Viola Davis, 60, shows off her incredible physique in a swimsuit as she celebrates her birthday in Mexico
The EGOT award-winning actress — who remembered Chadwick Boseman earlier this year — turned 60 on Monday, and marked the occasion by slipping into a sleek orange swimsuit.
She unveiled a short crop of red-tinged hair, teaming her bold new look with equally eye-catching, large, gold hoop earrings.
The How to Get Away with Murder sensation was spotted relaxing on a lounge chair with a friend as she soaked up the sun.
And during some moments the star added a patchwork-patterned cover up and oversized black-framed eyeglasses.
It came just three days after she received an honorary Doctorates of Fine Arts degree from the AFI Conservatory in Los Angeles.
The movie star told People on August 8: 'I'm getting ready to be 60. I don't want to be completely kumbaya this morning, but little Viola is always very close by.
'And I always saw her as damaged, but she wasn't. She had a lot of beautiful qualities in her. I always want to honor her.'
Reflecting on her contributions to the world, she shared, 'There's something deep within me that wants to be good at what I do.
'I want to be remembered as someone who is proficient.'
Following her birth in South Carolina, Viola was raised in Rhode Island.
She attended Rhode Island College, and later Juilliard School from 1989-1993, before making her 1996 Broadway debut in Seven Guitars.
Last week the acclaimed performer was presented the Doctorates of Fine Arts degree by Gina Prince-Bythewood, who directed her in 2022's The Woman King.
According to an account from People, she said to graduates in her acceptance speech: 'You have the power to come home to that one thing that made you want to do this.
'To be healers, to be alchemists, to buck the system, to see life just a little bit different, and therefore you don't just leave something for people. You leave something in them. '
The Fences star was interviewed by The Times in March, and she opened up about her childhood ambitions to become an entertainer.
She sought refuge in her imagination as she grew up in poverty.
'For me and my sister it was playing two wealthy white women who went out for tea in Beverly Hills with our chihuahuas.
'It was an imagination playground. Then, somewhere in there, pain entered into it,' she recalled.
She elaborated about the discipline of acting: 'Training, speech, technique, critics — there's a sense of torture that you almost have to make peace with.'
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