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.
Mari McCabe is a successful fashion designer in Detroit, but she harbors a secret: she is the guardian of the Tantu Totem—a magical family heirloom passed down through generations that grants its wearer the powers of any animal in the earthly kingdom. After a brief, chaotic mission with the Suicide Squad in Quebec (where they took down Queen Bee), Mari returned to her civilian life, trying to put the world of violence behind her. However, when a metahuman mercenary begins hunting her down, Mari is forced to use the totem once more and engage in battle while investigating the true motive behind the attack. She is shocked to discover that the person who sent Mark Richards after her was her own uncle, Mustapha Maksai—the man responsible for her father's death. Vixen pursues him seeking revenge but ultimately holds back, choosing instead to follow a different path: the path of a hero. In the end, Amanda Waller contacts Mari, promising to assist with her personal journey in Zimbabwe if she helps with Task Force X; Mari refuses, knowing the kind of dirty work Waller is involved in. We learn why Maksai came after the totem: in his quest for power, he had been cursed to transform into an uncontrollable humanoid bull, and he believed the totem could help him manage the curse.
