Hollywood actress, Viola Davis has made a major play for our hearts.
In case you missed it, on Friday, March 3, the Oscar-winning actress took part in #FlashbackFriday on Instagram, where she posted the ‘only picture’ she has from her childhood.
Sharing an excerpt from a recent interview with People magazine, the 51-year-old wrote:
‘The only picture I have of my childhood is the picture of me in kindergarten. I have this expression on my face – it’s not a smile, it’s not a frown. I swear to you, that’s the girl who wakes up in the morning and who looks around her house and her life saying, ‘I cannot believe how God has blessed me.’ I was the kind of poor where I knew right away I had less than everyone around me,’ she said. ‘Our environment, our physical space reflected our income.’ At home, ‘the boards were coming off the walls,’ she continued of her impoverished upbringing in Central Falls, Rhode Island. Meanwhile, the family endured ‘shoddy plumbing and no phone and no food and rats and all of that. That very much was visible to me.’
‘I would jump in trash bins with maggots looking for food, and I would steal from the corner store because I was hungry. I never had any kids come to my house because my house was a condemned building, it was boarded up, it was infested with rats. I was one of those kids who were poor and knew it,’ she explained to the publication.
Of course, fast forward decades later, and Davis has come a long way.
The first Black woman to be nominated three times for her performance in cinema, on Sunday, February 26, Davis nabbed the Oscar for Best Supporting Actress for her role as Rose Maxson, in Fences – achieving what’s called the triple crown of the industry, by adding her accolade to past Emmy (for her work in How to Get Away With Murder) and Tony Awards (for King Hedley II and the Broadway production of Fences) – an honour only 22 other actors have accomplished.
Viola Davis is currently, without doubt, one of the biggest names in Hollywood.
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