Viola Davis's biography

Viola Sophie Davis is 57 years old stage actor born at St. Matthews. Viola was born on Wednesday 11th of August 1965. According to year of birth 1965 she belongs to Boomers. Birthday on 11th of August means she is Leo. As sign in itself indicates “Lion” or “King”, hence people born under Leo sign are considered to be leaders in every aspects of life. They are royal in nature.

Viola is black american. Viola is citizen of United States of America. She is christian. Viola´s primary profession is to be stage actor. You can know Viola also as film actor, television actor. She is recently known as television producer.

Viola Davis's family

Viola Davis's husband

He is known as actor. Viola´s husband was born on Thursday 24th of December 1953 in Travis County.

Viola Davis's ex husband

Viola Davis's schools

We found 4 schools Viola attended. Complete list of schools: Rhode Island College, Juilliard School, Central Falls High School, Circle in the Square Theatre School.

Detailed informations about her schools

Attended and graduated from Rhode Island College in Providence, Rhode Island (1988), where she majored in theater. She later received an honorary degree in Fine Arts from the college (2002).
After her graduation from Rhode Island College, she attended the Juilliard School in New York City for four years, and was a member of the school Drama Division "Group 22" (1989-1993).

Viola Davis's career

Viola´s main focus is to be stage actor. Viola is famous thanks to Traffic, The Help, How to Get Away with Murder..

Is Viola Davis gay ?

Viola is known to be straight.

Awards and competitions

Viola Davis's Awards

Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for August Wilson's "King Hedley II". She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1996 for another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars".
Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" (2004).
Is one of two African-American actresses (the other being Whoopi Goldberg) to be nominated for an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.
Won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Fences" (2010).
Is the first black actress to receive an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder (2014).
She was nominated for the 1996 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "Seven Guitars" on Broadway in New York City.
She was awarded the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Performance for "Seven Guitars" at the Ahmanson Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
She was awarded the 2004 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Lead Performance for "Intimate Apparel" in association with Roundabout Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
She was awarded for a 2001 Antoinette Perry (Tony) Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.
She was awarded for a 2001 New York Outer Critics Circle Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.
She was awarded the 2004 Los Angeles Stage Alliance Ovation Award for Best Leading Actress in a Play for "Intimate Apparel" in association with Roundabout Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
She was awarded for a 2001 New York Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.
She was awarded for the 2004 Back Stage Garland Award for Outstanding Performance for "Intimate Apparel" in association with Roundabout Theatre Company production at the Mark Taper Forum Theatre in Los Angeles, California.
She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7013 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 5, 2017.
She was the first black woman to receive three Academy Award nominations. Octavia Spencer (in 2017, also for acting) and Ruth E. Carter (in 2018, for costume design) followed.
Was the 147th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016) at The 89th Academy Awards (2017) on February 26, 2017.

Viola Davis's Nominations

Viola was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for work Doubt in 2008
She was nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress
Viola was nominated for Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
She was nominated for People's Choice Award for Favorite Actress in a New TV Series for work How to Get Away with Murder in 2015

What else you don't know about Viola Davis ?

Viola´s middle name is Sophie.

What Viola Davis has done for a first time

Is the first black actress to receive an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How to Get Away with Murder (2014).
She was the first black woman to receive three Academy Award nominations. Octavia Spencer (in 2017, also for acting) and Ruth E. Carter (in 2018, for costume design) followed.

Viola Davis's quotes

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
[on why she's not inspired to direct] I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.
[on roles for African-American actresses] You're not doing the Irish and Scottish accents they taught at Juilliard. In the real world you're doing Ebonics and Jamaican.
[on performing with Jeremy Irons in Beautiful Creatures (2013)] He's a total hippie. Here's this grand, talented man who counters it with just humility - very casual and loose. So it was a joy to work with him in the swamps.
Meryl Streep is the greatest actress because you can see so many different emotions going on in her eyes. It's a joy as an artist.
The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity.
The happily ever after comes after you've done the work.
I consider myself a hero. I don't have a cape, I don't have a golden lasso. I had a call to adventure, a call to live life bigger than myself. I found the elixir.
The more I'm pushed in a position of leadership and I know I have to be the mouthpiece for so many other people who can't speak for themselves, the more confidence I'm gaining.
I don't see acting as hiding. I see it as stepping up buck naked in front of a group of people that you don't know. Every single time. It's about exposing. If you're not doing that, you're basically not doing anything.
[on growing up in poverty] I just wanted to get out, to be somebody. I was always so hungry and ashamed. I couldn't get at the business of being me.
When you're acting, you're feeling everything - every last receptor in your body is alive, 100% alive, and you're not hiding anything, because everything is used as a tool to make the character a fully realized human being.
When I first started, acting was very therapeutic. I needed it. I felt I was unfinished. Then I went into therapy. I got married to the most beautiful man [Julius Tennon].
I became an artist - and thank God I did - because we are the only profession that celebrates what it means to live a life.
I call myself an actor. I mean, when did you last see a doctress?
There's no one who's not entertained by The Help (2011). But there's a part of me that feels like I betrayed myself, and my people, because I was in a movie that wasn't ready to [tell the whole truth].
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Viola Davis's height, weight, body shape, eye color, hair color

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