Viola Davis

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1965-08-11 (60 years old)

Place of Birth

St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA

Viola Davis

Biography

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 l...

Acting

2002

Solaris

as Gordon

-

2006

World Trade Center

as Mother in Hospital

2002

2009

Law Abiding Citizen

as Mayor April Henry

2005

Stone Cold

as Molly Crane

2006

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

as Officer Molly Crane

2007

Disturbia

as Detective Parker

1998

The Pentagon Wars

as Sgt. Fanning

2008

Doubt

as Mrs. Miller

2009

2010

Knight and Day

as CIA Director Isabel George

2010

Eat Pray Love

as Delia Shiraz

2010

Trust

as Gail Friedman

2009

State of Play

as Dr. Judith Franklin

2001

2013

Ender's Game

as Major Gwen Anderson

2011

The Help

as Aibileen Clark

2012

Won't Back Down

as Nona Alberts

2019

On Broadway

as Self (archive footage)

2013

2001

2013

Beautiful Creatures

as Amma Treadeau

2013

Prisoners

as Nancy Birch

2014

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them

as Professor Lillian Friedman

-

I Almost Forgot About You

as Dr. Georgia Young

2015

Blackhat

as Carol Barrett

2014

Get on Up

as Susie Brown

2023

Air

as Deloris Jordan

2014

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

as Professor Lillian Friedman

2014

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him

as Professor Lillian Friedman

2022

Black Adam

as Amanda Waller (uncredited)

2024

Kung Fu Panda 4

as The Chameleon (voice)

2016

Suicide Squad

as Amanda Waller

2015

Lila & Eve

as Lila Walcott

2025

G20

as President Danielle Sutton

2006

The Architect

as Tonya Neely

2010

It's Kind of a Funny Story

as Dr. Eden Minerva

1998

2001

Ocean's Eleven

as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)

2020

2011

Touch of Evil

as The Vengeful Caretaker

2007

2016

Custody

as Martha Schulman

2016

Fences

as Rose Maxson

2001

Kate & Leopold

as Policewoman

1998

Out of Sight

as Moselle

2002

Antwone Fisher

as Eva May

2000

Traffic

as Social Worker

2005

Syriana

as CIA Chairwoman

2018

Widows

as Veronica Rawlings

2019

Troop Zero

as Miss Rayleen

2009

Beyond All Boundaries

as Hortense Johnson

2006

The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays

as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")

2021

The Suicide Squad

as Amanda Waller

2020

2021

The Unforgivable

as Liz Ingram

2019

A Touch of Sugar

as Narrator

2022

The Woman King

as Nanisca

1998

Grace & Glorie

as Rosemary Allbright

-

Ally Clark

as Ally Clark

Production

2023

Silver Dollar Road

as Executive Producer

2025

G20

as Producer

-

Operation Othello

as Executive Producer

2017

Night Shift

as Executive Producer

2019

Troop Zero

as Producer

2019

Emanuel

as Executive Producer

2022

The Woman King

as Producer

-

Ally Clark

as Producer

-

House of Games

as Producer

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