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 Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated performances in The Help (2011), Doubt (2008), and her Oscar winning performance in Fences (2016). In 2015, Davis won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her work in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder, making her the first black woman in history to take home the award. In addition to acting, Viola currently produces alongside her husband and producing partner, Julius Tennon, through their JuVee Productions banner. Together they have produced award-garnering productions across theater, television, and film.
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Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her work- including her celebrated, Oscar-nominated performances in The Help (2011), Doubt (2008), and her Oscar winning performance in Fences (2016). In 2015, Davis won the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series for her work in ABC's How To Get Away With Murder, making her the first black woman in history to take home the award. In addition to acting, Viola currently produces alongside her husband and producing partner, Julius Tennon, through their JuVee Productions banner. Together they have produced award-garnering productions across theater, television, and film.
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Is one of three African-American actresses (the other being Whoopi Goldberg and Angela Bassett) to be nominated for an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.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).Has an adoptive daughter: Genesis Tennon (b. July 10, 2010) with husband, Julius Tennon.Is one of five actresses to receive an Oscar nomination for a performance with less than 10 minutes of screen time.Daughter of Mae Alice (Logan) and Dan Davis, both originally of South Carolina. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narragansett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony all in acting categories). The others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange and Glenda Jackson.As of 2017, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Traffic (2000), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Help (2011) and Fences (2016).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).Is one of 10 African-American actresses to be Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The others in chronological order are Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe and Quvenzhan�� Wallis.Counts Cicely Tyson's Emmy-winning performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) as a pivotal moment in her life when she ultimately understood how acting could be such a transformative craft.Named Glamour magazine's Film Actress of the Year (2012).Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2012).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).With her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016), Viola Davis became the first black woman to have won a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar for acting. Whoopi Goldberg not only has all three awards; she also has a Grammy (making her one of the few "EGOT" honorees, someone who has won all four awards)--but Goldberg won her Tony Award for producing the Broadway show "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1999-2003).Is one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and the Oscar for the same role on stage and film. The others are Yul Brynner (The King and I (1956)), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady (1964)), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker (1962)), Joel Grey (Cabaret (1972)), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons (1966)), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses (1968)) and Jos�� Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)).Won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Fences" (2010).As of 2018, she is one of three women who have won both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (hers being for Fences (2016)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy (hers being for How to Get Away with Murder (2014)). The others are Patricia Arquette and Allison Janney.In 2017, Davis became the 25th performer (and first African-American actress) to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony). She won the 2001 Best Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for "King Hedley II" and the 2010 Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award for "Fences", the 2015 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Award for How to Get Away with Murder (2014), and the 2017 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016).Inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on June 30, 2009.In 2012, Davis told Entertainment Weekly that she and her husband stayed at George Clooney's Italian estate on Lake Como for their honeymoon.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".Shared the cover of Vanity Fair magazine's 2016 Hollywood issue with, Jane Fonda, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7013 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 5, 2017.Is one of seven African-American actresses to have won an acting Oscar in a competitive category. The others in chronological order are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1990), Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011).Given the choice, she prefers the stage to film acting.Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Her family moved there when she was 2-months old.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 won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the role of Rose Maxon in "Fences" (in the 2010 Broadway revival of the play and the 2016 film adaptation, respectively). In the original 1987 Broadway production of the play, the role of Rose was originated by the actress Mary Alice--which was also the name of Viola Davis's mother.Returned to work 4 months after adopting her daughter Genesis to begin filming Ender's Game (2013).Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" (2004).Friends with Octavia Spencer Meryl Streep, and Denzel Washington."JuVee Productions" is the company she heads with husband Julius Ju(lius)V(iola).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.As of 2021, she is the most nominated black actress in Academy Awards' history, with 4 nominations. