The Academy Award-winner showed how far she's come while revealing her latest real estate purchase: the very South Carolina home she was born in in 1965.
From nearly nothing: Viola Davis purchased the South Carolina home she was born in to celebrate her 55th birthday on Tuesday.
Eight years later she would take home the Best Actress honor for Fences.
Then in 2016, she would take home the Best Actress honor for The Fences
She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series after taking home the 2015 honor
Gold standard: Viola then made her mark in the TV world when she took the role of lawyer Annalise Keating in the Shonda Rimes-created drama How to Get Away with Murder
She became the first black woman to win the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series after taking home the 2015 honor, above
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