Viola Davis ( 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 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 DC Extended Universe playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016) to Black Adam (2022). She reprises her role in the rebooted DC Universe. 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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Date: 12 August 1965
By PHILIP BENJAMINSpecial to The New York Times
Ucello's The Battle of San Romano exhibited, London Natl Gallery, after 6 yrs of repairs by A Lucas
Date: 12 August 1965
ITU pres Brown
Date: 12 August 1965
By TOM WICKER
Tom WICKER
Wicker discusses expected rise in Negro voters under new law; notes even if every voting-age Negro regis Negroes would not have majority in any Southern state but that they would be important pol force whose demands could not be ignored
Date: 11 August 1965
Natl Equities acquires tract near conv hall for hotel, shoppinq center, mall development
Date: 12 August 1965
By LAWRENCE O'KANE
Lawrence O'KANE
Recently signed US Housing and Urban Development Act permits US Fed savings and loan assns to lend estimated $600 million for self-liquidating or demonstration projects designed to spur low- and middle-income housing; AID must guarantee loans
Date: 11 August 1965
Date: 12 August 1965
By ELIZABETH M. FOWLER
Date: 11 August 1965
J C Bogue named news dept asst managing ed, W D Laffler financial ed, F H Treesh overnight news ed
Date: 11 August 1965
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Pratt, Harold J