Viola Davis is commemorating her birthday by looking back at where she came from.
The Academy Award-winning actress celebrated her 55th birthday on Tuesday …
Viola Davis is commemorating her birthday by looking back at where she came from. The Academy Award-winning actress celebrated her 55th birthday on Tuesday by announcing on Instagram that she bought the South Carolina house where she was born, located on a former a slave plantation. « The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965, » she wrote, along with a picture of a small wooden house with a broken roof. « It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life…. I own it….all of it. » She capped off her post with a « Cherokee Birth Blessing »: « May you live long enough to know why you were born.” Davis opened up about the property’s history and her impoverished upbringing in a 2016 interview with People and Entertainment Weekly.
