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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

Annabelle

2014
as Evelyn

Marvel's Luke Cage

2016
as Mariah Dillard

Desperate Housewives

2004
as Betty Applewhite

The Lion King

2019
as Sarabi (voice)

See

2019
as Paris

Fatherhood

2021
as Marian

Captain America: Civil War

2016
as Miriam Sharpe

12 Years a Slave

2013
as Mistress Shaw

The Gray Man

2022
as Margaret Cahill

A Series of Unfortunate Events

2017
as Aunt Josephine

Dinosaur

2000
as Plio (voice)

Primal Fear

1996
as Richterin Miriam Shoat

State of Affairs

2014
as President Constance Payton

Salem’s Lot

2024
as Dr. Cody

Star Trek: First Contact

1996
as Lily Sloane

The Forgotten

2004
as Det. Anne Pope

Tucker's Witch

1982

Blue Chips

1994
as Lavada McRae

Reach for Me

2009
as Evelyn

Cross Creek

1983
as Geechee

Passion Fish

1992
as Chantelle

King Leopold's Ghost

2006
as Ilanga

Miss Firecracker

1989
as Popeye Jackson

Radio

2003
as Principle Daniels

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

2001
as Medicine Woman

Miss Evers' Boys

1997
as Eunice Evers, R.N.

Go Tell It On The Mountain

1984
as Esther

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

1989
as Mary Thomas

Holiday Heart

2000
as Wanda

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003
as Narrator

Take the Lead

2006
as Augustine James

Special Report: Journey to Mars

1996
as Tamara O'Neil

Women, War & Peace

2011
as Self - Narrator

A Wrinkle in Time

2003
as Mrs. Whatsit

The Child Saver

1988
as Andrea Crawford

Sara

1985

So B. It

2016
as Bernadette

Bopha!

1993
as Rosie Mangena

The Wishing Tree

1999
as Clara

Rich in Love

1992
as Rhody Poole

Beauty Shop

2005
as Ms. Josephine

Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race

2015
as Narrator

The Boroughs

The Family That Preys

2008
as Alice Pratt

American Violet

2008
as Alma Roberts

Disney's American Legends

2001

Follow Me Home

1996
as Evey

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992
as Attorney Ann Orkin

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

2014
as Alfre Woodard

Black Hollywood

1984
as Alfre Woodard

Aliens for Breakfast

1994
as Mrs. Marks

Saint Judy

2019
as Judge Benton

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

2002
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

The Hadza: Last of the First

2014
as Narrator

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016
as Herself

Henry Box Brown

2008
as Self - Narrator

Words by Heart

1985
as Claudie Sills

My Own Worst Enemy

2008
as Mavis Heller

The War We Are Living

2011
as Self - Narrator

What's Cooking?

2000
as Audrey Williams

Three Rivers

2009
as Sophia Jordan

Scrooged

1988
as Grace Cooley

Love & Basketball

2000
as Camille Wright

Pictures of Hollis Woods

2007
as Edna Reilly

Remember My Name

1978
as Rita

Burning Sands

2017
as Professor Hughes

The Singing Detective

2003
as Chief of Staff

Mumford

1999
as Lily

Down in the Delta

1998
as Loretta Sinclair

Extremities

1986
as Patricia

Clemency

2019
as Warden Bernadine Williams

Crooklyn

1994
as Carolyn Carmichael

K-PAX

2001
as Claudia Villars

The Piano Lesson

1995
as Berniece Charles

Juanita

2019
as Juanita

Funny Valentines

1999
as Joyce May

John Henry

2000
as Polly / Narrator (voice)

Lost Souls

2000
as Dr. Allen

The Ambush Murders

1982
as Kariha Ellsworth

The Trial of the Moke

1978
as Lucy

No Small Matter

2020
as Narrator

Summer Camp

2024
as Mary

Steel Magnolias

2012
as Ouiser

Black Panther

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

Mississippi Grind

2015
as Bookmaker

The Water Is Wide

2006
as Mrs. Brown

Memphis Beat

2010
as Lt. Tanya Rice

Heart and Souls

1993
as Penny Washington

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Marianna

A Step Toward Tomorrow

1997
as Dr. Sadlin

The Core

2003
as Stickley

American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt

2000
as Self - Narrator

HealtH

1980
as Sally Benbow

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

2023
as Mimi

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994
as Alfre Woodard

Grand Canyon

1991
as Jane

The Underground Railroad

1999
as Host

Mandela

1987
as Winnie Mandela

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Producer

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

Guest Star

Episode Frasier
The Botched Language of the Cranes 		1994
Episode American Experience
Malcolm X: Make It Plain 		1994
Episode Empire (2015)
False Face 		2018
Episode The White Shadow
Reunion (1) 		1980
Episode The Last Ship
No Place Like Home 		2014
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
The Piano Lesson 		1995
Episode The Practice
Final Judgment (2) 		2003
Episode Empire (2015)
Fair Terms 		2018
Episode The Late Late Show with James Corden
Jason Momoa, Alfre Woodard, Hollywood Vampires 		2019
Episode Homicide: Life on the Street
Mercy 		1998
Episode Empire (2015)
The Empire Unpossess'd 		2018
Episode St. Elsewhere
Fathers and Sons 		1985
Episode St. Elsewhere
Slip Sliding Away 		1987
Episode Today
December 1, 2014 		2014
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
Pictures of Hollis Woods 		2007
Episode The Dick Cavett Show
Alfre Woodard 		1993
Episode Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Mike Colter; Alfre Woodard 		2018
Episode St. Elsewhere
The Equalizer 		1986
Episode Hallmark Hall Of Fame
The Water Is Wide 		2006
Episode The Talk
Alfre Woodard 		2017
Episode American Experience
Eleanor Roosevelt 		2000
Episode St. Elsewhere
The Abby Singer Show 		1988
Episode True Blood
Let's Boot and Rally 		2012
Episode Rachael Ray
Chef Emeril Lagasse is in the house today and he's serving up a New Orleans classic 		2019
Episode Star Trek: Lower Decks
Fissure Quest (1) 		2024
Episode The Practice
Down The Hatch (1) 		2003
Episode True Blood
Hopeless 		2012
Episode L.A. Law
Pilot 		1986
Episode Static Shock
Flashback 		2003
Episode Variety: Actors on Actors
Episode 3 		2020