Date 05/03/2017 - News People
Just recently, Viola Davis was honored with the 2017 Harvard Foundation Artist of the Year Award. She accepted her award at Harvard's Cultural Rhythms Festival. This awards season, Davis won an Oscar, Critics' Choice, Golden Globe, Screen Actors Guild, and British Academy of Films and Television Arts awards for her portrayal of Rose Maxson in the film adaptation of Fences, an August Wilson play. In 2010, the actress won a Tony Award for the broadway revival of the play.