Octavia Spencer 1970 55
Octavia Spencer 1970 55
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).
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2025 Smurfs as Asmodius (voice)
2025 Tow
2025 Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
2025 The Heart
2025 Nobody Nothing Nowhere Producer
2024 Becoming bell hooks as Self
2022 Spirited as Kimberly
2022 Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter as Self
2022 The Quest for Sleep as Narrator
2021 Encounter as Hattie Hayes
2021 Thunder Force as Emily Stanton
2020 Superintelligence as Octavia Spencer (voice)
2020 Roald Dahl's The Witches as Grandma
2020 Onward as The Manticore (voice)
2020 Dolittle as Dab-Dab (voice)
2019 Luce as Harriet Wilson
2019 Ma as Sue Ann Executive Producer
2019 HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé as Self
2018 Green Book Executive Producer
2018 Instant Family as Karen
2018 A Kid Like Jake as Judy
2018 Small Town Crime as Kelly Banks Executive Producer
2017 The Shape of Water as Zelda Fuller
2017 Candid Executive Producer
2017 Gifted as Roberta Taylor
2017 Car Dogs as Mrs. Barrett
2017 The Shack as Papa / Elouisa
2016 Hidden Figures as Dorothy Vaughan
2016 Bad Santa 2 as Opal
2016 The Free World as Linda Workman
2016 Allegiant as Johanna Reyes
2016 Zootopia as Mrs. Otterton (voice)
2015 The Great Gilly Hopkins as Miss Harris
2015 Fathers and Daughters as Dr. Corman
2015 Insurgent as Johanna Reyes
2014 Black or White as Rowena Jeffers
2014 Get on Up as Aunt Honey
2013 Jesus People as Angel Angelique
2013 Paradise as Loray
2013 Lost on Purpose as Nurse Keller
2013 Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters as Martha (voice)
2013 Snowpiercer as Tanya
2013 Fruitvale Station as Wanda Co-Executive Producer
2013 Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy as Narrator (voice)
2013 Call Me Crazy: A Five Film as Dr. Nance
2012 Blues for Willadean as LeSonia Robinson
2012 Smashed as Jenny
2011 Flypaper as Madge Wiggins
2011 The Help as Minny Jackson
2011 Just Peck as Detention Teacher
2010 Peep World as Alison
2010 Love and Distrust as Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")
2010 Dinner for Schmucks as Madame Nora
2010 Small Town Saturday Night as Rhonda Dooley
2009 Herpes Boy as Rochelle
2009 Halloween II as Nurse Daniels
2009 Drag Me to Hell as Bank Co-Worker
2009 The Soloist as Troubled Woman
2009 Love at First Hiccup as Mrs. Hambrick
2008 Seven Pounds as Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
2008 Pretty Ugly People as Mary
2008 The Spleenectomy as Nurse
2008 Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School as Dr. Evilini
2007 The Nines as Streetwalker
2006 Pulse as Landlady
2006 Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School as Ayisha Lebaron
2005 Beauty Shop as Big Customer
2005 Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous as Middle-Aged Woman
2005 Pretty Persuasion as Woman
2005 Coach Carter as Mrs. Battle
2004 Breakin' All the Rules as Stylist
2004 Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! as Janine
2003 Bad Santa as Opal
2003 Chicken Party as Laqueta Mills
2003 S.W.A.T. as Neighbor in Alley
2003 Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde as Security Guard
2003 Sol Goode as Unemployment Clerk
2002 Little John as Waitress
2002 Spider-Man as Check-In Girl
2001 Everything Put Together as Nurse B
2001 The Sky is Falling as Nurse #2
2001 Follow the Stars Home as Hildy
2001 The Journeyman as Black Belly
2001 Missing Pieces as Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)
2000 Four Dogs Playing Poker as Waitress
2000 American Virgin as Agnes Large
2000 Big Momma's House as Twila
2000 What Planet Are You From? as Baby Nurse
1999 Being John Malkovich as Woman in Elevator
1999 Blue Streak as Shawna
1999 Never Been Kissed as Cynthia
1999 Lansky as Evelyn
1997 Sparkler as Wanda
1997 The 6th Man as Nativity Watson
1996 Valley Girls as Cheerleader
1996 A Time to Kill as Roark's Nurse