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Viola Davis
11 August 1965
Viola Davis played in 16 movies in the Comedy, Romance, Drama, Music, Mystery, Sci-Fi, Biography, Crime, Music, Thriller, Action, Reality-TV genres.
Viola Davis got succeed with average imdb rating 6.5.
Won the 2001 Tony Award for Finest Featured Actress in a Play for the August Wilson play "Crowned head Hedley II" which featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, and theatre veteran Charles Brown.
Graduated from Juilliard
Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Prize as Best Actress (Featured Role - Drama) for August Wilson's "Regent Hedley II." She had earlier been nominated in the constant category in 1996 in place of another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars."
Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Band Award in place of "Intimate Clothing" in 2004.
... She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.
Attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.
Grew up in Significant Falls, Rhode Island.
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