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Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. She has been nominated for an Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 and has won four Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
s, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
.

ard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population in the United States. With an estimated population of 384,037 in 2007, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 905,755 residents projected to reach one million between 2010 and 2012....
 to African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 parents: Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior design
Interior design

Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
er. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University
Boston University

Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
, from where she later graduated.






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Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress
Actor

An actor or actress is a person who acting in a dramatic production and who works in film, television, theatre, or radio programming in that capacity....
. She has been nominated for an Academy Award
Academy Awards

The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
 and has won four Emmy Award
Emmy Award

The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
s, three SAG Awards and one Golden Globe Award
Golden Globe Award

The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
.

Biography


Personal life

Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma
Tulsa, Oklahoma

Tulsa is the second-largest city in the state of Oklahoma and List of United States cities by population in the United States. With an estimated population of 384,037 in 2007, it is the principal municipality of the Tulsa Metropolitan Statistical Area, a region of 905,755 residents projected to reach one million between 2010 and 2012....
 to African American
African American

African Americans or Black Americans are citizens or residents of the United States who have origins in any of the Black people populations of Africa....
 parents: Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior design
Interior design

Interior Design is a profession concerned with anything that is found inside a space - walls, windows, doors, finishes, textures, light, furnishings and furniture....
er. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University
Boston University

Boston University is a private nonsectarian university located in Boston, Massachusetts, Massachusetts, United States. Although chartered by the Massachusetts Legislature in 1869, Boston University traces its roots to the establishment of the Newbury Biblical Institute in Newbury, Vermont in 1839....
, from where she later graduated. Woodard lives in Santa Monica, California
Santa Monica, California

Santa Monica is a city in western Los Angeles County, California, California, United States. Situated on Santa Monica Bay of the Pacific Ocean, it is completely surrounded by the City of Los Angeles ? Pacific Palisades on the northwest, Brentwood, Los Angeles, California on the north, West Los Angeles, Los Angeles, California on the northeast...
, with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, and their two adopted children, Mavis and Duncan. Woodard follows Christian Science
Christian Science

Christian Science is a religious belief system claimed to have been discovered in the year 1866 by Mary Baker Eddy. Practiced most prominently by members of the Church of Christ, Scientist that she founded, Christian Science asserts that humanity and the universe as a whole are, correctly viewed, spiritual rather than material; that truth an...
. She is a founder and board member of Artists for a New South Africa and is also active in the Democratic Party.

Career


Woodard has made numerous guest appearances in television series and motion pictures
Film

Film encompasses individual motion pictures, the field of film as an art form, and the film industry. Films are produced by recording images from the world with cameras, or by creating images using animation techniques or special effects....
. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress

Performance by an Actress in a Supporting Role is one of the Academy Award presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize an actor who has delivered an outstanding performance while working within the film industry....
 for her performance in the 1983 film Cross Creek
Cross Creek (film)

Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
. She also appeared as Lily Sloane, Zefram Cochrane
Zefram Cochrane

Zefram Cochrane is a fictional character in the Star Trek fictional universe. Created by writer Gene L. Coon, the character first appeared in the 1967 Star Trek: The Original Series episode "Metamorphosis ", in which he was played by Glenn Corbett....
's assistant in Star Trek: First Contact
Star Trek: First Contact

Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 in film science fiction film and the Star Trek#Feature films based in the Star Trek. In the film, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation encounter their adversaries the Borg , who attempt to conquer the Earth through the use of time travel....
 and Down in the Delta as a single alcoholic mother from Chicago forced to spend a summer with her uncle in Mississippi.

