CeleBeauty Watch: Viola Davis Covers the December 2020 InStyle

Viola Davis is one actor to be reckoned with. Between movies, television shows, red carpet appearances, she is also an iconic Black woman who is open about her struggles through the years to claim parts worthy of not only her skills, but ones that represent Black women in roles other than maids, slaves, prostitutes and other demeaning parts.

The South Carolina–born, Rhode Island–raised Davis has been an actress for 33 years, graduating from Juilliard in 1993. She started on the New York stage, before her Oscar nominated role in 2008’s Doubt fast-tracked her onscreen career. Davis has, so far, won an Oscar, an Emmy, and two Tonys—the fabled triple crown of acting—and is the first woman of color to do so. The last time she was on a movie set, however, was in the summer of 2019, when she was shooting the film adaptation of August Wilson’s 1984 play, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom. Davis owns the role, slipping into the grandiose persona of the “Mother of the Blues” like a favorite coat and casting off lines like “Where’s my Coke? I need a Coca-Cola” as if she’s been teleported back to 1920s Chicago. — InStyle.com (read the rest of the interview here)

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