Viola Davis

Highest Rated:
93% Out of Sight (1998)
Lowest Rated:
11% The Architect (2006)
Birthday:
Aug 11, 1965
Birthplace:
Not Available
Bio:
A graduate of the Juilliard School, Viola Davis built an exceptional background in theater productions and has continued to perform on-stage throughout her television and film career. Making her feature-film debut in 1996 as a nurse in The Substance of Fire, she followed that up with several TV…

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Highest Rated Movies

Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 11% - 93%
Number of Movies: 37
Box Office Since 2001: $1120.1M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 45% Beautiful Creatures
  • Amma
$19.4M
2012 46% Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
  • Abby Black
$31.8M
2012 56% Love, Marilyn
  • Actor
$7.0k
2012 Dark Girls
  • Actor
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2012 32% Won't Back Down
  • Nona
$5.3M
2011 76% The Help
  • Aibileen
$169.7M
2010 58% It's Kind of a Funny Story
  • Dr. Minerva
$6.4M
2010 37% Eat Pray Love
  • Deila Shiraz
$80.6M
2010 78% Trust
  • Gail Friedman
$0.1M
2010 52% Knight & Day
  • Director George
$76.4M
2009 84% State of Play
  • Dr. Judith Franklin
$37.0M
2009 25% Law Abiding Citizen
  • Mayor April Henry
$73.3M
2009 29% Madea Goes to Jail
  • Ellen
$90.5M
2008 The Andromeda Strain
  • Actor
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2008 30% Nights in Rodanthe
  • Jean
$41.8M
2008 78% Doubt
  • Mrs. Miller
$33.4M
2007 Jesse Stone: Sea Change
  • Actor
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2007 68% Disturbia
  • Detective Parker
$80.1M
2006 Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
  • Actor
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2006 Jesse Stone: Night Passage
  • Molly Crane
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2006 Life Is Not a Fairytale: The Fantasia Barrino Story
  • Diane Barrino
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2006 68% World Trade Center
  • Actor
$70.2M
2006 11% The Architect
  • Tonya Neely
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2005 Stone Cold
  • Molly Crane
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2005 16% Get Rich or Die Tryin'
  • Grandma
$30.9M
2005 72% Syriana
  • Marilyn Richards
$50.8M
2002 79% Antwone Fisher
  • Eva
$20.8M
2002 89% Far From Heaven
  • Sybil
$15.8M
2002 66% Solaris
  • Dr. Helen Gordon
$14.8M
2001 50% Kate & Leopold
  • Policewoman
$47.1M
2001 The Shrink is In
  • Robin
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2001 Amy & Isabelle
  • Dottie
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2000 92% Traffic
  • Actor
$123.8M
1998 The Pentagon Wars
  • Actor
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1998 93% Out of Sight
  • Actor
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1998 Grace and Glorie
  • Rosemary Albrights
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1996 60% The Substance of Fire
  • Actor
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Quotes from Viola Davis's Characters

    1. Amma: Close your eyes, say with your mind what you're lookin' for as if you've already found it.
    From Beautiful Creatures. Submitted by Alyssa B (12 days ago)
    1. Amma: God gives us what we can handle, even if we don't believe it ourselves.
    From Beautiful Creatures. Submitted by April C (2 months ago)
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