Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's Daughter Genesis Looks All Grown Up as They Celebrate Her 15th Birthday with Family Photo
- - - Viola Davis and Julius Tennon's Daughter Genesis Looks All Grown Up as They Celebrate Her 15th Birthday with Family Photo
Kayla GrantJuly 12, 2025 at 12:47 AM
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Viola Davis and Julius Tennon celebrate daughter Genesis' 15th birthday.
Viola Davis' daughter is another year older
The G20 actress shares a photo of her family of three as they posed for a photo with bright smiles on their faces to commemorate the special day
The actress and her husband welcomed their daughter in July 2010
Viola Davis' daughter is celebrating another year around the sun!
The Woman King actress, 59, celebrated her daughter Genesis' 15th birthday with an adorable picture of her family of three. In the photo, Davis, her husband Julius Tennon, and the teenager posed together with bright smiles on their faces.
"And just like that.....our baby is 15. Love you to the moon G.....to the moon......❤️❤️❤️," she wrote in the caption.
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The How to Get Away with Murder star became a mother in July 2010. Despite starring in many award-winning films and TV shows and living an "extraordinary life," the EGOT winner knew something was missing.
"It was great, but it was not fulfilling," Davis told PEOPLE in 2017 of stardom before welcoming her daughter. "I wanted my life to mean and be something deeper. That's when the urge came, and the urge was just very, very, very, strong. So I have a kid now, and she is just the light of our lives."
Being a parent gave Davis "a whole new purpose," but she still isn't the standard PTA mom. "I don't make the brownies," she said. "I'm not the brownie-making mother." The Help actress instead provides lots of love, support and encouragement for Genesis to be her truest self.
"I encourage her to use any source of expression, whether it's TikTok, painting, taking pictures," she told PEOPLE in 2020. "I said, 'Anything about yourself, even the things that you don't think people will love about you, all of it makes up your beauty.' I don't want her to grow up with any shame."
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Viola Davis (L), husband Julius Tennon and daughter Genesis Tennon attend the Los Angeles premiere of MGM Amazon Studios' "G20"
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While she has many accolades, nothing can compare to the approval from her daughter. In April, Davis appeared on Good Morning America and opened up about how her daughter Genesis' reaction to her movie G20 made her feel, describing it as "everything" to her.
"She was so excited. She kept saying, 'Oh my goodness. Mom, Mom, you're golden, mama. You're golden!' And she cried. She laughed," she told co-host Michael Strahan. "I loved being the hero to my teenage daughter. Because usually in these teenage years, you just disappear. They become zombies, and you become anything other than a hero."
"Her sitting there watching me like that... It just, yeah. It was everything," she added.
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