-16 |
| Movie | The Unforgivable | Liz Ingram | 2021-11-24 |
| Movie | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist | Self | 2021-04-17 |
| Movie | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | 2020-11-25 |
| Movie | Giving Voice | Self | 2020-01-26 |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Florida Evans | 2019-12-18 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Troop Zero | Miss Rayleen | 2019-02-01 |
| Movie | Widows | Veronica Rawlings | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Movie | Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 |
| 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 | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Herself | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Lila & Eve | Lila Walcott | 2015-07-31 |
| Movie | Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-05-14 |
| 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 | Get on Up | Susie Brown | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 |
| Movie | Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-18 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 |
| Movie | Won't Back Down | Nona Alberts | 2012-09-28 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Abby Black | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 |
| Movie | The Help | Aibileen Clark | 2011-08-09 |
| Movie | Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 |
| Movie | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 |
| Series | United States of Tara | Unknown | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen | 2009-02-16 |
| 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 | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 |
| Series | The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 2008-05-26 |
| Movie | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-02-27 |
| Movie | Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-04-12 |
| Series | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 2007-05-10 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 |
| Series | Brothers and Sisters | Ellen Snyder | 2006-09-24 |
| Movie | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment "King Hedley II") | 2006-05-02 |
| Series | Threshold | Unknown | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 |
| 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 | Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 |
| Series | Without a Trace | Unknown | 2002-09-26 |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | The Division | Unknown | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 |
| Movie | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 |
| Movie | The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 |
| Movie | Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| 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 |