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