Oprah Winfrey and Viola Davis discuss her astonishing new memoir, Finding Me.
For years, we have marveled at the pillar of beauty and strength that is Oscar-winning actor Viola Davis — never really knowing or understanding from where exactly said strength stemmed from. On April 22, we get to pull up a chair and tune in to what will undoubtedly be an insightful, honest and inspiring 48-minute Netflix Special Event episode.
For the first time Viola shares memories of her childhood marked with unimaginable poverty, disturbing abuse and “all the things that cause you pain.” Viola reveals how “giving up hope that the past could be different” has brought her peace, forgiveness and a sense of self. Viola also explains how she manifested the loves in her life and what it took to become one of the most celebrated and talented actresses of our time.
Finding Me will be released on April 26, 2022.
Produced by Harpo from executive producers Tara Montgomery and Terry Wood, co-executive producer Brian Piotrowicz.
Viola Davis is the recipient of various accolades, including an Academy Award, a Primetime Emmy Award, and two Tony Awards, she is the first African-American to achieve the Triple Crown of Acting Time magazine named her one of the 100 most influential people in the world in 2012 and 2017. In 2017, she received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame and in 2020, The New York Times ranked her ninth on its list of the greatest actors of the 21st century.
Born in St. Matthews, South Carolina, Davis began her career in Central Falls, Rhode Island, appearing in small theater productions. After graduating from the Juilliard School in 1993, she won an Obie Award in 1999 for her performance as Ruby McCollum in Everybody’s Ruby. She played minor roles in several films and television series in the late 1990s and early 2000s, before earning the Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for her role as Tonya in the 2001 Broadway production of August Wilson’s King Hedley II. Her film breakthrough came with her role as a troubled mother in the 2008 drama Doubt, for which she received her first Academy Award nomination for Best Supporting Actress.
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