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.
During an exploration in a Louisiana swamp, Jason Woodrue spots a humanoid creature. Intrigued by the discovery, Woodrue contacts his employer, Avery Sunderland. Equally intrigued, Sunderland decides to seize the creature for himself. Abby Arcane, a researcher at the CDC is investigating the presence of a virus in the swamp. Abby was investigating alongside Woodrue. However, the true reason for the research is unknown to Abby. The Sunderland Corporation and Argus initiated the investigation into the region due to the disappearance of Alec Holland, who was working on an important project related to the local fauna. The virus emerged around the same time. Abby delves into the swamp, encountering a very strange creature claiming to be Alec. A romance blossoms. After a joint effort to restore Alec's human appearance, the Sunderland Corporation manages to track down Swamp Thing and kill him. Abby escapes. Woodrue then autopsies ST and discovers that he's only superficially human. The creature was not Alec but believed to be. Woodrue concludes that the creature is still alive. He attempts to connect to the Green through ST and becomes Floronic Man. Saved by Abby, ST kills Avery Sunderland and tries to eliminate Woodrue. The latter has just wiped out an entire town in Louisiana. The final revelation is that there have been hundreds of Swamp Things throughout history, each tasked with defending the Parliament of Trees. Swamp Thing and Abby burn the remains of Holland's body.
