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.

Фільмографія

• 2027Діти крові й кісток — Mama Agba
• 2026The Color of Cola — Executive Producer
• 2026W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause — Narrator (voice)
• 2025ASALI: Power of the Pollinators — Executive Producer
• 2025The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality — Narration
• 2025Велика двадцятка — President Danielle Sutton, Producer
• У головних ролях — Self, Executive Producer
• Монстри Коммандос — Amanda Waller (voice)
• 2024Панда Кунг-Фу 4 — The Chameleon (voice)
• 2023Silver Dollar Road — Executive Producer
• 2023Голодні ігри: Балада про співочих пташок і змій — Dr. Volumnia Gaul
• 2023Ейр — Deloris Jordan
• The First Lady — Michelle Obama, Executive Producer
• 2022Королева-воїн — Nanisca, Producer
• Миротворець — Amanda Waller (uncredited)
• 2022Чорний Адам — Amanda Waller (uncredited)
• 2021Загін самогубців: Місія навиліт — Amanda Waller
• 2021Непрощенна — Liz Ingram
• 2020Ма Рейні: Мати блюзу — Ma Rainey
• 2019A Touch of Sugar — Narrator
• 2019Emanuel — Executive Producer
• In a Man's World — Executive Producer, Creator
• 2019Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" — Florida Evans
• 2019Troop Zero — Miss Rayleen, Producer
• The Last Defense — Executive Producer
• 2018Вдови — Veronica Rawlings
• 2017Night Shift — Executive Producer
• 2016Custody — Martha Schulman
• 2016Загін самогубців — Amanda Waller
• 2016Паркани — Rose Maxson
• 2015Lila & Eve — Lila Walcott
• 2015Хакер — Carol Barrett
• 2014The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her — Professor Lillian Friedman
• 2014The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him — Professor Lillian Friedman
• 2014Зникнення Елеанор Ріґбі: Вони — Professor Lillian Friedman
• 2014Король соулу: Джеймс Браун — Susie Brown
• Як уникнути покарання за вбивство — Annalise Keating, Producer
• 2013Гра Ендера — Major Gwen Anderson
• 2013Полонянки — Nancy Birch
• 2013Прекрасні створіння — Amma Treadeau
• Софія Прекрасна — Helen Hanshaw (voice)
• 2012Won't Back Down — Nona Alberts
• Скандал — Annalise Keating
• 2011Моторошно голосно і несамовито близько — Abby Black
• 2011Прислуга — Aibileen Clark
• 2010Їсти, молитися, кохати — Delia Shiraz
• 2010Довіра — Gail Friedman
• 2010Лицар дня — CIA Director Isabel George
• 2010Це дуже забавна історія — Eden Minerva
• 2009Beyond All Boundaries — Hortense Johnson
• 2009Ігри влади — Dr. Judith Franklin
• 2009Законослухняний громадянин — Mayor April Henry
• 2009Медея йде у в’язницю — Ellen
• Чотири життя Тари
• The Andromeda Strain — Dr. Charlene Barton
• 2008Ночі в Роданте — Jean
• 2008Сумнів — Mrs. Miller
• 2007Jesse Stone: Sea Change — Molly Crane
• Traveler — Agent Jan Marlow
• 2007Параноя — Detective Parker
• Brothers and Sisters — Ellen Snyder
• 2006Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise — Molly Crane
• 2006Jesse Stone: Night Passage — Officer Molly Crane
• 2006Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story — Diane Barrino
• 2006The Architect — Tonya Neely
• 2006The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays — Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
• 2006Всесвітній торговий центр — Mother in Hospital
• Threshold
• 2005Правосуддя Стоуна — Molly Crane
• 2005Розбагатій або помри — Grandma
• 2005Сиріана — CIA Chairwoman
• Century City — Hannah Crane
• Hack — Stevie Morgan
• Without a Trace — Audrey Williams
• 2002Антуан Фішер — Eva May
• 2002Далеко від раю — Sybil
• 2002Соляріс — Gordon
• 2001Amy & Isabelle — Dottie
• The Division — Dr. Georgia Davis
• The Guardian — Suzanna Clemons' Attorney
• 2001The Shrink Is In — Robin
• Закон і порядок: злочинні наміри — Terry Randolph
• 2001Кейт і Лео — Policewoman
• 2001Одинадцять друзів Оушена — Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
• CSI: Місце злочину — Attorney Campbell
• City of Angels — Lynnette Peeler
• 2000Трафік — Social Worker
• Judging Amy — Celeste
• Providence — Dr. Eleanor Weiss
• Third Watch — Margo Rodriguez
• Закон і порядок: Спеціальний корпус — Donna Emmett
• 1998Grace & Glorie — Rosemary Allbright
• 1998Miss Apprehension and Squirt — Sharon Hughes
• 1998Війни Пентагону — Sgt. Fanning
• 1998Поза полем зору — Moselle
• The Practice — Aisha Crenshaw
• 1996The Substance of Fire — Nurse
• NYPD Blue — Woman
• Сімпсони — Narrator (voice)
• Hallmark Hall of Fame — Rosemary Allbright
• A Menina Que Voa — Production Accountant
• Ally Clark — Ally Clark, Producer
• Ascent — Catriona Vail
• Black Boys Don't Sew — Executive Producer
• House of Games — Producer
• I Almost Forgot About You — Dr. Georgia Young
• Mfinda — Executive Producer
• Operation Othello — Narrator, Executive Producer
• Rise of the Empress — Executive Producer
• Small Great Things
• The Personal History of Rachel DuPree — Rachel Dupree
• The Untamed: A Sinner's Prayer — Producer
• Two Butterflies

Ток-шоу, премії та інші появи (39)

• 2026Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry — Self
• Good Hang with Amy Poehler — Self - Guest
• Hollywood Black — Self (archive footage)
• Hot Ones Versus — Self
• 2024Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes — Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
• 2022Food 2050 — Self - Narrator (voice)
• 2022Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event — Self
• The Jennifer Hudson Show — Self
• C ce soir — Self - Guest
• 2020Giving Voice — Self
• Зірковий ремонт — Self
• Лист кумиру — Self
• 2019On Broadway — Self (archive footage)
• Шоу Келлі Кларксон — Self
• 2018Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal — Self (archive footage)
• 2015August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand — Self
• Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter — Self
• Hot Ones — Self
• Пізнє шоу зі Стівеном Кольбером — Self, Self - Guest
• Variety Studio: Actors on Actors — Self
• Нічне шоу з Джиммі Феллоном — Self, Self - Guest
• Пізньої ночі з Сетом Маєрсом — Self - Guest
• 2013Love, Marilyn — Self
• 2011Dark Girls — Self
• 2009Doubt: Stage to Screen — Self
• Дивіться, що відбувається: у прямому ефірі — Self - Guest
• Шоу Ґрема Нортона — Self
• Джиммі Кіммел наживо! — Self, Self - Guest
• Шоу Елен Дедженерес — Self
• Live from E! — Self
• Погляд — Self - Guest
• The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA — Self
• Вечірнє шоу із Джеєм Лено — Self - Guest
• CBS News Sunday Morning — Self
• 60 хвилин — Self
• The Grammys — Self
• Tony Awards — Self - Presenter
• Оскар — Self
• Золотий глобус — Self - Presenter, Self - Nominee