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.
Viola Davis
Capt. Thelma Harris
for Capt. Thelma Harris in Police Academy (2025)
Suggested by mattjohn87
In a city plagued by never-ending crime, the mayor and local council are determined to hire more police officers to keep the streets safe. To achieve this, they decide to hold a contest between two police academies to determine which one will remain open and continue training new recruits. Commandant Eleanor Mauser (Sandra Oh) runs one of the academies with the help of her two sidekicks: the bumbling yet sweet Lt. Claire Proctor (Awkwafina) and the competent and grounded Stg. Josie Garcia (Jenna Ortega). Mauser is determined to keep her academy open and will do anything to win the contest, including recruiting as many cadets as possible. Cadet Shoko Nogata (Karen Fukuhara) initially enrolls at Mauser's academy but feels out of place due to the rigid environment. Seeking a more supportive and relaxed atmosphere, she decides to transfer to Lassard's academy. Despite Mauser and Garcia's efforts to retain her, Shoko's decision is respected by Proctor, who becomes her friend. As the contest heats up, Mauser and Garcia go to great lengths to win, while Lassard's cadets put in their best efforts to keep their academy in business. The competition is fierce, but the cadets learn valuable lessons about teamwork, respect, and the true meaning of being a police officer.
