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