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Doubt (2008), Best Leading Actress in The Help (2011), Best Supporting Actress in Fences (2016) and Best Actress in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She has won for Fences (2016).Oprah Winfrey and beau Stedman Graham attended her 'third' marriage to Julius.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 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 the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Performance for "Seven Guitars" at the Ahmanson 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 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.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.Though she earned an Oscar nomination for it, she said in an NYT interview that she regrets doing the role of Aibileen Clark in The Help.Second cousin of Mike Colter. Her maternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother were siblings.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.Was the 147th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016) at The Oscars (2017) on February 26, 2017.In 2023, she won the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for her autobiography 'Finding Me'. This achievement made her the 18th person to achieve EGOT status. Additionally, she is one of three thespians to have achieved both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT, the others being Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno.Has a sister Deloris.One of only 18 individuals who are "EGOT"s, meaning having received at least one of all of the four major entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, competitively. The other recipients are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken and Jennifer Hudson. Five others (including Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte and Quincy Jones) have won three of the four awards competitively and received an honorary fourth and thus do not, strictly speaking, qualify.Born on the same date as Embeth Davidtz.Viola Davis is the tenth performer to win the Tony Award and the Oscar for the same role, winning for "Fences" (Tony in 2010, Oscar in 2017). The others chronologically are Jose Ferrer, Shirley Booth, Yul Brynner, Rex Harrison, Anne Bancroft, Paul Scofield, Jack Albertson, and Joel Grey. All nine won their Tony first, then their Oscar. The 10th, Lila Kedrova, won her Oscar first (1964), then her Tony (1984), for "Zorba, the Greek". |
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Viola Davis is a critically revered actress of film, television, and theater and has won rave reviews for her multitude of substantial and intriguingly diverse roles. Audiences across the United States and internationally have admired her for her wor |
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Is one of three African-American actresses (the other being Whoopi Goldberg and Angela Bassett) to be nominated for an Academy Award in both the Best Actress and Best Supporting Actress categories.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).Has an adoptive daughter: Genesis Tennon (b. July 10, 2010) with husband, Julius Tennon.Is one of five actresses to receive an Oscar nomination for a performance with less than 10 minutes of screen time.Daughter of Mae Alice (Logan) and Dan Davis, both originally of South Carolina. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narragansett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.Is one of 15 actresses to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony all in acting categories). The others in chronological order are Helen Hayes, Ingrid Bergman, Shirley Booth, Rita Moreno, Maureen Stapleton, Jessica Tandy, Anne Bancroft, Vanessa Redgrave, Maggie Smith, Ellen Burstyn, Helen Mirren, Frances McDormand, Jessica Lange and Glenda Jackson.As of 2017, has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar: Traffic (2000), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Help (2011) and Fences (2016).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).Is one of 10 African-American actresses to be Oscar-nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role. The others in chronological order are Dorothy Dandridge, Diana Ross, Cicely Tyson, Diahann Carroll, Whoopi Goldberg, Angela Bassett, Halle Berry, Gabourey Sidibe and Quvenzhan�� Wallis.Counts Cicely Tyson's Emmy-winning performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) as a pivotal moment in her life when she ultimately understood how acting could be such a transformative craft.Named Glamour magazine's Film Actress of the Year (2012).Named one of Time magazine's 100 Most Influential People in the World (2012).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).With her Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016), Viola Davis became the first black woman to have won a Tony, an Emmy, and an Oscar for acting. Whoopi Goldberg not only has all three awards; she also has a Grammy (making her one of the few "EGOT" honorees, someone who has won all four awards)--but Goldberg won her Tony Award for producing the Broadway show "Thoroughly Modern Millie" (1999-2003).Is one of only nine actors to have won both the Tony and the Oscar for the same role on stage and film. The others are Yul Brynner (The King and I (1956)), Rex Harrison (My Fair Lady (1964)), Anne Bancroft (The Miracle Worker (1962)), Joel Grey (Cabaret (1972)), Paul Scofield (A Man for All Seasons (1966)), Shirley Booth (Come Back, Little Sheba (1952)), Jack Albertson (The Subject Was Roses (1968)) and Jos�� Ferrer (Cyrano de Bergerac (1950)).Won the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play for her performance in "Fences" (2010).As of 2018, she is one of three women who have won both the Best Supporting Actress Oscar (hers being for Fences (2016)) and the Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy (hers being for How to Get Away with Murder (2014)). The others are Patricia Arquette and Allison Janney.In 2017, Davis became the 25th performer (and first African-American actress) to have won the Triple Crown of Acting (an Oscar, Emmy and Tony). She won the 2001 Best Featured Actress in a Play Tony Award for "King Hedley II" and the 2010 Best Leading Actress in a Play Tony Award for "Fences", the 2015 Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series Emmy Award for How to Get Away with Murder (2014), and the 2017 Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016).Inducted into the Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences (AMPAS) on June 30, 2009.In 2012, Davis told Entertainment Weekly that she and her husband stayed at George Clooney's Italian estate on Lake Como for their honeymoon.