Outstanding Featured Actor - Play: Charles Brown won. Outstanding Featured Actress - Play: Viola Davis won. 2001 Outer Critics Circle Awards Outstanding Actor in a Play: Brian Stokes Mitchell was ...

Davis was born in 1965 on a plantation in ... She went on to win her first Tony Award in 2001 for her featured role in the play “King Hedley II,” and in 2010 she won her second Tony for ...

Viola Davis is an American actress ... Davis has also starred in the Broadway productions of King Hedley II (2001) and Fences (2010) and won Tony Awards for both. Davis married actor Julius ...

"The only one it surprises is you." How Viola Davis and The Woman King Cast 'Became Warriors' Through Intense Training As for a sequel to the film, Davis said she is "totally open" to the idea.

The setting reflects the harsh realities and struggles faced by King Hedley II (Akeem Davis), an ex-con recently released from prison who is determined to rebuild his life despite the limited ...

Viola Davis, one of the most celebrated actors ... winning her first Tony Award for her role as Tonya in King Hedley II (2001). She would later return to Wilson’s world with Fences (2010 ...

The titular King (played marvelously by Akeem Davis) returns home from prison, still haunted by his past but determined to change his future. He’s indignant and proud while also disarmingly ...

Viola Davis, born August 11 ... on to win a Tony for the 2001 Broadway production of August Wilson’s “King Hedley II.” Her first major film role was in “Doubt,” for which she received ...