Viola Davis on screen and stage
Viola Davis is an American actress and producer who has appeared in film, television, and on stage.[1][2][3] She received her equity card with her stage debut in 1988 with August Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle play Joe Turner's Come and Gone production of Trinity Repertory Company.[4] After graduating from Juilliard School in 1993, Davis went on to perform several roles on stage in the 1990s,[5][6] earning Theater World Award for her role in Seven Guitars (1996).[7] In the same year, Davis guest-starred in the procedural drama series NYPD Blue,[8] and made her film debut with a brief one-day role alongside Timothy Hutton in The Substance of Fire.[9] In 1998, she appeared in Richard Benjamin's television movie The Pentagon Wars,[10] and Steven Soderbergh's Out of Sight,[11] before returning to the stage with an Obie Award winning titular performance in Off-Broadway Everybody's Ruby (1999).[12][13]
Davis established herself as a leading actress of Broadway in the 2000s.[14] She starred in her first recurring role in the 2000 medical drama City of Angels,[8] before winning Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as a wife of ex-con in King Hedley II (2001), the ninth play of Wilson's The Pittsburgh Cycle.[15] She received further acclaim for her role as a black seamstress in Intimate Apparel (2004) that won her the Drama Desk Award.[16] Four years later, a supporting role in the period drama Doubt (2008) proved to be a breakthrough for Davis and she received Golden Globe for Best Supporting Actress and the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nominations for it.[17][18] Davis starred opposite Denzel Washington as a dutiful yet strong minded wife Rose Maxson,[19] in a revival of Wilson's play Fences (2010), that earned her Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play.[20] The same year she played Julia Roberts' best friend in romantic-comedy Eat Pray Love.[21]
In 2011, Davis's role in an ensemble drama as a housemaid in The Help earned her Best Actress Oscar nomination, among other accolades.[22] Her performances in school drama Won't Back Down (2012),[23] thriller Prisoners (2013),[24] and biopic Get on Up (2014),[25] added further acclaim to her career. Davis became the first black woman to win Emmy Award for Best Actress,[26] for her role as criminal defense attorney Annalise Keating in television series How to Get Away with Murder (2014).[27] In 2015, she starred and served as an executive producer in vigilante thriller Lila & Eve,[28] and courtroom drama Custody the following year,[29] both films received a mixed reception overall.[30] She appeared as an antagonist Amanda Waller in superhero film Suicide Squad (2016),[31][32] her biggest commercial success till date.[33][34] In the same year, she and Washington reprised their role in the film-adaption of Fences,[35] for which Davis received Best Supporting Actress honors at the BAFTAs, SAG Awards, Golden Globe Awards, and Academy Awards.[36] Following her Oscar win, she became the first black actor to win Triple Crown of Acting.[37][38] Davis co-founded the JuVee Productions with her husband Julius Tennon in 2012.[39][40]
Filmography
[edit]Film
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | The Substance of Fire | Nurse | [41] | |
1998 | Out of Sight | Moselle Miller | [42] | |
Miss Apprehension and Squirt | Sharon Hughes | [43] | ||
2000 | Traffic | Social Worker | [44] | |
2001 | The Shrink Is In | Robin | [45] | |
Ocean's Eleven | Parole board interrogator | Uncredited | [44] | |
Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | [46] | ||
2002 | Far from Heaven | Sybil | [47] | |
Antwone Fisher | Eva May Fisher | [48] | ||
Solaris | Dr. Gordon | [49] | ||
2005 | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Grandma | [50] | |
Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | Uncredited | [51] | |
2006 | The Architect | Tonya Neely | [47] | |
World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital | [47] | ||
2007 | Disturbia | Detective Parker | ||
2008 | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | [52] | |
Doubt | Mrs. Miller | [53] | ||
2009 | Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen St. Matthews | [54] | |
State of Play | Dr. Judith Franklin | [55] | ||
Law Abiding Citizen | Mayor April Henry | [56] | ||
Beyond All Boundaries | Hortense Johnson / Arsenal Worker | Voice; Short film | ||
2010 | Knight and Day | Director Isabel George | [57] | |
Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | [58] | ||
It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Minerva | [59] | ||
Trust | Gail Friedman | [60] | ||
The Unforgiving Minute | Narrator | Short film | ||
2011 | The Help | Aibileen Clark | [61] | |
Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close | Abby Black | [62] | ||
2012 | Won't Back Down | Nona Alberts | [63] | |
2013 | Beautiful Creatures | Amarie "Amma" Treadeau | [64] | |
Ender's Game | Major Anderson | [65] | ||
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby | Professor Lillian Friedman | [66] | ||
Prisoners | Nancy Birch | [67] | ||
2014 | Get On Up | Susie Brown | [68] | |
2015 | Blackhat | FBI Agent Carol Barrett | [69] | |
Lila & Eve | Lila Walcott | Also executive producer | [70] | |
2016 | Custody | Judge Martha Sherman | Also executive producer | [71] |
Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | [72] | ||
Fences | Rose Maxson | [73] | ||
