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Viola Davis as Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Viola Davis makes Oscars history with Best Actress nomination for queer epic Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Josh Milton - March 15, 2021

Gillian Anderson Eleanor Roosevelt

Gillian Anderson to play bisexual first lady Eleanor Roosevelt in major new series

Patrick Kelleher - February 24, 2021

The unrivalled Cicely Tyson has won an honourary Oscar, several Emmys and the Presidential Medal of Freedom.

Cicely Tyson dies aged 96: Barack Obama, Viola Davis and Billy Porter lead tributes to pioneering acting legend

Matilda Davies - January 29, 2021

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Chadwick Boseman as Levee, Viola Davis as Ma Rainey and Colman Domingo as Cutler in a recording studio

Viola Davis found freedom in playing a ‘big, bisexual, dark-skinned’ woman in Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Reiss Smith - December 18, 2020

Viola Davis as Ma Rainey in Ma Rainey's Black Bottom

Netflix drops trailer for Viola Davis and Chadwick Boseman’s queer epic, Ma Rainey’s Black Bottom

Nick Duffy - October 20, 2020

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How To Get Away With Murder actor applauds character’s sexuality

Meka Beresford - August 10, 2017

Helping fans come out to their parents is ‘a blessing,’ says How To Get Away With Murder’s Jack Falahee

Josh Jackman - March 21, 2017

WATCH: Viola Davis promises to ‘fight’ for LGBT families

Joe Williams - April 18, 2016

#OscarsSoWhite trends amid Oscar nominations controversy

Joseph McCormick - January 15, 2016

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