Award-winning actress Viola Davis of “Getting Away with Murder” was born in rural South Carolina. She is set to publish ...

In 2016 she talked to then editorial director of People and Entertainment Weekly magazines, Jess Cagle, about her short time on her grandmother’s farm, which was a part of the Singleton ...

Viola Davis did not buy the plantation she was born on despite it being the latest online rumor du jour.. The claim spread like wildfire after an Instagram post Davis authored in honor of her 55 ...

Original story, 8/12: Viola Davis celebrated her 55th birthday by making one of the most powerful purchases in her life: She bought Singleton Plantation, a former plantation in St. Matthews, South ...

The house is on the Singleton Plantation in St. Matthews, S.C., where her grandfather worked as a sharecropper. She posted a photo of the house on social media: ...

The spot marks her grandmother's old farm on what was the Singleton Plantation. "The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965," Davis wrote in a post, along with a photo of the now ...

Viola Davis would like to clarify something about her ancestral home. Namely, that she does not actually own it. The Oscar-, Tony- and Emmy-winning actor posted an Instagram on Tuesday of a small ...

"May you live long enough to know why you were born," she added, quoting a Cherokee blessing. The land, which was known as Singleton Plantation, was where Davis' grandparents also lived and worked.

Viola Davis Buys Former Plantation She Was Born on for Her Birthday "160 acres of land, and my grandfather was a sharecropper. Most of my uncles and cousins, they're farmers.

CALHOUN COUNTY, S.C. — Award-winning actress Viola Davis says she "owns" her story and her history of the home on a South Carolina plantation where she was born. Davis, who turned 55, posted a ...