Celebrity Biographies
Viola Davis
It is difficult to identify Viola Davis. And whoever reads these lines doesn’t have to feel guilty, considering that to date her work has been more like that of an extra. However, the portentous scene of her dialogue with Meryl Streep in Doubt has made it clear that she can be much more than a tiny character that spices up the story.
Movies are made up of infinite details. All together they are the ones who manage to give the film the most outstanding qualifiers. They all matter equally, and serve to shape that everything that reaches the viewers. A movie is good because its details are. Still, even the most mediocre movies are laden with detail. Some of these are known as extras or extras. Nobody pays attention to them, but if they weren’t there, their absence would be more evident than a cut of a couple of minutes in the middle of the footage. Viola Davis can attest to the importance of these seemingly insignificant roles. It is not exact to say that she has worked as an extra, but it is true that most of her filmography is full of a very small and insignificant type of character for the public.
Viola Davis was born on August 11, 1965 in South Carolina. She graduated in Drama from the Julliard School and made her film debut in 1996. She was in The Essence of Fire , a family drama where she played a nurse. Her first major film of hers was Steven Soderbergh ‘s A Very Dangerous Romance (1998) , though she again had a very small role as a thief’s sister. However, Soderbergh must have been happy with her work, as he called her back for Traffic (2000) where she had another small role as a social worker. But obviously the filmmaker liked Davis because the third time he called her up was to play a larger role in his sci-fi film Solaris (2002) ., where she was the doctor who survived with a partner in a mysterious space station.
By the time he carried out his work in this last film, Davis had already begun to combine his very small roles with secondary roles of greater presence. Thus, she was an inglorious police officer in Kate & Leopold (2001) and a suffering mother in a hospital in World Trade Center (2006). More weight of her had her roles as Julianne Moore ‘s maid in Far from Heaven (2002) or as a detective in Disturbia (2007).
His resume also includes work in television and theater. On the small screen she has participated in different series such as Law and Order: Special Victims Unit , where in a few chapters she played the lawyer Donna Emmett. On stage, however, she is where she has fared best to date, as she won a Tony in 2001 for her work in “King Hedley II.” Her cinematic moment has come in 2009 with Golden Globe and Oscar nominations included. Her work as her secondary in Doubt has placed her next to Penélope Cruz to compete for the golden statuette. Viola Davis does not have much of a physical presence in the film, but her dialogue of more than seven minutes between her and the superb Meryl StreepIt removes any doubts that the reader may have about someone with a resume similar to yours. Now it will be difficult for someone to offer him a small role without a name, after having seen the one on one that he has with Streep. The dialogue is loaded with great dramatic content, since the essence of it is that Streep’s character has to tell Mrs. Miller that she suspects that her son is being abused by the school priest. The unexpected reactions of her mother leave Streep’s character speechless, making the scene one of the film’s key passages. As a mother, Davis has experience as she has two children with her husband, Julius Tennon.