Viola Davis (“Eat Pray Love,” “Doubt,” “Antwone Fisher”‘) is headlining the upcoming Dreamworks production of “The Help,” which is based on the best-selling debut novel by Kathryn Stockett.
Davis plays the lead, Aibileen, in the film which explores what happens when the unspoken code of behavior between Southern black women and the white women they work for is fractured.
Filming began last week in Greenwood, Mississippi, and will be released in theaters in 2011.
Joining Davis are veteran actress and Oscar nominee Cicely Tyson as Constantine, Aunjanue Ellis (“Ray”) as Yule May, Octavia Spencer (“Dinner for Schmucks”) as Minnie, La Chanze (Tony winner for “The Color Purple”) as Rachel, Tarra Riggs (“Treme,” “Ballast”) as Gretchen and Nelsan Ellis (“True Blood”) as Henry.
