Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer

Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.

Known For: Acting

Born: Montgomery, Alabama, USA, 1970-05-25

Died: null

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1997	Sparkler	Wanda	25
2	1999	Being John Malkovich	Woman in Elevator	74
3	2000	Big Momma's House	Twila	58
4	2000	American Virgin	Agnes Large	33
5	2002	Spider-Man	Check-In Girl	73
6	2004	Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!	Janine	57
7	2005	Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous	Middle-Aged Woman	58
8		Nobody Nothing Nowhere		0
9	1996	A Time to Kill	Roark's Nurse	74
10	1996	Valley Girls	Cheerleader	0
11	1997	The 6th Man	Nativity Watson	61
12	1999	Lansky	Evelyn	56
13	1999	Never Been Kissed	Cynthia	62
14	1999	Blue Streak	Shawna	65
15	2000	What Planet Are You From?	Baby Nurse	55
16	2000	Four Dogs Playing Poker	Waitress	36
17	2001	Missing Pieces	Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)	56
18	2001	The Journeyman	Black Belly	50
19	2001	Follow the Stars Home	Hildy	62
20	2001	The Sky is Falling	Nurse #2	80
21	2001	Everything Put Together	Nurse B	48
22	2002	Little John	Waitress	59
23	2003	Sol Goode	Unemployment Clerk	44
24	2003	Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde	Security Guard	57
25	2003	S.W.A.T.	Neighbor in Alley	62
26	2003	Chicken Party	Laqueta Mills	0
27	2003	Bad Santa	Opal	65
28	2004	Breakin' All the Rules	Stylist	60
29	2005	Coach Carter	Mrs. Battle	76
30	2005	Pretty Persuasion	Woman	58
31	2005	Beauty Shop	Big Customer	63
32	2006	Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School	Ayisha Lebaron	58
33	2006	Pulse	Landlady	50
34	2007	The Nines	Streetwalker	60
35	2008	Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School	Dr. Evilini	87
36	2008	The Spleenectomy	Nurse	63
37	2008	Pretty Ugly People	Mary	43
38	2008	Seven Pounds	Kate the Home Health Care Nurse	76
39	2009	Love at First Hiccup	Mrs. Hambrick	54
40	2009	The Soloist	Troubled Woman	67
41	2009	Drag Me to Hell	Bank Co-Worker	64
42	2009	Halloween II	Nurse Daniels	53
43	2009	Herpes Boy	Rochelle	0
44	2010	Small Town Saturday Night	Rhonda Dooley	54
45	2010	Dinner for Schmucks	Madame Nora	57
46	2010	Love and Distrust	Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")	38
47	2010	Peep World	Alison	47
48	2011	Just Peck	Detention Teacher	55
49	2011	The Help	Minny Jackson	82
50	2011	Flypaper	Madge Wiggins	64
51	2012	Smashed	Jenny	65
52	2012	Blues for Willadean	LeSonia Robinson	45
53	2013	Call Me Crazy: A Five Film	Dr. Nance	70
54	2013	Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy	Narrator (voice)	66
55	2013	Fruitvale Station	Wanda	74
56	2013	Snowpiercer	Tanya	69
57	2013	Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters	Martha (voice)	60
58	2013	Lost on Purpose	Nurse Keller	43
59	2013	Paradise	Loray	50
60	2013	Jesus People	Angel Angelique	40
61	2014	Get on Up	Aunt Honey	68
62	2014	Black or White	Rowena Jeffers	68
63	2015	Insurgent	Johanna Reyes	64
64	2015	Fathers and Daughters	Dr. Corman	71
65	2015	The Great Gilly Hopkins	Miss Harris	66
66	2016	Zootopia	Mrs. Otterton (voice)	77
67	2016	Allegiant	Johanna Reyes	61
68	2016	The Free World	Linda Workman	61
69	2016	Bad Santa 2	Opal	54
70	2016	Hidden Figures	Dorothy Vaughan	81
71	2017	The Shack	Papa / Elouisa	75
72	2017	Car Dogs	Mrs. Barrett	55
73	2017	Gifted	Roberta Taylor	80
74	2017	The Shape of Water	Zelda Fuller	72
75	2018	Small Town Crime	Kelly Banks	64
76	2018	A Kid Like Jake	Judy	60
77	2018	Instant Family	Karen	75
78	2019	HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé	Self	81
79	2019	Ma	Sue Ann	58
80	2019	Luce	Harriet Wilson	64
81		Untitled Holiday Comedy Project		0
82	2020	Dolittle	Dab-Dab (voice)	66
83	2020	Onward	The Manticore (voice)	77
84	2020	Roald Dahl's The Witches	Grandma	64
85	2021	Thunder Force	Emily Stanton	55
86		The Heart		0
87	2020	Superintelligence	Octavia Spencer (voice)	60
88	2021	Encounter	Hattie Hayes	63
89	2022	The Quest for Sleep	Narrator	70
90	2022	Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter	Self	80
91	2022	Spirited	Kimberly	69
92	2024	Becoming bell hooks	Self	0
93	2025	Tow		100
94	2025	Smurfs	Asmodius (voice)	0
95		Ma 2	Sue Ann	0

