Alfre Woodard
Acteur·rice
8 novembre 1952 · 73 years old
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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
As an actor
Hate to See You Go
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
Self
The Thing That Hurts
Pockets of Heaven
2034
The Boroughs
2026 · Judy Daniels
The Inquisitor
2025 · Narration
The Last Frontier
2025 · Jacqueline Bradford
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025 · Self
Summer Camp
2024 · Mary
The Book of Clarence
2024 · Mother Mary
Salem's Lot
2024 · Dr. Cody
Monsieur Spade
2024 · Virginia Dell
Weathering
2023 · Mum
Space Oddity
2023 · Dr. Olsen
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023 · Mimi (voice)
The Gray Man
2022 · Margaret Cahill
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · Self - Guest
Fatherhood
2021 · Marian
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021 · Alma Thomas (voice)
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021 · Mary Parrish (voice)
The Making of Clemency
2020 · Herself
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020 · Lilly Sloane (voice)
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020 · Self
The Lion King
2019 · Sarabi (voice)
Clemency
2019 · Warden Bernadine Williams
Juanita
2019 · Juanita
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
No Small Matter
2019 · Narrator (voice)
See
2019 · Paris
Saint Judy
2018 · Judge Benton
Burning Sands
2017 · Professor Hughes
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017 · Aunt Josephine
So B. It
2016 · Bernadette
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Miriam
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016 · Self
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016 · Mariah Dillard
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · Mary Lou Williams (voice)
Mississippi Grind
2015 · Sam
Knucklehead
2015 · Sheila
A Path Appears
2015 · Self
Empire
2015 · Renee
Annabelle
2014 · Evelyn
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014 · Self
State of Affairs
2014 · President Constance Payton
The Last Ship
2014 · Amy Granderson
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · Self
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Mistress Shaw
The Door
2013 · E
Steel Magnolias
2012 · Ouiser
Women, War & Peace
2011 · Narrator (voice)
Black Panther
2010 · Dondi Reece
Black Panther
2010 · Dondi Reece (voice)
Memphis Beat
2010 · Lieutenant Tanya Rice
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010 · Self
Three Rivers
2009 · Dr. Sophia Jordan
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · Self - Guest
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008 · Alice Pratt
Reach for Me
2008 · Evelyn
Medal of Honor
2008 · Narrator
American Violet
2008 · Alma Roberts
Henry Box Brown
2008
My Own Worst Enemy
2008 · Mavis Heller
True Blood
2008 · Ruby Jean Reynolds
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007 · Edna Reilly
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007 · Self - Narrator
Private Practice
2007 · Dee Bennett
Take the Lead
2006 · Augustine James
The Water Is Wide
2006 · Mrs. Brown
King Leopold's Ghost
2006 · Ilanga (voice)
Something New
2006 · Joyce McQueen
Class of 3000
2006
Rachael Ray
2006 · Self - Guest
The Megan Mullally Show
2006 · Self - Guest
Beauty Shop
2005 · Ms. Josephine
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Justine Campbell
The Forgotten
2004 · Det. Anne Pope
Desperate Housewives
2004 · Betty Applewhite
The Core
2003 · Stickley
A Wrinkle in Time
2003 · Mrs. Whatsit
Radio
2003 · Principal Daniels
The Singing Detective
2003 · Chief of Staff
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · Narrator
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002 · Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
Searching for Debra Winger
2002 · Self
K-PAX
2001 · Claudia Villars
Disney's American Legends
2001
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001 · Medicine Woman (voice)
Dinosaur
2000 · Plio (voice)
Love & Basketball
2000 · Camille Wright
Holiday Heart
2000 · Wanda Dean
Lost Souls
2000 · Dr. Allen
What's Cooking?
2000 · Audrey Williams
John Henry
2000 · Polly / Narrator (voice)
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000 · Mary Parrish (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000 · Narrator (voice)
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000 · Narrator
Static Shock
2000 · Jean Hawkins (voice)
Mumford
1999 · Lily
Funny Valentines
1999 · Joyce May
The Wishing Tree
1999 · Clara
The Underground Railroad
1999
Down in the Delta
1998 · Loretta Sinclair
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · Medicine Woman (voice)
Follow Me Home
1997 · Evey
Miss Evers' Boys
1997 · Eunice Evers, R.N.
The Member of the Wedding
1997 · Berenice Sadie Brown
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997 · Narrator (voice)
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997 · Maisie (voice)
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997 · Narrator
The Practice
1997 · Denise Freeman
Cadillac Desert
1997 · Narrator (voice)
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Lily Sloane
Primal Fear
1996 · Shoat
A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996 · Dr. Sadlin
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996 · Tamara O'Neil
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · Queen of Brobdingnag
The Daily Show
1996 · Self
How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · Marianna
The Piano Lesson
1995 · Berniece Charles
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · Winsome (voice)
Crooklyn
1994 · Carolyn Carmichael
Blue Chips
1994 · Lavada McRae
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994 · Narrator
Aliens for Breakfast
1994 · Mrs. Marks
Bopha!
1993 · Rosie Mangena
Heart and Souls
1993 · Penny Washington
Frasier
1993 · Edna (voice)
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · Dr. Roxanne Turner
Passion Fish
1992 · Chantelle
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992 · Ann
Rich in Love
1992 · Rhody Poole
HBO First Look
1992 · Self
Grand Canyon
1991 · Jane
Blue Bayou
1990 · Jessica Filley
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989 · Mary Thomas
Miss Firecracker
1989 · Popeye Jackson
Scrooged
1988 · Grace Cooley
The Child Saver
1988 · Andrea Crawford
American Experience
1988 · Narrator (voice)
Mandela
1987 · Winnie Mandela
Unnatural Causes
1986 · Maude DeVictor
Extremities
1986 · Patricia
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986 · Adrianne Moore
L.A. Law
1986 · Adrianne Moore
Words by Heart
1985 · Claudie Sills
Puss in Boots
1985 · Princess Lovinia
Sara
1985 · Rozalyn Dupree
Sweet Revenge
1984 · Vicki Teague
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984 · Esther
The Killing Floor
1984 · Mattie
Black Hollywood
1984 · Self
WonderWorks
1984 · Claudie Sills
Cross Creek
1983 · Geechee
Reading Rainbow
1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)
The Ambush Murders
1982 · Karisha Ellsworth
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982 · Woman who lost her stuff
Precious Blood
1982 · Narrator
Tucker's Witch
1982 · Marcia Fulbright
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · Self - Guest, Princess Lovinia
St. Elsewhere
1982 · Roxanne Turner
American Playhouse
1982 · Woman who lost her stuff, Mattie, Esther
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Sophisticated Gents
1981 · Evelyn Evers
HealtH
1980 · Sally Benbow
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Freedom Road
1979 · Katie
Remember My Name
1978 · Rita
The Trial of the Moke
1978 · Lucy Smith
The White Shadow
1978 · Sandra Wilcox
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
The Oscars
1953 · Self
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · Mrs. Brown
