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Personal Info

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-11-08 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Alfre Woodard

Biography:

Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 12 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.

Known For

Acting

2025

2024

Summer Camp as Mary
The Book of Clarence as Mother Mary
Salem's Lot as Dr. Cody
Monsieur Spade as Virginia Dell

2023

Weathering as Mum
Space Oddity as Dr. Olsen

2022

The Gray Man as Margaret Cahill

2021

Fatherhood as Marian
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color as Alma Thomas (voice)

2020

Star Trek: Lower Decks as Lilly Sloane (voice)

2019

The Lion King as Sarabi (voice)
Saint Judy as Judge Benton
Clemency as Warden Bernadine Williams
Juanita as Juanita
No Small Matter as Narrator (voice)
See as Paris

2017

Burning Sands as Professor Hughes

2016

So B. It as Bernadette
Marvel's Luke Cage as Mariah Dillard

2015

Knucklehead as Sheila
Empire as Renee

2014

Annabelle as Evelyn
And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
State of Affairs as President Constance Payton
The Last Ship as Amy Granderson

2013

12 Years a Slave as Mistress Shaw

2012

Steel Magnolias as Ouiser

2011

Women, War & Peace as Narrator (voice)

2010

Black Panther as Dondi Reece
Black Panther as Dondi Reece (voice)
Memphis Beat as Lieutenant Tanya Rice

2009

Three Rivers as Dr. Sophia Jordan

2008

Reach for Me as Evelyn
Medal of Honor as Narrator
American Violet as Alma Roberts
My Own Worst Enemy as Mavis Heller
True Blood as Ruby Jean Reynolds

2007

Private Practice as Dee Bennett

2006

Take the Lead as Augustine James
The Water Is Wide as Mrs. Brown
King Leopold's Ghost as Ilanga (voice)
Something New as Joyce McQueen
Rachael Ray as Self
The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest

2005

Beauty Shop as Ms. Josephine
Grey's Anatomy as Justine Campbell

2004

The Forgotten as Det. Anne Pope
Desperate Housewives as Betty Applewhite

2003

The Core as Stickley
A Wrinkle in Time as Mrs. Whatsit
Radio as Principal Daniels
The Singing Detective as Chief of Staff

2002

The Wild Thornberrys Movie as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

2001

K-PAX as Claudia Villars

2000

Dinosaur as Plio (voice)
Love & Basketball as Camille Wright
Holiday Heart as Wanda Dean
Lost Souls as Dr. Allen
What's Cooking? as Audrey Williams
John Henry as Polly / Narrator (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt as Narrator (voice)
Static Shock as Jean Hawkins (voice)

1999

Mumford as Lily
Funny Valentines as Joyce May

1998

Down in the Delta as Loretta Sinclair
The Wild Thornberrys as Medicine Woman (voice)

1997

Miss Evers' Boys as Eunice Evers, R.N.
The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown
The Practice as Denise Freeman

1996

Primal Fear as Shoat
Gulliver's Travels as Queen of Brobdingnag

1995

The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles

1994

Crooklyn as Carolyn Carmichael
Blue Chips as Lavada McRae
Aliens for Breakfast as Mrs. Marks

1993

Bopha! as Rosie Mangena
Heart and Souls as Penny Washington
Frasier as Edna (voice)
Homicide: Life on the Street as Dr. Roxanne Turner

1992

Passion Fish as Chantelle
Rich in Love as Rhody Poole

1991

Grand Canyon as Jane

1990

Blue Bayou as Jessica Filley

1989

Miss Firecracker as Popeye Jackson

1988

Scrooged as Grace Cooley
The Child Saver as Andrea Crawford
American Experience as Narrator (voice)

1987

Mandela as Winnie Mandela

1986

Unnatural Causes as Maude DeVictor
Extremities as Patricia
L.A. Law: Pilot as Adrianne Moore
L.A. Law as Adrianne Moore

1985

Words by Heart as Claudie Sills
Puss in Boots as Princess Lovinia
Sara as Rozalyn Dupree

1984

Sweet Revenge as Vicki Teague

1983

Cross Creek as Geechee
Reading Rainbow as Herself - Narrator (voice)

1982

The Ambush Murders as Karisha Ellsworth
Precious Blood as Narrator
Tucker's Witch as Marcia Fulbright
Faerie Tale Theatre as Self - Guest
Faerie Tale Theatre as Princess Lovinia

1981

The Sophisticated Gents as Evelyn Evers

1980

HealtH as Sally Benbow

1979

Freedom Road as Katie

1978

The Trial of the Moke as Lucy Smith
The White Shadow as Sandra Wilcox

1977

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mrs. Brown

-

The Last Frontier as Bradford
The Boroughs as Judy

Production

2019

Clemency as Executive Producer
No Small Matter as Executive Producer