Viola Davis

Viola Davis is the first Black woman to win the triumvirate of an Academy Award, A Prime Time Emmy and two Tony Awards. As impressive is the mark she makes on the red carpet.

Viola Davis is an established performer with a long list of commanding characters among her many credits, including Annalise Keating in the hit small screen legal thriller How To Get Away With Murder, which last year wrapped its sixth and final season. But it’s still astonishing to behold the boldness and sheer dominating energy she brings to Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, in a role for which Davis recently received a Golden Globe nomination, her sixth overall, for Best Actress in a Motion Picture – Drama.

The central figure in a stellar ensemble cast, Golden Globe winner Viola Davis shared with HFPA journalist Barbara Gasser the experience of being directed by Golden Globe nominee Steve McQueen in Widows, a heist drama with deep psychological insights – and how McQueen wooed her with a Sunday visit, and sushi.

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Viola Davis is arguably one of the greatest actresses to have ever hit the scenes, on stage and on the screen. She is now nominated for a Golden Globe as Best Supporting Actress for her role of Rose Maxson in the big screen adaptation of August Wilson's play Fences, which Davis performed with Washington on Broadway.

Reprising the role she played on Broadway opposite Denzel Washington, Viola Davis is a quiet storm of determination, anger and devotion as Rose, the wife of the hard-headed, short-tempered Troy (played again by Denzel Washington, who directed the film from a script by playwright August Wilson). “August Wilson wrote the screenplay more than two decades ago and it lends itself to the cinematic experience because really at the heart of the story it's just about a family and we've seen these epic stories before”, Davis told us.

How to Get Away with Murder, the latest production from seemingly unstoppable show-runner Shonda Rhimes, earned Viola Davis a Golden Globe nomination (her third) last year. Now in the show’s second season Ms.

Viola Davis arrives at the 69th Golden Globe Awards.