Alfre Woodard

Personal Info

Known For Actor

Gender Female

Birthday 1952-11-08 (72 years old)

Place of Birth Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As Άλφρι Γούνταρντ

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

Actor

The Last Frontier

as Bradford

The Boroughs

as Judy

2024
Salem's Lot

as Dr. Cody

2024
Summer Camp

as Mary

2024
The Book of Clarence

as Mother Mary

2024
Monsieur Spade

as Virginia Dell

2023
Weathering

as Mum

2023
Space Oddity

as Dr. Olsen

2023
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

as Mimi Lafayette (voice)

2022
The Gray Man

as Margaret Cahill

2021
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

as Alma Thomas (voice)

2021
Fatherhood

as Marian

2020
2020
Star Trek: Lower Decks

as Lilly Sloane (voice)

2019
Clemency

as Warden Bernadine Williams

2019
The Lion King

as Sarabi (voice)

2019
No Small Matter

as Narrator (voice)

2019
Juanita

as Juanita

2019
Saint Judy

as Judge Benton

2019
See

as Paris

2017
Burning Sands

as Professor Hughes

2017
2016
So B. It

as Bernadette

2016
Marvel's Luke Cage

as Mariah Dillard

2015
2015
Knucklehead

as Sheila

2015
2015
Empire

as Renee

2014
Annabelle

as Evelyn

2014
And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2014
State of Affairs

as President Constance Payton

2014
The Last Ship

as Amy Granderson

2013
12 Years a Slave

as Mistress Shaw

2013
2012
Steel Magnolias

as Ouiser

2011
Women, War & Peace

as Narrator (voice)

2010
Black Panther

as Dondi Reece

2010
Memphis Beat

as Lieutenant Tanya Rice

2010
Black Panther

as Dondi Reece (voice)

2009
Three Rivers

as Dr. Sophia Jordan

2008
Medal of Honor

as Narrator

2008
Reach for Me

as Evelyn

2008
American Violet

as Alma Roberts

2008
My Own Worst Enemy

as Mavis Heller

2008
True Blood

as Ruby Jean Reynolds

2007
2007
2007
Private Practice

as Dee Bennett

2006
King Leopold's Ghost

as Ilanga (voice)

2006
Take the Lead

as Augustine James

2006
The Water Is Wide

as Mrs. Brown

2006
Something New

as Joyce McQueen

2006
Rachael Ray

as Self

2006
The Megan Mullally Show

as Self - Guest

2005
Beauty Shop

as Ms. Josephine

2005
Grey's Anatomy

as Justine Campbell

2004
The Forgotten

as Det. Anne Pope

2004
Desperate Housewives

as Betty Applewhite

2003
Radio

as Principal Daniels

2003
The Singing Detective

as Chief of Staff

2003
A Wrinkle in Time

as Mrs. Whatsit

2003
The Core

as Stickley

2002
The Wild Thornberrys Movie

as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

2001
K-PAX

as Claudia Villars

2001
2000
Holiday Heart

as Wanda Dean

2000
Lost Souls

as Dr. Allen

2000
2000
John Henry

as Polly / Narrator (voice)

2000
Dinosaur

as Plio (voice)

2000
Love & Basketball

as Camille Wright

2000
What's Cooking?

as Audrey Williams

2000
Eleanor Roosevelt

as Narrator (voice)

2000
Static Shock

as Jean Hawkins (voice)

1999
Mumford

as Lily

1999
Funny Valentines

as Joyce May

1999
1998
Down in the Delta

as Loretta Sinclair

1998
The Wild Thornberrys

as Medicine Woman (voice)

1997
1997
Miss Evers' Boys

as Eunice Evers, R.N.

1997
The Member of the Wedding

as Berenice Sadie Brown

1997
The Practice

as Denise Freeman

1996
1996
1996
1996
Primal Fear

as Shoat

1996
1996
Gulliver's Travels

as Queen of Brobdingnag

1995
The Piano Lesson

as Berniece Charles

1994
Crooklyn

as Carolyn Carmichael

1994
Aliens for Breakfast

as Mrs. Marks

1994
Blue Chips

as Lavada McRae

1994
1993
Bopha!

as Rosie Mangena

1993
Heart and Souls

as Penny Washington

1993
Frasier

as Edna (voice)

1993
Homicide: Life on the Street

as Dr. Roxanne Turner

1992
Passion Fish

as Chantelle

1992
Rich in Love

as Rhody Poole

1992
1991
Grand Canyon

as Jane

1990
Blue Bayou

as Jessica Filley

1989
Miss Firecracker

as Popeye Jackson

1988
Scrooged

as Grace Cooley

1988
The Child Saver

as Andrea Crawford

1988
American Experience

as Narrator (voice)

1987
Mandela

as Winnie Mandela

1986
Unnatural Causes

as Maude DeVictor

1986
L.A. Law: Pilot

as Adrianne Moore

1986
Extremities

as Patricia

1986
L.A. Law

as Adrianne Moore

1985
Puss in Boots

as Princess Lovinia

1985
Words by Heart

as Claudie Sills

1985
Sara

as Rozalyn Dupree

1984
1984
Sweet Revenge

as Vicki Teague

1984
1983
Cross Creek

as Geechee

1983
Reading Rainbow

as Herself - Narrator (voice)

1982
Precious Blood

as Narrator

1982
The Ambush Murders

as Karisha Ellsworth

1982
Tucker's Witch

as Marcia Fulbright

1982
Faerie Tale Theatre

as Self - Guest

1982
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

1978
1978
The White Shadow

as Sandra Wilcox

1953
The Oscars

as Self

1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Mrs. Brown

Producer

2019
Clemency

as Executive Producer

2019
No Small Matter

as Executive Producer