ANNALISE KEATING – VIOLA DAVIS

“The one thing I feel is lacking in Hollywood today is an understanding of the beauty, power, sexuality and uniqueness of being a black woman”

Viola Davis made history when she became the first black woman to win a Best Actress award at the Emmys, for playing the role of Annalise Keating, a hot-shot lawyer who exercises her cunning skill in the courtroom and the classroom. Boundary-breaking Annalise is the anti-heroine, which is transgressive in a way that TV audiences haven’t seen in many female characters. She’s a confident, powerful, bisexual black woman who heads up her own legal firm and never relies on a man to get the job done. She’s also complicated and has a double-sided moral compass. She’s manipulative, sexually empowered, brilliant and vulnerable.