Viola Davis Biography
Viola Davis is an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony Award-winning actress and producer from the United States. She is the only African-American and the third person in history to have achieved the Triple Crown of Acting. Time and The New York Times have named her one of the best actors of the twenty-first century.
How old is Viola Davis? – Age
She is 58 years old as of August 11, 2023. She was born in 1965 in Saint Matthews, South Carolina, United States.
Viola Davis Family – Education
Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, on August 11, 1965, to Mae Alice Davis (née Logan) and Dan Davis. Her grandmother’s property on the Singleton Plantation was where she was born. Her father trained horses, and her mother worked as a maid, factory worker, and housewife. She is the second youngest of six siblings (four sisters and one brother). Her parents relocated Davis and two of her elder siblings to Central Falls, Rhode Island, shortly after her birth, leaving her other siblings with her grandparents.
Davis, a former actress, has a history of adversity, having lived in rat-infested apartments. She went to Central Falls High School and participated in TRIO Upward Bound and TRIO Student Support Services. Davis’ skill was spotted in West Warwick, Rhode Island’s Young People’s School for the Performing Arts. She attended Rhode Island College after high school and participated in the National Student Exchange. She spent four years at Juilliard, where she was a part of the Drama Division’s “Group 22” (1989-93).
Viola Davis Husband
In June 2003, Davis married actor Julius Tennon. Genesis, the couple’s infant daughter, was adopted in 2011. Davis also has two stepchildren from Tennon’s past partnerships.
Viola Davis Net Worth
She has an estimated net worth of $25 million.
Viola Davis Height
Davis stands tall at a height of 5 feet 5 inches (165 cm).
Viola Davis The Woman King
She appeared as General Nanisca in the 2022 American historical action-adventure film The Woman King. General Nanisca, commander of the Agojie, liberated Dahomean women kidnapped by slavers from the Oyo Empire in 1823. As a result, King Ghezo prepares for war with the Oyo. Nanisca mentors a new generation of fighters, including Nawi, who becomes friends with veteran Agojie Izogie.
Nawi discovers that the Oyo are planning an attack and discovers her past. Nanisca assists Nawi in extracting a shark tooth from her shoulder, proving that she is her biological daughter. Although the Agojie beats the Oyo, Ghezo refuses to allow a rescue attempt for the captured Agojie. Nanisca kills Oba in a single battle after Nawi escapes. Ghezo privately admonishes Nanisca for disobeying him and crowns her the Woman King when the Agojie returns to Dahomey.
Viola Davis Books
Davis also revealed in 2017 that she would write Corduroy Takes a Bow, the sequel to the iconic picture book Corduroy. In a news statement, Davis said that “Corduroy has always held a special place in my life, first as a child paging through it, and then again with my daughter, introducing her to the adventures of that adorable teddy bear”. Penguin Random House published the novel later that year.
Viola Davis The Help
Davis starred as Aibileen Clark, a housemaid in 1960s Mississippi, in the film version of Kathryn Stockett’s novel The Help in August 2011. Davis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress for her performance as a 1960s housemaid in the comedy-drama The Help (2011).
The Help is a 2009 historical fiction novel written by Kathryn Stockett and published by Penguin Books. During the early 1960s, African Americans worked in white houses in Jackson, Mississippi.
Viola Davis Finding Me – Memoir
Davis won a Grammy Award in 2023 for her audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me. She received the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording in February 2023 for the narration of her 2022 autobiography Finding Me, giving her the 18th person to achieve EGOT status.
Viola Davis Movies
♦ 2023 – Air
♦ 2023 – The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes †
♦ 2022 – The Woman King
♦ 2022 – Black Adam
♦ 2021 – The Suicide Squad
♦ 2021 – The Unforgivable
♦ 2020 – Giving Voice
♦ 2020 – Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom
♦ 2019 – Troop Zero
♦ 2018 – Widows
♦ 2016 – Custody
♦ 2016 – Suicide Squad
♦ 2016 – Fences
♦ 2015 – Blackhat
♦ 2015 – Lila & Eve
♦ 2014 – Get On Up
Viola Davis TV Shows
♦ 2024 – Creature Commandos †
♦ 2022 – Peacemaker
♦ 2022 – The First Lady
♦ 2020 – Celebrity IOU
♦ 2019 – Live in Front of a Studio Audience
♦ 2018 – Scandal
♦ 2014–2020 – How to Get Away with Murder
♦ 2013 – Sofia the First
♦ 2009 – United States of Tara
♦ 2008 – Brothers & Sisters
♦ 2008 – The Andromeda Strain
♦ 2007 – Jesse Stone: Sea Change
♦ 2007 – Traveler
♦ 2007 – Fort Pit
♦ 2006 – Jesse Stone: Night Passage
♦ 2006 – Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
♦ 2006 – Without a Trace
