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  2. Known for her roles on stage and screen, she is one of the few performers to have won the four major American entertainment awards (EGOT), having won an Academy Award, a Emmy Award, a Grammy Award, and two Tony Awards.

    Year
    Category
    Work
    Result
    2020
    Best Actress
    Won
    Best Supporting Actress
    Won
    Best Actress
    Won
    Best Ensemble [a]
    Won
  3. 2022 Winner Pioneer Award. The Woman King. This year's BFCC Pioneer Award is given to Viola Davis who, to quote BFCC Member K.A. GRANT (KAGrant.com), "The Woman King was truly a labor of love for her as a producer and as an actress.

  4. Apr 25, 2021 · Davis is also the first African-American five Screen Actors Guild Awards and the only Black female to take home an Emmy for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series.

    • Tamara Grant
    • Writer-TV
  5. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › Viola_DavisViola Davis - Wikipedia

    For her stage work, Davis has won two Tony Awards, three Drama Desk Awards, an Obie Award, and a Theater World Award. She holds the distinction of becoming the first actress of color to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series .

  6. Apr 2, 2014 · She has won Tony Awards for her performances in King Hedley II (2001) and a revival of August Wilson 's Fences (2010), which co-starred Denzel Washington. Her film work includes Doubt (2008),...

  7. Celebrated actress Viola Davis portrays alluring, tough and morally compromised law professor Annalise Keating in the ABC legal thriller How to Get Away with Murder. The two-time Tony winner and two-time Oscar nominee is widely recognized for her work in such notable films as The Help and Doubt.

  8. Viola Sophie Davis is an American actress. Beginning her career on the stage, Davis won a Tony and a Drama Desk Award for her role in August Wilson's King Hedley II. She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel, followed by a second Tony and a third Drama Desk Award for her role in Fences.