She was thrilled to conquer the Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Drama Series category at the 2015 Screen Actors Guild Awards last night (January 25) and Viola Davis made sure she mentioned her daughter has been an inspiration for her.
The “How to Get Away With Murder” star explained, "When I tell my daughter stories at night, inevitably a few things happen. Number one, I use my imagination. I always start with life and then I build from there. And the other thing that happens is she always says, 'Mommy, can you put me in the story?’”
Davis continued by thanking the team at her show for "thinking that a sexualized, messy, mysterious woman could be a 49-year-old dark skinned African-American woman who looks like me. Thank you to all the people who love me exactly how God made me – and that's my beautiful husband, Julius, my 4-year-old daughter at home, Genesis, and my mother, Mary Alice Davis."