2018 | Widows | Veronica Rawlings | [74] | |
2019 | Troop Zero | Rayleen | [75] | |
2020 | Giving Voice | Herself | Documentary; also executive producer | [76] |
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | [77] | ||
2021 | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | [78] | |
The Unforgivable | Liz Ingram | [79] | ||
2022 | The Woman King | Nanisca | Also producer | [80] |
Black Adam | Amanda Waller | Uncredited | [81] | |
2023 | Air | Deloris Jordan | [82] | |
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Dr. Volumnia Gaul | [83] | ||
2024 | Kung Fu Panda 4 | The Chameleon | Voice | [84] |
TBA | G20 † | President Taylor Sutton | Post-production, also producer | [85] |
† | Denotes films that have not yet been released |
Television
[edit]Year | Title | Role | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1996 | NYPD Blue | Woman | Episode: "Moby Greg" | [8] |
New York Undercover | Rebecca Stapleton | Episode: "Smack is Back" | [86] | |
1998 | The Pentagon Wars | Sgt. First Class Fanning | Television film | [87] |
Grace and Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | Television film | [88] | |
2000 | Judging Amy | Celeste | Episode: "Blast from the Past" | [89] |
City of Angels | Nurse Lynnette Peeler | 24 episodes | [90] | |
2001 | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | Television film | [91] |
Providence | Dr. Eleanor Weiss | Episode: "You Can Count On Me" | [92] | |
The Guardian | Attorney Suzanna Clemons | Episode: "The Men from the Boys" | [93] | |
Third Watch | Margo Rodriguez | Episode: "Act Brave" | [94] | |
2002 | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Terry Randolph | Episode: "Badge" | [95] |
The Division | Dr. Georgia Davis | Episode: "Remembrance" | [96] | |
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Attorney Campbell | Episode: "The Execution of Catherine Willows" | [97] | |
Father Lefty | — | Unaired Pilot | [98] | |
2003 | Hack | Stevie Morgan | Episode: "Third Strike" | [99] |
The Practice | Aisha Crenshaw | Episode: "We the People" | [100] | |
2004 | Century City | Hannah Crane | 9 episodes | [101] |
2005 | Jesse Stone: Stone Cold | Molly Crane | Television film | [102] |
Threshold | Victoria Rossi | Episode: "Shock" | [103] | |
2006 | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Molly Crane | Television film | [104] |
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | Television film | [105] | |
Without a Trace | Audrey Williams | Episode: "White Balance" | [106] | |
Life Is Not a Fairytale | Diane Barrino | Television film | [107] | |
2007 | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | Television film | [108] |
Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 8 episodes | [109] | |
Fort Pit | — | Television film | [109] | |
2008 | Brothers & Sisters | Ellen Snyder | Episode: "Double Negative" | [110] |
The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 3 episodes | [111] | |
2003–2008 | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Donna Emmett | 7 episodes | [112] |
2009 | United States of Tara | Lynda P. Frazier | 6 episodes | [113] |
2013 | Sofia the First | Helen Hanshaw | Voice; Episode: "The Buttercups" | [114] |
2014–2020 | How to Get Away with Murder | Annalise Keating | 90 episodes; Lead role, also producer (60 episodes) | [115] |
2018 | Scandal | Annalise Keating | Episode: "Allow Me to Reintroduce Myself" | [116] |
2019 | Live in Front of a Studio Audience | Florida Evans | Episode: "All in the Family and Good Times" | [117] |
2020 | Celebrity IOU | Herself | Episode: "Viola Davis Delivers a Dream Home" | [118] |
2022 | Peacemaker | Amanda Waller | 2 episodes (uncredited) | [119] |
The First Lady | Michelle Obama | 10 episodes; also executive producer | [120] | |
2024 | Creature Commandos † | Amanda Waller | Voice | [121] |
† | Denotes series that have not yet been released |
Theatre
[edit]Year | Production | Role | Theater | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|---|
1988 | Joe Turner's Come and Gone | Mattie | Trinity Repertory Company | [122] |
1992 | As You Like It | Denise | Delacorte Theater | [123] |
1996 | Seven Guitars | Vera | Eugene O'Neill Theater Center Walter Kerr Theatre, Broadway |
[124] [125] |
1997 | God's Heart | Eleanor | Mitzi E. Newhouse Theater | [126] |
1998 | Pericles | 2nd Fisherman / Lychorida / Bawd | Joseph Papp Public Theater, Martinson Hall | [127] |
1999 | A Raisin in the Sun | Ruth Younger | Williamstown Theatre Festival | [128] |
Everybody's Ruby | Ruby McCollum | Joseph Papp Public Theater / Anspacher Theater | [129] | |
The Vagina Monologues | Performer (Replacement) | Westside Theatre (Downstairs) | [130] | |
2001 | King Hedley II | Tonya | Virginia Theatre, Broadway | [131] |
2004 | Intimate Apparel | Esther | Roundabout Theatre | [132] |
2010 | Fences | Rose Maxson | Cort Theatre, Broadway | [133] |
Producer
[edit]Year | Production | Notes | Ref. |
---|---|---|---|
2014 | Camp Logan | Theater play | [134] |
2015 | The Brink | Short | [135] |
2017 | The Night Shift | Short | [136] |
Emerging Artist Series | TV series | [137] | |
American Koko | 12 episodes, also narrator | [138] | |
EIF Presents: XQ Super School Live | Television special | [139] | |
2018 | The Last Defense | TV series documentary | [140] |
Two Sides | Four part documentary series | [141] | |
2023 | Silver Dollar Road | Documentary film | [142] |
See also
[edit]References
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