We’re Watching: Notable Black Leading Ladies on TV Dramas Past, Present and Future
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Deron Dalton
Viola Davis – “How to Get Away with Murder”
But Halle Berry isn’t the only A-lister joining network TV. ABC is developing another TV drama with a black female lead. And the network turned to two-time Academy Award nominee Davis to star in the mystery drama produced by Shonda Rhimes. She’ll play Annalise DeWitt, a law professor and criminal defense attorney who with her law students get wrapped up in a murder plot that’ll change the university and their lives.
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