Viola Davis celebrates her humble beginnings as she buys South Carolina plantation home that she was born in for her 55th birthday
Viola Davis is looking back on her humble beginnings as she celebrates her 55th birthday.
The Academy Award-winner showed how far she’s come while revealing her latest real estate purchase: the very South Carolina home she was born in in 1965.
The How To Get Away With Murder talent shared a photo of the modest house to her social media, telling fans: ‘The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life….I own it….all of it.’
From nearly nothing: Viola Davis purchased the South Carolina home she was born in to celebrate her 55th birthday
Success story: The How To Get Away With Murder talent shared a photo of the modest house to her social media, telling fans: ‘It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life….I own it….all of it.’ She’s seen in February 2020 above
She continued with the Cherokee birth blessing, writing: ‘May you live long enough to know why you were born.’
Not only did Viola snag the home her grandma used to own but she purchased the land surrounding it as well.
The bare-bones residence is said to previously been part of a plantation, meaning the history of the property runs deep and dark.