Viola Davis Biography

Viola Davis has mastered every media, including theatre, television, and film. Davis has broken through every barrier to become one of the most successful and acclaimed performers today, from her Tony Award-winning performances in King Hedley II and Fences to her Academy Award-nominated performances in The Help and Doubt. Davis' depiction of Aibileen Clark in The Help enthralled both viewers and critics. Davis won a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Female Performance in a Leading Role, a Critics Choice Award for Best Actress, and was nominated for an Academy Award, a Golden Globe Award, and a British Academy Film Award. The film also received a Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Cast Performance in a Motion Picture and a Critics Choice Award for Best Acting Ensemble. Beautiful Creatures, Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Knight and Day with Tom Cruise, Eat Pray Love with Julia Roberts, and Get on Up, the tale of James Brown's climb from poverty to celebrity, are among the other significant films. On ABC, Davis stars in Shonda Rhimes' How to Get Away with Murder. She was most recently cast as Amanda Waller in 2016's "Suicide Squad." Davis, who grew up in "the absolute definition of poverty," fell in love with theater as a kind of escape in high school. Her devotion and developing acting ability would pay off with a full scholarship to the Young Peoples School of the Performing Arts, followed by four years at the famed Julliard School. Davis completed the acting trifecta in 1996, appearing on Broadway (Seven Guitars), TV (NYPD Blue), and in movies (The Substance of Fire). Her commitment to ensuring that women of color are included in the story on all artistic platforms is equally ardent. Davis says of increasing the profiles and experiences of young women of color, "I want to do what Cicely Tyson did for me... she gave me a vision of what it meant to dream." TIME recognized Davis as "one of the most important individuals of 2012" because of his ideas and devotion.

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