Acting
Viola Davis
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.
Filmography
Children of Blood and Bone
Film · 2027
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause
Film · 2026
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
Film · 2026
G20
Film · 2025
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality
Film · 2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
Series · 2025
Good Hang with Amy Poehler
Series · 2025
Kung Fu Panda 4
Film · 2024
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Film · 2024
Creature Commandos
Series · 2024
Hot Ones Versus
Series · 2024
Hollywood Black
Series · 2024
Air
Film · 2023
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Film · 2023
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event
Film · 2022
Black Adam
Film · 2022
The Woman King
Film · 2022
Food 2050
Film · 2022
Peacemaker
Series · 2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Series · 2022
The First Lady
Series · 2022
The Suicide Squad
Film · 2021
The Unforgivable
Film · 2021
C ce soir
Series · 2021
Giving Voice
Film · 2020
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Film · 2020
Dear...
Series · 2020
Celebrity IOU
Series · 2020
On Broadway
Film · 2019
Troop Zero
Film · 2019
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"
Film · 2019
A Touch of Sugar
Film · 2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Series · 2019
Widows
Film · 2018
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
Film · 2018
Suicide Squad
Film · 2016
Custody
Film · 2016
Fences
Film · 2016
Blackhat
Film · 2015
Lila & Eve
Film · 2015
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand
Film · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Series · 2015
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Series · 2015
Hot Ones
Series · 2015
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
Film · 2014
Get On Up
Film · 2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
Film · 2014
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
Film · 2014
How to Get Away with Murder
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Series · 2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Series · 2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
Series · 2014
Ender's Game
Film · 2013
Love, Marilyn
Film · 2013
Beautiful Creatures
Film · 2013
Prisoners
Film · 2013
Sofia the First
Series · 2013
Won't Back Down
Film · 2012
Scandal
Series · 2012
The Help
Film · 2011
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
Film · 2011
Dark Girls
Film · 2011
Knight and Day
Film · 2010
Eat Pray Love
Film · 2010
Trust
Film · 2010
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Film · 2010
Doubt: Stage to Screen
Film · 2009
Law Abiding Citizen
Film · 2009
Madea Goes to Jail
Film · 2009
State of Play
Film · 2009
Beyond All Boundaries
Film · 2009
United States of Tara
Series · 2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Series · 2009
Nights in Rodanthe
Film · 2008
Doubt
Film · 2008
The Andromeda Strain
Series · 2008
Disturbia
Film · 2007
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
Film · 2007
Traveler
Series · 2007
The Graham Norton Show
Series · 2007
World Trade Center
Film · 2006
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
Film · 2006
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
Film · 2006
The Architect
Film · 2006
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
Film · 2006
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
Film · 2006
Brothers and Sisters
Series · 2006
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Film · 2005
Stone Cold
Film · 2005
Syriana
Film · 2005
Threshold
Series · 2005
Century City
Series · 2004
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
Series · 2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Series · 2003
Solaris
Film · 2002
Far from Heaven
Film · 2002
Antwone Fisher
Film · 2002
Without a Trace
Series · 2002
Live from E!
Series · 2002
Hack
Series · 2002
The Shrink Is In
Film · 2001
Amy & Isabelle
Film · 2001
Ocean's Eleven
Film · 2001
Kate & Leopold
Film · 2001
The Division
Series · 2001
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
Series · 2001
The Guardian
Series · 2001
Traffic
Film · 2000
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Series · 2000
City of Angels
Series · 2000
Third Watch
Series · 1999
Providence
Series · 1999
Judging Amy
Series · 1999
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
Series · 1999
The Pentagon Wars
Film · 1998
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
Film · 1998
Out of Sight
Film · 1998
Grace & Glorie
Film · 1998
The Practice
Series · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
The View
Series · 1997
The Substance of Fire
Film · 1996
Access Hollywood
Series · 1996
The Actor Awards Presented by SAG-AFTRA
Series · 1995
NYPD Blue
Series · 1993
The Tonight Show with Jay Leno
Series · 1992
The Simpsons
Series · 1989
CBS News Sunday Morning
Series · 1979
60 Minutes
Series · 1968
The Grammys
Series · 1959
Tony Awards
Series · 1956
The Oscars
Series · 1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Series · 1951
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Golden Globe Awards
Series · 1944
Operation Othello
Film
Two Butterflies
Film
I Almost Forgot About You
Film
Small Great Things
Film
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
Film
Ally Clark
Film
House of Games
Film
Ascent
Series