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2. Viola Davis
In 2018, award-winning actress Viola Davis spoke about being excluded from roles due to her race. “I have a career that’s probably comparable to Meryl Streep, Julianne Moore, Sigourney Weaver. They all came out of Yale, they came out of Juilliard, they came out of NYU. They had the same path as me, and yet I am nowhere near them. Not as far as money, not as far as job opportunities, nowhere close to it,” said Davis, who graduated from Juilliard.
She also addressed the lack of opportunities for actresses of color to publicize their work compared to their white counterparts. “You’ll have a Shailene Woodley, who’s fabulous. And she may have had 37 magazine covers in one year. And then you’ll have a young actress of color who’s on her same level of talent and everything. And she may get four.”
