Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
8/11/1965
Place of Birth
St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Also Known As
바이올라 데이비스ვიოლა დევისიВайола Дейвіс
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...
Known For
The Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
The Help
as Aibileen Clark
The Unforgivable
as Liz Ingram
Prisoners
as Nancy Birch
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Solaris
as Gordon
Widows
as Veronica Rawlings
Black Adam
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
Knight and Day
as CIA Director Isabel George
Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
The Woman King
as Nanisca
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen
Giving Voice
as Self
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau
Kate & Leopold
as Policewoman
Syriana
as CIA Chairwoman
Trust
as Gail Friedman
Career Timeline
2025
2024
2023
2022
2021
2020
2019
2018
2015
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
How to Get Away with Murder
as Annalise Keating
Get on Up
as Susie Brown
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self - Guest
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
2013
2010
2009
2008
2007
2006
The Architect
as Tonya Neely
Brothers and Sisters
as Ellen Snyder
Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
as Diane Barrino
World Trade Center
as Mother in Hospital
The Best of The Tony Awards: The Plays
as Tonya (segment "King Hedley II")
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane