Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 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.
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- Born:
- Nov 8, 1952 In Tulsa - Oklahoma - USA
- Movie/TV Credits:
- 124
- First Appeared:
- In the movie Salem's Lot
- Latest Project:
- Movie The Book of Clarence 2023-10-11
Known For
Filmography
| Movie | Hate to See You Go | 2024 | |
| Movie | Salem's Lot | Dr. Cody | 2024 |
| Series | Maggie Hill | Unknown | 2024 |
| Movie | The Hustle, the Flow, the Verdict | Doris Weeks | 2024 |
| Movie | The Book of Clarence | 2023-10-11 | |
| Movie | The Gray Man | Margaret Cahill | 2022-07-13 |
| Movie | Fatherhood | Marian | 2021-06-18 |
| Movie | Juanita | Juanita | 2019-03-08 |
| Movie | Saint Judy | Judge Benton | 2019-03-01 |
| Movie | The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts | 2019-06-02 | |
| Movie | The Lion King | Sarabi (voice) | 2019-07-12 |
| Series | See | Paris | 2019-11-01 |
| Movie | Clemency | Warden Bernadine Williams | 2019-12-27 |
| Movie | No Small Matter | Narrator (voice) | 2019-06-21 |
| Movie | Burning Sands | Professor Hughes | 2017-01-24 |
| Movie | So B. It | Bernadette | 2016-06-07 |
| Movie | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Herself | 2016-10-14 |
| Series | Marvel's Luke Cage | Mariah Dillard | 2016-09-30 |
| Movie | Captain America: Civil War | Miriam Sharpe | 2016-04-27 |
| Movie | Knucklehead | Sheila | 2015-02-01 |
| Movie | Mississippi Grind | Sam | 2015-07-04 |
| Movie | Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | Mary Lou Williams (voice) | 2015-04-01 |
| Movie | A Path Appears | Self | 2015-01-26 |
| Series | The Last Ship | Amy Granderson | 2014-06-22 |
| Movie | And the Oscar Goes To... | Self (archive footage) | 2014-02-01 |
| Series | State of Affairs | President Constance Payton | 2014-11-17 |
| Movie | Annabelle | Evelyn | 2014-10-02 |
| Movie | The Door | E | 2013-07-02 |
| Movie | 12 Years a Slave | Mistress Shaw | 2013-10-18 |
| Movie | Steel Magnolias | Ouiser | 2012-10-07 |
| Movie | Black Panther | Dondi Reece | 2010-01-18 |
| Series | Memphis Beat | Lieutenant Tanya Rice | 2010-06-22 |
| Series | Black Panther | Dondi Reece (voice) | 2010-01-16 |
| Series | Three Rivers | Dr. Sophia Jordan | 2009-10-04 |
| Movie | American Violet | Alma Roberts | 2008-08-28 |
| Movie | Medal of Honor | Narrator | 2008-11-05 |
| Movie | Reach for Me | Evelyn | 2008-10-01 |
| Movie | The Family That Preys | Alice Pratt | 2008-09-12 |
| Series | My Own Worst Enemy | Mavis Heller | 2008-10-13 |
| Series | True Blood | Ruby | 2008-09-07 |
| Movie | Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty | Self - Narrator | 2007-07-16 |
| Movie | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Edna Reilly | 2007-12-02 |
| Movie | The Water Is Wide | Mrs. Brown | 2006-01-29 |
| Series | Class of 3000 | Unknown | 2006-11-03 |
| Series | The Megan Mullally Show | Unknown | 2006-09-18 |
| Movie | Take the Lead | Augustine James | 2006-03-17 |
| Movie | Something New | Joyce McQueen | 2006-01-29 |
| Movie | Beauty Shop | Ms. Josephine | 2005-04-22 |
| Movie | The Forgotten | Det. Anne Pope | 2004-09-24 |
| Series | Desperate Housewives | Unknown | 2004-10-03 |
| Movie | Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives | 2003-02-10 | |
| Movie | A Wrinkle in Time | Mrs. Whatsit | 2003-04-25 |
| Movie | The Singing Detective | Chief of Staff | 2003-10-24 |
| Movie | Radio | Principle Daniels | 2003-10-24 |
| Movie | The Core | Stickley | 2003-03-28 |
| Movie | Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property | Narrator | 2003-02-16 |
| Movie | Searching for Debra Winger | Self | 2002-07-13 |
| Movie | The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice) | 2002-12-20 |
| Movie | K-PAX | Claudia Villars | 2001-10-22 |
| Movie | Disney's American Legends | 2001-02-12 | |
| Movie | Love & Basketball | Camille Wright | 2000-04-21 |
| Movie | What's Cooking? | Audrey Williams | 2000-01-20 |
| Movie | Dinosaur | Plio (voice) | 2000-05-19 |
| Movie | The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story | Mary Parrish (voice) | 2000-05-31 |
| Movie | Lost Souls | Dr. Allen | 2000-10-13 |
| Movie | Holiday Heart | Wanda Dean | 2000-12-10 |
| Movie | John Henry | Polly / Narrator (voice) | 2000-05-27 |
| Series | Static Shock | Jeanie Hawkins (voice) | 2000-09-23 |
| Movie | Mumford | Lily | 1999-09-24 |
| Movie | Funny Valentines | Joyce May | 1999-02-14 |
| Movie | Down in the Delta | Loretta Sinclair | 1998-12-25 |
| Movie | The Member of the Wedding | Berenice Sadie Brown | 1997-01-29 |
| Movie | Miss Evers' Boys | Eunice Evers, R.N. | 1997-02-22 |
| Movie | Follow Me Home | Evey | 1997-02-28 |
| Series | The Practice | Unknown | 1997-03-04 |
| Movie | The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue | Maisie (voice) | 1997-11-01 |
| Movie | Primal Fear | Shoat | 1996-03-06 |
| Series | Gulliver's Travels | Queen of Brobdingnag | 1996-02-04 |
| Movie | Star Trek: First Contact | Lily Sloane | 1996-11-22 |
| Movie | The Piano Lesson | Berniece Charles | 1995-02-05 |
| Movie | How to Make an American Quilt | Marianna | 1995-10-06 |
| Movie | Blue Chips | Lavada McRae | 1994-02-18 |
| Movie | Crooklyn | Carolyn Carmichael | 1994-05-13 |
| Movie | Aliens for Breakfast | Mrs. Marks | 1994-04-02 |
| Movie | Malcolm X: Make It Plain | Narrator | 1994-01-26 |
| Movie | Heart and Souls | Penny Washington | 1993-08-13 |
| Series | Frasier | Unknown | 1993-09-16 |
| Series | Homicide: Life on the Street | Unknown | 1993-01-31 |
| Movie | Bopha! | Rosie Mangena | 1993-09-16 |
| Movie | The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag | Ann | 1992-08-21 |
| Movie | Passion Fish | Chantelle | 1992-12-11 |
| Movie | Rich in Love | Rhody Poole | 1992-10-01 |
| Movie | Grand Canyon | Jane | 1991-12-25 |
| Movie | A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story | Mary Thomas | 1989-12-03 |
| Movie | Miss Firecracker | Popeye Jackson | 1989-04-28 |
| Movie | Scrooged | Grace Cooley | 1988-11-22 |
| Movie | Mandela | Winnie Mandela | 1987-09-20 |
| Movie | Unnatural Causes | Maude DeVictor | 1986-11-10 |
| Series | L.A. Law | Unknown | 1986-09-15 |
| Movie | Extremities | Patricia | 1986-08-22 |
| Movie | L.A. Law: Pilot | Adrianne Moore | 1986-09-15 |
| Series | Sara | Rozalyn Dupree | 1985-01-23 |
| Movie | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Esther | 1985-01-14 |
| Movie | Words by Heart | Claudie Sills | 1985-01-01 |
| Movie | Puss in Boots | Princess Lovinia | 1985-09-09 |
| Series | WonderWorks | 1984-10-01 | |
| Movie | Black Hollywood | Self | 1984-11-28 |
| Movie | Sweet Revenge | Vicki Teague | 1984-10-31 |
| Movie | The Killing Floor | Mattie | 1984-04-10 |
| Movie | Cross Creek | Geechee | 1983-09-21 |
| Series | Tucker's Witch | Marcia Fulbright | 1982-10-06 |
| Movie | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Woman who lost her stuff | 1982-02-23 |
| Movie | The Ambush Murders | Karisha Ellsworth | 1982-01-05 |
| Series | Hill Street Blues | Unknown | 1981-01-15 |
| Series | The Sophisticated Gents | Evelyn Evers | 1981-09-29 |
| Series | Palmerstown, U.S.A. | Unknown | 1980-03-20 |
| Movie | HealtH | Sally Benbow | 1980-09-12 |
| Movie | Freedom Road | Katie | 1979-10-29 |
| Movie | The Trial of the Moke | Lucy Smith | 1978-05-03 |
| Series | The White Shadow | Unknown | 1978-11-27 |
| Movie | Remember My Name | Rita | 1978-02-10 |
| Series | What Really Happened To the Class Of '65? | Unknown | 1977-12-08 |
| Series | The Oscars | Unknown | 1953-03-19 |
| Series | Hallmark Hall of Fame | Unknown | 1951-12-24 |