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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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Cum să scapi nepedepsit
as Annalise Keating 
Brigada sinucigașilor: Misiune ucigașă
as Amanda Waller 
Jocurile foamei: Balada șerpilor și a păsărilor cântătoare
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul 
Culoarea sentimentelor
as Aibileen Clark 
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice) 
Brigada sinucigașilor
as Amanda Waller 
Întâlnire explozivă
as CIA Director Isabel George 
Prizonieri
as Nancy Birch 
Motivat să ucidă
as Mayor April Henry 
Văduve
as Veronica Rawlings 
Air
as Deloris Jordan 
Îndoiala
as Mrs. Miller 
Tulburarea
as Detective Parker 
Prima doamnă
as Michelle Obama 
Femeia rege
as Nanisca 
Dispariția Eleanorei Rigby: Ei
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
Jocuri la nivel înalt
as Dr. Judith Franklin 
Jocul lui Ender
as Major Gwen Anderson 
Mănâncă, roagă-te, iubește
as Delia Shiraz 
G20
as President Danielle Sutton 
Îmbogățește-te sau mori încercând
as Grandma 
Hacker
as Carol Barrett 
Extrem de tare și incredibil de aproape
as Abby Black 
De neiertat
as Liz Ingram 
The Andromeda Strain
as Dr. Charlene Barton 
Pasiune periculoasă
as Moselle 
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey 
Cronicile Casterilor: A 16-a lună
as Amma Treadeau 
Garduri
as Rose Maxson 
Get on Up
as Susie Brown 
Nopți în Rodanthe
as Jean 
Won't Back Down
as Nona Alberts 
E un fel de poveste amuzantă
as Eden Minerva 
Solaris
as Gordon 
Antwone Fisher
as Eva May 
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen 
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane 
Încredere
as Gail Friedman 
Departe de Rai
as Sybil 
Dispariția Eleanorei Rigby: El
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen 
Dispariția Eleanorei Rigby: Ea
as Professor Lillian Friedman 
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning 
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane 
The Architect
as Tonya Neely 
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal
as Self (archive footage) 
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane 
Dragoste, Marilyn
as Self 
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane 
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino 
Mama răzbunării
as Lila Walcott 
Custody
as Martha Schulman 
The Shrink Is In
as Robin 
The Substance of Fire
as Nurse 
Dark Girls
as Self 
Grace & Glorie
as Rosemary Allbright 
Dând voce
as Self