Viola Davis

Actor

Born: August 11, 1965 (age 60)
From: St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA

Viola Davis (/vaɪˈoʊlə/ vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) 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. A…

Filmography (83)

Children of Blood and Bone (2027)
Mama Agba
W.E.B. Du Bois: Rebel With a Cause (2026)
Narrator (voice)
G20 (2025)
President Danielle Sutton
The Ebony Canal: A Story of Black Infant Mortality (2025)
Narration
Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
The Chameleon (voice)
Predator or Prey: Making The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2024)
Self (Dr. Volumnia Gaul)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes (2023)
Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Air (2023)
Deloris Jordan
Food 2050 (2022)
Self - Narrator (voice)
Black Adam (2022)
Amanda Waller (uncredited)
The Woman King (2022)
Nanisca
Oprah + Viola: A Netflix Special Event (2022)
Self
The Unforgivable (2021)
Liz Ingram
The Suicide Squad (2021)
Amanda Waller
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020)
Ma Rainey
Giving Voice (2020)
Self
Live in Front of a Studio Audience: "All in the Family" and "Good Times" (2019)
Florida Evans
On Broadway (2019)
Self (archive footage)
Operation Othello (2019)
Narrator
A Touch of Sugar (2019)
Narrator
Troop Zero (2019)
Miss Rayleen
Widows (2018)
Veronica Rawlings
Beyond Boundaries: The Harvey Weinstein Scandal (2018)
Self (archive footage)
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds (2017)
Self (uncredited)
Fences (2016)
Rose Maxson
Suicide Squad (2016)
Amanda Waller
Custody (2016)
Martha Schulman
Lila & Eve (2015)
Lila Walcott
August Wilson: The Ground on Which I Stand (2015)
Self
Blackhat (2015)
Carol Barrett