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- Viola Davis has delivered some of the most memorable performances in the last decade.
- Here we rank her top performances all the way to her all-time best.
- Find where movies like "Fences," "Doubt," and "Widows" fall in our ranking.
In just over two decades of performing, Viola Davis has shot to the top of the acting world, and it feels like she's just warming up.
Having already scored the "Triple Crown of Acting": an Academy Award, Emmy Award, and Tony Award (two of them, in fact) - making her the first female Black actress to do so - she has put her mark on all mediums. That includes being the face of a hit TV show ("How to Get Away with Murder") and the stage ("Fences").
But it's her work in movies that has been the most impressive as she's gone from just a voice role in 2001's "Ocean's Eleven" (she's the parole board interrogator who questions George Clooney's Danny Ocean character; we never see her face) to being the lead of Netflix's latest release "Ma Rainey's Black Bottom."
Here we look back on Davis' most memorable roles and rank up to her best - so far.