Viola Davis Movies

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Viola Davis (1965-) is an Oscar® winning American actress and producer.  Davis is the first black thespian to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting.  She has won an Academy Award®, an Emmy Award®, and two Tony Awards® . Her IMDb page shows over 84 acting credits since 1996.  This page will rank Viola Davis movies from Best to Worst in six different sortable columns of information. Television shows, movies that were not released in North American theaters were not included in the rankings.  To do well in our overall rankings a movie has to do well at the box office, get good reviews by critics, be liked by audiences and get some award recognition.

2008’s Doubt

Viola Davis Movies Ranked In Chronological Order With Ultimate Movie Rankings Score (1 to 5 UMR Tickets) *Best combo of box office, reviews and awards.

2016’s Suicide Squad

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2011’s The Help

Best IMDb Trivia On Viola Davis

1. Viola Davis was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, in 1965.

2.  Viola Davis began her acting career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, starring in minor theater productions.

3.  Viola Davis counts Cicely Tyson’s Emmy®-winning performance in The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman (1974) as a pivotal moment in her life when she ultimately understood how acting could be such a transformative craft.

4. Viola Davis Is one of five actresses to receive an Oscar® nomination for a performance with less than 10 minutes of screen time.

5. Viola Davis  has appeared in four films that were nominated for the Best Picture Oscar®: Traffic (2000), Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close (2011), The Help (2011) and Fences (2016).

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  2. See that picture you have there of Viola and Meryl Streep from Doubt, that’s in the Parkchester section of the Bronx, a few blocks from I where I grew up. The front of the church and the school and the lines down the block in the film are Beach Avenue and St. Lawrence Ave and the church is St. Anthony’s (the interior of the church was shot in another parish in Westchester County). I went to that school for 4 years. John Patrick Shanley who wrote the show and the film’s screenplay also attended there. 20 years previous he wrote the movie Five Corners with Jodie Foster, Tim Robbins and John Turtorro set in that neighborhood but it didn’t look like the neighborhood he grew up in so he filmed it in Astoria, Queens. 20 years later it looked like he remembered it!!!

    Did you know there were 3 St. Anthony’s schools in the Bronx, the one on the west side of the borough counted Helen Kane (the original Betty Boop) and Eleanor Geisman aka June Allyson as alumni, but I digress.

    Viola fell of the Oracle of Bacon list when it went to Wikipedia. These are the actors on the list she has appeared with.

    3 CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Syriana (2005)
    7 HARRISON FORD Ender’s Game (2013)
    11 SAMUEL L. JACKSON Out of Sight (1998)
    13 BEN KINGSLEY Ender’s Game (2013)
    40 ROBERT DUVALL WIDOWS (2018)
    58 HELEN MIRREN State of Play (2009)
    82 LIAM NEESON WIDOWS (2018)
    83 RICHARD JENKINS Eat Pray Love (2010)
    98 JOHN GOODMAN Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    113 JULIA ROBERTS EAT PRAY LOVE (2010)
    126 SCOTT GLENN Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
    145 DAN AYKROYD GET ON UP (2014)
    151 BRAD PITT Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    152 JEREMY IRONS Beautiful Creatures (2013)
    157 MATT DAMON Syriana (2005)
    159 DENNIS QUAID Far from Heaven (2002)
    159 DENNIS QUAID Traffic (2000)
    161 NICOLAS CAGE World Trade Center (2006)
    163 JAMES CROMWELL Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    171 LIEV SCHREIBER Kate & Leopold (2001)
    173 TOM HANKS Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    173 TOM HANKS Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
    186 MICHAEL DOUGLAS Traffic (2000)
    210 BRUCE MCGILL Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
    226 RICHARD GERE Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
    237 MERYL STREEP Doubt (2008/I)
    246 WILLIAM HURT Syriana (2005)
    246 WILLIAM HURT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (2014)
    249 TOM CRUISE Knight and Day (2010)
    253 VING RHAMES Out of Sight (1998)
    253 VING RHAMES Won’t Back Down (2012)
    268 CAROL KANE The Shrink Is In (2001)
    272 DENZEL WASHINGTON Antwone Fisher (2002)
    272 DENZEL WASHINGTON FENCES (2016)
    275 PAUL GIAMATTI Love, Marilyn (2012)
    284 JULIANNE MOORE Far from Heaven (2002)
    293 ALLISON JANNEY GET ON UP (2014)
    293 ALLISON JANNEY THE HELP (2011)
    293 ALLISON JANNEY TROOP ZERO (2020)
    304 MARY STEENBURGEN The Help (2011)
    315 MARK STRONG SYRIANA (2005)
    316 GERARD BUTLER Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
    324 UMA THURMAN Love, Marilyn (2012)
    325 ALBERT FINNEY Traffic (2000)
    338 TOMAS MILIAN Traffic (2000)
    343 JON POLITO The Shrink Is In (2001)
    347 DIANE LANE Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
    358 CIARAN HINDS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM (2013)
    358 CIARAN HINDS THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (2014)
    363 PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Doubt (2008/I)
    366 ISABELLE HUPPERT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (2014)
    369 RON RIFKIN THE SUBSTANCE OF FIRE (1996)
    377 JEFF DANIELS State of Play (2009)
    398 MICHAEL SHANNON Touch of Evil (2011)
    398 MICHAEL SHANNON World Trade Center (2006)
    407 JOHN ORTIZ BLACKHAT (2015)
    426 LUIS GUZMAN Out of Sight (1998)
    426 LUIS GUZMAN Traffic (2000)
    429 DON CHEADLE Out of Sight (1998)
    429 DON CHEADLE Traffic (2000)
    433 JAMES BROLIN Antwone Fisher (2002)
    433 JAMES BROLIN Traffic (2000)
    450 KEVIN BACON Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    482 JOHN C. MCGINLEY World Trade Center (2006)
    490 DALE DYE Knight and Day (2010)
    494 STEPHEN DORFF World Trade Center (2006)
    505 ELIJAH WOOD Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    520 SHEA WHIGHAM LILA & EVE (2015)
    545 ISABELLA ROSSELLINI The Architect (2006)
    550 JAMES REBHORN Far from Heaven (2002)
    552 GEORGE CLOONEY Out of Sight (1998)
    552 GEORGE CLOONEY Solaris (2002)
    552 GEORGE CLOONEY Syriana (2005)
    552 GEORGE CLOONEY Touch of Evil (2011)
    561 HOLLY HUNTER WON’T BACK DOWN (2012)
    590 BEN AFFLECK State of Play (2009)
    590 BEN AFFLECK SUICIDE SQUAD (2016)
    603 JEFFREY WRIGHT Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
    603 JEFFREY WRIGHT SYRIANA (2005)
    622 BLYTHE DANNER BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (2009)
    638 SALMA HAYEK Traffic (2000)
    640 MELISSA LEO PRISONERS (2013)
    649 BENICIO DEL TORO Traffic (2000)
    662 CLIVE OWEN Trust (2010/I)
    668 MYKELTI WILLIAMSON GET RICH OR DIE TRYIN’ (2005)
    706 RICHARD PORTNOW Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
    707 COLIN FARRELL WIDOWS (2018)
    719 WALTON GOGGINS THE ARCHITECT (2006)
    731 BRADLEY WHITFORD KATE & LEOPOLD (2001)
    756 TIMOTHY HUTTON The Substance of Fire (1996)
    761 JAMES FRANCO Eat Pray Love (2010)
    761 JAMES FRANCO Nights in Rodanthe (2008)
    765 COLM MEANEY Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
    774 CAMERON DIAZ Knight and Day (2010)
    778 SANDRA BULLOCK Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
    791 EMMA THOMPSON Beautiful Creatures (2013)
    806 TIM BLAKE NELSON SYRIANA (2005)
    813 DAVID MORSE DISTURBIA (2007)
    826 MICHAEL PENA WORLD TRADE CENTER (2006)
    842 DENNIS HAYSBERT FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
    843 CHRIS COOPER Syriana (2005)
    873 MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL Won’t Back Down (2012)
    873 MAGGIE GYLLENHAAL World Trade Center (2006)
    875 PATRICIA CLARKSON BEYOND ALL BOUNDARIES (2009)
    875 PATRICIA CLARKSON FAR FROM HEAVEN (2002)
    880 SARAH JESSICA PARKER The Substance of Fire (1996)
    886 STEPHEN LANG LOVE, MARILYN (2012)
    915 DAVID ARQUETTE THE SHRINK IS IN (2001)
    924 AMY ADAMS Doubt (2008/I)
    929 CATHERINE KEENER Out of Sight (1998)
    929 CATHERINE KEENER Trust (2010/I)
    932 MICHAEL KEATON Out of Sight (1998)
    933 JAMES MCAVOY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HER (2013)
    933 JAMES MCAVOY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: HIM (2013)
    933 JAMES MCAVOY THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (2014)
    954 RUSSELL CROWE State of Play (2009)
    975 LEE GRANT The Substance of Fire (1996)
    981 EILEEN ATKINS BEAUTIFUL CREATURES (2013)
    HM (816) MICHAEL KELLY LAW ABIDING CITIZEN (2009)

    Viola has appeared with 31 Oscar winners.

    ALLISON JANNEY GET ON UP (2014)
    ALLISON JANNEY THE HELP (2011)
    ALLISON JANNEY TROOP ZERO (2020)
    BEN KINGSLEY Ender’s Game (2013)
    BENICIO DEL TORO Traffic (2000)
    BRAD PITT Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    CATHERINE ZETA-JONES Traffic (2000)
    CHRIS COOPER Syriana (2005)
    CHRISTOPHER PLUMMER Syriana (2005)
    DENZEL WASHINGTON Antwone Fisher (2002)
    DENZEL WASHINGTON FENCES (2016)
    EMMA STONE THE HELP (2011)
    EMMA THOMPSON Beautiful Creatures (2013)
    GEORGE CLOONEY Out of Sight (1998)
    GEORGE CLOONEY Solaris (2002)
    GEORGE CLOONEY Syriana (2005)
    GEORGE CLOONEY Touch of Evil (2011)
    HELEN MIRREN State of Play (2009)
    HOLLY HUNTER WON’T BACK DOWN (2012)
    JAMIE FOXX Law Abiding Citizen (2009)
    JAVIER BARDEM EAT PRAY LOVE (2010)
    JEREMY IRONS Beautiful Creatures (2013)
    JULIA ROBERTS EAT PRAY LOVE (2010)
    JULIANNE MOORE Far from Heaven (2002)
    LEE GRANT The Substance of Fire (1996)
    MARY STEENBURGEN The Help (2011)
    MELISSA LEO PRISONERS (2013)
    MERYL STREEP Doubt (2008/I)
    MICHAEL DOUGLAS Traffic (2000)
    NICOLAS CAGE World Trade Center (2006)
    OCTAVIA SPENCER GET ON UP (2014)
    OCTAVIA SPENCER THE HELP (2011)
    PHILIP SEYMOUR HOFFMAN Doubt (2008/I)
    ROBERT DUVALL WIDOWS (2018)
    RUSSELL CROWE State of Play (2009)
    SANDRA BULLOCK Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
    TIMOTHY HUTTON The Substance of Fire (1996)
    TOM HANKS Beyond All Boundaries (2009)
    TOM HANKS Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close (2011)
    WILLIAM HURT Syriana (2005)
    WILLIAM HURT THE DISAPPEARANCE OF ELEANOR RIGBY: THEM (2014)

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  3. Viola has accumulated a net worth of $12 million according to the Celebrity net Worth site and IMDB credits her with a jaw dropping 92 acting awards and 137 noms – wow!

    And what a lady in her private life too. Not only -most importantly – does she collaborate on an ongoing basis with programs to eradicate child hunger globally; but she has contributed to the civic life of her hometown Central Falls Rhode Island by making donations to prevent the closure of the public library; and in 2018 she gave funds to her alma mater Central Falls High School for its theatre program. As a conscientious activist she was also a speaker at the 2018 Women’s March events in Los Angeles.

