Viola Davis has played a soccer player in films and television series.
Jesse Stone : Death in Paradise is a 2006 American television crime film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck , Viola Davis , and Kohl Sudduth . Jesse Stone : Night Passage is a 2006 American television crime drama film directed by Robert Harmon and starring Tom Selleck , Saul Rubinek and Viola Davis . Viola Davis . She played supporting and minor roles in several films and television series in the late 1990s and early 2000s , including the films Kate & Leopold ( 2001 ) and Far from Heaven ( 2002 ) , and the television series Law & Order : Special Victims Unit .