WIDOWS 
THE SUICIDE SQUAD 
MA RAINEY'S BLACK BOTTOM 
Viola Davis joined Variety and Kering at the Cannes Film Festival for a powerful Women In Motion conversation in which she revealed a director once called her by his maid's name. The Oscar and Emmy-winning actor was talking about Hollywood's perception of Black actors and how the amount of roles she can play remains limited due to her skin color, even at her A-list stature."I had a director who did that to me. He said, 'Louise!' I knew him for...
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Davis is an icon known for playing other icons, as only she can. She is an Oscar, Emmy and two-time Tony-award-winning actor and producer, and in March 2021 became the most-nominated Black actress in the history of the Academy Awards, earning her fourth Oscar nod for playing Ma Rainey, the “Mother of the Blues,” in the Netflix adaptation of August Wilson’s “Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom.” Davis also wrapped up a six-year run playing the terrifyingly effective attorney Annalise Keating on ABC’s “How to Get Away with Murder” in 2020 before moving on to playing former First Lady Michelle Obama in upcoming Showtime series “The First Lady,” which she is also executive producing under her JuVee Productions banner.
