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:
- 91
- First Appeared:
- Movie Kung Fu Panda 4 2024-03-02
- Latest Project:
- In the movie The Fighting Shirley Chisholm
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | The Fighting Shirley Chisholm | Shirley Chisholm | 2025 |
| Movie | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | 2025 |
| Movie | Small Great Things | 2025 | |
| 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 | The Woman King | Nanisca | 2022-09-16 |
| Movie | Black Adam | Amanda Waller | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | The Unforgivable | 2021-11-24 | |
| Movie | Chadwick Boseman: Portrait of an Artist | Self | 2021-04-17 |
| Movie | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | Giving Voice | Self | 2020-01-26 |
| Movie | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | 2020-11-25 | |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Florida Evans | 2019-12-18 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Troop Zero | Miss Rayleen | 2019-02-01 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Herself (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Movie | Widows | Veronica | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | Fences | Rose Maxson | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2016-08-03 |
| Movie | DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League | Herself | 2016-01-19 |
| Movie | Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Herself | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | Lila & Eve | Lila | 2015-07-31 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 |
| 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: Her | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Herself | 2013-05-30 |
| Movie | Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-19 |
| Movie | Won't Back Down | Nona Alberts | 2012-09-28 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Abby Black | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 |
| Movie | The Help | Aibileen Clark | 2011-08-09 |
| Movie | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 |
| Movie | Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 |
| Movie | Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | Beyond All Boundaries | Hortense Johnson | 2009-11-09 |
| 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 |
| Series | United States of Tara | Unknown | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-02-27 |
| Movie | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 |
| Series | The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 2008-05-26 |
| Movie | Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-04-12 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 |
| Series | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 2007-05-10 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment "King Hedley II") | 2006-05-02 |
| Movie | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 |
| Series | Brothers and Sisters | Ellen Snyder | 2006-09-24 |
| Movie | Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | 2005-11-23 |
| Movie | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Grandma | 2005-11-09 |
| Series | Threshold | Unknown | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 |
| Series | Century City | 2004-03-16 | |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | E! Live from the Red Carpet | Herself | 2002-01-13 |
| Series | Without a Trace | Unknown | 2002-09-26 |
| Movie | Far from Heaven | Sybil | 2002-11-08 |
| Movie | Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 |
| Series | The Division | Unknown | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 |
| Movie | The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 |
| Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 |
| Movie | Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Movie | Traffic | Social Worker | 2000-12-27 |
| Series | City of Angels | Lynnette Peeler | 2000-01-16 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Series | Third Watch | Unknown | 1999-09-23 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Unknown | 1999-09-19 |
| Series | Providence | Unknown | 1999-01-08 |
| Movie | Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | 1998-12-13 |
| Movie | The Pentagon Wars | Platoon Sgt. Fanning | 1998-02-28 |
| Movie | Out of Sight | Moselle | 1998-06-26 |
| Series | The View | Herself | 1997-08-11 |
| Series | The Practice | Unknown | 1997-03-04 |
| Movie | The Substance of Fire | Nurse | 1996-09-11 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |