Viola Davis Filmography

Occupation:: Actor
Biography:: A graduate of the Juilliard School, Viola Davis built an exceptional background in theater productions and has continued to perform on-stage throughout her television and film career. Making her feature-film debut in 1996 as a nurse in The Substance of Fire, she followed that up with several TV...Read More

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Doubt

Actors: Meryl Streep, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Amy Adams, Viola Davis, Alice Drummond

Synopsis: When the principal (Meryl Streep) of a Bronx Catholic High School accuses a popular priest (Philip Seymour Hoffman) of pedophilia, a young nun caught in between the feuding pair becomes hopelessly swept up in the ensuing controversy. 1964, St. Nicholas, the Bronx: The winds of change are sweeping Read More

12/12/08
Nights in Rodanthe

Actors: Richard Gere, Diane Lane, Christopher Meloni, Viola Davis, Becky Ann Baker

Synopsis: Adapted from author Nicholas Sparks' popular romance novel, director George C. Wolfe's Nights in Rodanthe tells the tale of a doctor (Richard Gere) en route to reconcile with his estranged son when his benevolent mission is sidelined upon checking into a North Carolina beach-town inn. When the Read More

9/26/08
The Andromeda Strain

Actors: Benjamin Bratt, Eric McCormack, Christa Miller, Daniel Dae Kim, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Adapted from the best-selling novel by author Michael Crichton, director Mikael Salomon's made for television mini-series follows a group of specialized scientists as they race to cure a fast-spreading plague. A U.S. military satellite has crashed near a small Utah town, unleashing a deadly Read More

2008
Disturbia

Actors: Shia LaBeouf, David Morse, Sarah Roemer, Viola Davis, Carrie-Anne Moss

Synopsis: Salton Sea director D.J. Caruso travels from the shore to the suburbs for this suspenseful tale of a high-school senior who suspects that his neighbor is a notorious serial killer. Kale (Shia LaBeouf) is a high-school senior who has yet to come to terms with the fact that his father is gone, the Read More

4/13/07
Traveler [TV Series]

Actors: Matthew Bomer, Logan Marshall-Green, Aaron Stanford, Pascale Hutton, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Another of the many serialized adventure shows created in the wake of such similar efforts as 24 and Lost, ABC's Traveler starred Matthew Bomerand and Logan Marshall-Green as Jay Burchell and Tyler Fog, a freewheeling pair of graduate students who have fallen under the spell of an inveterate--and Read More

2007
Jesse Stone: Sea Change

Actors: Tom Selleck, Viola Davis, Kohl Sudduth, Stephen McHattie, Vito Rezza

Synopsis: The fourth installment of the Jesse Stone series finds restless New England police chief Stone (Tom Selleck) fighting boredom by attempting to solve a twelve year-old cold case involving a murdered bank teller. Jesse Stone is a transplanted L.A. cop who thrived on big city adrenaline, but Read More

2007
The Architect

Actors: Anthony LaPaglia, Viola Davis, Isabella Rossellini, Hayden Panettiere, Sebastian Stan

Synopsis: Tonya Neely (Viola Davis) is a neighborhood activist on the south side of Chicago, trying to get her community to rally to tear down Eden Court, the dangerous housing project where she lives. After a family tragedy, she sent her youngest daughter, Cammie (Serena Reeder), off to live with friends Read More

12/1/06
World Trade Center

Actors: Nicolas Cage, Michael Peña, Maggie Gyllenhaal, Maria Bello, Stephen Dorff

Synopsis: Director Oliver Stone once again offers a powerful and provocative story based on real-life events in this drama. Sergeant John McLoughlin (Nicolas Cage) and William J. Jimeno (Michael Peña) were two officers assigned to New York City's Port Authority who were working their beats on a quiet day in Read More

8/9/06
Jesse Stone: Night Passage

Actors: Tom Selleck

Synopsis: Tom Selleck returns to the role of small-town police chief Jesse Stone in this prequel to the CBS TV movie Stone Cold. Having been booted from the LAPD for drunkenness (brought on by his grief over his wife's death), Stone heads to tiny Paradise, Massachussetts, where through the auspices of local Read More

2006
The Fantasia Barrino Story: Life is Not a Fairy Tale

Actors: Viola Davis, Fantasia Barrino

2006
Syriana

Actors: George Clooney, Matt Damon, Jeffrey Wright, Chris Cooper, William Hurt

Synopsis: Oil drives greed in Oscar-winning Traffic screenwriter Stephen Gaghan's labyrinthine sophomore directorial effort that traces the corruption of the global oil industry from the backrooms of Washington, D.C., to the petroleum-rich fields of the Middle East. Based in part on the writings of former Read More

11/23/05
Get Rich or Die Tryin'

Actors: Marc John Jefferies, Viola Davis, Joy Bryant, Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson

Synopsis: Hip-hop star 50 Cent makes his movie debut in this hard-edged urban drama inspired by the rapper's own life. Marcus (Curtis "50 Cent" Jackson, aka 50 Cent) grew up in a tough New York neighborhood and was left to fend for himself after the death of his mother when he was a kid. Marcus fell in with Read More

11/9/05
Jesse Stone: Stone Cold

Actors: Tom Selleck, Jane Adams, Reg Rogers, Viola Davis, Mimi Rogers

Synopsis: A tough cop must deal with some ugly crimes in a small New England town in this made-for-TV mystery. Jesse Stone (Tom Selleck) is the thick-skinned chief of police in the small town of Paradise, MA; while Stone has a good heart, he's not the sort of man who wears his emotions on his sleeve, and Read More

2005
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Birthright

Synopsis: Lea Thompson guests in this first episode of Law & Order: Special Victim Unit's sixth season as widow Michelle Osborne, who has paid a pair of private detectives to kidnap six-year-old Patty Branson (Abigail Breslin). When caught, Michelle insists that she is Patty's real mother, and that the girl Read More

2004
Law & Order: Special Victims Unit: Doubt

Synopsis: The SVU investigates when graduate student Myra Denning (Shannyn Sosamon) claims that she was raped by college advisor Ron Polikoff (Billy Campbell). A voluntary DNA exam reveals that Polikoff has indeed been intimate with Myra--but he tells a different story of their relationship, insisting that Read More

2004
Century City [TV Series]

Actors: Nestor Carbonell, Viola Davis, Hector Elizondo, Ioan Gruffudd, Kristin Lehman

2004
Antwone Fisher

Actors: Derek Luke, Joy Bryant, Denzel Washington, Salli Richardson, Earl Billings

Synopsis: The directorial debut of Academy Award-winning actor Denzel Washington, Antwone Fisher is an autobiographical drama written by the real-life Antwone Fisher. Played by newcomer Derek Luke, Antwone is a volatile young sailor in the Navy, getting into trouble for his constant fighting. When he gets Read More

1/10/03
Solaris

Actors: George Clooney, Natascha McElhone, Jeremy Davies, Viola Davis

Synopsis: A therapist travels to a distant space station to treat a group of astronauts traumatized by mysterious entities -- and ends up having to deal with an entity of his own -- in this second film version of Stanislaw Lem's philosophical sci-fi novel. Solaris stars George Clooney as Chris Kelvin, a Read More

11/27/02
Far from Heaven

Actors: Julianne Moore, Dennis Quaid, Dennis Haysbert, Patricia Clarkson, Viola Davis

Synopsis: Maverick director Todd Haynes embraces the look and feel of classic Hollywood melodramas of the 1950s in this period drama. Cathy Whitaker (Julianne Moore) and her husband, Frank (Dennis Quaid), are a seemingly perfect couple; living in a handsome suburban neighborhood in Hartford, CT, in 1957 Read More

11/8/02
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation: The Execution of Catherine Willows

Synopsis: Fifteen years after being convicted on evidence provided by then-rookie forensic specialist Catherine Willows (Marg Helgenberger), John Mathers (Victor Bevine) is scheduled to be executed for the murder of three college coeds. At the very last moment, Mathers gets a stay of execution, thanks to Read More

2002
Kate and Leopold

Actors: Meg Ryan, Hugh Jackman, Liev Schreiber, Breckin Meyer

Synopsis: Filmmaker James Mangold follows his Oscar-winning drama Girl, Interrupted (1999) with this whimsical fantasy. Meg Ryan stars as Kate McKay, a modern female executive in New York City whose drive to succeed in the cutthroat corporate world has left little time for romance. When her genius Read More

12/21/01
The Shrink Is In

Actors: Courteney Cox Arquette, David Arquette, David James Elliott, Carol Kane, Kimberley Davies

Synopsis: Richard Benjamin directs the straight-to-video romantic comedy The Shrink Is In. Courteney Cox plays Samantha Crumb, a travel writer who suffers from a long list of phobias and disorders. When her psychiatrist, Dr. Louise Rosenberg (Carol Kane), suffers a mental breakdown, Samantha gets an idea to Read More

2001
Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy and Isabelle

Actors: Elisabeth Shue, Hanna R. Hall, Martin Donovan, James Rebhorn, Conchata Ferrell

Synopsis: Executive produced by Oprah Winfrey, the made-for-TV Oprah Winfrey Presents: Amy & Isabelle was based on the bestselling 1999 novel by Elizabeth Strout. The scene is the mining town of Shirley Falls, ME; the year is 1971. Seeking escape from the iron rule of her domineering, social-climbing single Read More

2001
Traffic

Actors: Michael Douglas, Don Cheadle, Benicio Del Toro, Luis Guzman, Dennis Quaid, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Erika Christensen

Synopsis: Described by director Steven Soderbergh as "Nashville meets The French Connection," this multi-character drama explores the effects of international drug trafficking on all fronts: from their source, to the U.S. border, to the federal government, to the private lives of users. Based upon a Read More

12/27/00
Out of Sight

Actors: George Clooney, Jennifer Lopez, Ving Rhames, Don Cheadle, Dennis Farina

Synopsis: Steven Soderbergh directed this crime caper adapted from the novel by Elmore Leonard. When ex-con Jack Foley (George Clooney) robs a bank, his car goes dead, and Foley lands in a Florida prison. His escape from prison doesn't go as planned, since it's witnessed by deputy federal marshal Karen Read More

6/26/98
Grace and Glorie

Synopsis: Adapted from a play by Tom Ziegler, the made-for-TV Grace and Glorie stars Gena Rowlands and Diane Lane as the title characters. Disenchanted with her empty existence in New York City, stylish but lonely Gloria "Glorie" Greenwood heads to the country, where she becomes a hospice worker in the Read More

1998
The Substance of Fire

Actors: Ron Rifkin, Sarah Jessica Parker, Tony Goldwyn, Timothy Hutton, Ronny Graham

Synopsis: In this adaptation of a stage play by Jon Robin Baitz, a successful head of a New York publishing firm unravels after the death of his wife. Isaac Geldhart (Ron Rifkin) is a German Jewish survivor of the Holocaust who has been emotionally scarred by the traumas of his childhood, during which he Read More

1996
NYPD Blue: Moby Greg

Synopsis: The fourth season of NYPD Blue begins with a clean-and-sober Andy Sipowicz (Dennis Franz) finally coping with the death of his son Andy Jr., but obsessing over the care given his baby boy, Theo -- so much so that it seriously affects his work. On the verge of proposing to Diane Russell (Kim Delaney Read More

1996