Ocean's Eleven2001
As Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Viola Davis
Born
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 later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular 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 DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). 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. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Filmography (84)
The Suicide Squad2021
As Amanda Waller
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Black Adam2022
As Amanda Waller (uncredited)
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Prisoners2013
As Nancy Birch
TMDb 8.1 / 10
Kung Fu Panda 42024
As The Chameleon (voice)
TMDb 7.0 / 10
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2023
As Dr. Volumnia Gaul
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Suicide Squad2016
As Amanda Waller
TMDb 5.9 / 10
The Help2011
As Aibileen Clark
TMDb 8.2 / 10
World Trade Center2006
As Mother in Hospital
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Law Abiding Citizen2009
As Mayor April Henry
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Ender's Game2013
As Major Gwen Anderson
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Knight and Day2010
As CIA Director Isabel George
TMDb 6.2 / 10
State of Play2009
As Dr. Judith Franklin
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Eat Pray Love2010
As Delia Shiraz
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Blackhat2015
As Carol Barrett
TMDb 5.5 / 10
Air2023
As Deloris Jordan
TMDb 7.3 / 10
Traffic2000
As Social Worker
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Widows2018
As Veronica Rawlings
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Woman King2022
As Nanisca
TMDb 7.6 / 10
Disturbia2007
As Detective Parker
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Unforgivable2021
As Liz Ingram
TMDb 7.4 / 10
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close2011
As Abby Black
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Out of Sight1998
As Moselle
TMDb 6.7 / 10
Get Rich or Die Tryin'2005
As Grandma
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Kate & Leopold2001
As Policewoman
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Beautiful Creatures2013
As Amma Treadeau
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Solaris2002
As Gordon
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Syriana2005
As CIA Chairwoman
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Doubt2008
As Mrs. Miller
TMDb 7.2 / 10
G202025
As President Danielle Sutton
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Trust2010
As Gail Friedman
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Stone Cold2005
As Molly Crane
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Fences2016
As Rose Maxson
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Children of Blood and Bone2027
As Mama Agba
It's Kind of a Funny Story2010
As Dr. Eden Minerva
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise2006
As Molly Crane
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom2020
As Ma Rainey
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Nights in Rodanthe2008
As Jean
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Antwone Fisher2002
As Eva May
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Get On Up2014
As Susie Brown
TMDb 6.8 / 10
Far from Heaven2002
As Sybil
TMDb 7.1 / 10
Jesse Stone: Sea Change2007
As Molly Crane
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Jesse Stone: Night Passage2006
As Officer Molly Crane
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Madea Goes to Jail2009
As Ellen
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them2014
As Professor Lillian Friedman
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal2018
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 5.4 / 10
Troop Zero2019
As Miss Rayleen
TMDb 7.0 / 10
Lila & Eve2015
As Lila Walcott
TMDb 6.1 / 10
Custody2016
As Martha Schulman
TMDb 6.9 / 10
The Pentagon Wars1998
As Sgt. Fanning
TMDb 6.9 / 10
Won't Back Down2012
As Nona Alberts
TMDb 6.1 / 10
The Architect2006
As Tonya Neely
TMDb 5.7 / 10
Love, Marilyn2013
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him2014
As Professor Lillian Friedman
TMDb 6.7 / 10
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays2006
As Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her2014
As Professor Lillian Friedman
TMDb 6.6 / 10
Dark Girls2011
As Self
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Shrink Is In2001
As Robin
TMDb 4.8 / 10
The Substance of Fire1996
As Nurse
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story2006
As Diane Barrino
TMDb 6.2 / 10
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds2017
As Self (uncredited)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Grace & Glorie1998
As Rosemary Allbright
TMDb 6.3 / 10
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times"2019
As Florida Evans
TMDb 6.1 / 10
On Broadway2019
As Self (archive footage)
TMDb 8.7 / 10
Giving Voice2020
As Self
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Beyond All Boundaries2009
As Hortense Johnson
TMDb 6.8 / 10
The Personal History of Rachel DuPree
The Personal History of Rachel DuPreeRelease date TBA
As Rachel Dupree
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause2026
As Narrator (voice)
TMDb 6.0 / 10
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes2024
As Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
TMDb 7.5 / 10
Amy & Isabelle2001
As Dottie
TMDb 5.6 / 10
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry2026
As Self
Doubt: Stage to Screen2009
As Self
TMDb 6.5 / 10
Small Great Things
Small Great ThingsRelease date TBA
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand2015
As Self
House of Games
House of GamesRelease date TBA
Food 20502022
As Self - Narrator (voice)
TMDb 10.0 / 10
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event2022
As Self
TMDb 6.4 / 10
Two Butterflies
Two ButterfliesRelease date TBA
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality2025
As Narration
TMDb 1.0 / 10
Operation OthelloRelease date TBA
As Narrator
Ally Clark
Ally ClarkRelease date TBA
As Ally Clark
Miss Apprehension and Squirt
Miss Apprehension and Squirt1998
As Sharon Hughes
I Almost Forgot About You
I Almost Forgot About YouRelease date TBA
As Dr. Georgia Young
A Touch of Sugar2019
As Narrator
TMDb 1.0 / 10
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