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:
- 76
- First Appeared:
- In the movie G20
- Latest Project:
- Movie Kung Fu Panda 4 2024-03-02
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | G20 | Taylor Sutton | 2025 |
| Movie | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | 2025 |
| Movie | Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul) | 2024-02-13 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda 4 | The Chameleon (voice) | 2024-03-02 |
| 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 | Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event | Self | 2022-04-22 |
| Movie | Black Adam | Amanda Waller (uncredited) | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | The Woman King | Nanisca | 2022-09-16 |
| Movie | Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist | Self | 2021-04-17 |
| Movie | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | The Unforgivable | Liz Ingram | 2021-11-24 |
| Movie | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom: A Legacy Brought to Screen | Self | 2020-12-18 |
| Movie | Giving Voice | Self | 2020-01-26 |
| 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 | On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Widows | Veronica Rawlings | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Movie | DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League | Herself | 2016-01-19 |
| Movie | Fences | Rose Maxson | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2016-08-03 |
| Movie | Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 |
| Movie | Lila & Eve | Lila Walcott | 2015-07-31 |
| Movie | Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Get on Up | Susie Brown | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-05-14 |
| 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 | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-19 |
| 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 | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 |
| Movie | Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 |
| Movie | Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 |
| Movie | Law Abiding Citizen | Mayor April Henry | 2009-10-15 |
| Movie | State of Play | Dr. Judith Franklin | 2009-04-17 |
| Movie | Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen | 2009-02-16 |
| Movie | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-12-12 |
| Movie | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 |
| Series | The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 2008-05-26 |
| Movie | Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-03-27 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 |
| Series | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 2007-05-10 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Officer Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment "King Hedley II") | 2006-05-02 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 |
| Movie | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Grandma | 2005-11-09 |
| Movie | Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | 2005-11-23 |
| Movie | Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 |
| Series | Century City | 2004-03-16 | |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 |
| Movie | Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 |
| Movie | Far from Heaven | Sybil | 2002-11-08 |
| Movie | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 |
| Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 |
| Movie | The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 |
| Movie | Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 |
| Movie | Traffic | Social Worker | 2000-12-27 |
| Movie | Miss Apprehension and Squirt | Sharon Hughes | 1998-01-01 |
| Movie | The Pentagon Wars | Sgt. Fanning | 1998-02-28 |
| Movie | Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | 1998-12-13 |
| Movie | Out of Sight | Moselle | 1998-06-26 |
| Movie | The Substance of Fire | Nurse | 1996-09-11 |