Woodard's television credits include Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. It is currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on Sunday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom....
, St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
, Puss in Boots
Puss in Boots (Faerie Tale Theatre episode)

Puss in Boots is the 21st episode of the television anthology Faerie Tale Theatre. The story is based on the Charles Perrault fairy tale Puss in Boots and stars Ben Vereen as the title character....
, L.A. Law
L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an United States television legal drama that ran from 1986 in television to 1994 in television. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
, and Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an United States television police procedural series chronicling the work of a fictional Baltimore Baltimore Police Department homicide unit....
. Woodard has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for her television performances in Hill Street Blues
Hill Street Blues

Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. It is currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on Sunday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom....
, L.A. Law
L.A. Law

L.A. Law is an United States television legal drama that ran from 1986 in television to 1994 in television. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
, the television movie Miss Evers' Boys
Miss Evers' Boys

Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment....
, and The Practice
The Practice

The Practice is an United States legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show won the Emmy Award in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the Spinoff series Boston Legal, which began airing in the fall of 2004 and deals with similar subject matter, though o...
. She has also received Emmy nominations for Words by Heart, St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
, Unnatural Causes
Unnatural Causes

You may be looking for Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, a documentary series broadcast on PBS in 2008.Unnatural Causes is a detective novel by England crime writer P....
, a second for St. Elsewhere
St. Elsewhere

St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
, A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story, The Piano Lesson
The Piano Lesson

The Piano Lesson is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the fourth in his series, August Wilson#The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play premiered on 26 November 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theatre and debuted on Broadway theatre in 1990....
, Gulliver's Travels
Gulliver's Travels

Gulliver's Travels , officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre....
, Homicide: Life on the Street
Homicide: Life on the Street

Homicide: Life on the Street is an United States television police procedural series chronicling the work of a fictional Baltimore Baltimore Police Department homicide unit....
, and The Water Is Wide
The Water Is Wide

"The Water Is Wide" might refer to:*The Water Is Wide by Pat Conroy*The Water Is Wide a Hallmark Hall of Fame Television movie based on Pat Conroy's book...
. From 2005 to 2006, Woodard starred in the ABC series Desperate Housewives
Desperate Housewives

Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
, and received another Emmy nomination for her role as Betty Applewhite
Betty Applewhite

Betty Applewhite is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Desperate Housewives. The character is portrayed by actress Alfre Woodard....
. Woodard has appeared on stage in such plays as Map of the World, Drowning Crow, Me & Bessie, and The Winter's Tale
The Winter's Tale

The Winter's Tale is a play by William Shakespeare, first published in the First Folio in 1623. Although it was listed as a comedy when it first appeared, some modern editors have relabeled the play a Romance ....
. She starred in Tyler Perry
Tyler Perry

Tyler Perry is an American playwright, screenwriter, actor and director and producer of independent films and stage plays. His best-known character is Mable "Madea" Simmons, who is a physically imposing and overbearing but well-intentioned woman who serves both as comic relief and as the loud voice of conscience for the protagonists of Perry...
's latest film The Family That Preys
The Family That Preys

The Family That Preys is a 2008 in film drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, who also produced and co-stars. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Kathy Bates, and Sanaa Lathan....
.

Awards and nominations


Awards

  • 1984 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series - Hill Street Blues
    Hill Street Blues

    Hill Street Blues is a serial police drama that was first aired on NBC in 1981 and ran for 146 episodes on primetime into 1987. It is currently being aired on AmericanLife TV Network on Sunday nights in the United States, and on weekday afternoons on digital network More 4 in the United Kingdom....
  • 1987 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series - L.A. Law
    L.A. Law

    L.A. Law is an United States television legal drama that ran from 1986 in television to 1994 in television. It was one of the most popular American television shows of the late 1980s and early 1990s....
  • 1996 - Screen Actors Guild
    Screen Actors Guild

    The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
     - Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries - The Piano Lesson
    The Piano Lesson

    The Piano Lesson is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the fourth in his series, August Wilson#The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play premiered on 26 November 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theatre and debuted on Broadway theatre in 1990....
  • 1997 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or A Special - Miss Evers' Boys
  • 1998 - Screen Actors Guild
    Screen Actors Guild

