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.
The movie begins with a bright star shining in the Louisiana sky. We hear the voice of Tristan singing, telling us that anything is possible if you wish upon the evening star. We are then taken to the very pink and frilly bedroom of young Charles La Bouff, who is sitting beside a young Tristan as they listen to Tristan's carpenter father, Eric tells the tale of the Frog Princess as he puts the finishing touches on a toy for Charles. Charles is entranced by the story while Tristan is clearly disgusted and vows never to kiss a frog. Charles then puts a frog mask on White Kitten and starts pushing it in Tristan's face. But when Charles starts kissing the white kitten, it jumps up and gets stuck on the ceiling. Eric then gets it off the ceiling and takes the mask off the horrified white kitten. Charles's mother, "Big Mommy" La Bouff arrives home with a new puppy for her spoiled son while Eric and Tristan head home. We quickly learn that Tristan and his friend Charles are definitely from two different worlds as the young boy and his father head home to their tiny shack where Tristan's mother, Jennifer, waits for them. Tristan and his mother laugh together as they whip up a batch of her famous gumbo and talk about their shared dream of one day opening a restaurant.
