Viola Davis Biography, Age, Height, Family, Net Worth, Movies & Wiki

Viola Davis is a highly acclaimed television, film, and theatre actress from the United States who has received acclaim for a wide range of significant and interesting performances. Her work has been praised by audiences all around the world, notably her Oscar-nominated performances in the 2011 period drama film, The Help and 2008 American fictional period drama film Doubt, as well as her Oscar-winning performance in the historical drama film Fences.

Davis received the Emmy Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series in 2015 for her role in ABC’s How To Get Away With Murder, being the first black woman to do so. Viola now produces via her JuVee Productions brand with her husband and producing partner, Julius Tennon, in addition to performing. They’ve collaborated on award-winning works in theatre, television, and cinema.

Viola Davis Bio/Wiki

Birth Name	Viola Davis
Nick Name	Not Available
Age	58 years
Religion	Christian
Sun Sign/Zodiac Sign	Leo
Birth Place	Saint Matthews, South Carolina, United States
Date of Birth	August 11, 1965
Nationality	American
Residence	Los Angeles, California
Home Town	Saint Matthews, South Carolina, United States
Hobbies	Not known
Family
Mother’s Name	Mary Alice Davis
Father’s Name	Dan Davis
Brother	Not Available
Sister	Deloris Davis Grant Dianne Davis-Wright Anita Davis Danielle Davis
Boyfriends/Affairs
Affairs/Boyfriends	Julius Tennon
Marital Status, Husband and Children
Husband/Spouse	Julius Tennon
Marriage Date	23 June 2003
Children	Genesis Tennon
Education
School	Central Falls High School Young People’s School
College/University	Rhode Island College Juilliard School
Educational Qualification	Bachelors
Profession	Actor Producer
Brands Endorsed	L’Oréal Paris Vaseline
Career Manager	Estelle Lasher
Height, Weight, and Figure Measurements
Height (Approx.)	in centimeters – 165 cm in meters – 1.65 m in Feet Inches – 5’4″
Weight (Approx.)	in Kilograms- 59 kg in Pounds- 130 lbs
Figure Measurements
Breast Size	37
Hips Size	36
Waist Size	27
Extra Ordinary Features
Race / Ethnicity	African American
Hair Color	Black
Eye Color	Dark brown
S*xual Orientation	Straight
Dress Size	8 (US) 10 (UK)
Shoe Size	9 (US) 7 (UK)
Favourite Things
Favourite Food	Lobster Bisque
Favourite Books	Black Feminist Thought by Patricia Hill Collins Eloquent Rage: A Black Feminist Discovers Her Superpower by Dr. Brittney Cooper
Favorite vacation destination	Greece
Favourite Color	Red
Favourite	Mimosa

Life Journey

Viola Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, on August 11, 1965, to Mary Alice Davis and Dan Davis. She was born on the Singleton Plantation, on her grandmother’s estate. Her mother was a maid, factory worker, and homemaker, while her father was a horse trainer.

She comes from a family of six children, including four sisters and a brother. Davis and two of her sisters relocated to Central Falls, Rhode Island, two months after she was born, leaving her elder sister and brother with her grandparents.

Davis attended West Warwick, Rhode Island’s Central Falls High School, and Young People’s School for the Performing Arts. After high school, Davis entered Rhode Island College, concentrating in drama, and participated in the National Student Exchange until graduating in 1988. She then spent four years at the Juilliard School, where she was a part of the Drama Division Group 22 from 1989 to 1993.

She received an Obie Award in 1999 for her portrayal as Ruby McCollum in Everybody’s Ruby, after graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993. In the late 1990s and early 2000s, she had minor roles in several films and television shows before receiving the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her performance as Tonya in August Wilson’s King Hedley II on Broadway in 2001.

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Davis’s big break came in 2008 when she was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as a disturbed mother in the film Doubt.

In the 2010s, Davis had more accomplishments. She received the Tony Award for Best Actress in a Play in 2010 for her performance as Rose Maxson in August Wilson’s play Fences on Broadway. Davis was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress and earned a Screen Actors Guild Award for her role as a 1960s housemaid in the 2011 comedy-drama The Help.

Davis made a television debut in the ABC television drama series How to Get Away with Murder as lawyer Annalise Keating’s character in 2014. In 2015, she won the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series, becoming the first Black woman to do so.

Davis won an Oscar Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance as Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences in 2016. She was been nominated for a BAFTA in 2018 for her role in Steve McQueen’s heist thriller Widows.

Davis gained widespread praise in 2020 for her portrayal of Ma Rainey in the film adaption of Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom, for which she got an NAACP Image Award, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.

Davis is the most nominated black actress in the Academy Awards, with four acting nods, and the first black actress to be nominated for Best Actress in a Leading Role.

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Viola Davis Net Worth

Viola Davis has a whopping net worth of $30 million.