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".Shared the cover of Vanity Fair magazine's 2016 Hollywood issue with, Jane Fonda, Cate Blanchett, Jennifer Lawrence, Charlotte Rampling, Rachel Weisz, Lupita Nyong'o, Brie Larson, Alicia Vikander, Gugu Mbatha-Raw, Helen Mirren, Diane Keaton and Saoirse Ronan. Photographed by Annie Leibovitz.She was awarded a Star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame at 7013 Hollywood Boulevard in Hollywood, California on January 5, 2017.Is one of seven African-American actresses to have won an acting Oscar in a competitive category. The others in chronological order are Hattie McDaniel for Gone with the Wind (1939), Whoopi Goldberg for Ghost (1990), Halle Berry for Monster's Ball (2001), Jennifer Hudson for Dreamgirls (2006), Mo'Nique for Precious (2009) and Octavia Spencer for The Help (2011).Given the choice, she prefers the stage to film acting.Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Her family moved there when she was 2-months old.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 won both a Tony Award and an Academy Award for the role of Rose Maxon in "Fences" (in the 2010 Broadway revival of the play and the 2016 film adaptation, respectively). In the original 1987 Broadway production of the play, the role of Rose was originated by the actress Mary Alice--which was also the name of Viola Davis's mother.Returned to work 4 months after adopting her daughter Genesis to begin filming Ender's Game (2013).Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" (2004).Friends with Octavia Spencer Meryl Streep, and Denzel Washington."JuVee Productions" is the company she heads with husband Julius Ju(lius)V(iola).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.As of 2021, she is the most nominated black actress in Academy Awards' history, with 4 nominations. She was nominated for Best Supporting Actress in Doubt (2008), Best Leading Actress in The Help (2011), Best Supporting Actress in Fences (2016) and Best Actress in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). She has won for Fences (2016).Oprah Winfrey and beau Stedman Graham attended her 'third' marriage to Julius.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 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 the 1996 Drama Logue Award for Performance for "Seven Guitars" at the Ahmanson 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 Drama Desk Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for "King Hedley II" on Broadway in New York City.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.Though she earned an Oscar nomination for it, she said in an NYT interview that she regrets doing the role of Aibileen Clark in The Help.Second cousin of Mike Colter. Her maternal grandfather and his paternal grandmother were siblings.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.Was the 147th actress to receive an Academy Award; she won the Best Supporting Actress Oscar for Fences (2016) at The Oscars (2017) on February 26, 2017.In 2023, she won the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording for her autobiography 'Finding Me'. This achievement made her the 18th person to achieve EGOT status. Additionally, she is one of three thespians to have achieved both the Triple Crown of Acting and the EGOT, the others being Helen Hayes and Rita Moreno.Has a sister Deloris.One of only 18 individuals who are "EGOT"s, meaning having received at least one of all of the four major entertainment awards: an Emmy, a Grammy, an Oscar and a Tony, competitively. The other recipients are Richard Rodgers, Helen Hayes, Rita Moreno, John Gielgud, Audrey Hepburn, Marvin Hamlisch, Jonathan Tunick, Mel Brooks, Mike Nichols, Whoopi Goldberg, Scott Rudin, Robert Lopez, Andrew Lloyd Webber, Tim Rice, John Legend, Alan Menken and Jennifer Hudson. Five others (including Barbra Streisand, Liza Minnelli, James Earl Jones, Harry Belafonte and Quincy Jones) have won three of the four awards competitively and received an honorary fourth and thus do not, strictly speaking, qualify.Born on the same date as Embeth Davidtz.Viola Davis is the tenth performer to win the Tony Award and the Oscar for the same role, winning for "Fences" (Tony in 2010, Oscar in 2017). The others chronologically are Jose Ferrer, Shirley Booth, Yul Brynner, Rex Harrison, Anne Bancroft, Paul Scofield, Jack Albertson, and Joel Grey. All nine won their Tony first, then their Oscar. The 10th, Lila Kedrova, won her Oscar first (1964), then her Tony (1984), for "Zorba, the Greek". |
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Her natural hair
Often plays longsuffering mothers (e.g. Doubt, Antwone Fisher, Get on Up, Fences) |
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We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.
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[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.
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[on undertaking the role of Aibileen Clark in The Help (2011)] I absolutely feel that she just had the nurturing instinct. You know, it's like my mom. She's said she's taken care of kids since she was four years old, and she's now sixty-eight. That's all she knew, which was to take care of kids. She also had seventeen of her brothers and sisters and cousins and all of that - and she was always taking care of them. I myself was delivered by my grandmother.
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The thing about the African-American community compared with the white community is, we are more concerned with image and message than execution. I don't play roles that are necessarily attractive or portray a positive image. They are well-rounded characters. When you squelch excellence to put out a message it's like passing the baton and seeing it drop.
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[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. |
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Actress,Producer,Soundtrack |
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Received a 1999 Obie Award for her performance in the Off-Broadway play "Everybody's Ruby".
(February 23, 1999 - April 11, 1999) "Everybody's Ruby," written by Thulani Davis; directed by Kenny Leon; with Crystal Fox, Ron Cep |
| Spouse: |
Julius Tennon (June 23, 2003 - present) (1 child) |
| Children: |
Child |
| Parents: |
Mary Alice Logan
Dan Davis |
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