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