Viola Davis is no stranger to television, having appeared in episodes of Law & Order: Special Victims Unit, Traveler and United States of Tara. It wasn’t until she was cast as the lead in ABC’s How to Get Away With Murder, however, that the 49-year-old actress began to receive the acclaim she deserved. Davis recently said in The Hollywood Reporter’s Drama Actresses Roundtable issue, “There was absolutely no precedent for it.
