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Alfre Woodard

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

Born: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA, 1952-11-08

Died: null

Film

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1978	Remember My Name	Rita	61
2	1978	The Trial of the Moke	Lucy Smith	55
3	1979	Freedom Road	Katie	48
4	1980	HealtH	Sally Benbow	52
5	1982	The Ambush Murders	Karisha Ellsworth	90
6	1982	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf	Woman who lost her stuff	100
7	1982	Precious Blood	Narrator	80
8	1983	Cross Creek	Geechee	66
9	1984	The Killing Floor	Mattie	80
10	1984	Sweet Revenge	Vicki Teague	60
11	1984	Black Hollywood	Self	0
12	1985	Words by Heart	Claudie Sills	0
13	1985	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Esther	64
14	1985	Puss in Boots	Princess Lovinia	50
15	1986	Extremities	Patricia	61
16	1986	L.A. Law: Pilot	Adrianne Moore	0
17	1986	Unnatural Causes	Maude DeVictor	68
18	1987	Mandela	Winnie Mandela	44
19	1988	The Child Saver	Andrea Crawford	0
20	1988	Scrooged	Grace Cooley	68
21	1989	Miss Firecracker	Popeye Jackson	56
22	1989	A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story	Mary Thomas	0
23	1990	Blue Bayou	Jessica Filley	0
24	1991	Grand Canyon	Jane	65
25	1992	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag	Ann	51
26	1992	Rich in Love	Rhody Poole	67
27	1992	Passion Fish	Chantelle	69
28	1993	Heart and Souls	Penny Washington	69
29	1993	Bopha!	Rosie Mangena	52
30	1994	Malcolm X: Make It Plain	Narrator	100
31	1994	Blue Chips	Lavada McRae	61
32	1994	Aliens for Breakfast	Mrs. Marks	30
33	1994	Crooklyn	Carolyn Carmichael	68
34	1995	The Piano Lesson	Berniece Charles	72
35	1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Marianna	64
36	1996	Primal Fear	Shoat	77
37	1996	Special Report: Journey to Mars	Tamara O'Neil	50
38	1996	A Step Toward Tomorrow	Dr. Sadlin	37
39	1996	Star Trek: First Contact	Lily Sloane	73
40	1997	The Member of the Wedding	Berenice Sadie Brown	55
41	1997	Miss Evers' Boys	Eunice Evers, R.N.	63
42	1997	Follow Me Home	Evey	35
43	1997	Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature	Narrator (voice)	0
44	1997	The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue	Maisie (voice)	61
45	1998	Down in the Delta	Loretta Sinclair	64
46	1999	The Wishing Tree	Clara	74
47	1999	The Underground Railroad		0
48	1999	Funny Valentines	Joyce May	72
49	1999	Mumford	Lily	65
50	2000	Eleanor Roosevelt	Narrator (voice)	80
51	2000	What's Cooking?	Audrey Williams	56
52	2000	Love & Basketball	Camille Wright	74
53	2000	Dinosaur	Plio (voice)	65
54	2000	John Henry	Polly / Narrator (voice)	71
55	2000	The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story	Mary Parrish (voice)	0
56	2000	Lost Souls	Dr. Allen	50
57	2000	Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks	Narrator	60
58	2000	Holiday Heart	Wanda Dean	69
59	2001	Disney's American Legends		74
60	2001	The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie	Medicine Woman (voice)	70
61	2001	K-PAX	Claudia Villars	72
62	2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Self	63
63	2002	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)	63
64	2003	Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives		48
65	2003	Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property	Narrator	61
66	2003	The Core	Stickley	58
67	2003	A Wrinkle in Time	Mrs. Whatsit	62
68	2003	Radio	Principal Daniels	73
69	2003	The Singing Detective	Chief of Staff	51
70	2004	The Forgotten	Det. Anne Pope	59
71	2005	Beauty Shop	Ms. Josephine	63
72	2006	The Water Is Wide	Mrs. Brown	68
73	2006	Something New	Joyce McQueen	64
74	2006	Take the Lead	Augustine James	69
75	2006	King Leopold's Ghost	Ilanga (voice)	78
76	2007	Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty	Self - Narrator	70
77	2007	Pictures of Hollis Woods	Edna Reilly	66
78	2008	Henry Box Brown		0
79	2008	American Violet	Alma Roberts	67
80	2008	Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys	Alice Pratt	68
81	2008	Reach for Me	Evelyn	30
82	2008	Medal of Honor	Narrator	65
83	2010	Black Panther	Dondi Reece	61
84	2012	Steel Magnolias	Ouiser	70
85	2013	The Door	E	40
86	2013	12 Years a Slave	Mistress Shaw	79
87	2014	And the Oscar Goes To...	Self (archive footage)	70
88	2014	Nelson Mandela Redrawn	Self	0
89	2014	Annabelle	Evelyn	58
90	2015	A Path Appears	Self	80
91	2015	Knucklehead	Sheila	70
92	2015	Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band	Mary Lou Williams (voice)	80
93	2015	Mississippi Grind	Sam	60
94	2016	Captain America: Civil War	Miriam	74
95	2016	So B. It	Bernadette	64
96	2016	Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise	Self	80
97	2017	Burning Sands	Professor Hughes	58
98	2019	Saint Judy	Judge Benton	69
99	2019	Juanita	Juanita	54
100	2019	The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts		0
101	2019	No Small Matter	Narrator (voice)	0
102	2019	The Lion King	Sarabi (voice)	71
103	2019	Clemency	Warden Bernadine Williams	63
104	2020	The Making of Clemency	Herself	0
105	2021	Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street	Mary Parrish (voice)	63
106	2021	Fatherhood	Marian	75
107	2021	Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color	Alma Thomas (voice)	100
108	2022	The Gray Man	Margaret Cahill	69
109	2023	Space Oddity	Dr. Olsen	60
110	2023	Weathering	Mum	50
111	2024	The Book of Clarence	Mother Mary	59
112	2024	Summer Camp	Mary	52
113		Hate to See You Go		0
114	2024	Salem's Lot	Dr. Cody	61
115		Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”	Herself	0
116	2025	The Inquisitor	Self	0

