She won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the August Wilson play "King Hedley II" which featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, and theatre veteran Charles Brown.
She graduated from Juilliard
She won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for August Wilson's "King Hedley II." She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1996 for another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars."
She won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" in 2004.
She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.
She attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.
She grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island.
Viola Davis Detailed Biography -
Viola Davis is an African American actress, born on August 11th, 1965 in St. Matthews, South Carolina, USA. Davis is mostly known as a television and theatre actress. In 2001, she was awarded the Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play for her work in King Hedley II
Davis is currently playing Agent Jan Marlow in the ABC television series Traveler.
