Age: 61
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
Amanda Waller
for Amanda Waller in The Suicide Squad
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The Suicide Squad follows Amanda Waller as she assembles two teams of imprisoned metahumans for Task Force X and sends them to the unstable island nation of Corto Maltese. Their mission is to destroy Jötunheim, a Nazi-era laboratory containing the mysterious Project Starfish. Among the team are Bloodsport, Peacemaker, Ratcatcher 2, King Shark, Polka-Dot Man, Harley Quinn, Colonel Rick Flag, and Captain Boomerang. The mission quickly becomes a bloodbath, with Waller treating the operatives as expendable assets. After surviving the initial assault, Flag's team reunites with Bloodsport's group. They discover that Project Starfish is actually a gigantic alien creature called Starro the Conqueror, which has been used in experiments on humans. They also learn that the American government has secretly supported the project and wants the evidence destroyed. The team's divisions eventually explode when Flag obtains a drive containing proof of the government's involvement. Peacemaker reveals that Waller ordered him to destroy the evidence, leading to a confrontation between him and Flag. Despite being allies, Peacemaker kills Rick Flag to complete his mission. When Starro escapes and begins attacking Corto Maltese, the surviving Squad members turn against Waller's orders and fight together. Ratcatcher 2 inspires them to stand against Starro, while Bloodsport delivers the killing shot. Afterward, Bloodsport forces Waller to release the surviving members by threatening to expose the government's involvement.
