Viola Davis
✓ Source-basedrisingAmerican actress and producer (born 1965)
Viola Davis 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).
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I was trying to fit in, stifling my voice, stifling who I was, in order to be seen as pretty, in order for people to like me.
On her early experiences in Hollywood in “Viola Davis: 'I stifled who I was to be seen as pretty. I lost years'” in The Guardian (2018 Oct
It’s only been recently that I can admit that I would jump in trash bins looking for food and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry.
She said in a PSA as quoted in "Viola Davis opens up about struggling with childhood hunger in PSA" in Entertainment Weekly (August 26 2016)
Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified.
Spoken during an address at Macky Auditorium as quoted in "Viola Davis shares words of wisdom with full audience at Macky Auditorium" by CU
Filmography 40
Kung Fu Panda 4
The Suicide Squad
Prisoners
Ocean's Eleven
Suicide Squad
The Help
Black Adam
Law Abiding Citizen
The Woman King
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
Knight and Day
Ender's Game
Disturbia
Eat Pray Love
Traffic
Air
Fences
The Unforgivable
Widows
Doubt
Blackhat
Beautiful Creatures
State of Play
Solaris
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
Trust
Kate & Leopold
G20
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
World Trade Center
Syriana
It's Kind of a Funny Story
Out of Sight
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
Nights in Rodanthe
Far from Heaven
Get On Up
Antwone Fisher
Troop Zero
Lila & Eve161 credits on file
Television 24
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit
The Simpsons
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
The Late Show with Stephen Colbert
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Graham Norton Show
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Law & Order: Criminal Intent
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Without a Trace
Scandal
The View
NYPD Blue
Third Watch
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
How to Get Away with Murder
The Practice
Hot Ones
Brothers and Sisters
Peacemaker
Golden Globe Awards
60 MinutesAwards 16
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About this person
Viola Davis 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.
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