{"id":9549,"date":"2022-05-16T14:08:10","date_gmt":"2022-05-16T12:08:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/?p=9549"},"modified":"2026-05-19T12:11:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T10:11:11","slug":"viola-davis-to-receive-the-women-in-motion-2022-award-from-kering-in-cannes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/magazine.luxus-plus.com\/en\/viola-davis-to-receive-the-women-in-motion-2022-award-from-kering-in-cannes\/","title":{"rendered":"Viola Davis to receive the Women in Motion 2022 award from Kering in Cannes"},"content":{"rendered":"

Viola Davis is a committed activist, but also the first African-American woman to win an Emmy Award for her role in the 2015 series Murder. At 55, the actress will receive the Women in Motion 2022 award by Kering at a special dinner scheduled for Sunday, May 22, during the Cannes Film Festival. Portrait.<\/p>\n

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Viola Davis<\/strong> is the first woman to win an Emmy Award<\/strong> for her role in the 2015 series “How to Get Away from Murder<\/strong><\/em>” and is an artist recognized worldwide for her impactful and heartfelt roles. At the special dinner scheduled for Sunday, May 22 during the Cannes Film Festival<\/strong>, she will be presented with the prestigious Women in Motion Award<\/strong><\/em>, presented by Kering<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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The Women in Motion awards<\/strong><\/em> at Cannes recognize the careers and commitments of iconic women in the film industry, and Viola Davis fits perfectly with the profile the award seeks to highlight.<\/p>\n

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Viola Davis<\/strong> was born on August 11, 1965, in Saint Matthew, South Carolina, on her grandmother’s modest farm. Her mother, Mae Davis<\/strong>, worked as a housekeeper and laborer, while her father, Dan Davis<\/strong>, was a horse trainer. Marked by the great poverty in which she lived, evoking racism and delinquency, Viola Davis made her complicated early life a strength and became interested in theater at an early age, joining the theater team at the University of Rhode Island<\/strong>, from which she graduated in 1988.<\/p>\n

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She appeared in a few minor roles in courtroom series at the end of the 90s, but wanted above all to devote herself to the theater. In 2001, she won the prestigious Tony Award<\/strong> for her role in the play “King Hedley II<\/strong><\/em>” by August Wilson<\/strong>.<\/p>\n

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She made her film debut with Steven Soderbergh<\/strong> in 1998, in “Out of Reach<\/em><\/strong>“, alongside George Clooney<\/strong>. The roles then follow in the 2000s and she explodes in the film “The Help<\/strong><\/em>” in 2011, in which she plays the role of Aibileen Clark<\/strong>, a reserved African-American maid.<\/p>\n

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How to get away from Murder \u00a9 ABC\/Mitchell Haaseth<\/em><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

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In 2015, she won an Emmy Award<\/strong> for her role in the series “How to Get Away with Murder,<\/em><\/strong>” a first for an African-American actress: “The only thing that separates women of color from anyone else is opportunity. You can’t win an Emmy for roles that just don’t exist,<\/em>” she said.<\/p>\n

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Three years later, she won two prestigious awards, a Golden Globe<\/strong> and an Oscar<\/strong>, for her supporting role in Denzel Washington<\/strong>‘s “Fences<\/strong><\/em>“. She is also twice part of the “100 most influential people in the world<\/em><\/strong>” by Time Magazine<\/strong>, in 2012 and 2017.<\/p>\n

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Une publication partag\u00e9e par VIOLA DAVIS (@violadavis)<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>\n<\/blockquote>\n