 | Viola Davis in Doubt
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Tony Award winner Viola Davis has been cast in two upcoming films, according to Variety. She will appear opposite Zach Galifianakis in Focus Features' It's Kind of a Funny Story, and in the Millennium Films drama, Trust, to be directed by David Schwimmer, and starring the previously announced Clive Owen and Catherine Keener.
Davis will play a psychiatrist in Funny Story, about a 15-year-old who checks himself into an adult psychiatric ward. She will play a counselor in Trust, about a family dealing with the aftermath of the 14-year-old daughter's victimization by an adult posing as a teen on an Internet chat room.
Davis won Tony and Drama Desk Awards for her performance in King Hedley II, received a Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel, and was Tony-nominated for Seven Guitars. She also received an Academy Award nomination for her role in the film version of Doubt. She will also appear in upcoming episodes of Showtime's in United States of Tara and the upcoming Columbia Pictures film Eat, Pray, Love.
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