Age: 60
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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.
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En una pequeña ciudad de los Estados Unidos, Laura Carter enfrenta una encrucijada desgarradora: con dos hijas pequeñas y sin recursos, toma la agonizante decisión de vender a la menor, Emma, a cambio de comida y refugio para su otra hija, Lily. Emma es adoptada y rebautizada como Avery Mackenna, mientras que Lily crece relegada y marcada por la culpa de haber perdido a su hermana. Veinte años después, el destino interviene: un exitoso empresario decide abrir un restaurante en el barrio modesto donde vive Lily, y sorprendentemente nombra al local en honor a Avery, sin saber que están separadas por un secreto devastador. Al dirigir ese restaurante, Avery regresa al mundo que su madre dejó para siempre, reactivando traumas y rivalidades latentes. Sin conocer su vínculo sanguíneo, ambas hermanas se encuentran como extrañas cuyas vidas pronto se entrelazan de forma peligrosa. El conflicto se intensifica cuando ambas se enamoran del mismo hombre, Thomas Vale, un exitoso ejecutivo que trabaja para el padre adoptivo de Avery. En una red de engaños, secretos enterrados y confrontaciones inevitables, Laura deberá elegir entre proteger a una hija o a otra —sin revelar la verdad que podría destruirlas a todas. Entre amores prohibidos, identidades robadas y dilemas morales, “Hidden Lies” es una saga de traición, redención y revelaciones que demostrarán que algunos secretos están destinados a destruir aquello que más amas.
