Alfre Woodard
Acting
Born 1952-11-08 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
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.
Known for
12 Years a Slave
2013 · Movie
Primal Fear
1996 · Movie
Fatherhood
2021 · Movie
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · Movie
Radio
2003 · Movie
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · Movie
Love & Basketball
2000 · Movie
K-PAX
2001 · Movie
The Lion King
2019 · Movie
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016 · Movie
John Henry
2000 · Movie
Heart and Souls
1993 · Movie
The Gray Man
2022 · Movie
Disney's American Legends
2001 · Movie
Passion Fish
1992 · Movie
Take the Lead
2006 · Movie
King Leopold's Ghost
2006 · Movie
Funny Valentines
1999 · Movie
Steel Magnolias
2012 · Movie
Saint Judy
2018 · Movie
The Piano Lesson
1995 · Movie
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008 · Movie
Scrooged
1988 · Movie
Holiday Heart
2000 · Movie
The Killing Floor
1984 · Movie
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994 · Movie
The Wishing Tree
1999 · Movie
Crooklyn
1994 · Movie
A Path Appears
2015 · Movie
Precious Blood
1982 · Movie
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982 · Movie
Unnatural Causes
1986 · Movie
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014 · Movie
Blue Bayou
1990 · Movie
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021 · Movie
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001 · Movie
The Ambush Murders
1982 · Movie
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000 · Movie
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · Movie
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000 · Movie
The Water Is Wide
2006 · Movie
The Child Saver
1988 · Movie
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000 · Movie
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007 · Movie
Knucklehead
2015 · Movie
American Violet
2008 · Movie
Words by Heart
1985 · Movie
The Underground Railroad
1999 · Movie
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989 · Movie
Sweet Revenge
1984 · Movie
The Inquisitor
2025 · Movie
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019 · Movie
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986 · Movie
Henry Box Brown
2008 · Movie
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997 · Movie
Black Hollywood
1984 · Movie
No Small Matter
2019 · Movie
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
— · Movie
Medal of Honor
2008 · Movie
So B. It
2016 · Movie