In Viola Davis’s new memoir, “Finding Me,” she recounts watching her father physically and emotionally abuse her mother. Now the Oscar winner is opening up about how she was able to make peace with father Dan Davis before he died of pancreatic cancer in 2006. “My dad changed,” Davi...
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Davis plays the role of Susie Brown, the mother of James Brown. A woman that never wanted to be a mother in the first place, Susie Brown is anything but a good mother. However, Viola Davis does an amazing job of showcasing the conflicting feelings of her character, making the audience ...
But the key to the movie may be the great Viola Davis as Michael Jordan’s mother, Deloris. Early in the film Sonny is advised that “The mamas run stuff…especially in black families.” Davis’ Deloris is both intimidating and huggable…a loving matriarch with a tough-as-nails business...
Viola Davis is best known for being an award-winning American actress. Personal Life: Viola was born in her grandparents’ house on the Singleton Plantation in St. Matthews, SC, the second youngest of six children. Her father Dan was a horse trainer and her mother Mary Alice was a mai an...
Today Viola Davis has her own show on TV and Tonys on the mantelpiece, but when she was younger she was penniless and starving. ET Now Live ET Now ET Now: Keep Watching Watch Latest 4:13 Justin Baldoni's Lawyer in Blake Lively Legal Battle Once Sued Him! ...
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Davis was one of six siblings. All but one was born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, on the Singleton plantation. She moved north in 1965 when she was just a baby. Her father groomed horses at the racetrack. Her mother worked at a factory periodically. She has been outspoken aboutnot...
Davis was raised inCentral Falls,Rhode Island, where her father found work as a horse groom at nearby racetracks and her mother took on domestic and factory jobs. Their income was frequently insufficient to support the family, and they endured grim rat-infested apartments and occasional food sho...
says davis, “i did not exert my voice because i did not feel worthy of having a voice.” it was the support and affection of people who knew she was worthy that lifted her out of what she calls “the hole”: her sisters deloris, diane, and anita, and her mother, mae alice. “...