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Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthday
November 8, 1952
Place of Birth
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Also Known As
- آلفره وودارد
- Alfre Ette Woodard
Alfre Woodard
1.7 Popularity
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.
Known For
7.2
Jacqueline Bradford
The Last Frontier
2025
0.0
Self
The Inquisitor
2025
5.3
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
6.0
Dr. Cody
Salem's Lot
2024
5.3
Mary
Summer Camp
2024
6.3
Virginia Dell
Monsieur Spade
2024
5.9
Mother Mary
The Book of Clarence
2024
5.0
Mum
Weathering
2023
6.1
Dr. Olsen
Space Oddity
2023
7.7
Mimi (voice)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Credits
The Last Frontier
as Jacqueline Bradford
2025
7.2
The Inquisitor
as Self
2025
0.0
Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self
2025
5.3
Salem's Lot
as Dr. Cody
2024
6.0
Summer Camp
as Mary
2024
5.3
Monsieur Spade
as Virginia Dell
2024
6.3
The Book of Clarence
as Mother Mary
2024
5.9
Weathering
as Mum
2023
5.0
Space Oddity
as Dr. Olsen
2023
6.1
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Mimi (voice)
2023
7.7
The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self
2022
5.6
The Gray Man
as Margaret Cahill
2022
6.9
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
as Alma Thomas (voice)
2021
10.0
Fatherhood
as Marian
2021
7.5
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
as Mary Parrish (voice)
2021
6.3
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
as Self
2020
0.0
Star Trek: Lower Decks
as Lilly Sloane (voice)
2020
7.6
🎬
The Making of Clemency
as Herself
2020
0.0
Clemency
as Warden Bernadine Williams
2019
6.3
See
as Paris
2019
8.1
The Lion King
as Sarabi (voice)
2019
7.1
No Small Matter
as Narrator (voice)
2019
0.0
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
0.0
Juanita
as Juanita
2019
5.4
Saint Judy
as Judge Benton
2019
6.9
Burning Sands
as Professor Hughes
2017
5.8
A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Aunt Josephine
2017
7.4
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
as Self
2016
8.0
Marvel's Luke Cage
as Mariah Dillard
2016
6.9
So B. It
as Bernadette
2016
6.4
Captain America: Civil War
as Miriam
2016
7.4
Mississippi Grind
as Sam
2015
6.0
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
2015
8.0
Knucklehead
as Sheila
2015
7.0
A Path Appears
as Self
2015
8.0
Empire
as Renee
2015
7.1
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
2014
4.6
State of Affairs
as President Constance Payton
2014
5.6
Annabelle
as Evelyn
2014
5.8
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as Self
2014
0.0
The Last Ship
as Amy Granderson
2014
6.8
12 Years a Slave
as Mistress Shaw
2013
7.9
🎬
The Door
as E
2013
4.0
Steel Magnolias
as Ouiser
2012
7.0
Women, War & Peace
as Narrator (voice)
2011
10.0
Memphis Beat
as Lieutenant Tanya Rice
2010
6.9
Who Do You Think You Are?
as Self
2010
6.6
Black Panther
as Dondi Reece
2010
6.2
Black Panther
as Dondi Reece (voice)
2010
6.8
Three Rivers
as Dr. Sophia Jordan
2009
7.0
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
2009
5.1
Medal of Honor
as Narrator
2008
6.5
My Own Worst Enemy
as Mavis Heller
2008
6.5
Reach for Me
as Evelyn
2008
2.8
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
as Alice Pratt
2008
6.7
True Blood
as Ruby Jean Reynolds
2008
7.6
American Violet
as Alma Roberts
2008
6.7
Henry Box Brown
2008
0.0
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Edna Reilly
2007
6.6
Private Practice
as Dee Bennett
2007
7.5
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
as Self - Narrator
2007
7.0
Class of 3000
2006
6.4
The Megan Mullally Show
as Self - Guest
2006
4.2
Rachael Ray
as Self
2006
5.1
King Leopold's Ghost
as Ilanga (voice)
2006
7.6
Take the Lead
as Augustine James
2006
6.9
Something New
as Joyce McQueen
2006
6.4
The Water Is Wide
as Mrs. Brown
2006
6.8
Beauty Shop
as Ms. Josephine
2005
6.3
Grey's Anatomy
as Justine Campbell
2005
8.2
Desperate Housewives
as Betty Applewhite
2004
7.9
The Forgotten
as Det. Anne Pope
2004
5.9
Radio
as Principal Daniels
2003
7.3
The Singing Detective
as Chief of Staff
2003
5.0
A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. Whatsit
2003
6.2
The Core
as Stickley
2003
5.8
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Narrator
2003
6.1
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
4.8
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2002
6.4
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2002
6.3
K-PAX
as Claudia Villars
2001
7.2
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
as Medicine Woman (voice)
2001
6.9
Disney's American Legends
2001
7.4
Holiday Heart
as Wanda Dean
2000
6.8
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
as Narrator
2000
6.0
Lost Souls
as Dr. Allen
2000
5.0
Static Shock
as Jean Hawkins (voice)
2000
8.1
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as Mary Parrish (voice)
2000
0.0
John Henry
as Polly / Narrator (voice)
2000
7.1
Dinosaur
as Plio (voice)
2000
6.5
Love & Basketball
as Camille Wright
2000
7.3
What's Cooking?
