Viola Davis

Person · Open Library

Works

2

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Country

US

Active from

1926-05-26

Active to

1991-09-28

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Listeners · Last.fm

Listeners

506

Total plays

1,489

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965)[1] is an American actress and producer. Having won an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American actor to achieve the "Triple Crown of Acting".[2][3] Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017.[3][2] In 2017 she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame.[4] In 2020, The New York Times ranked Davis ninth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Cent

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. STAR: ultrafast universal RNA-seq aligner

   · 2012 · cited 49,579x

2. Perceived Usefulness, Perceived Ease of Use, and User Acceptance of Information Technology

   · 1989 · cited 43,374x

3. <tt>edgeR</tt> : a Bioconductor package for differential expression analysis of digital gene expression data

   · 2009 · cited 38,988x

4. Gene Ontology: tool for the unification of biology

   · 2000 · cited 36,302x

5. User Acceptance of Information Technology: Toward A Unified View1

   · 2003 · cited 29,645x

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Quotes

• “It’s only been recently that I can admit that I would jump in trash bins looking for food and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry. I would fall asleep in school on a daily basis because we had nothing.”
• “Artists and actors of color have to alter and water ourselves down for Hollywood, but I refuse to be pacified.”
• “"Do not live someone else's life and someone else's idea of what womanhood is. Womanhood is you. Womanhood is everything that's inside of you."”
• “Working hard is great when it’s motivated by passion and love and enthusiasm. But working hard when it’s motivated by deprivation is not pleasant.”
• “.“The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is an opportunity.””
• ““As Black women, we’re always given these seemingly devastating experiences—experiences that could absolutely break us. But what the caterpillar calls the end of the world, the master calls the butterfly. What we do as Black women is take the worst situations and create from that point.””

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Wikidata facts

Image

Viola Davis at the Air Premiere at SXSW (cropped).jpg

Number of children

1

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