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Alfre Woodard is a Actor and Hairstylist American born on 8 november 1952 at Tulsa (USA)

Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard
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Birth name Alfre Woodard
Nationality USA
Birth 8 november 1952 (71 years) at Tulsa (USA)

Alfre Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress, producer, and political activist. Woodard has been named one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 18 times for an Emmy Award (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.

Woodard began her acting career in theater. After her breakthrough role in the Off-Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1977), she made her film debut in Alfre Does Atlanta (1978). In 1983, she won major critical praise and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Cross Creek. In the same year, Woodard won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the NBC drama series Hill Street Blues. Later in the 1980s, Woodard had leading Emmy Award-nominated performances in a number of made for television movies, and another Emmy-winning role as a woman dying of leukemia in the pilot episode of L.A. Law. She also starred as Dr. Roxanne Turner in the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986, and for Guest Actress in 1988.

In the 1990s, Woodard starred in films such as Grand Canyon (1991), Heart and Souls (1993), Crooklyn (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Primal Fear (1996) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996). She also drew critical praise for her performances in the independent dramas Passion Fish (1992), for which she won an Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, as well as Down in the Delta (1998). For her lead role in the HBO film Miss Evers' Boys (1997), Woodard won Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild Awards, and several another awards. In later years she has appeared in several blockbusters, like K-PAX (2001), The Core (2003), and The Forgotten (2004), starred in independent films, and won her fourth Emmy Award for The Practice in 2003. From 2005 to 2006, Woodard starred as Betty Applewhite in the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and later starred in several short-lived series. She appeared in the films The Family That Preys (2008), 12 Years a Slave (2013) and Annabelle (2014), and has also worked as a political activist and producer. Woodard is a founder of Artists for a New South Africa, an organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country. She is a board member of AMPAS.

Biography

Woodard lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, and their two adopted children, Mavis and Duncan. Woodard follows Christian Science. Her daughter, Mavis, served as Miss Golden Globe for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.

In 1989, Woodard is a founder and board member of Artists for a New South Africa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to combating the African AIDS pandemic and advancing democracy and equality in South Africa. Her charity has since raised more than $9 million and has provided healthcare to over 3,500 South African AIDS orphans. She is a board member of the Democratic Party. She supported Barack Obama at the presidential elections in 2008 and 2012. Woodard is also a supporter of LGBT rights and same sex marriage. In February 2009, she joined a group of American film directors and actors on a cultural trip to Iran at the invitation of the "House of Cinema" forum in Tehran.

On August 9, 2015, Woodward appeared TLC's Who Do You Think You Are?. The program did research into her father's genealogy and found out that her great-grandfather Alex Woodard was born a slave in Houston County, Georgia in the early 1840s. At about age 14 or 15, Alex was separated from his family when his master relocated to Jackson Parish, Louisiana. Historians helped Woodard locate evidence that Alex was assessed a poll tax in 1867, indicating that he was registered to vote two years after the Civil War ended. By 1881, Alex had purchased 80 acres of farmland in Jackson Parish. On April 15, 1898, Alex Woodard and his wife Elizabeth sold their 80 acres to her brother, Aaron Stell, as they had moved to Wharton County, Texas, by that time.

Best films

Dinosaur (2000)
(Actress)
Annabelle (2014)
(Actress)
The Forgotten (2004)
(Actress)
Primal Fear (1996)
(Actress)
K-PAX (2001)
(Actress)
Grand Canyon (1991)
(Actress)

Usually with

Queen Latifah
Queen Latifah
(2 films)
Spike Lee
Spike Lee
(2 films)
Mel Gibson
Mel Gibson
(2 films)
Source : Wikidata

Filmography of Alfre Woodard (61 films)

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YearNameJobRoles
2019The Lion KingActressSarabi (voice)
2017So B. ItActressBernadette
2017Burning SandsActressProfessor Hughes
2016Captain America: Civil WarActressMiriam Sharpe
2015Mississippi GrindActressSam
2014AnnabelleActressEvelyn
201312 Years a SlaveActressMistress Shaw
2012Steel MagnoliasActressOuiser
2008American VioletActressAlma Roberts
2008AmericanEastActressAngela Jensen
2008Tyler Perry's The Family That PreysActressAlice Evans
2008Reach for MeActressEvelyn
2007Pictures of Hollis WoodsActressEdna Reilly
2006Something NewActressJoyce McQueen
2006Take the LeadActressAugustine James
2005Tarzan IIActressKala - Tarzan's adoptive gorilla mother loves her son more than anything. Kala is kind and gentle unless provoked, or if her family is threatened.
2005Beauty ShopActress, HairstylistMs. Josephine
2004The ForgottenActressDet. Anne Pope
2003The CoreActressStickley
2003RadioActressPrincipal Daniels
2003The Singing DetectiveActressChief of Staff
2003Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave NarrativesActress
2003A Wrinkle in TimeActressMrs. Whatsit
2003The Singing DetectiveActressChief of Staff
2002The Wild Thornberrys MovieActressAkela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2002Searching for Debra WingerActressSelf
2001K-PAXActressClaudia Villars
2001Disney's American LegendsActress
2000DinosaurActressPlio (voice)
2000Love & BasketballActressCamille Wright
2000Holiday HeartActressWanda Dean
2000Lost SoulsActressDr. Allen
2000What's Cooking?ActressAudrey Williams
1999MumfordActressLily
1999The Wishing TreeActressClara
1998Down in the DeltaActressLoretta Sinclair
1997The Brave Little Toaster to the RescueActressMaisie (voice)
1997Follow Me HomeActressEvey
1997Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of NatureActressNarrator
1997Miss Evers' BoysActressEunice Evers, R.N.
1997Miss Evers' BoysActressEunice Evers, R.N.
1996Primal FearActressShoat
1996Star Trek: First ContactActressLily Sloane
1995How to Make an American QuiltActressMarianna
1995The Piano LessonActressBerniece Charles
1995The Wizard of Oz in Concert: Dreams Come TrueActressHostess
1994Blue ChipsActressLavada McRae
1994CrooklynActressCarolyn Carmichael
1993Bopha!ActressRosie Mangena
1993Heart and SoulsActressPenny Washington
1993Passion FishActressChantelle
1993Rich in LoveActressRhody Poole
1992The Gun in Betty Lou's HandbagActressAnn
1991Grand CanyonActressJane
1989Miss FirecrackerActressPopeye Jackson
1988ScroogedActressGrace Cooley
1987MandelaActressWinnie Mandela
1986ExtremitiesActressPatricia
1983Cross CreekActressGeechee
1980HealtHActressSally Benbow
1978Remember My NameActressRita