as Audrey Williams
2000
5.5
Eleanor Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
2000
8.0
Mumford
as Lily
1999
6.5
Funny Valentines
as Joyce May
1999
7.2
The Underground Railroad
1999
0.0
The Wishing Tree
as Clara
1999
7.4
Down in the Delta
as Loretta Sinclair
1998
6.2
The Wild Thornberrys
as Medicine Woman (voice)
1998
7.0
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
as Narrator
1997
0.0
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
as Maisie (voice)
1997
6.1
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Narrator (voice)
1997
0.0
The Practice
as Denise Freeman
1997
7.6
Follow Me Home
as Evey
1997
3.5
Miss Evers' Boys
as Eunice Evers, R.N.
1997
6.3
🎬
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1997
5.5
Star Trek: First Contact
as Lily Sloane
1996
7.3
A Step Toward Tomorrow
as Dr. Sadlin
1996
3.7
The Daily Show
as Self
1996
6.4
Special Report: Journey to Mars
as Tamara O'Neil
1996
5.0
Primal Fear
as Shoat
1996
7.7
Gulliver's Travels
as Queen of Brobdingnag
1996
7.1
How to Make an American Quilt
as Marianna
1995
6.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Winsome (voice)
1995
6.0
The Piano Lesson
as Berniece Charles
1995
7.2
Crooklyn
as Carolyn Carmichael
1994
6.8
Aliens for Breakfast
as Mrs. Marks
1994
3.0
Blue Chips
as Lavada McRae
1994
6.1
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
as Narrator
1994
10.0
Frasier
as Edna (voice)
1993
7.7
Bopha!
as Rosie Mangena
1993
5.3
Heart and Souls
as Penny Washington
1993
6.9
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
8.1
Passion Fish
as Chantelle
1992
6.9
Rich in Love
as Rhody Poole
1992
6.3
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as Ann
1992
5.1
HBO First Look
as Self
1992
4.9
Grand Canyon
as Jane
1991
6.4
Blue Bayou
as Jessica Filley
1990
0.0
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
as Mary Thomas
1989
0.0
Miss Firecracker
as Popeye Jackson
1989
5.6
Scrooged
as Grace Cooley
1988
6.8
American Experience
as Narrator (voice)
1988
6.9
The Child Saver
as Andrea Crawford
1988
0.0
Mandela
as Winnie Mandela
1987
4.4
Unnatural Causes
as Maude DeVictor
1986
6.8
L.A. Law
as Adrianne Moore
1986
7.0
L.A. Law: Pilot
as Adrianne Moore
1986
0.0
Extremities
as Patricia
1986
6.1
Puss in Boots
as Princess Lovinia
1985
5.0
Sara
as Rozalyn Dupree
1985
7.5
Words by Heart
as Claudie Sills
1985
0.0
Black Hollywood
as Self
1984
0.0
Sweet Revenge
as Vicki Teague
1984
6.0
🎬
WonderWorks
as Claudie Sills
1984
0.0
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Esther
1984
6.4
The Killing Floor
as Mattie
1984
7.3
Cross Creek
as Geechee
1983
6.6
Reading Rainbow
as Self - Narrator (voice)
1983
8.3
St. Elsewhere
as Roxanne Turner
1982
5.6
Tucker's Witch
as Marcia Fulbright
1982
4.0
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Self - Guest
1982
8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
as Princess Lovinia
1982
8.1
Precious Blood
as Narrator
1982
8.0
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman who lost her stuff
1982
10.0
The Ambush Murders
as Karisha Ellsworth
1982
9.0
The Sophisticated Gents
as Evelyn Evers
1981
7.0
Hill Street Blues
1981
7.6
HealtH
as Sally Benbow
1980
5.2
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
5.5
Freedom Road
as Katie
1979
4.8
The White Shadow
as Sandra Wilcox
1978
7.1
The Trial of the Moke
as Lucy Smith
1978
5.5
Remember My Name
as Rita
1978
6.0
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
4.5
The Oscars
as Self
1953
7.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Brown
1951
8.6
🎬
The Boroughs
as Judy
N/A
0.0
🎬
Hate to See You Go
N/A
0.0
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
as Self
N/A
0.0