Television

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Mrs. Brown	86
2	1953	The Oscars	Self	71
3	1977	What Really Happened to the Class of '65?		45
4	1978	The White Shadow	Sandra Wilcox	70
5	1980	Palmerstown, U.S.A.		55
6	1981	Hill Street Blues		76
7	1981	The Sophisticated Gents	Evelyn Evers	70
8	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Self - Guest	81
9	1982	Faerie Tale Theatre	Princess Lovinia	81
10	1982	Tucker's Witch	Marcia Fulbright	40
11	1983	Reading Rainbow	Herself - Narrator (voice)	84
12	1984	WonderWorks		0
13	1985	Sara	Rozalyn Dupree	75
14	1986	L.A. Law	Adrianne Moore	71
15	1988	American Experience	Narrator (voice)	74
16	1992	HBO First Look	Self	49
17	1993	Homicide: Life on the Street		80
18	1993	Frasier	Edna (voice)	77
19	1995	Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child	Winsome (voice)	60
20	1996	Gulliver's Travels	Queen of Brobdingnag	71
21	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
22	1997	The Practice	Denise Freeman	77
23	1998	The Wild Thornberrys	Medicine Woman (voice)	69
24	2000	Static Shock	Jean Hawkins (voice)	80
25	2004	Desperate Housewives	Betty Applewhite	79
26	2005	Grey's Anatomy	Justine Campbell	82
27	2006	Rachael Ray	Self	51
28	2006	The Megan Mullally Show	Self - Guest	42
29	2006	Class of 3000		61
30	2007	Private Practice	Dee Bennett	75
31	2008	True Blood	Ruby Jean Reynolds	76
32	2008	My Own Worst Enemy	Mavis Heller	64
33	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
34	2009	Three Rivers	Dr. Sophia Jordan	71
35	2010	Black Panther	Dondi Reece (voice)	69
36	2010	Who Do You Think You Are?	Self	66
37	2010	Memphis Beat	Lieutenant Tanya Rice	69
38	2011	Women, War & Peace	Narrator (voice)	100
39	2014	The Last Ship	Amy Granderson	68
40	2014	State of Affairs	President Constance Payton	54
41	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
42	2015	Empire	Renee	72
43	2016	Marvel's Luke Cage	Mariah Dillard	69
44	2017	A Series of Unfortunate Events	Aunt Josephine	74
45	2019	See	Paris	81
46	2020	Star Trek: Lower Decks	Lilly Sloane (voice)	76
47	2023	Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur	Mimi (voice)	78
48	2024	Monsieur Spade	Virginia Dell	64
49		The Last Frontier	Bradford	0
50		The Boroughs	Judy	0
51	2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Self	90