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'Ender's Game' Premieres in Hollywood

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'Ender's Game' Premieres in Hollywood — Part 2

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Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Asa Butterfield, Hailee Steinfeld, Gavin Hood

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'Ender's Game' Premieres in Hollywood — Part 3

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Hailee Steinfeld, Asa Butterfield, Harrison Ford, Ben Kingsley, Abigail Breslin

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Variety Hollywood's New Leaders Event

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Jerry Weintraub, Steven Gaydos, Michelle Sobrino, Julius Tennon, Kaylon Hunt

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Viola Davis is dating Julius Tennon

June 2003 - Present

Viola Davis tied the knot with actor Julius Tennon in 2003, and together they raise his two children from a previous...

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Octavia Spencer To Star In ‘Murder, She Wrote’ Reboot

By OnTheSceneNY on | From onthesceneny.com

Wow!! Talk about out of nowhere!! Deadline just reported that Oscar winner Octavia Spencer will be starting in a reboot of the incredibly successful TV show Murder, She Wrote. They’ll be changing up the story line a bit to fit with the current times but I’m sure it’s gonna work. Because I know I wasn’t the only kid watching Angela Lansbury faithfully every week!! Described as a light, contemporary procedural in the vein of Bones or Fargo, it follows a hospital administrator and amateur...Read Full Story

Viola Davis: ‘Prisoners’ star reveals she ‘never felt pretty’ in Essence magazine talk on black women’s images

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DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" Viola Davis, Oscar-nominated actress and star of the hit film Prisoners, spoke recently at an Essence magazine event in New York City. While participating in a day-long preview of the magazine’s upcoming programming — including the 20th anniversary of the Essence Festival — she discussed learning to love herself despite society’s negative messages. “I have never felt pretty,” she said during a luncheon interview with Essence editor-in-chief...Read Full Story

VIOLA DAVIS’ DAUGHTER TO STAR IN JAMES BROWN BIOPIC

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DatzHott.com - "Where Everything Cool is Hott!" The apple doesn’t fall far from the tree in the Tennon household. After watching Viola Davis do a spectacular job of portraying onscreen characters for years, fans will now get to see her daughter in action. Yes, you read right. Genesis will be starring in her first acting role at just three years old in the upcoming James Brown biopic that her mother is directing. Davis announced her daughter’s debut in film during a talk with Ellen DeGeneres...Read Full Story

Viola Davis: ‘I Prayed For A Husband!’

By OnTheSceneNY on | From onthesceneny.com

There’s nothing like seeing a person who’s happily in love. They just radiate positivity in all that they do. And I gotta say, when reading about Viola Davis and how she found her husband, I can’t help but feel the love in her words. People Magazine included a few excerpts from an interview in the October issue of Essence where Viola talks about her family life, specifically her husband actor Julius Tennon. “I asked for a husband who was emotionally available, someone who was older...Read Full Story

Viola Davis & Octavia Spencer Set For Get On Up

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Tate Taylor reunites the Help group for James Brown biopicTate Taylor is set to work with someone new – that would be 42’s Chadwick Boseman – on the James Brown biopic Get On Up. But he’s recruiting some old friends to co-star, signing up The Help’s Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer for supporting roles.Boseman, of course, is playing the Godfather of Soul, in a film that charts his early days born into poverty in Georgia and his rise to become a world famous R&B musician. Davis is set as his...Read Full Story

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Overview

Viola Davis (born August 11, 1965) is an American actress. Known primarily as a stage actress, Davis won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Leading Actress in a Play for her role in Fences on June 13, 2010. She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004).

Her films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Solaris (2002). Her performance in Doubt (2008) brought widespread recognition and she was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture.

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