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Viola wrote this great piece for Vanity Fair about the talented Ms. Tyson whom she is not only co-stars with on HTGAWM but also her friend. With a career spanning six decades and dozens of film credits, honorary Oscar winner Cicely Tyson is a bastion of Hollywood achievement. Viola Davis looks back at a lifetime […]

The Hollywood Reporter featured Viola on the cover of their special issue that has been released! Personally I feel she is a great choice! In a candid discussion, the ‘Widows’ star — and Sherry Lansing Leadership Award honoree — reveals herself to best-selling author and leadership guru Brené Brown in a raw exchange about trauma, […]

Deadline gives us the exciting news for a new project! EXCLUSIVE: Days after Oscar winner Viola Davis and Julius Tennon’s JuVee Productions announced a first look feature production deal with Amazon Studios, the first project is moving forward: The Fighting Shirley Chisholm in which Davis will produce and star as the U.S. Representative who was […]

Shondaland.com gives us a peek at the Widows Q&A. In a post-screening Q+A, the cast and director of “Widows” talked collaboration, representation, and what they learned on set. Steve McQueen’s latest effort, “Widows,” dropped onto Must See Lists late last year with little more than the reveal of its cast. After all, who wouldn’t be […]

Success hasn’t come easy for the Oscar-winning star. She talks to Benjamin Lee about the limited roles black actors are offered, why The Help was a missed opportunity, and how she learned to take the lead – in life and on screen In the opening scene of Widows, the new thriller from artist-turned-director Steve McQueen, […]

Viola did a recent interview with the New York Times where she answers fan questions. She talks about roles that she regrets and the challenges she has faced in her career. TORONTO — The Oscar-winning actress Viola Davis is the star of the new crime drama “Widows,” which debuted here last week at the Toronto […]

Viola is featured on the newest issue of Variety magazine. She talks about her new film Widows that is premiering at the Toronto Film Festival, the Hollywood Pay Gap, and other issues that she has faced in Hollywood. It was a familiar dilemma for Viola Davis. What to do with her hair? The star of […]

I love this feature that People.com did on their site! Hopefully that means there will be a feature on Viola in their new The Beautiful Issue People issue. The Oscar winner knows that she’s fabulous — and she wants other women to know that they are, too ON HER MANTRA “My go-to saying is that […]

Variety released some clips from an interview with Viola on the red carpet of yesterday’s Power of Women New York event. On the red carpet for Variety‘s Power of Women New York event Friday, Viola Davis shared her thoughts on the #MeToo movement, its implications, and the lasting effects of sexual assault. “I think the […]

Viola Davis is speaking out about the importance of women owning who they are, imperfections and all. Speaking at the 11th Annual Women in Film Pre-Oscar Cocktail Party in Beverly Hills, California, on Friday, the How to Get Away With Murder actress — who is among the list of star-studded presenters for the 2018 Academy […]