Friday, 25 September 2015

Viola Davis -Emmy Winner, 2015

When Viola Davis accepted her Emmy Award for best   actress in a drama on Sunday night, 2o August, she was the first African-American woman to ever do so. 

Davis made her screen debut with a small role as a nurse in 1996's, The Substance of Fire (1996). Guest spots followed in various TV shows and films, and in 2000 she won the role of Nurse Lynnette Peeler in City of Angels (2000). In 2001, Davis appeared on Broadway in the play,'King Hedley II', for which she was awarded a Tony for Best Featured Actress in a Play. 

Davis has worked with Steven Soderbergh on three projects- Traffic (2000), Solaris (2002) and Syriana (2005). Other projects include Far from Heaven (2002), Antwone Fisher (2002) and Disturbia (2007). In 2008, se played Mrs. Miller in Doubt (2008), for which she was nominated for a Best Supporting Actress Oscar. In 2011, she won critical acclaim for her starring role as Abilene Clark in the box-office hit The Help (2011). 
Following is the link of  her inspiring speech in Emmy, 2015. 

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