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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