Viola Davis is an American actress who has received numerous accolades for her work, including an Academy Award, an Emmy Award, and a Tony Award. Davis grew up in poverty and faced numerous challenges and obstacles throughout her career, but she continued to pursue her passion for acting and eventually became one of the most respected and successful actresses in Hollywood.
Viola Davis is an Emmy, Grammy, Oscar, and Tony award-winning actress who has achieved the rarity of becoming an EGOT winner. She accomplished this feat by being the first African American woman to win an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 2015 for her portrayal of Professor Annalise Keating in the ABC series “How to Get Away with Murder”.
Early Life
Born on August 11, 1965, in St Matthews, South Carolina. She was raised by her parents Dan Davis and Mary Alice Davis who were both domestic workers. Viola attended Central Falls High School in Rhode Island and went on to study theatre at Rhode Island College before transferring to The Juilliard School where she graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 1988.
Viola Davis had a very difficult childhood. She grew up in extreme poverty and her family experienced many hardships including abuse from her father Dan Davis. Despite these adversities, Viola persevered and pursued her dreams of becoming an actress. She started off as a stage actress but ultimately made the transition to film stardom where she gained widespread recognition for roles such as Rose Maxson in “Fences” (2016).
Life’s Challenges
The success Viola has achieved proves that no matter what life throws your way you can still make something positive out of it. In 2016 she gave an emotionally charged acceptance speech at the Golden Globe Awards when accepting her Best Supporting Actress award for “Fences” where she said “You know there’s one place that all the people with their opinions and their views —and their discrimination —can not touch me— is here… And I want to thank each and every one of you here who embraced this movie which is about ordinary people having extraordinary experiences” This proves how Viola used her own life experiences to become a role model for other young women that no matter how hard life gets they can always find strength within themselves and even rise above it just like Viola did.
In addition to winning various awards throughout her career, Viola became an EGOT winner after taking home an Emmy Award in 2015 for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for How To Get Away With Murder. This made history as she became the 23rd person ever to complete this special accomplishment since its inception back in 1953; before then no African American woman had won this honor until Viola achieved it through sheer determination and hard work.
Synchronicity
It has been said that things happen when we least expect them; this could not be more true for Viola Davis who overcame adversity time after time only to eventually become a celebrated EGOT winner: something few have done throughout history and something even fewer have done as an African American woman like herself. Through sheer willpower, perseverance, and dedication – traits instilled into her by her mother – there is nothing stopping anyone from achieving great heights if they set their minds on doing so regardless of whatever challenges they might face along the way; something that Viola Davis has exemplified through her own life story as well as through many other examples during her illustrious career as an actress, producer, director, and advocate of diversity within Hollywood entertainment industry today.