Straight talk from Rhode Island’s own Viola Davis.
By Yankee Magazine
Dec 27 2019
Viola Davis
Photo Credit : Storms Media Group/Alamy—Viola Davis(born August 11, 1965, and raised in Central Falls, Rhode Island). Stricken with alopecia in her 20s, Davis was widely cheered for ditching a wig in favor of her natural short hair at the 2012 Academy Awards; last fall she was named a spokeswoman for L’Oréal Paris at age 54. The star of TV’s How to Get Away with Murder, which wraps its six-year run in February, Davis is also the first black actress to have won an Oscar, an Emmy, a Tony, a Golden Globe, a SAG Award, and a BAFTA Award.