
Alfre Woodard
- Known for
- Acting
- Born
- November 8, 1952 (age 74)
- Birthplace
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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.
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Filmography
Hate to See You Go
Movie

Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
Movie · as Self
The Thing That Hurts
Movie
Pockets of Heaven
Movie
2034
Movie
Baby of the Family
Movie · as Rachel

The Boroughs
TV · as Judy Daniels · 8 eps

The Inquisitor
Movie · as Narration

The Last Frontier
TV · as Jacqueline Bradford · 10 eps

Number One on the Call Sheet
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Summer Camp
Movie · as Mary

The Book of Clarence
Movie · as Mother Mary

Salem's Lot
Movie · as Dr. Cody

Monsieur Spade
TV · as Virginia Dell · 1 ep

Weathering
Movie · as Mum

Space Oddity
Movie · as Dr. Olsen

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV · as Mimi (voice) · 40 eps

The Gray Man
Movie · as Margaret Cahill

The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

Fatherhood
Movie · as Marian

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Movie · as Alma Thomas (voice)

Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
Movie · as Mary Parrish (voice)
The Making of Clemency
Movie · as Herself

Star Trek: Lower Decks
TV · as Lilly Sloane (voice) · 1 ep

The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
TV · as Self · 1 ep

The Lion King
Movie · as Sarabi (voice)

Clemency
Movie · as Warden Bernadine Williams

Juanita
Movie · as Juanita

The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
Movie

No Small Matter
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

See
TV · as Paris · 16 eps

Saint Judy
Movie · as Judge Benton

Burning Sands
Movie · as Professor Hughes

A Series of Unfortunate Events
TV · as Aunt Josephine · 3 eps

So B. It
Movie · as Bernadette

Captain America: Civil War
Movie · as Miriam

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Movie · as Self

Marvel's Luke Cage
TV · as Mariah Dillard · 26 eps

Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Movie · as Mary Lou Williams (voice)

Mississippi Grind
Movie · as Sam

Knucklehead
Movie · as Sheila

Empire
TV · as Renee · 4 eps

Annabelle
Movie · as Evelyn

Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Movie · as Self

State of Affairs
TV · as President Constance Payton · 13 eps

The Last Ship
TV · as Amy Granderson · 3 eps

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV · as Self · 1 ep

12 Years a Slave
Movie · as Mistress Shaw
The Door
Movie · as E

Steel Magnolias
Movie · as Ouiser

Women, War & Peace
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

Black Panther
Movie · as Dondi Reece

Black Panther
TV · as Dondi Reece (voice) · 6 eps

Memphis Beat
TV · as Lieutenant Tanya Rice · 20 eps

Who Do You Think You Are?
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Three Rivers
TV · as Dr. Sophia Jordan · 13 eps

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV · as Self - Guest · 2 eps

Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Movie · as Alice Pratt

Reach for Me
Movie · as Evelyn

Medal of Honor
Movie · as Narrator

American Violet
Movie · as Alma Roberts

Henry Box Brown
Movie

My Own Worst Enemy
TV · as Mavis Heller · 9 eps

True Blood
TV · as Ruby Jean Reynolds · 5 eps

Pictures of Hollis Woods
Movie · as Edna Reilly

Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
Movie · as Self - Narrator

Private Practice
TV · as Dee Bennett · 1 ep

Take the Lead
Movie · as Augustine James

The Water Is Wide
Movie · as Mrs. Brown

King Leopold's Ghost
Movie · as Ilanga (voice)

Something New
Movie · as Joyce McQueen

Class of 3000
TV · 1 ep

Rachael Ray
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

The Megan Mullally Show
TV · as Self - Guest · 1 ep

Beauty Shop
Movie · as Ms. Josephine

Grey's Anatomy
TV · as Justine Campbell · 1 ep

Inconceivable
TV · as Dr. Lydia Crawford · 2 eps

The Forgotten
Movie · as Det. Anne Pope

Desperate Housewives
TV · as Betty Applewhite · 25 eps

The Core
Movie · as Stickley

A Wrinkle in Time
Movie · as Mrs. Whatsit

Radio
Movie · as Principal Daniels

The Singing Detective
Movie · as Chief of Staff

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Movie · as Narrator

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Movie

The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Movie · as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

Searching for Debra Winger
Movie · as Self

K-PAX
Movie · as Claudia Villars

Disney's American Legends
Movie

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
Movie · as Medicine Woman (voice)

Dinosaur
Movie · as Plio (voice)