    The Screen Actors Guild is an American trade union representing over 120,000 film and television actor and extra worldwide. According to SAG's Mission Statement, the Guild seeks to: negotiate and enforce collective bargaining agreements that establish equitable levels of compensation, benefits, and working conditions for its performers; col...
     - Outstanding Actress in a TV Movie or Miniseries - Miss Evers' Boys
  • 1998 - Golden Globe
    Golden Globe Award

    The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
     - Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture - Miss Evers' Boys
  • 2003 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series - The Practice
    The Practice

    The Practice is an United States legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm. The show won the Emmy Award in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series, and spawned the Spinoff series Boston Legal, which began airing in the fall of 2004 and deals with similar subject matter, though o...
  • 2007 - Black Reel Awards
    Black Reel Awards

    The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films....
    - Best Supporting Actress Network/Cable- The Water is Wide


Nominations

  • 1984 - Academy Award
    Academy Awards

    The Academy Awards, popularly known as the Oscars, are presented annually by the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences to recognize excellence of professionals in the film industry, including directors, actors, and writers....
     - Best Supporting Actress - Cross Creek
    Cross Creek (film)

    Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
  • 1985 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Limited Series or a special - Words By Heart Wonderworks
  • 1986 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series - St. Elsewhere
    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
  • 1987 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Special - Unnatural Causes
    Unnatural Causes

    You may be looking for Unnatural Causes: Is Inequality Making Us Sick?, a documentary series broadcast on PBS in 2008.Unnatural Causes is a detective novel by England crime writer P....
  • 1988 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series - St. Elsewhere
    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
  • 1990 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special - A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story The Magi
  • 1993 - Golden Globe
    Golden Globe Award

    The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
     - Best Supporting Actress - Passion Fish
    Passion Fish

    Passion Fish is an United States film released in 1992 in film, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie was stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn and Leo Burmester....
  • 1995 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or Special - The Piano Lesson (Hallmark Hall of Fame)
  • 1996 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Supporting Actress for a Miniseries or Special - Gulliver's Travels
    Gulliver's Travels

    Gulliver's Travels , officially Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World, in Four Parts. By Lemuel Gulliver, First a Surgeon, and then a Captain of several Ships, is a novel by Jonathan Swift that is both a satire on human nature and a parody of the "travellers' tales" literary sub-genre....
  • 1998 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series - Homicide: Life On The Street
  • 2001 - Black Reel Awards
    Black Reel Awards

    The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films....
    - Best Actress Network/Cable- Holiday Heart
  • 2001 - Black Reel Awards
    Black Reel Awards

    The Black Reel Awards began in 2000 and were designed to annually recognize and celebrate the achievements of black people in feature, independent and television films....
    - Best Actress in a Motion Picture- What's Cooking
  • 2001 - Golden Globe
    Golden Globe Award

    The Golden Globe Awards are presented annually by the Hollywood Foreign Press Association to recognize outstanding achievements in the entertainment industry, both domestic and foreign, and to focus wide public attention upon the best in film and television program....
     - Best Actress in a Mini-Series or Motion Picture - Holiday Heart
  • 2006 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Miniseries or Movie - The Water Is Wide
  • 2006 - Emmy Award
    Emmy Award

    The Emmy Award, also known as the 'Emmy', is a television production award, similar in nature to the Peabody Awards but more focused on entertainment, and is considered the television equivalent to the Academy Awards....
     - Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Comedy Series - Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
  • 2006 - BET Awards
    BET Awards

    The BET Awards were established in 2001 by the Black Entertainment Television network to celebrate African Americans and other minorities in music, acting, sports, and other fields of entertainment over the past year....
    - Best Actress
  • 2006 - Black Movie Awards- Outstanding Supporting Actress - Something New
    Something New (film)

    Something New is a 2006 in film romance film, screenplay by Kriss Turner and film director by Sanaa Hamri. This film stars Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker....


