Viola Davis Joins Schwimmer-Helmed 'Trust' & Focus Feature's 'It's Kind Of A Funny Thing'

Tony Award-winning actress Viola Davis will be joining the casts of Focus Features' "It's Kind of a Funny Story" opposite Zach Galifianakis, and David Schwimmer's "Trust" for Millennium Films, according to a report in Variety.

"Funny Story" is about a depressed 15-year-old boy who checks himself into a psychiatric ward to be restoreD. Davis will play the psychiatrist who coaxes the boy though his troubles and helps him regain faith in himself.

In Trust, Davis will play the counselor who tends to a 14-year-old girl who has been victimized by an adult chat room offender. She will star alongside Clive Owen and Catherine Keener in the film, penned and directed by Schwimmer.

Davis is known primarily as a stage actress, and won a Tony Award for Best Performance by a Featured Actress in a Play and a Drama Desk Award for her role in King Hedley II (2001). She won a second Drama Desk Award for Intimate Apparel (2004). Her films include Traffic (2000), Antwone Fisher (2002), and Solaris (2002). Her performance in Doubt (2008) brought widespread recognition and she was nominated for several awards, including an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress and a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture. Additional screen credits include "Law Abiding Citizen," opposite Jamie Foxx and Gerard Butler, the "United States of Tara" and "Eat, Pray, Love" for Columbia Pictures alongside Julia Roberts.