Viola Davis
b. August 11, 1965, Saint Matthews, South Carolina

An award-winning actress equally at home on stage (Intimate Apparel), screen (Fences), or television (How to Get Away with Murder), Davis grew up in Central Falls and graduated from Rhode Island College. Summer Street in Central Falls was honorarily renamed Viola Davis Way in 2016. As of 2023 she was one of only eighteen persons to have achieved EGOT status, and the first from Rhode Island.