Davis began her career as a successful theatrical actor before moving on to cinema and television. The Triple Crown of Acting, which implies she has won at least one Academy Award or Oscar, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award, is among her most famous accomplishments. She is the first African-American woman to do this. Viola has a long list of achievements as a filmmaker in addition to her acting career. During September 2019 to September 2020, she earned about a massive wealth of $15 million, making her one of the highest paid performers in the world.

Davis paid $5.7 million for a beautiful house near Toluca Lake in 2016. The opulent, two-story home has 7,500 square feet of living space and a plethora of high-end amenities. A 600 bottle wine cellar is accessible through a glass door in the formal dining room. The property has a private theatre with a 4K projector, in line with Viola’s career. Waterfalls, a pool, a built-in BBQ, and a campfire can all be found in the outside area. This home is completed by a three-car garage.

Viola Davis sold her Los Angeles home for $1.15 million in 2017. The home has five bedrooms plus five bathrooms and is situated in the Granada Hills area of San Fernando Valley and move into her much more opulent Toluca Lake property.

Career

• In 1996 Davis made her acting debut when she starred Tonya in the Broadway drama, King Hedley II. Davis won her first Tony Award for the performance in 2001, and she followed that up with a part during off-play Intimate Apparel in 2004.
• In the same year, she made her cinematic debut in the movie The Substance of Fire, in which she played a minor role.
• Davis then earned a tiny role in Out of Sight, directed by Steven Soderbergh, in 1998.
• Davis starred alongside Phylicia Rashad in the Off-Broadway drama Everybody’s Ruby in 1999, which was based on the investigative process of a crime by writer Zora Neale Hurston.
• Before landing a continuing role of the nurse on producer Steven Bochco’s medical drama film City of Angels in 2000, she had a number of television guest cameos.
• The next year, Davis appeared on Broadway in another Wilson drama, King Hedley II. Her performance of a married lady fighting for her right to have an abortion earned her a Tony Award.
• Davis was nominated for both an Academy Award and a Golden Globe award for her supporting performance in Doubt in 2008, where she played the mother of a young man possibly molested by a Roman Catholic priest.
• In with an appearance in Tyler Perry’s Madea franchise, Madea Goes to Jail, and with a guest appearance on Toni Collette’s United States of Tara in 2010, she continued to demonstrate her comedic talent.
• She also starred alongside Denzel Washington in a Broadway version of Wilson’s Fences in 2010, winning another Tony Award for her depiction of the distressed Rose.
• Davis received Oscar and Golden Globe nominations for her portrayal of a reticent maid during the start of the American civil rights movements in the 2011film The Help.
• In the same year, she played a compassionate stranger who attempts to help a little child who has lost his father in the 9/11 attacks in the movie Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close 2011, a movie version of Jonathan Safran Foer’s novel.
• In 2012 Viola starred in Won’t Back Down, a film about disputes in American public education,
• In 2013 she performed in two films, Prisonerswhich was a crime thriller about missing children, and Ender’s Game, a science-fiction adventure film.
• In 2014 Davis appeared in the biopic drama Get On Up, as the mother of soul musician James Brown, and in the romance drama The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby in a supporting role as a college lecturer.
• From 2014 to 2020, she subsequently went on to act as a law professor in the television drama series How to Get Away with Murder, for which she received an Emmy Award in 2015.
• In the 2016 comic book adaption Suicide Squad, she led a band of supervillains as ruthless government officer Amanda Waller, and she repeated the character in The Suicide Squad in 2021.
• Davis and Washington reunited for the 2016 film version of Fences, which he also directed. Davis received an Academy Award and a Golden Globe Award for her role in the film. As a result, she made history by becoming the first black female winner of an Oscar, an Emmy, and a Tony Award for acting.
• In 2018 Davis subsequently won praise for her role in Widows, a heist thriller that went beyond the genre to tell a nuanced story about race, class, and gender.
• Her performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in 2020, an adaption of Wilson’s play about the iconic blues singer, garnered her even more accolades, including an Oscar nomination.

Facts

• Viola Davis has made a significant contribution to her hometown of Central Falls, Rhode Island. She established a community health clinic in Central Falls in 2016.
• She has also made significant contributions to the city’s libraries and the Central Falls High School.
• Davis is one of just two African American women to be nominated for both Lead and Supporting Actress at the Academy Awards.
• Davis’ first credited film appearance was in The Substance of Fire, which was released in 1996.
• Davis received her debut Oscar nomination for her role in Doubt, even though she had only one line.
• Davis and her husband, Julius Tennon, adopt Genesis Tennon, a baby daughter, in 2011.
• In the film Get on Up, Davis and her daughter Genesis co-starred.
• In 2012, Glamour magazine named her the Film Actress of the Year and one of the 100 Most Influential People in the World by Time magazine.
• Davis gave approximately $5 million to Hunger Is in 2015.

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