Viola Davis an actress who won her first Oscar on Sunday, 26th February for her supporting role as a long-suffering housewife in the African-American family drama ‘Fences’.
Stargist.com presents you with 7 things about this phenomenal woman.
1 Viola was born on August 11, 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina.
2 She studied theatre at Rhode Island College, and also attended the prestigious Juilliard School in New York City
3 Viola Davies grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping that environment at that very young age.
4 Davis made her screen debut with a small role as a nurse in 1996’s The Substance of Fire.
5 In 2001, Davis appeared on Broadway in the play, ‘King Hedley II’, for which she was awarded a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play.
6 Viola Davies is the first black actress of any nationality to receive an Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for ‘How to Get Away with Murder’.
7 Davis lives in Los Angeles with her husband, actor Julius Tennon. The couple adopted a daughter, Genesis, in 2011.
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