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Viola Davis

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Viola Davis

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American actress and producer (born 1965)

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Viola Davis is an American person who began her work period in 1996. She has one child and was born on 1965-08-11. Her written works include *Corduroy takes a bow* and *Finding Me*. Davis has been recognized in the Academy Award Best Supporting Actress collection, the Time 100 collection, and the Hollywood Walk Of Fame collection.

She has expressed views on representation in the industry, stating that artists and actors of color have to alter and water themselves down for Hollywood, but she refuses to be pacified. She also noted that the only thing separating women of color from anyone else is an opportunity. Her social media presence includes 1874663 followers.

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Person · Open Library

Works
2

Top works

  • Corduroy takes a bow
  • Finding Me

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Country
US
Active from
1926-05-26
Active to
1991-09-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners
506
Total plays
1,489

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Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965)[1] is an American actress and producer. Having won an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American actor to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".[2][3] Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017.[3][2] In 2017 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[4] In 2020, The New York Times ranked Davis ninth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Cent

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

  1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

    · 2012 · cited 50,956x

  2. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

    · 1989 · cited 45,383x

  3. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

    · 2009 · cited 39,644x

  4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

    · 2000 · cited 36,858x

  5. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

    · 2003 · cited 31,009x

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Quotes

  • “It’s only been recently that I can admit that I would jump in trash bins looking for food and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry. I would fall asleep in school on a daily basis because we had nothing.”
  • “Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified.”
  • “"Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you."”
  • “Working hard is great when it’s motivated by passion and love and enthusiasm. But working hard when it’s motivated by deprivation is not pleasant.”
  • “.“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is an opportunity.””
  • ““As Black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences—experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.””

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Encyclopedic overview

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 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).

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