Viola Davis | Uncommon Sense

“[Beauty] is about being honest. It’s about stepping into This is how I am in private, this is how I look, this is how I act, this is my mess, this is my strength, this is my beauty, this is my intelligence, and then putting it out there that this is who I am.”

—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.

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