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Viola Davis
Age: 44
Height: 5' 5"
Birth Place: Saint Matthews, South Carolina, USA
Born: Aug. 11th, 1965
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TRIVIA:
- 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).
- Attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.
- She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.
- Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to which she moved when she was two months old.
- Graduated from Juilliard
- Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" in 2004.
- 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."
- Inducted into The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on June 30, 2009.
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