🎬Viola Davis

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.

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Recent movies

#	Name	Character	Rating
1	G20 (2025)	President Danielle Sutton		6.1
2	Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)	The Chameleon (voice)		6.4
3	Air (2023)	Deloris Jordan		7
4	The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023) Most waited movies 2023 and after	Dr. Volumnia Gaul		6.3
5	Black Adam (2022) Most waited movies 2022	Amanda Waller (uncredited)		6.2
6	Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event (2022)	Self		6
7	The Woman King (2022)	Nanisca		7.2
8	The Suicide Squad (2021) Top movies in 2021	Amanda Waller		7.4
9	The Unforgivable (2021)	Liz Ingram		7
10	Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)	Ma Rainey		6.6
11	Giving Voice (2020)	Self		3
12	Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)	Florida Evans		7
13	Troop Zero (2019)	Miss Rayleen		8
14	Widows (2018)	Veronica Rawlings		7
15	Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)	Self (archive footage)	-	-
16	Suicide Squad (2016) Oscars winners 2017	Amanda Waller		6.2
17	Custody (2016)	Martha Schulman		6.5
18	Fences (2016) Oscars winners 2017	Rose Maxson		7.2
19	Blackhat (2015)	Carol Barrett		5.3
20	Lila & Eve (2015)	Lila Walcott		5.4
21	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them (2014)	Professor Lillian Friedman		6.6
22	Get on Up (2014)	Susie Brown		7.4
23	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him (2014)	Professor Lillian Friedman		4.6
24	The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her (2014)	Professor Lillian Friedman		6
25	Ender's Game (2013)	Major Gwen Anderson		7
26	Prisoners (2013) Oscars 2014	Nancy Birch		7.9
27	Love, Marilyn (2013)	Self		9
28	Beautiful Creatures (2013)	Amma Treadeau		6.4
29	Won't Back Down (2012)	Nona Alberts		6
30	Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011) Oscars 2012	Abby Black		7.2
31	Touch of Evil (2011)	The Vengeful Caretaker	-	-
32	The Help (2011) Oscars 2012	Aibileen Clark		8.2
33	Knight and Day (2010)	CIA Director Isabel George		6.4
34	Eat Pray Love (2010)	Delia Shiraz		6
35	It's Kind of a Funny Story (2010)	Dr. Eden Minerva		7.4
36	Trust (2010)	Gail Friedman		6
37	State of Play (2009)	Dr. Judith Franklin		7.3
38	Law Abiding Citizen (2009)	Mayor April Henry		7.7
39	Madea Goes to Jail (2009)	Ellen		7.2
40	Nights in Rodanthe (2008)	Jean		6.3
41	Doubt (2008) Oscars 2009	Mrs. Miller		7.1
42	Jesse Stone: Sea Change (2007)	Molly Crane		7.5
43	Disturbia (2007)	Detective Parker		6.9
44	Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story (2006)	Diane Barrino	-	-
45	Jesse Stone: Night Passage (2006)	Officer Molly Crane		7.5
46	World Trade Center (2006)	Mother in Hospital		5.7
47	Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise (2006)	Molly Crane		7.5
48	The Architect (2006)	Tonya Neely	-	-
49	Syriana (2005) Oscars 2006	CIA Chairwoman		6.4
50	Stone Cold (2005)	Molly Crane		6.3
51	Get Rich or Die Tryin' (2005)	Grandma		6.1
52	Solaris (2002)	Gordon		6.5
53	Far from Heaven (2002) Oscars 2003	Sybil		7
54	Antwone Fisher (2002)	Eva May		6.7
55	The Shrink Is In (2001)	Robin	-	-
56	Ocean's Eleven (2001)	Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)		7.7
57	Amy & Isabelle (2001)	Dottie	-	-
58	Kate & Leopold (2001) Oscars 2002	Policewoman		6.2
59	Traffic (2000) Oscars 2001	Social Worker		6.9
60	Out of Sight (1998) Oscars 1999	Moselle		7
61	The Pentagon Wars (1998)	Sgt. Fanning		8