Alfre Woodard 1952 72
Alfre Woodard 1952 72
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.
From Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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2025 Hate to See You Go
2025 The Inquisitor as Self
2025 Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball” as Herself
2024 Salem's Lot as Dr. Cody
2024 Summer Camp as Mary
2024 The Book of Clarence as Mother Mary
2023 Weathering as Mum
2023 Space Oddity as Dr. Olsen
2022 The Gray Man as Margaret Cahill
2021 Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color as Alma Thomas (voice)
2021 Fatherhood as Marian
2021 Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street as Mary Parrish (voice)
2020 The Making of Clemency as Herself
2019 Clemency as Warden Bernadine Williams Executive Producer
2019 The Lion King as Sarabi (voice)
2019 No Small Matter as Narrator (voice) Executive Producer
2019 The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019 Juanita as Juanita
2019 Saint Judy as Judge Benton
2017 Burning Sands as Professor Hughes
2016 Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise as Self
2016 Marvel's Luke Cage as Mariah Dillard
2016 So B. It as Bernadette
2016 Captain America: Civil War as Miriam
2015 Mississippi Grind as Sam
2015 Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
2015 Knucklehead as Sheila
2015 A Path Appears as Self
2014 Annabelle as Evelyn
2014 Nelson Mandela Redrawn as Self
2014 And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)
2013 12 Years a Slave as Mistress Shaw
2013 The Door as E
2012 Steel Magnolias as Ouiser
2010 Black Panther as Dondi Reece
2008 Medal of Honor as Narrator
2008 Reach for Me as Evelyn
2008 Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys as Alice Pratt
2008 American Violet as Alma Roberts
2008 Henry Box Brown
2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods as Edna Reilly
2007 Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty as Self - Narrator
2006 King Leopold's Ghost as Ilanga (voice)
2006 Take the Lead as Augustine James
2006 The Water Is Wide as Mrs. Brown
2006 Something New as Joyce McQueen
2005 Beauty Shop as Ms. Josephine
2004 The Forgotten as Det. Anne Pope
2003 Radio as Principal Daniels
2003 The Singing Detective as Chief of Staff
2003 A Wrinkle in Time as Mrs. Whatsit
2003 The Core as Stickley
2003 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Narrator
2003 Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2002 The Wild Thornberrys Movie as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2002 Searching for Debra Winger as Self
2001 K-PAX as Claudia Villars
2001 The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie as Medicine Woman (voice)
2001 Disney's American Legends
2000 Holiday Heart as Wanda Dean
2000 Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks as Narrator
2000 Lost Souls as Dr. Allen
2000 The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story as Mary Parrish (voice)
2000 John Henry as Polly / Narrator (voice)
2000 Dinosaur as Plio (voice)
2000 Love & Basketball as Camille Wright
2000 What's Cooking? as Audrey Williams
2000 Eleanor Roosevelt as Narrator (voice)
1999 Mumford as Lily
1999 Funny Valentines as Joyce May
1999 The Wishing Tree as Clara
1998 Down in the Delta as Loretta Sinclair
1997 The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue as Maisie (voice)
1997 Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature as Narrator (voice)
1997 Follow Me Home as Evey
1997 Miss Evers' Boys as Eunice Evers, R.N.
1997 The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown
1996 Star Trek: First Contact as Lily Sloane
1996 A Step Toward Tomorrow as Dr. Sadlin
1996 Special Report: Journey to Mars as Tamara O'Neil
1996 Primal Fear as Shoat
1995 How to Make an American Quilt as Marianna
1995 The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles
1994 Crooklyn as Carolyn Carmichael
1994 Aliens for Breakfast as Mrs. Marks
1994 Blue Chips as Lavada McRae
1994 Malcolm X: Make It Plain as Narrator
1993 Bopha! as Rosie Mangena
1993 Heart and Souls as Penny Washington
1992 Passion Fish as Chantelle
1992 Rich in Love as Rhody Poole
1992 The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Ann
1991 Grand Canyon as Jane
1990 Blue Bayou as Jessica Filley
1989 A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story as Mary Thomas
1989 Miss Firecracker as Popeye Jackson
1988 Scrooged as Grace Cooley
1988 The Child Saver as Andrea Crawford
1987 Mandela as Winnie Mandela
1986 Unnatural Causes as Maude DeVictor
1986 L.A. Law: Pilot as Adrianne Moore
1986 Extremities as Patricia
1985 Puss in Boots as Princess Lovinia
1985 Go Tell It on the Mountain as Esther
1985 Words by Heart as Claudie Sills
1984 Black Hollywood as Self
1984 Sweet Revenge as Vicki Teague
1984 The Killing Floor as Mattie
1983 Cross Creek as Geechee
1982 Precious Blood as Narrator
1982 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf as Woman who lost her stuff
1982 The Ambush Murders as Karisha Ellsworth
1980 HealtH as Sally Benbow
1979 Freedom Road as Katie
1978 The Trial of the Moke as Lucy Smith
1978 Remember My Name as Rita