Alfre Woodard

Acting · Born 1952-11-08 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Biography

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

• The Inquisitor (2025)
• Summer Camp (2024)
• The Book of Clarence (2024)
• Salem's Lot (2024)
• Weathering (2023)
• Space Oddity (2023)
• The Gray Man (2022)
• Fatherhood (2021)
• Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color (2021)
• Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street (2021)
• The Making of Clemency (2020)
• Clemency (2019)
• Juanita (2019)
• No Small Matter (2019)
• Saint Judy (2018)
• Burning Sands (2017)
• So B. It (2016)
• Captain America: Civil War (2016)
• Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise (2016)
• Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band (2015)
• Mississippi Grind (2015)
• Knucklehead (2015)
• A Path Appears (2015)
• Annabelle (2014)