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Graduated from Juilliard
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Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for August Wilson's "King Hedley II." She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1996 for another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars."
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Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" in 2004.
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She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.
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Attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.
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Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to which she moved when she was two months old.
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Inducted into The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on June 30, 2009.
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Viola and her husband, Julius Tennon, have adopted a baby boy to be named "Genesis" [October 18, 2011].
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