Viola Davis

Viola Davis is a theater and film actress who has won a number of prestigious acting awards including Emmy, Tony, Golden Globe, BAFTA, Screen Actors Guild and Academy Awards.

Viola is known both as a theater artist who achieved considerable success in Broadway productions, and as an actress who fully realized herself in cinema, proving her talent to both the audience and the film critic community. This is evidenced by the awards of the actress, and the worldwide popularity, which, albeit gradually, but Davis won.

Film and theater actress Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965 in the American town of St. Matthews. She was the fifth of six children of horse trainer Dan Davis and maid May Ellis. Viola was not even a year old when the family moved to Rhode Island. Their financial situation left much to be desired: children had to wear clothes for their elders, and toys were a rare pleasure in the family.

The guys themselves came up with entertainment, most often they played small scenes with fictional characters. Subsequently, Viola Davis developed this hobby already in the school drama studio. A talented student was even paid a scholarship.

After graduating from college in 1988, Viola went to university. The academic years were fruitful - in 2002, the girl received an honorary degree of Doctor of Fine Arts. She honed her acting skills in New York, at the prestigious Juilliard School. It was there that Davis gained valuable experience that helped her develop her skills in the future.

In the biography of Viola Davis, the first successes of the acting craft are associated with the theatrical stage. In 2001, she received the Tony and Drama Desk awards for her role in the play King Headley II.

Three years later, the Broadway production of Intimate Apparel won the actress a Drama Desk again. In 2010, Viola Davis received her second Tony statuette for her participation in the play Fence.

Viola Davis' first steps in the cinema began in 1996 with Daniel J. Sullivan's film Essence of Fire, where the actress played a nurse. Since then, it seems that she was "haunted" by cameo roles.

Viola starred in numerous television projects, there were no serious proposals from the directors. The exception was Stephen Soderberg. He invited the actress to star in the thriller Out of Sight. While working with Soderbergh, Viola also played in Traffic and Solaris. The latter brought the actress the long-awaited success. The director made a screen version of Lam's novel, but made some adjustments to the plot: instead of one of the male astronauts, the audience saw a woman, played by Viola.

This change was best characterized by the subsequent role of the actress: Viola Davis most often appears in the roles of strong-willed heroines who occupy positions and positions that were considered exclusively male a decade ago: among the roles of Davis are the military, politicians, police officers, FBI agents and super spies.

This is an unnamed police officer in the romantic comedy "Kate and Leo", and FBI agent Carol Barrett in the spy detective "Cyber", and Detective Parker in the youth thriller "Paranoia", and Major Gwen Anderson in the fantastic drama "Ender's Game" and many others strong heroines.

The actress did not refuse small roles. So in her filmography appeared "Twin Towers", "Architect", "Get Rich or Die", "Paranoia". In the detective drama "Doubt" directed by John Patrick Shanley, Viola played an 8-minute episode. Nevertheless, this role became life-changing for the actress. Film critics praised her work, and in 2009, Viola, for the first time in her career, became a nominee for two awards at once - "Oscar" and "Golden Globe" - as the best supporting actress. And although in both cases the victory went to her colleagues, it was Davis's significant breakthrough in Hollywood.

Each subsequent role brought the actress even more recognition, but what real triumph and fame is, the actress understood in 2011. Then the film "The Servant" was released on the big screens, where Viola Davis appeared in the title role - the black maid Aibileen Clark. Her heroine, serving in the home of whites, tried to fight the racial prejudices that existed in America in the 1960s. This role was very close to Viola herself, because, while still a schoolgirl, she faced similar stereotypes and discrimination.

For two years in a row, for her participation in the drama series "How to Avoid Punishment for Murder", the Screen Actors Guild Award of the USA recognized Viola Davis as the best actress. This work, as mentioned above, also brought the actress an Emmy statuette in 2015. This event became significant, because for the first time in the history of cinema, a black actress won the Best Actress in a Drama Series category.

Viola Davis played the role of lawyer and professor at Middleton University Annalize Keating. Based on the plot of the series, Annalize teaches students the discipline of the same name, How to Avoid Punishment for Murder. These are just theoretical classes, but a killer appears on campus, and students quickly have to learn how to apply the knowledge gained in practice.

The series showed high ratings and after the end of the first season it was extended for a second and then for a third. In February 2017, there was official information from the ABC channel that How to Avoid Punishment for Murder will receive a fourth season, which will premiere in March 2018.

Viola Davis tied the knot quite late, at 37. Actor and producer Julius Tennon became her chosen one. The wedding took place on June 23, 2003. The husband is 11 years older than Viola: at the time of his marriage, he already had two children from a previous marriage.

Since 2011, the couple has been raising their adopted daughter, Genesis Tennon. In 2016, Viola Davis was in the TOP 50 most influential moms (according to Working Mother magazine). An important role in this was played by the actress's official Instagram, where Davis already has over 2 million subscribers.

In 2016, a fantastic action movie with elements of the comedy by David Eyre "Suicide Squad" with Viola Davis was released. The actress did not get the role of a member of the squad, some kind of forced to become a superhero villain, but Davis got the role of Amanda Wallace, an intelligence agent with a steel will and an iron heart.

It is the heroine Viola Davis who comes up with and implements a brutal plan to use a group of dangerous criminals as cannon fodder on high-risk missions, so that the squad will serve the United States government.

This film did not bring the actress prestigious awards, and the action movie itself was even nominated for the Golden Raspberry anti-award, but nevertheless the film paid off at the box office, received a number of positive reviews from viewers, and also entered the DC Expanded Universe, a fandom based on the famous comics publishing house ...

In 2016, the actress starred in the film "Custody". The film follows a courtroom session where a woman desperately fights to be given custody of her children.

Also in 2016, the actress got the role of Rose Macsson in the drama "Fences". This picture is based on the plot of the play of the same name by August Wilson. In 1987, this work received the Pulitzer Prize, and the script was written by Wilson himself, having managed to adapt the play to the film format before his death.

The film follows the fate of a working-class African American family trying to lead a decent life and provide for their own family in the 50s of the last century in the United States. The main male role in the film is played by Denzel Washington, who also directed the film.

In 2017, Viola Davis received an Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Fences. This role in a similar nomination brought her victory at the 2017 Golden Globe. And the film "Fences" was included in the list of the ten best films of 2016 according to the American Film Institute.

2001 - "Providence" 2001 - "Kate and Leo" 2003 - "Taxi Driver" 2005 - "Get Rich or Die" 2007 - "Paranoia" 2009 - "Law Abiding Citizen" 2010 - "It's a Very Funny Story" 2011 - "Servant" 2013 - "Captives" 2013 - "Ender's Game" 2011 - "Terribly Loud and Extremely Close" 2014-2018 - "How to Avoid Punishment for Murder" 2015 - "Cyber" 2016 - "Suicide Squad" 2016 - "Fences"

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Viola Davis Net Worth 2021

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Viola Davis Net Worth 2019

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Viola Davis Net Worth 2017

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Viola Davis Net Worth 2016

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