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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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Lone Wolf — Chapter One: A Reckoning (also known as just Lone Wolf — A Reckoning), is a 2025 American Western film written, co-produced, and directed by Denis Villeneuve. Produced by Legendary Pictures and The Stone Quarry and distributed by Lionsgate Films, it is the first installment in the Lone Wolf franchise. Starring Cara Delevingne as Harley Stone, the film co-stars an ensemble cast that includes Emma Roberts, Michael Shannon, Scott Eastwood, Diane Lane, Viola Davis, Don Johnson, Ethan Hawke, Jeff Bridges, and Samuel L. Jackson. Set in 1875 Nevada, Harley Stone returns to Reno, her hometown, to discover the whereabouts of her father's murderer, and reunites with her childhood best friend in the process while also allying with Reno's marshall and its sheriff to complete her revenge. Lone Wolf — Chapter One: A Reckoning had its world premiere at the 82nd Venice International Film Festival on November 14th, 2025, and opened in theaters on December 12th. The film received generally positive reviews, with praise for the story, visuals, direction, action sequences, Hans Zimmer's musical score, Delevingne's performance, screenplay, themes, and emotional weight, but criticism for its long running time of 190 minutes. It was also a box-office success, earning $945 million worldwide and becoming the fourth-highest-grossing Western film of all time and the highest-grossing Western film to be rated PG-13. A sequel is in development.
