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Acting

Viola Davis

Career: Active from 1998 to 2027, busiest in 2014 with 5 main titles.

Leading roles: 30
top three billing

Average score: 62/100

Highest rated: Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
80/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 88 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Viola Davis Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Absurdist Humor
1.1, average 2.0
Uncanny
1.6, average 2.5
Fantasy
0.8, average 1.7
Physical Comedy
1.6, average 2.4

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Character-Driven 9
Moral Ambiguity 5
Visual Spectacle 4
Contemporary Realism 4
Thought-Provoking 3
Social Commentary 3
Grief & Loss 3
Biographical Drama 3
Character Study 3
Small Town Crime 3
Emotional Intensity 3
Emotional Catharsis 3

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

107

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

Upcoming

10 titles

as Ally Clark

TV show · as Catriona Vail

The Personal History of Rachel DuPree

as Rachel Dupree

I Almost Forgot About You

as Dr. Georgia Young

Operation Othello

as Narrator

The Untamed: A Sinner's Prayer

Producer

Black Boys Don't Sew

Executive Producer

Mfinda

Executive Producer

Producer

A Menina Que Voa

Production Accountant

2020s

18 titles · average score 67

G20

51

as President Danielle Sutton

Kung Fu Panda 4

62

as The Chameleon (voice)

Creature Commandos

79

TV show · as Amanda Waller (voice)

The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes

63

as Dr. Volumnia Gaul

Air

79

as Deloris Jordan

The Woman King

75

as Nanisca

The First Lady

51

TV show · as Michelle Obama

Peacemaker

81

TV show · as Amanda Waller (uncredited)

Black Adam

52

as Amanda Waller (uncredited)

The Unforgivable

55

as Liz Ingram

The Suicide Squad

77

as Amanda Waller

Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

80

as Ma Rainey

2010s

28 titles · average score 64

Troop Zero

65

as Miss Rayleen

Widows

77

as Veronica Rawlings

Fences

78

as Rose Maxson

Suicide Squad

44

as Amanda Waller

Custody

60

as Martha Schulman

How to Get Away with Murder

79

TV show · as Annalise Keating

The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her

66

as Professor Lillian Friedman

Prisoners

79

as Nancy Birch

Ender's Game

60

as Major Gwen Anderson

Won't Back Down

51

as Nona Alberts

The Help

75

as Aibileen Clark

Knight and Day

53

as CIA Director Isabel George

2000s

38 titles · average score 62

Doubt

75

as Mrs. Miller

The Andromeda Strain

48

TV show · as Dr. Charlene Barton

Nights in Rodanthe

44

as Jean

Traveler

58

TV show · as Agent Jan Marlow

Jesse Stone: Night Passage

68

as Officer Molly Crane

Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise

68

as Molly Crane

The Architect

31

as Tonya Neely

Get Rich or Die Tryin'

48

as Grandma

Century City

63

TV show · as Hannah Crane

Solaris

63

as Gordon

Far from Heaven

80

as Sybil

Antwone Fisher

71

as Eva May

1990s

11 titles · average score 72

Law & Order: Special Victims Unit

73

TV show · as Donna Emmett

Third Watch

81

TV show · as Margo Rodriguez

Judging Amy

76

TV show · as Celeste

Providence

65

TV show · as Dr. Eleanor Weiss

The Pentagon Wars

74

as Sgt. Fanning

Miss Apprehension and Squirt

as Sharon Hughes

Grace & Glorie

65

as Rosemary Allbright

Out of Sight

80

as Moselle

The Practice

76

TV show · as Aisha Crenshaw

The Substance of Fire

48

as Nurse

NYPD Blue

82

TV show · as Woman

1980s

1 title · average score 83

The Simpsons

83

TV show · as Narrator (voice)

1950s

1 title · average score 84

Hallmark Hall of Fame

84

TV show · as Rosemary Allbright