Last Friday, Viola Davis shared a rare photo of her soon-to-be 14-year-old daughter Genesis Tennon ahead of her birthday on Wednesday.
The 58-year-old EGOT champion, who has 16.9 million followers on social media, Subtitled The kitchen photo: ‘I love it soooo much!’
Viola’s post received glowing comments from her former Help co-star Octavia Spencer, as well as Alicia Keys, Vanessa Williams, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Perkins, Gina Torres, Holly Robinson Peete, Loni Love and Sheila E.
Davis and her husband, now JuVee producing partner Julius Tennon (who adopted the teen in 2011), celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary in impressive fashion on June 23.
“Here’s to 21 more. My best decision. I love you,” said the Kung Fu Panda 4 actress. sprouted.
Last Friday, Viola Davis shared a rare photo of her soon-to-be 14-year-old daughter Genesis Tennon ahead of her birthday on Wednesday: ‘I love her so much!’
At 70, the twice-divorced Texan is 12 years older than Viola, and they originally met in 1999 on the set of the CBS series City of Angels.
Davis is also stepmother to Julius’ two children: daughter Shevonda Tennon, 47, and son Duriel Tennon, 44, from his six-year marriage to former wife No. 1 Sheryl Arnold, which ended in 1980.
“I use beauty as a tool to help me embrace the joy of life and foster my self-love, and I feel like people see that radiating through me. I work out, I put on a pretty shade of lipstick to please myself,” the South Carolina-born actress told Harper’s Bazaar UK May 28th.
‘Every night I take a bath with my husband, we sit in the tub, we laugh, we talk and we do facials. I tell him how beautiful he looks and he tells me how beautiful I look. I love facials, acid peels, steam showers, red light therapy and drinking water.
“Going for a run with my daughter makes me feel young and she makes me laugh. I’ve decided that I like my smile and that’s why I want to laugh more. Feeling the sun (with sunscreen, of course) makes me feel alive.”
The actors of the air thrown out its publishing company JVL Media in April in order to “champion and elevate voices that resonate with authenticity and are often overlooked.”
And in May, the producers of Silver Dollar Road invested funds in ALTR, an upcoming self-help app featuring short audiobooks by black luminaries.
On March 1, Variety Viola was reported to have just wrapped her role as POTUS Taylor Sutton in Patricia Riggen’s G20 terrorist thriller, set at the G20 Summit, which they filmed in Cape Town for Amazon MGM Studios.
The 58-year-old EGOT champion’s post received glowing comments from her former Help co-star Octavia Spencer, as well as Alicia Keys, Vanessa Williams, Deborah Roberts, Elizabeth Perkins, Gina Torres, Holly Robinson Peete, Loni Love and Sheila E.
Viola and her husband, now JuVee producing partner Julius Tennon (right, pictured May 13), who adopted the teen in 2011, celebrated their 21st wedding anniversary in impressive fashion on June 23.
Davis, who has 16.9 million followers on social media, was full of praise: “Here’s to 21 more. My best decision. I love you.”
At 70, the twice-divorced Texan is 12 years older than the Kung Fu Panda 4 actress, and the two originally met in 1999 on the set of the CBS series City of Angels (pictured June 10).
Viola is also stepmother to Julius’ two children: daughter Shevonda Tennon, 47, and son Duriel Tennon, 44, from his six-year marriage to former wife number one, Sheryl Arnold, which ended in 1980.
On March 1, Variety reported that Davis had just wrapped her role as POTUS Taylor Sutton in Patricia Riggen’s G20 terrorist thriller set at the G20 Summit, which they filmed in Cape Town for Amazon MGM Studios.
The South Carolina-born actress will reprise her DC Comics role as Suicide Squad commander Amanda Waller in James Gunn’s seven-episode adult animated series Creature Commandos, which is “set to premiere later this year” on Max
On March 10, Gunn shared an update on Viola’s standalone spinoff Waller: “Waller is still going and Jeremy[Saulnier]and Christal[Henry]are hard at work writing great stuff, but the schedule was thrown off by the strikes, so Waller will come after[Peacemaker season 2]in the grander order of things.”
Davis will reprise her DC Comics role as Suicide Squad commander Amanda Waller in James Gunn’s seven-episode adult animated series Creature Commandos, which will be ‘launched later this year’ in Max.
On March 10, Gunn shared an update on the standalone spin-off from L’Oréal brand ambassador Waller: ‘Waller is still going ahead and Jeremy (Saulnier) and Christal (Henry) are hard at work writing great stuff, but the schedule was affected by the strikes, so Waller will come after[Peacemaker season two]in the larger scheme of things.’
Viola endured an impoverished upbringing in Rhode Island, living in apartments that were “condemned and rat-infested” and not having many friends.
Davis earned a full scholarship to Rhode Island College through the federal TRIO Upward Bound program and went on to graduate from the prestigious Julliard School.
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