Viola Davis's Net Worth

Viola Davis’s Net Worth. On August 11th, 1965, in St. Matthews, South Carolina, Viola Davis was born. Despite being raised on a farm, Davis’ family relocated to Rhode Island when she was barely two months old.

Viola Davis Career

Viola Davis made her Broadway debut in Joe Turner’s ‘Come and Gone’ in 1988. In ‘The Substance of Fire,’ she also played a nurse. Her film debut was ‘The Substance of Fire,’ following which she received her Screen Actors Guild card.

She appeared in Steven Soderbergh’s ‘Out of Sight’ in 1998.

In the play ‘King Hedley II,’ she played a lady fighting for the right to terminate her pregnancy in 2001. Davis received a ‘Tony Award’ for her performance in this Broadway production.

Davis has appeared in a number of television shows. One of her most prominent performances was as a serial murderer in the television program ‘Law & Order: Criminal Intent’ episode named ‘Badge.’

This African-American beauty captured the attention of reviewers in 2002 when she was featured in ‘Antwone Fisher.’ She had few words in this picture, but her presence was felt.

Davis’s career took off in 2008 when she played ‘Mrs. Miller,’ the mother of a youngster who is suspected of be ing abused by a priest, in the film adaption of the Broadway play ‘Doubt.’

In August Wilson’s ‘Fences,’ Viola Davis returned to the stage in 2010 and produced another show-stopping performance.

She starred in the film version of Kathryn Stockett’s best-selling book ‘The Help’ in 2011. The racial rift between the white women and their black maids was underlined in this video.

She collaborated with filmmaker Tate Taylor in ‘Get on Up,’ a biography of musician James Brown, in 2014. She portrayed the singer’s mother in the film. The same year, she was cast in ‘How to Get Away with Murder’ as ‘Professor Annalise Keating.’

She appears in a number of films between 2015 and 2019, including ‘Blackhat,’ ‘Custody,’ ‘Suicide Squad,’ ‘Widows,’ and ‘Troop Zero.’

Viola Davis starred in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom in 2020, and her performance earned her an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress.