Age: 60
female
Viola Davis (/vaɪˈoʊlə/ vy-OH-lə; born August 11, 1965) is an American actress and film producer. Her accolades include both the Triple Crown of Acting and EGOT. Time named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century (2020). Davis received the Cecil B. DeMille Award in 2025. A graduate of Juilliard, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small stage productions. She made her Broadway debut in the August Wilson play Seven Guitars (1996) for which she earned her first Tony nomination. She would later win two Tony Awards, both for Wilson plays. Her first win was for Best Featured Actress in a Play playing the titular character Tonya, a woman grappling with trauma and loss in King Hedley II (2001), followed by her second win for Best Actress in a Play playing Rose Maxson, a working class mother in Fences (2010). She won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for reprising her role in the 2016 film adaptation of Fences. She was Oscar-nominated for playing a complex mother in Doubt (2008), a 1960s housemaid in The Help (2011) and Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom (2020). On television, she became the first black actress to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series for her role as lawyer Annalise Keating in the ABC legal drama series How to Get Away with Murder (2014–2020). Davis joined the DCEU playing Amanda Waller starting with Suicide Squad (2016). She has also starred in the crime drama Widows(2018), and historical action film The Woman King (2022). Davis and her husband are founders of the production company JuVee Productions, and she is also widely recognized for her advocacy and support for human rights and women of color. She became a L'Oréal Paris ambassador in 2019. The audiobook narration of her 2022 memoir Finding Me won her the Grammy Award for Best Audio Book, Narration & Storytelling Recording. Description above from the Wikipedia article Viola Davis, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Five years have passed since the Bat-Signal last lit up the clouds of Gotham. In the wake of a devastating tragedy that shattered the Bat-family, Bruce Wayne has become a ghost, a recluse haunted by a past he cannot outrun. But the city has grown darker in his absence. Under the cold grip of A.R.G.U.S., the infamous Arkham district has been walled off, turned into "Arkham State'', a sovereign military zone ruled by the iron fist of Dr. Hugo Strange. Strange’s mandate is simple: total containment. But rumors of "Protocol 10" and horrific biological experiments suggest a much more sinister agenda. When a classified leak reveals a personal connection to Bruce’s past trapped within the walls, the Dark Knight is forced to don the cowl once more. The film plunges the audience in media res into the snowy, blood-soaked streets of the walled-off city. Batman is already inside, and he isn't alone. In a move that defies every moral code he once held, he has liberated The Joker. Told through a fragmented, non-linear narrative, the audience must piece together why Batman has chosen to work with his greatest enemy. As the "Deadly Duo" carves a path through Strange’s private army and the grotesque "Monster Men" stalking the ruins, the Joker plays a sadistic game of psychological warfare, peeling back the layers of Bruce’s trauma. In this claustrophobic descent into madness, the mission is clear: find the heart of Strange’s operation and shut it down. But in a city built on secrets and fueled by vengeance, the greatest threat isn't the monsters behind the glass, it's the fragile bond between two enemies who have nothing left to lose.
