1998
Viola was
33
years old
The Pentagon Wars
as Sgt. Fanning
From the director of “Made In America” and “The Money Pit” comes a hilarious look at one of the most expensive blunders in military history. Over 17 years and…
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1998
Viola was
33
years old
Out of Sight
as Moselle
Meet Jack Foley, a smooth criminal who bends the law and is determined to make one last heist. Karen Sisco is a federal marshal who chooses all the right moves…
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2000
Viola was
35
years old
Traffic
as Social Worker
An exploration of the United States of America's war on drugs from multiple perspectives. For the new head of the Office of National Drug Control Policy, the…
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2001
Viola was
36
years old
Ocean's Eleven
as Parole Board Interrogator (voice) (uncredited)
Less than 24 hours into his parole, charismatic thief Danny Ocean is already rolling out his next plan: In one night, Danny's hand-picked crew of specialists…
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2001
Viola was
36
years old
Kate & Leopold
as Policewoman
When her scientist ex-boyfriend discovers a portal to travel through time -- and brings back a 19th-century nobleman named Leopold to prove it -- a skeptical…
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2002
Viola was
37
years old
Solaris
as Gordon
A troubled psychologist is sent to investigate the crew of an isolated research station orbiting a bizarre planet.
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2002
Viola was
37
years old
Far from Heaven
as Sybil
In 1950s Connecticut, a housewife's life is upended by a marital crisis and mounting racial tensions in society.
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2002
Viola was
37
years old
Antwone Fisher
as Eva May
A sailor prone to violent outbursts is sent to a naval psychiatrist for help. Refusing at first to open up, the young man eventually breaks down and reveals a…
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2005
Viola was
40
years old
Get Rich or Die Tryin'
as Grandma
A tale of an inner city drug dealer who turns away from crime to pursue his passion, rap music.
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2005
Viola was
40
years old
Stone Cold
as Molly Crane
Jesse Stone is a former L.A. homicide detective who left behind the big city and an ex-wife to become the police chief of the quiet New England fishing town of…
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2005
Viola was
40
years old
Syriana
as CIA Chairwoman
The Middle Eastern oil industry is the backdrop of this tense drama, which weaves together numerous story lines. Bennett Holiday is an American lawyer in…
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2006
Viola was
41
years old
World Trade Center
as Mother in Hospital
Two police officers struggle to survive when they become trapped beneath the rubble of the World Trade Center on September 11, 2001.
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2006
Viola was
41
years old
Jesse Stone: Death in Paradise
as Molly Crane
When Jesse Stone looks into the murder of a teen-age girl whose body is found floating in a local lake, it brings him up against the Boston mob and into the…
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2006
Viola was
41
years old
Jesse Stone: Night Passage
as Officer Molly Crane
A prequel to "Stone Cold", the story picks up after Jesse Stone is fired from the Los Angeles Police Department. He becomes an unlikely candidate recruited by…
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2007
Viola was
42
years old
Disturbia
as Detective Parker
Kale has a life most teenagers would envy. He spends his days endlessly playing video games, surfing the net, eating junk food and watching cable. He has…
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2007
Viola was
42
years old
Jesse Stone: Sea Change
as Molly Crane
Police Chief Jesse Stone's relationship with his ex-wife worsens, and he fears he's relapsing into alcoholism. To get his mind off his problems, Jesse begins…
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2008
Viola was
43
years old
Nights in Rodanthe
as Jean
Adrienne is trying to decide whether to stay in her unhappy marriage or not, and her life changes when Paul, a doctor who is travelling to reconcile with his…
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2008
Viola was
43
years old
Doubt
as Mrs. Miller
In 1964 Bronx, two Catholic school nuns question the new priest's ambiguous relationship with a troubled African-American student.
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2009
Viola was
44
years old
Law Abiding Citizen
as Mayor April Henry
A frustrated man decides to take justice into his own hands after a plea bargain sets one of his family's killers free. He targets not only the killer but also…
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2009
Viola was
44
years old
Madea Goes to Jail
as Ellen
After a high-speed car chase, Madea winds up behind bars because her quick temper gets the best of her. Meanwhile, Assistant District Attorney Josh Hardaway…
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2009
Viola was
44
years old
State of Play
as Dr. Judith Franklin
When a congressional aide is killed, a Washington, D.C. journalist starts investigating the case involving the Representative, his old college friend.
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2010
Viola was
45
years old
Knight and Day
as CIA Director Isabel George
A fugitive couple goes on a glamorous and sometimes deadly adventure where nothing and no one – even themselves – are what they seem. Amid shifting alliances…
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2010
Viola was
45
years old
Eat Pray Love
as Delia Shiraz
A married woman realizes how unhappy her marriage really is, and that her life needs to go in a different direction. After a painful divorce, she takes off on…
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2010
Viola was
45
years old
Trust
as Gail Friedman
A suburban family is torn apart when fourteen-year-old Annie meets her first boyfriend online. After months of communicating via online chat and phone, Annie…
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2010
Viola was
45
years old
It's Kind of a Funny Story
as Dr. Eden Minerva
A clinically depressed teenager gets a new start after he checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward.
