The SAG Award for FEMALE ACTOR IN A DRAMA SERIES goes to...Viola Davis! And she's also a winner in the acceptance speech department. Check out her powerful words inside...
Viola Davis has another Award to add to her collection. And it's all thanks to her amazing job as Mrs. Annalise Keating (well, widow Keating) on "How To Get Away With Murder".
While accepting her SAG Award tonight in Hollywood, she spoke on Shonda Rhimes and those behind the show allowing a mysterious and sexy woman...to be played by a 49-year-old black woman.
All right, when I tell my daughter stories at night, inevitably a few things happen. Number one, I use my imagination. I always start with life and then I build from there. And then the other thing that happens is she always says, “Mommy, can you put me in the story?”
And you know, it starts from the top up. So, I’d like to thank Paul Lee, Shonda Rhimes, Betsy Beers, Bill D’Elia, and Peter Nowalk, for thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark-skinned, African-American woman that looks like me.
Thank you to the Screen Actors Guild. Thank you to Estelle and Lisa Costello, and Michael Adler, CAA, for having my back. And thank you to all the people who love me exactly how God made me. And that’s my beautiful husband, Julius, my four-year-old daughter at home, Genesis, and my mother, May Alice Davis. Thank you so much.
Amazing! Congrats Viola!
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