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Viola Davis


Born
in St. Matthews, South Carolina, The United States
August 11, 1965

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Viola Davis is an internationally acclaimed actress, producer, New York Times bestselling author, and EGOT winner—only the fourth person to achieve this distinction exclusively through performance-based awards. She is the cofounder of JVL Media, a full-service production and media packaging firm and independent publisher.

Davis is known for her exceptional performances, including her Emmy-winning role in television’s How to Get Away with Murder; her Academy Award–nominated performances in Doubt, The Help, and Fences (for which she won the Oscar); her Screen Actors Guild Award–winning performance in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom; and her Tony Award–winning performances in Fences and King Hedley II. She also won a Grammy for Best Audio Book, Narra ...more

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Finding Me
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Judge Stone
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Just as I Am
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Corduroy Lost and Found
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The Best-Loved Poems of Jac...
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What Makes a Marriage Last:...
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Corduroy Takes a Bow
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“My biggest discovery was that you can literally re-create your life. You can redefine it. You don’t have to live in the past. I found that not only did I have fight in me, I had love.”
― Viola Davis, Finding Me
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“Memories are immortal. They’re deathless and precise. They have the power of giving you joy and perspective in hard times. Or, they can strangle you. Define you in a way that’s based more in other people’s tucked-up perceptions than truth.”
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“Forgiveness is giving up all hope of a different past. They tell you successful therapy is when you have the big discovery that your parents did the best they could with what they were given.”
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