No.	Year	Title	Role	Vote Average
1	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Elegant guest	86
2	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Hildy	86
3	1951	Hallmark Hall of Fame	Waitress	86
4	1953	The Oscars	Self - Presenter	71
5	1975	Saturday Night Live	Self - Host	70
6	1981	Entertainment Tonight	Self	43
7	1993	The X-Files	Nurse	84
8	1994	Chicago Hope		72
9	1994	ER	Maria Jones	78
10	1996	Moesha		69
11	1996	The Daily Show	Self	64
12	1997	Just Shoot Me!	Nurse	66
13	1997	Dharma & Greg	Gloria	64
14	1998	L.A. Doctors		70
15	1998	Brimstone	Duty Nurse	76
16	1998	Becker	Ticket Woman	72
17	1999	Roswell	Nurse	77
18	2000	Malcolm in the Middle	Cashier	85
19	2000	Titus		70
20	2000	CSI: Crime Scene Investigation	Sherry	76
21	2001	Grounded for Life		69
22	2001	The Chronicle	Ruby Rydell	84
23	2002	Presidio Med		80
24	2003	Jimmy Kimmel Live!	Self	55
25	2003	The Ellen DeGeneres Show	Self	57
26	2004	LAX	Flight Attendant	74
27	2004	CSI: NY	Child Welfare Rep	74
28	2005	Medium	Jurist	75
29	2005	The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson	Self	68
30	2005	American Dad!	Shonteeva (voice)	70
31	2006	The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman		58
32	2006	Standoff	Rapid Air Clerk	60
33	2006	Ugly Betty	Constance Grady	63
34	2006	30 Rock	Octavia Spencer	75
35	2007	The Graham Norton Show	Self	72
36	2007	Halfway Home		68
37	2007	The Big Bang Theory	Octavia	79
38	2007	Cavemen		34
39	2007	Wizards of Waverly Place	Dr. Evilini	85
40	2008	Raising the Bar	Arvina Watkins	64
41	2009	Dollhouse	Professor Janack	72
42	2009	Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen	Self - Guest	51
43	2013	Drunk History	Harriet Tubman	68
44	2013	Mom	Regina Tompkins	73
45	2014	Off Camera with Sam Jones	Self	40
46	2014	The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon	Self	59
47	2014	Late Night with Seth Meyers	Self	53
48	2014	Red Band Society	Nurse Jackson	71
49	2014	black-ish	Octavia Spencer	72
50	2014	Variety Studio: Actors on Actors	Self	50
51	2015	Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter	Self	57
52	2016	To Tell the Truth	Self - Panelist	62
53	2016	Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party	Team Martha	85
54	2017	Young Sheldon	Officer Rhonda Tomasson	80
55	2019	The Kelly Clarkson Show		65
56	2019	Truth Be Told	Poppy Parnell	71
57	2022	The Jennifer Hudson Show	Self	62
58	2023	Lost Women of Highway 20	Host	82
59		Ride or Die	Debbie	0
60	2019	Truth Be Told	Poppy Scoville	71
61	2020	Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker	Madam C. J. Walker	74
62	2023	The Santa Stories	Detective Grinchauser	70
63	2025	Number One on the Call Sheet	Self	90
64	2025	My Happy Place	Self	0
65	2025	Family Recipe Showdown	Host	0

Octavia Spencer

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