Love & Basketball
Movie · as Camille Wright

Holiday Heart
Movie · as Wanda Dean

Lost Souls
Movie · as Dr. Allen

What's Cooking?
Movie · as Audrey Williams

John Henry
Movie · as Polly / Narrator (voice)

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Movie · as Mary Parrish (voice)

Eleanor Roosevelt
Movie · as Narrator (voice)

Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Movie · as Narrator

Static Shock
TV · as Jean Hawkins (voice) · 1 ep

Mumford
Movie · as Lily

Funny Valentines
Movie · as Joyce May

The Wishing Tree
Movie · as Clara

The Underground Railroad
Movie

Down in the Delta
Movie · as Loretta Sinclair

The Wild Thornberrys
TV · as Medicine Woman (voice) · 2 eps

Follow Me Home
Movie · as Evey

Miss Evers' Boys
Movie · as Eunice Evers, R.N.

The Member of the Wedding
Movie · as Berenice Sadie Brown

The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Movie · as Maisie (voice)

Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
Movie · as Narrator

The Practice
TV · as Denise Freeman · 2 eps

Cadillac Desert
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 4 eps

Star Trek: First Contact
Movie · as Lily Sloane

Primal Fear
Movie · as Shoat

A Step Toward Tomorrow
Movie · as Dr. Sadlin

Special Report: Journey to Mars
Movie · as Tamara O'Neil

Gulliver's Travels
TV · as Queen of Brobdingnag · 2 eps

The Daily Show
TV · as Self · 1 ep

How to Make an American Quilt
Movie · as Marianna

The Piano Lesson
Movie · as Berniece Charles

Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV · as Winsome (voice) · 1 ep

Crooklyn
Movie · as Carolyn Carmichael

Blue Chips
Movie · as Lavada McRae

Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Movie · as Narrator

Aliens for Breakfast
Movie · as Mrs. Marks

Bopha!
Movie · as Rosie Mangena

Heart and Souls
Movie · as Penny Washington

Frasier
TV · as Edna (voice) · 1 ep

Homicide: Life on the Street
TV · as Dr. Roxanne Turner · 1 ep

Passion Fish
Movie · as Chantelle

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Movie · as Ann

Rich in Love
Movie · as Rhody Poole

HBO First Look
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Grand Canyon
Movie · as Jane

Blue Bayou
Movie · as Jessica Filley

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Movie · as Mary Thomas

Miss Firecracker
Movie · as Popeye Jackson

Scrooged
Movie · as Grace Cooley

The Child Saver
Movie · as Andrea Crawford

American Experience
TV · as Narrator (voice) · 2 eps

Mandela
Movie · as Winnie Mandela

Unnatural Causes
Movie · as Maude DeVictor

Extremities
Movie · as Patricia

L.A. Law: Pilot
Movie · as Adrianne Moore

L.A. Law
TV · as Adrianne Moore · 1 ep

Words by Heart
Movie · as Claudie Sills

Puss in Boots
Movie · as Princess Lovinia

Sara
TV · as Rozalyn Dupree · 13 eps

Sweet Revenge
Movie · as Vicki Teague

Go Tell It on the Mountain
Movie · as Esther

The Killing Floor
Movie · as Mattie

Black Hollywood
Movie · as Self

WonderWorks
TV · as Claudie Sills · 2 eps

Cross Creek
Movie · as Geechee

Reading Rainbow
TV · as Self - Narrator (voice) · 1 ep

The Ambush Murders
Movie · as Karisha Ellsworth

For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Movie · as Woman who lost her stuff

Precious Blood
Movie · as Narrator

Tucker's Witch
TV · as Marcia Fulbright · 12 eps

Faerie Tale Theatre
TV · as Self - Guest, Princess Lovinia · 1 ep

St. Elsewhere
TV · as Roxanne Turner · 17 eps

American Playhouse
TV · as Woman who lost her stuff, Mattie, Esther · 1 ep

Hill Street Blues
TV · 3 eps

The Sophisticated Gents
TV · as Evelyn Evers · 3 eps

HealtH
Movie · as Sally Benbow

Palmerstown, U.S.A.
TV · 1 ep

Freedom Road
Movie · as Katie

Remember My Name
Movie · as Rita

The Trial of the Moke
Movie · as Lucy Smith

The White Shadow
TV · as Sandra Wilcox · 1 ep

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
TV · 1 ep

The Oscars
TV · as Self · 1 ep

Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV · as Mrs. Brown · 1 ep







