Viola Davis
Viola Davis has appeared in 47 movies on CringeMDb. 18 contain sex scenes, nudity or sexual violence, and 29 do not.
- Most recent parent-safe movie: Kung Fu Panda 4 (2024)
- Most recent with adult content: The Woman King (2022)
Born August 11, 1965 · Known for acting
38.3% Featured Movie Cringe Score (47 movies)
Viola Davis Movie Credits
Certified Parent-Safe
World Trade Center
...as Mother in Hospital
Disturbia
...as Detective Parker
The Pentagon Wars
...as Sgt. Fanning
Nights in Rodanthe
...as Jean
Doubt
...as Mrs. Miller
Knight and Day
...as CIA Director Isabel George
Ender's Game
...as Major Gwen Anderson
The Help
...as Aibileen Clark
Won't Back Down
...as Nona Alberts
Prisoners
...as Nancy Birch
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
...as Professor Lillian Friedman
Blackhat
...as Carol Barrett
The Substance of Fire
...as Nurse
Air
...as Deloris Jordan
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
...as Professor Lillian Friedman
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
...as Abby Black
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
...as Professor Lillian Friedman
Black Adam
...as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
...as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
Kung Fu Panda 4
...as The Chameleon (voice)
Suicide Squad
...as Amanda Waller
Lila & Eve
...as Lila Walcott
Giving Voice
...as Self
Fences
...as Rose Maxson
Out of Sight
...as Moselle
Antwone Fisher
...as Eva May
Syriana
...as CIA Chairwoman
The Unforgivable
...as Liz Ingram
Portrait of an Artist: Stephen Curry
...as Self
Certified Cringeworthy
Solaris
...as Gordon
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
...as Grandma
Far from Heaven
...as Sybil
Law Abiding Citizen
...as Mayor April Henry
Stone Cold
...as Molly Crane
Madea Goes to Jail
...as Ellen
Eat Pray Love
...as Delia Shiraz
State of Play
...as Dr. Judith Franklin
The Shrink Is In
...as Robin
Beautiful Creatures
...as Amma Treadeau
Get On Up
...as Susie Brown
The Architect
...as Tonya Neely
It's Kind of a Funny Story
...as Eden Minerva
Ocean's Eleven
...as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
Traffic
...as Social Worker
The Suicide Squad
...as Amanda Waller
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
...as Ma Rainey
The Woman King
...as Nanisca
About Viola Davis
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 graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010).
She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Davis joined the DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). She has also starred in the crime drama Widows(2018), and historical action film The Woman King (2022).
Davis and her husband are founders of the production company JuVee Productions, and she is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support for human rights and women of color. She became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me won her the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording.
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