Persona
Viola Davis
Nato/a: 11/08/1965(61 anni)
Biografia
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.
Filmografia
Conosciuto per
Il regno di Orïsha
Mama Agba · 2027
G20
President Danielle Sutton · Producer · 2025
Creature Commandos
Amanda Waller (voice) · Amanda Waller · 2024
Kung Fu Panda 4
The Chameleon (voice) · 2024
Hunger Games - La ballata dell'usignolo e del serpente
Dr. Volumnia Gaul · 2023
Air - La storia del grande salto
Deloris Jordan · 2023
Black Adam
Amanda Waller (uncredited) · 2022
The Woman King
Nanisca · 2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self · 2022
The First Lady
Michelle Obama · Executive Producer · 2022
Peacemaker
Amanda Waller (uncredited) · 2022
The Unforgivable
Liz Ingram · 2021
The Suicide Squad - Missione suicida
Amanda Waller · 2021
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Ma Rainey · 2020
Dear...
Self · 2020
Celebrity IOU
Self · 2020
Equipaggio zero
Miss Rayleen · 2019
Widows - Eredità criminale
Veronica Rawlings · 2018
The Last Defense
Executive Producer · 2018
Bright Lights: La vita privata di Carrie Fisher e Debbie Reynolds
Self (uncredited) · 2017
Barriere
Rose Maxson · 2016
Suicide Squad
Amanda Waller · 2016
Lila & Eve
Lila Walcott · 2015
Blackhat
Carol Barrett · 2015
La scomparsa di Eleanor Rigby - Lei
Professor Lillian Friedman · 2014
La scomparsa di Eleanor Rigby - Lui
Professor Lillian Friedman · 2014
Le regole del delitto perfetto
Annalise Keating · Producer · 2014
Get on Up - La storia di James Brown
Susie Brown · 2014
La scomparsa di Eleanor Rigby - Loro
Professor Lillian Friedman · 2014
Ender's Game
Major Gwen Anderson · 2013
Prisoners
Nancy Birch · 2013
Beautiful Creatures - La sedicesima luna
Amma Treadeau · 2013
Sofia la principessa
Helen Hanshaw (voice) · 2013
Una scuola per Malia
Nona Alberts · 2012
Molto forte, incredibilmente vicino
Abby Black · 2011
The Help
Aibileen Clark · 2011
5 giorni fuori
Dr. Eden Minerva · 2010
Trust
Gail Friedman · 2010
Mangia prega ama
Delia Shiraz · 2010
Innocenti bugie
CIA Director Isabel George · 2010
Giustizia privata
Mayor April Henry · 2009
State of Play
Dr. Judith Franklin · 2009
Madea Goes to Jail
Ellen · 2009
United States of Tara
Lynda · 2009
Il dubbio
Mrs. Miller · 2008
Come un uragano
Jean · 2008
The Andromeda Strain
Dr. Charlene Barton · 2008
Sea Change - Delitto perfetto
Molly Crane · 2007
Traveler
Agent Jan Marlow · Jan Marlow · 2007
Disturbia
Detective Parker · 2007
World Trade Center
Mother in Hospital · 2006
Missing - Dispersa
Molly Crane · 2006
Jesse Stone: Passaggio nella notte
Officer Molly Crane · 2006
Syriana
CIA Chairwoman · 2005
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Grandma · 2005
Threshold
2005
Stone Cold - Caccia al serial killer
Molly Crane · 2005
Solaris
Gordon · 2002
Lontano dal paradiso
Sybil · 2002
Kate & Leopold
Policewoman · 2001
Ocean's Eleven - Fate il vostro gioco
Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited) · 2001
Traffic
Social Worker · 2000
Out of Sight - Gli opposti si attraggono
Moselle · 1998
60 Minutes
Self · 1968
Rise of the Empress
Executive Producer
Waller
Amanda Waller