Viola Davis
Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Known primarily as a stage actress, Davis won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role in Fences. She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). Her films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Solaris (2002). Her performance in Doubt (2008) was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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- Born:
- Aug 11, 1965 In Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 95
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Operation Othello
- Latest Project:
- Series Creature Commandos 2024-12-05
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Operation Othello | Narrator | 2025 |
| Movie | The Personal History of Rachel DuPree | Rachel Dupree | 2025 |
| Movie | Small Great Things | 2025 | |
| Movie | G20 | Taylor Sutton | 2025 |
| Series | Creature Commandos | Amanda Waller (voice) | 2024-12-05 |
| Movie | Kung Fu Panda 4 | The Chameleon (voice) | 2024-03-02 |
| Movie | Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul) | 2024-02-13 |
| Movie | Air | Deloris Jordan | 2023-04-05 |
| Movie | The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes | Dr. Volumnia Gaul | 2023-11-15 |
| Series | The First Lady | Michelle Obama | 2022-04-17 |
| Movie | The Woman King | Nanisca | 2022-09-16 |
| Movie | Black Adam | Amanda Waller (uncredited) | 2022-10-19 |
| Movie | The Unforgivable | Liz Ingram | 2021-11-24 |
| Movie | The Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2021-07-28 |
| Movie | Giving Voice | Self | 2020-01-26 |
| Movie | Ma Rainey's Black Bottom | Ma Rainey | 2020-11-25 |
| Movie | Troop Zero | Miss Rayleen | 2019-02-01 |
| Movie | Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" | Florida Evans | 2019-12-18 |
| Movie | On Broadway | Self (archive footage) | 2019-10-12 |
| Movie | Widows | Veronica Rawlings | 2018-11-06 |
| Movie | Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal | Self (archive footage) | 2018-08-21 |
| Movie | Fences | Rose Maxson | 2016-12-16 |
| Movie | DC Films Presents Dawn of the Justice League | Herself | 2016-01-19 |
| Movie | Suicide Squad | Amanda Waller | 2016-08-03 |
| Movie | Custody | Martha Schulman | 2016-04-17 |
| Movie | Lila & Eve | Lila Walcott | 2015-07-31 |
| Series | Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter | Unknown | 2015-08-02 |
| Movie | August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand | 2015-02-20 | |
| Movie | Blackhat | Carol Barrett | 2015-01-13 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Series | How to Get Away with Murder | Annalise Keating | 2014-09-25 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-10-10 |
| Movie | Get on Up | Susie Brown | 2014-08-01 |
| Movie | The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them | Professor Lillian Friedman | 2014-05-14 |
| Movie | Ender's Game | Major Gwen Anderson | 2013-10-24 |
| Movie | Beautiful Creatures | Amma Treadeau | 2013-02-13 |
| Movie | Prisoners | Nancy Birch | 2013-09-19 |
| Movie | Love, Marilyn | Self | 2013-05-30 |
| Movie | Won't Back Down | Nona Alberts | 2012-09-28 |
| Movie | Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close | Abby Black | 2011-12-25 |
| Movie | Touch of Evil | The Vengeful Caretaker | 2011-12-06 |
| Movie | The Help | Aibileen Clark | 2011-08-09 |
| Movie | Eat Pray Love | Delia Shiraz | 2010-08-12 |
| Movie | Knight and Day | CIA Director Isabel George | 2010-06-15 |
| Movie | Trust | Gail Friedman | 2010-09-10 |
| Movie | It's Kind of a Funny Story | Dr. Eden Minerva | 2010-10-08 |
| Movie | Beyond All Boundaries | Hortense Johnson | 2009-11-09 |
| Series | United States of Tara | Unknown | 2009-01-18 |
| Movie | State of Play | Dr. Judith Franklin | 2009-04-17 |
| Movie | Madea Goes to Jail | Ellen | 2009-02-16 |
| Movie | Law Abiding Citizen | Mayor April Henry | 2009-10-15 |
| Movie | Doubt | Mrs. Miller | 2008-12-12 |
| Movie | Nights in Rodanthe | Jean | 2008-09-26 |
| Series | The Andromeda Strain | Dr. Charlene Barton | 2008-05-26 |
| Series | Traveler | Agent Jan Marlow | 2007-05-10 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Sea Change | Molly Crane | 2007-05-22 |
| Movie | Disturbia | Detective Parker | 2007-03-27 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Night Passage | Officer Molly Crane | 2006-01-15 |
| Movie | The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays | Tonya (segment "King Hedley II") | 2006-05-02 |
| Movie | The Architect | Tonya Neely | 2006-12-01 |
| Series | Brothers and Sisters | Ellen Snyder | 2006-09-24 |
| Movie | Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story | Diane Barrino | 2006-08-19 |
| Movie | World Trade Center | Mother in Hospital with Donna | 2006-08-09 |
| Movie | Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise | Molly Crane | 2006-04-30 |
| Movie | Stone Cold | Molly Crane | 2005-02-20 |
| Series | Threshold | Unknown | 2005-09-16 |
| Movie | Get Rich or Die Tryin' | Grandma | 2005-11-09 |
| Movie | Syriana | CIA Chairwoman | 2005-11-23 |
| Series | Century City | 2004-03-16 | |
| Series | E! Live from the Red Carpet | Herself | 2002-01-13 |
| Movie | Solaris | Gordon | 2002-11-27 |
| Movie | Far from Heaven | Sybil | 2002-11-08 |
| Series | Without a Trace | Unknown | 2002-09-26 |
| Movie | Antwone Fisher | Eva May | 2002-12-19 |
| Series | The Division | Unknown | 2001-01-07 |
| Movie | The Shrink Is In | Robin | 2001-08-01 |
| Movie | Amy & Isabelle | Dottie | 2001-03-04 |
| Movie | Ocean's Eleven | Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited) | 2001-12-07 |
| Movie | Kate & Leopold | Policewoman | 2001-12-25 |
| Series | Law & Order: Criminal Intent | Unknown | 2001-09-30 |
| Series | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Unknown | 2000-10-06 |
| Series | City of Angels | Lynnette Peeler | 2000-01-16 |
| Movie | Traffic | Social Worker | 2000-12-27 |
| Series | Judging Amy | Unknown | 1999-09-19 |
| Series | Third Watch | Unknown | 1999-09-23 |
| Series | Law & Order: Special Victims Unit | Unknown | 1999-09-20 |
| Series | Providence | Unknown | 1999-01-08 |
| Movie | The Pentagon Wars | Sgt. Fanning | 1998-02-28 |
| Movie | Out of Sight | Moselle | 1998-06-26 |
| Movie | Grace & Glorie | Rosemary Allbright | 1998-12-13 |
| Movie | Miss Apprehension and Squirt | Sharon Hughes | 1998-01-01 |
| Series | The Practice | Unknown | 1997-03-04 |
| Movie | The Substance of Fire | Nurse | 1996-09-11 |
| Series | The Oscars | Viola Davis | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |