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Viola Davis is among the most talented and highly appreciated actors in the entertainment industry. She is deeply respected for her hard and dedication to her passion. The actress is known for being a self-made person who has struggled a lot in her past to become one of the most accomplished actors of the present time.

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Suicide Squadfame shared about her difficult childhood and her struggles to get proper meals. She revealed going to extreme limits for making sure she had food on her plate.

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Black Adamactress Viola Davis reveals stealing for food

How to Get Away with MurderfameViola Davisshared with Variety about the hardships of her life. She opened up about facing difficulties in obtaining basics like food. She shared that her father was a horse trainer and her mother worked multiple jobs including maid, factory worker, and homemaker.

Davis’ family had money problems and financial stress was a constant thing in her parents and her five siblings’ lives.The Helpactress shared,

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“Although my childhood was filled with many happy memories, it was also spent in abject poverty. I was one of the 17 million kids in this country who didn’t know where the next meal was coming from. And I did everything to get food.”

“I’ve stolen for food, I’ve jumped in huge garbage bins with maggots for food, I have befriended people in the neighborhood who I knew had who cooked three meals a day for food. And I sacrificed a childhood for food… and grew up in immense shame.”

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“I grew up in poverty, you know? I grew up in apartments that were condemned and rat-infested, and I just always sort of wanted to be somebody. I just wanted to be good at something. So this is sort of like the miracle of God, of dreaming big and just hoping that it sticks and it lands, and it did. Who knew? So I’m overwhelmed.”

The actress got her breakthrough role inDoubt, for which she received an Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.

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Black Adamstar Viola Davis’ Net Worth

Dwayne Johnson’sBlack Adamco-star is presently one of the most acclaimed actors of the present time, and every actor wants to work with her. Davis proved her worth by working in big-budget movies likeSuicide Squadand its sequel. Some of her other notable works are in projects likeThe Woman King, Air, The Unforgivable, Knight and Day, Eat, Pray, Love,and more.

As per the Celebrity Net Worth, Davis has a massive net worth of $25 million. The actors also own a beautiful home, where she resides with her husband Julius Tennon, whom she married in June 2003. They adopted an infant daughter named Genesis in 2011 and Davis is also a stepmother to Tennon’s two children from previous relationships.

Oscar and Emmy winner Viola Davis will produce and star in the upcoming project namedG20, under the production house of Amazon Studios and MRC Film.

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