Filmography

  • Cross Creek
    Cross Creek (film)

    Cross Creek is a 1983 in film film starring Mary Steenburgen as The Yearling author Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. It received four Academy Awards nominations, for its Costume Design, Music, Best Supporting Actor and Best Supporting Actress ....
     (1983) as Geechee
  • St. Elsewhere
    St. Elsewhere

    St. Elsewhere is a U.S. drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May 25, 1988. The series is set at St. Eligius, a decaying urban teaching hospital in Boston's South End, Boston, Massachusetts....
     (1985-1987) as Dr. Roxanne Turner
  • Extremities
    Extremities (film)

    Extremities is a 1986 film starring Farrah Fawcett, Alfre Woodard, Diana Scarwid and James Russo. It was adapted from the successful, yet controversial, Extremities by William Mastrosimone....
     (1986) as Patricia
  • (1987) as Winnie Mandela
  • Scrooged
    Scrooged

    Scrooged is a 1988 in film comedy film, a modernization of Charles Dickens' novella, A Christmas Carol. The film was produced and directed by Richard Donner, and the cinematography was by Michael Chapman ....
     (1988) as Grace Cooley
  • Miss Firecracker
    Miss Firecracker

    Miss Firecracker is a 1989 comedy film directed by Thomas Schlamme. It stars Holly Hunter, Mary Steenburgen, Tim Robbins, Alfre Woodard, and Scott Glenn....
     (1989) as Popeye Jackson
  • Grand Canyon (1991) as Jane
  • Passion Fish
    Passion Fish

    Passion Fish is an United States film released in 1992 in film, written and directed by John Sayles. The movie was stars Mary McDonnell, Alfre Woodard, Vondie Curtis-Hall, David Strathairn and Leo Burmester....
     (1992) as Chantelle
  • The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
    The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

    The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag is a 1992 in film Hollywood, California comedy film directed by Allan Moyle. The cast includes Penelope Ann Miller, Eric Thal, Julianne Moore, William Forsythe, and Alfre Woodard....
     (1992) as Attorney Ann Orkin
  • Heart and Souls
    Heart and Souls

    Heart and Souls is a 1993 fantasy film/comedy film about the souls of four deceased people who are trapped on earth and can only be seen by a single living human being who is recruited to help them take care of their unfinished business....
     (1993) as Penny Washington
  • Crooklyn
    Crooklyn

    Crooklyn is a 1994 in film semi-autobiographical film screenwriter and film director by Spike Lee. The film takes place in Brooklyn, New York during the 1970s....
     (1994) as Carolyn Carmichael
  • How to Make an American Quilt
    How to Make an American Quilt

    How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 in film movie which was directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and stars Winona Ryder, Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft....
     (1995) as Marianna
  • The Piano Lesson
    The Piano Lesson

    The Piano Lesson is a play by American playwright August Wilson, the fourth in his series, August Wilson#The Pittsburgh Cycle. The play premiered on 26 November 1987 at the Yale Repertory Theatre and debuted on Broadway theatre in 1990....
     (1995) (TV) as Berniece
  • Star Trek: First Contact
    Star Trek: First Contact

    Star Trek: First Contact is a 1996 in film science fiction film and the Star Trek#Feature films based in the Star Trek. In the film, the cast of Star Trek: The Next Generation encounter their adversaries the Borg , who attempt to conquer the Earth through the use of time travel....
     (1996) as Lily Sloane
  • Primal Fear
    Primal Fear (film)

    Primal Fear is a 1996 in film Film which tells a story of a defense attorney who defends an altar boy charged with the murder of a Catholic archbishop....
     (1996) as Judge Miriam Shoat
  • Follow Me Home
    Follow Me Home (1996 Film)

    Follow Me Home, directed by activist and filmmaker Peter Bratt, explores spiritual and intercultural race relations through the lives of four artists, one African American, one Native American and two latin-american cousins, who embark on a crosscountry road trip to paint a mural on the White House....
     (1996) as Evey
  • Cadillac Desert
    Cadillac Desert (film)

    Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature is an United States four-part documentary series about water, money, politics, and the transformation of nature....
     (1997) as Narrator
  • Miss Evers' Boys
    Miss Evers' Boys

