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Viola Davis

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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.

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Lecciones del Crimen 2014Serie Disney Plus como Annalise Keating
Encuentro Explosivo 2010Película Disney PlusUniversal+ Amazon Channel como CIA Director Isabel George
Kung Fu Panda 4 2024Película NetflixApple TV StoreGoogle Play Movies como The Chameleon (voice)
Intriga 2013Película Universal+ Amazon ChannelSony One Amazon ChannelApple TV Store como Nancy Birch
El vengador 2009Película NetflixAmazon Prime VideoHBO Max como Mayor April Henry
Paranoia 2007Película Apple TV Store como Detective Parker
La duda 2008Película Apple TV Store como Mrs. Miller
El juego de Ender 2013Película Apple TV StoreGoogle Play Movies como Major Gwen Anderson
The First Lady 2022Serie como Michelle Obama
La amenaza de Andromeda 2008Serie como Dr. Charlene Barton
Viudas 2018Película Paramount Plus como Veronica Rawlings
Barreras 2016Película Apple TV StoreGoogle Play Movies como Rose Maxson
G20 2025Película Amazon Prime VideoApple TV Store como President Danielle Sutton
Tropa Cero 2019Película como Miss Rayleen
Desenmascarados 2006Película Apple TV Store como Officer Molly Crane
Custodia 2016Película Apple TV StoreGoogle Play Movies como Martha Schulman
Grace & Glorie 1998Película como Rosemary Allbright