Viola Davis

Age: 44
Height: 5' 5"

Birth Place: Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Born: Aug. 11th, 1965

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Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to which she moved when she was two months old.
Inducted into The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on June 30, 2009.
Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for 'August Wilson' (qv)'s "King Hedley II." She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1996 for another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars."
She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.
Won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the 'August Wilson' (qv) play "King Hedley II" which featured 'Brian Stokes Mitchell' (qv), 'Leslie Uggams' (qv), and theatre veteran 'Charles Brown (II)' (qv).
Graduated from Juilliard
Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" in 2004.
Attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.

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