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2011
Viola was
46
years old
The Help
as Aibileen Clark
Aibileen Clark is a middle-aged African-American maid who has spent her life raising white children and has recently lost her only son; Minny Jackson is an…
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2011
Viola was
46
years old
Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close
as Abby Black
A year after his father's death, Oskar, a troubled young boy, discovers a mysterious key he believes was left for him by his father and embarks on a scavenger…
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2012
Viola was
47
years old
Won't Back Down
as Nona Alberts
Jamie Fitzpatrick and Nona Alberts are two women from opposites sides of the social and economic track, but they have one thing in common: a mission to fix…
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2013
Viola was
48
years old
Ender's Game
as Major Gwen Anderson
Based on the classic novel by Orson Scott Card, Ender's Game is the story of the Earth's most gifted children training to defend their homeplanet in the space…
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2013
Viola was
48
years old
Love, Marilyn
as Self
Using the book 'Fragments', which collects Marilyn Monroe's poems, notes and letters, and with participation from the Arthur Miller and Truman Capote estates…
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2013
Viola was
48
years old
Beautiful Creatures
as Amma Treadeau
Ethan Wate just wants to get to know Lena Duchannes better, but unbeknownst to him, Lena has strange powers. As Lena's 16th birthday approaches she might…
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2013
Viola was
48
years old
Prisoners
as Nancy Birch
After his six-year-old daughter is abducted, a desperate father takes justice into his own hands when he loses faith in the detective leading the…
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2014
Viola was
49
years old
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Them
as Professor Lillian Friedman
A New York couple's relationship is tested after the loss of their child. This film is the wide-released combination of the original two :him and :her volumes…
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2014
Viola was
49
years old
Get On Up
as Susie Brown
A chronicle of James Brown's rise from extreme poverty to become one of the most influential musicians in history.
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2014
Viola was
49
years old
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Her
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Told from the woman's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too…
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2014
Viola was
49
years old
The Disappearance of Eleanor Rigby: Him
as Professor Lillian Friedman
Told from the man's perspective, the story of a couple trying to reclaim the life and love they once knew and pick up the pieces of a past that may be too far…
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2015
Viola was
50
years old
Blackhat
as Carol Barrett
Nicholas Hathaway, a furloughed convict, and his American and Chinese partners hunt a high-level cybercrime network from Chicago to Los Angeles to Hong Kong to…
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2015
Viola was
50
years old
Lila & Eve
as Lila Walcott
Lila, a grief-stricken mother reeling from her son’s murder, attends a support group where she meets Eve, who urges her to take matters into her own hands to…
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2016
Viola was
51
years old
Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
From DC Comics comes the Suicide Squad, an antihero team of incarcerated supervillains who act as deniable assets for the United States government, undertaking…
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2016
Viola was
51
years old
Custody
as Martha Schulman
When a hard-working single mother, Sara Diaz, has her children taken from her after she is suspected of injuring her son, Ally Fisher, a recent law school…
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2016
Viola was
51
years old
Fences
as Rose Maxson
In 1950s Pittsburgh, a frustrated African-American father struggles with the constraints of poverty, racism, and his own inner demons as he tries to raise a…
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2017
Viola was
52
years old
Bright Lights: Starring Carrie Fisher and Debbie Reynolds
as Self (uncredited)
An intimate portrait of Hollywood royalty featuring Debbie Reynolds, Todd Fisher, and Carrie Fisher.
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2018
Viola was
53
years old
Widows
as Veronica Rawlings
A police shootout leaves four thieves dead during an explosive armed robbery attempt in Chicago. Their widows have nothing in common except a debt left behind…
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2019
Viola was
54
years old
Troop Zero
as Miss Rayleen
In rural 1977 Georgia, a misfit girl dreams of life in outer space. When a national competition offers her a chance at her dream, to be recorded on NASA’s…
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2020
Viola was
55
years old
Ma Rainey's Black Bottom
as Ma Rainey
Tensions rise when the trailblazing Mother of the Blues and her band gather at a Chicago recording studio in 1927. Adapted from August Wilson's play.
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2021
Viola was
56
years old
The Suicide Squad
as Amanda Waller
Supervillains Harley Quinn, Bloodsport, Peacemaker and a collection of nutty cons at Belle Reve prison join the super-secret, super-shady Task Force X as they…
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2021
Viola was
56
years old
The Unforgivable
as Liz Ingram
A woman is released from prison after serving a sentence for a violent crime and re-enters a society that refuses to forgive her past.
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2022
Viola was
57
years old
Black Adam
as Amanda Waller (uncredited)
Nearly 5,000 years after he was bestowed with the almighty powers of the Egyptian gods—and imprisoned just as quickly—Black Adam is freed from his earthly…
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2022
Viola was
57
years old
The Woman King
as Nanisca
The story of the Agojie, the all-female unit of warriors who protected the African Kingdom of Dahomey in the 1800s with skills and a fierceness unlike anything…
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2023
Viola was
58
years old
Air
as Deloris Jordan
Discover the game-changing partnership between a then undiscovered Michael Jordan and Nike's fledgling basketball division which revolutionized the world of…
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2023
Viola was
58
years old
The Hunger Games: The Ballad of Songbirds & Snakes
as Dr. Volumnia Gaul
64 years before he becomes the tyrannical president of Panem, Coriolanus Snow sees a chance for a change in fortunes when he mentors Lucy Gray Baird, the…
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2024
Viola was
59
years old
Kung Fu Panda 4
as The Chameleon (voice)
Po is gearing up to become the spiritual leader of his Valley of Peace, but also needs someone to take his place as Dragon Warrior. As such, he will train a…
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2025
Viola was
60
years old
G20
as President Danielle Sutton
After the G20 Summit is overtaken by terrorists, President Danielle Sutton must bring all her statecraft and military experience to defend her family and her…
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