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Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard is an American actress, producer, and political activist. She has been named one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation. She has been nominated once each for an Academy Award and Grammy Award and 18 times for an Emmy Award and has also won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked Woodard seventeenth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century".

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Filmography

12 Years a Slave

2013
as Mistress Shaw

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

1989
as Mary Thomas

A Series of Unfortunate Events

2017
as Aunt Josephine

A Step Toward Tomorrow

1997
as Dr. Sadlin

A Wrinkle in Time

2003
as Mrs. Whatsit

Aliens for Breakfast

1994
as Mrs. Marks

American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt

2000
as Self - Narrator

American Violet

2008
as Alma Roberts

Annabelle

2014
as Evelyn

Beauty Shop

2005
as Ms. Josephine

Black Hollywood

1984
as Alfre Woodard

Black Panther

2010
as Dondi Reece / Dora Milaje / Queen Mother / Miss M'Buve

Blue Chips

1994
as Lavada McRae

Bopha!

1993
as Rosie Mangena

Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race

2015
as Narrator

Burning Sands

2017
as Professor Hughes

Captain America: Civil War

2016
as Miriam Sharpe

Clemency

2019
as Warden Bernadine Williams

Crooklyn

1994
as Carolyn Carmichael

Cross Creek

1983
as Geechee

Desperate Housewives

2004
as Betty Applewhite

Dinosaur

2000
as Plio (voice)

Disney's American Legends

2001

Down in the Delta

1998
as Loretta Sinclair

Extremities

1986
as Patricia

Fatherhood

2021
as Marian

Follow Me Home

1996
as Evey

Funny Valentines

1999
as Joyce May

Go Tell It On The Mountain

1984
as Esther

Grand Canyon

1991
as Jane

HealtH

1980
as Sally Benbow

Heart and Souls

1993
as Penny Washington

Henry Box Brown

2008
as Self - Narrator

Holiday Heart

2000
as Wanda

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Marianna

John Henry

2000
as Polly / Narrator (voice)

Juanita

2019
as Juanita

K-PAX

2001
as Claudia Villars

King Leopold's Ghost

2006
as Ilanga

Lost Souls

2000
as Dr. Allen

Love & Basketball

2000
as Camille Wright

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994
as Alfre Woodard

Mandela

1987
as Winnie Mandela

Marvel's Luke Cage

2016
as Mariah Dillard

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

2023
as Mimi

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016
as Herself

Memphis Beat

2010
as Lt. Tanya Rice

Miss Evers' Boys

1997
as Eunice Evers, R.N.

Miss Firecracker

1989
as Popeye Jackson

Mississippi Grind

2015
as Bookmaker

Mumford

1999
as Lily

My Own Worst Enemy

2008
as Mavis Heller

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003
as Narrator

No Small Matter

2020
as Narrator

Passion Fish

1992
as Chantelle

Pictures of Hollis Woods

2007
as Edna Reilly

Primal Fear

1996
as Richterin Miriam Shoat

Radio

2003
as Principle Daniels

Reach for Me

2009
as Evelyn

Remember My Name

1978
as Rita

Rich in Love

1992
as Rhody Poole

Saint Judy

2019
as Judge Benton

Salem’s Lot

2023
as Dr. Cody

Sara

1985

Scrooged

1988
as Grace Cooley

See

2019
as Paris

So B. It

2016
as Bernadette

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

2014
as Alfre Woodard

Special Report: Journey to Mars

1996
as Tamara O'Neil

Star Trek: First Contact

1996
as Lily Sloane

State of Affairs

2014
as President Constance Payton

Steel Magnolias

2012
as Ouiser

Take the Lead

2006
as Augustine James

The Ambush Murders

1982
as Kariha Ellsworth

The Child Saver

1988
as Andrea Crawford

The Core

2003
as Stickley

The Family That Preys

2008
as Alice Pratt

The Forgotten

2004
as Det. Anne Pope

The Gray Man

2022
as Margaret Cahill

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992
as Attorney Ann Orkin

The Hadza: Last of the First

2014
as Narrator

The Lion King

2019
as Sarabi (voice)

The Piano Lesson

1995
as Berniece Charles

The Singing Detective

2003
as Chief of Staff

The Trial of the Moke

1978
as Lucy

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

The Underground Railroad

1999
as Host

The War We Are Living

2011
as Self - Narrator

The Water Is Wide

2006
as Mrs. Brown

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

2002
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

2001
as Medicine Woman

The Wishing Tree

1999
as Clara

Three Rivers

2009
as Sophia Jordan

Tucker's Witch

1982

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

What's Cooking?

2000
as Audrey Williams

Women, War & Peace

2011
as Self - Narrator

Words by Heart

1985
as Claudie Sills

Producer

Movie No Small Matter 2020
Movie Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa 2014

Guest Star

Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Alfre Woodard 		1993
Episode The Talk
Alfre Woodard 		2017
Episode Rachael Ray
Chef Emeril Lagasse is in the house today and he's serving up a New Orleans classic 		2019
Episode Today
December 1, 2014 		2014
Episode The Practice
Down The Hatch (1) 		2003
Episode American Experience
Eleanor Roosevelt 		2000
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 3 		2020
Episode Empire (2015)
Fair Terms 		2018
Episode Empire (2015)
False Face 		2018
Episode St. Elsewhere
Fathers and Sons 		1985
Episode The Practice
Final Judgment (2) 		2003
Episode Static Shock
Flashback 		2003
Episode True Blood
Hopeless 		2012
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, Hollywood Vampires 		2019
Episode True Blood
Let's Boot and Rally 		2012
Episode American Experience
Malcolm X: Make It Plain 		1994
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Mercy 		1998
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Mike Colter; Alfre Woodard 		2018
Episode The Last Ship
No Place Like Home 		2014
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Pictures of Hollis Woods 		2007
Episode L.A. Law
Pilot 		1986
Episode The White Shadow
Reunion (1) 		1980
Episode St. Elsewhere
Slip Sliding Away 		1987
Episode St. Elsewhere
The Abby Singer Show 		1988
Episode Frasier
The Botched Language of the Cranes 		1994
Episode Empire (2015)
The Empire Unpossess'd 		2018
Episode St. Elsewhere
The Equalizer 		1986
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
The Piano Lesson 		1995
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
The Water Is Wide 		2006