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Viola Davis
Known for: ActingViola 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.
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Kaip išsisukt įvykdžius žmogžudystę
as Annalise Keating 
Savižudžių būrys. Mobilizacija
as Amanda Waller 
Tarnaitė
as Aibileen Clark 
Bado žaidynės: Sakmė apie strazdą ir gyvatę
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul 
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice) 
Savižudžių būrys
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as Amanda Waller 
Kaip Diena ir Naktis
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as CIA Director Isabel George 
Kaliniai
as Nancy Birch 
G20
as President Danielle Sutton 
Našlės
as Veronica Rawlings 
Įstatymus gerbiantis pilietis
as Mayor April Henry 
Paranoja
as Detective Parker 
Air
as Deloris Jordan 
Tapk turtingu arba mirk stengdamasis
as Grandma 
Abejonė
as Mrs. Miller 
Pirmoji ponia
as Michelle Obama 
Kovotoja
as Nanisca 
Eleonoros Rigbi dingimas
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
Tikroji padėtis
as Dr. Judith Franklin 
Enderio žaidimas
as Major Gwen Anderson 
Eat Pray Love
as Delia Shiraz 
Programišiai
as Carol Barrett 
Neatleistina
as Liz Ingram 
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charlene Barton 
Dingti iš Akių
as Moselle 
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey 
Tvoros
as Rose Maxson 
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black 
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau 
Džeimsas Braunas. Pakeliui į viršų
as Susie Brown 
Soliaris
as Gordon 
Naktys Rodantėje
as Jean 
Gana juokinga istorija
as Eden Minerva 
Entvonas Fišeris
as Eva May 
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen 
Trust
as Gail Friedman 
Toli nuo rojaus
as Sybil 
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen 
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane 
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning 
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane 
Nepasiduok
as Nona Alberts 
The Architect
as Tonya Neely 
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane 
Love, Marilyn
as Self 
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane 
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino 
Lila & Eve
as Lila Walcott 
Custody
as Martha Schulman 
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage) 
The Shrink Is In
as Robin 
The Substance of Fire
as Nurse 
Dark Girls
as Self 
Grace & Glorie
as Rosemary Allbright 
Giving Voice
as Self