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Won the 2001 Tony Award for Best Featured Actress in a Play for the August Wilson play "King Hedley II" which featured Brian Stokes Mitchell, Leslie Uggams, and theatre veteran Charles Brown.

Graduated from Juilliard

Won Broadway's 2001 Tony Award as Best Actress (Featured Role - Play) for August Wilson's "King Hedley II." She had previously been nominated in the same category in 1996 for another Wilson play, "Seven Guitars."

Won the 2005 Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for "Intimate Apparel" in 2004.

She is the daughter of Mary and Dan Davis. Dan was a horse-groomer for the Narrangasett and Lincoln Downs racetracks in Rhode Island.

Attended Rhode Island College and majored in theater.

Grew up in Central Falls, Rhode Island, to which she moved when she was two months old.

Inducted into The Academy of Motion Pictures Arts and Sciences on June 30, 2009.

Personal Quotes

We grew up in abject poverty. Acting, writing scripts and skits were a way of escaping our environment at a very young age.

On why she's not inspired to direct: I can't deal with actors! I can't deal with myself. We're neurotic and miserable... I love doing what I'm doing, but while I'm doing it, I'm miserable.

Where Are They Now

(September 2004) Starring in the play "Intimate Apparel" at the Mark Taper Forum.

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