    In terms of both personal and professional considerations Viola is therefore a very worthy recipient of a Cogerson new page in my opinion so my personal compliments on selecting her Bruce. “Vote Up!”

    “—-everyone should be a child, and should grow up and have a chance at the American dream.” – Viola Davis.

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    1. Hey Bob….thanks for stopping by and checking out our Viola Davis page. Thanks for the stats on her acting awards and her off screen charity work. It is very very impressive information on Ms. Davis. Good quote from her. And thanks for the kind words. Another Best Supporting Actress Oscar winner completed….love my lists…lol.

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      1. As you know I have long appreciated the diversity of the profiling of your site which gives honour where honour is due to for example big stars/lesser stars/box office giants/prestige performers/supporting performers/those that have never won awards etc spread across all demographics and genres – and even including The Donald – against strong protest from some of your viewers!

        [Not everyone is capable of being as even handed as this site is. For example sadly in 1964 my own idol The Duke stormed out of an interview by domestic Brit legend the journalist and television presenter Barry Norman (“The Hollywood Greats”) because Norman said in passing that he preferred Democrat LBJ and not Republicam candidate Barry Goldwater to win the US presiential election that year The Duke took the view that Norman had “insulted a Great American.”]

        Indeed I give you a 99% rating for diversity effort and that would rise to 99.5% if Hirsch’s page was removed and up to 100% if it was replaced with Jocelyn Brando!!!

        Anyway I am pleased to see that yet again you have now given us a new page on a talented African American supporting female star who seems to have a great sense of civic and humanitarian duty.

        You really could do not do much more to bring total variety to your site in relation to the performers you select as in the case of for example European continental performers you are hindered by the general unavailability of box office stats for such thespians.

        In fact I can in all seriousness tell you that about 30 years ago when it looked as if a British tennis star would never again win Wimbledon the bookmakers over here [probably with tongue in cheek and I never found out how many takers splashed out ] were offering odds that a Martian would land on earth before a Brit won Wimbledon again!

        So given that you make commendabl efforts to be “all things to all men” I wouldn’t be surprised to read in the sports and/or entertainment pages someday something like “Cogerson goes missing AGAIN. Is he on Mars? Martian megastar to get Cogerson page – bookies slash odds from 1000/1 against to just 50/1 against.

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  4. On top of her successful film career Viola has appeared in (1) 10 stage productions between 1988 and 2010 including Fences the movie version of which she appeared in alongside Denzel Washington and won a best supporting actress Oscar and Golden Globe and BAFTA (2) 34 television productions between 1996 and 2019. She has been executive producer of 2 cinematic movies; and producer of 8 projects which are a mixture of short subjects alongside TV presentations and a theatrical play.

    She has 2 movies at post production stage including a further Suicide Squad; is filming a third; and has been announced for a 4th. She has also been announced for a TV series called First Ladies in which she is to be cast as Michelle Obama. I look forward to that one in particular.

    On the big screen my fave Viola flicks are Out of Sight/Doubt/Nights in Rodanthe/State of Play and Eat Pray Love. On television I was much entertained by her interpretation of police officer Molly Crane a subordinate of Police Chief Jesse Stone played by Tom Selleck in “Jesse Stone”; and Viola was in 4 of the 9 episodes of that excellent crime series [2006-2015]

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    1. Hey Bob…thanks for the information on her stage career and her up and coming movies. That is pretty big thinking for The Suicide Squad….not many people really enjoyed the first one….and now three more movies. We will have to see if that was a wise decision. I have seen all five of your favorite Davis movies. I liked Out of Sight. Nights in Rodanthe was filmed not too far from my location. Good info on her time on Jesse Stone. Good stuff as always.

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  5. Back in business. Our database was out of order the last four days….but it is back up and running. Luckily the database being down did not take the website with it. Happy Monday!

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