Viola Davis ( born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and producer, She is the only African-American to have won the Triple Crown of Acting, which includes the Academy Award, Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards. With six overall victories, she is the most honored African-American and shares the record for the most film wins by an actress at the Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2012 and 2017, Time magazine named her one of the world’s 100 most important people, and in 2020, The New York Times placed her ninth on its list of the best actors of the twenty-first century.
Viola Davis Age
Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965, to parents Mae Alice Davis (née Logan) and Dan Davis in St. Matthews, South Carolina. She was born on the Singleton Plantation’s land that belonged to her grandmother. Her mother worked as a maid, a factory worker, and a homemaker, while her father trained horses. She has a brother and four sisters, making her the second youngest of six kids. Her parents relocated to Central Falls, Rhode Island, shortly after she was born with Davis and her two older siblings, leaving her other siblings with her grandparents.
Viola Davis Education
Viola attended Central Falls High School, and she partially attributes her interest in stage acting and involvement in the arts to her alma mater. She participated in the government TRIO Student Support Services and TRIO Upward Bound programs as a teen. Davis’s skill was discovered by Bernard Masterson, the program’s director, while he was a student at the Young People’s School for the Performing Arts in West Warwick, Rhode Island.
Viola Davis attended Rhode Island College after finishing high school, focusing in drama and taking part in the National Student Exchange before earning his degree in 1988. Her next stop was the Juilliard School, where she spent four years as a member of “Group 22” in the drama department (1989–1993).
Viola Davis Career
Davis started her acting career in tiny theater productions in Central Falls, Rhode Island. She received her degree from the Juilliard School in 1993, and in 1999, for her portrayal of Ruby McCollum in Everybody’s Ruby, she was honored with an Obie Award. Before winning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Tonya in the 2001 Broadway production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II, she appeared in small roles in a number of movies and television shows in the late 1990s and early 2000s. Her breakthrough came in the movie Doubt (2008), where she played a disturbed mother, earning her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
Davis experienced increased success in the 2010s. She was recognized with the 2010 Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her portrayal of Rose Maxson in the Fences Broadway revival. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and won a Screen Actors Guild Award for her performance as a 1960s housemaid in the comedy-drama The Help (2011). She portrayed attorney Annalise Keating in the drama series How to Get Away with Murder from 2014 until 2020.
For her role, she made history by becoming the first black actress to receive the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015. She played Maxson again in the 2016 release of Fences, for which she received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. She debuted in the DC Extended Universe film Suicide Squad in 2016 as Amanda Waller, a character she has since reprised in other DCEU media. She played Ma Rainey in the 2020 biopic Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which she was nominated for a record-breaking fourth Academy Award, making her the most nominated black actress in Academy Award history.
Davis is married to Julius Tennon, they both are founders of a production company, JuVee Productions ,In addition, Davis is well known for her support and activism for human rights, including equal rights for women and women of color. She received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in 2017 and was appointed an ambassador for L’Oréal Paris in 2019. Finding Me (2022), her autobiography, was published. Its companion audiobook garnered her a Grammy Award nomination for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
Viola Davis Credits and awards for acting roles/Movies
- Life Is Not a Fairy Tale (2006)
- Doubt (2008)
- State of Play (2009)
- Trust (2010)
- The Help (2011)
- Prisoners (2013)
- Get On Up (2014)
- Lila & Eve (2015)
- Suicide Squad (2016)
- Fences (2016)
- Widows (2018)
- Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom (2020)
- The Suicide Squad (2021)
- The Unforgivable (2021)
- The Woman King (2022)
- Black Adam (2022)
Viola Davies Net Worth
Viola Davis has a net worth estimated to be 25 million dollars ,she is one of the highest paid actresses in the world.
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