Update, 7:13 PM: Viola Davis returned to Instagram to clarify her post about owning all of the former plantation where she was born. She did not literally buy it, she said. "Uhh....contrary to websites....I do not 'own' above house, I 'own' my STORY!! Too abstract I guess," she wrote, according to E!.

Original, 9:34 AM: Viola Davis celebrated her 55th birthday by making one of the most powerful purchases in her life: She bought Singleton Plantation, a former plantation in St. Matthews, South Carolina and the place where she was born. She shared a photo on her Instagram, writing, "The above is the house where I was born August 11, 1965. It is the birthplace of my story. Today on my 55th year of life....I own it....all of it."