    Miss Evers' Boys is a 1997 HBO television film starring Alfre Woodard and Laurence Fishburne, based on the true story of the decades-long Tuskegee experiment....
     (1997) as Eunice Evers
  • The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue (1997) as Maise the Cat
  • Down in the Delta
    Down in the Delta

    Down in the Delta is a 1998 in film drama film directed by Maya Angelou. The film stars Alfre Woodard; Al Freeman, Jr.; Esther Rolle; Loretta Devine; and Wesley Snipes....
     (1998) as Loretta Sinclair
  • Funny Valentines (1999) as Joyce May
  • The Wishing Tree (1999) as Clara Collier
  • Mumford
    Mumford (film)

    Mumford is a 1999 in film comedic feature film written and directed by Lawrence Kasdan. It is set in a small town where a new psychologist gives offbeat advice to the neurotic residents....
     (1999) as Lily
  • Holiday Heart (2000) as Wanda
  • Love & Basketball
    Love & Basketball (film)

    Love & Basketball is a 2000 in film romantic drama film, written and film director by Gina Prince-Bythewood. This film stars Omar Epps and Sanaa Lathan....
     (2000) as Camille Wright
  • Dinosaur
    Dinosaur (film)

    Dinosaur is an United States animated feature film produced by Walt Disney Pictures, and released to movie theatres in 2000. It is the 39th animated feature in the List_of_Disney_theatrical_animated_features....
          (2000) as Plio
  • K-PAX
    K-PAX (film)

    K-PAX is a 2002 in film science fiction film drama film about a mental patient who claims to be an alien. During his treatment, the patient/alien, "prot", demonstrates an outlook on life that ultimately proves inspirational for his fellow patients and especially for his psychiatrist....
     (2001) as Claudia Villars
  • Searching for Debra Winger
    Searching for Debra Winger

    Searching for Debra Winger is a 2002 in film United States documentary film conceived and directed by Rosanna Arquette. It presents a series of interviews with leading actresses who discuss the various pressures they face as women working in the film industry while trying to juggle their professional commitments with their personal respon...
     (2002) as Herself
  • The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    The Wild Thornberrys Movie

    The Wild Thornberrys Movie is a 2002 American animated feature film based on the The Wild Thornberrys. It was distributed by Paramount Pictures and produced by Nickelodeon Movies and Klasky Csupo, and was released on December 20th, 2002....
          (2002) as Akela
  • The Singing Detective
    The Singing Detective (film)

    The Singing Detective is a 2003 in film based on the BBC miniseries The Singing Detective, a work by Dennis Potter. It stars Robert Downey Jr....
     (2003) as Chief of Staff
  • The Core
    The Core

    The Core is a science fiction disaster film loosely based on the novel Core by Paul Preuss. It concerns a team that has to Travel to the Earth's center and set off a series of nuclear weapon in order to restart the rotation of Earth's core....
     (2003) as Talma Stickley
  • Radio
    Radio (film)

    This article is about a film, for other uses see Radio .Radio, released October 2003, is a film directed by Mike Tollin that is based on the true story of T.L....
     (2003) as Principal Daniels
  • A Wrinkle in Time
    A Wrinkle in Time (film)

    In 2003, a television adaptation of A Wrinkle in Time was completed by The Walt Disney Company. Based on the children's fantasy novel by Madeleine L'Engle, the TV movie was directed by John Kent Harrison, from a teleplay written by Susan Shilliday....
     (2003) as Mrs. Whatsit
  • The Forgotten (2004) as Detective Anne Pope
  • Beauty Shop
    Beauty Shop

    Beauty Shop is a 2005 in film comedy film, Film director by Bille Woodruff. The film is a spin-off of the Barbershop film franchise, and stars Queen Latifah as Gina, a character which was first introduced in the 2004 in film film Barbershop 2: Back in Business....
     (2005) as Miss Josephine
  • Desperate Housewives
    Desperate Housewives

    Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama series, created by Marc Cherry, who also serves as show runner, and produced by ABC Studios and Marc Cherry....
     (2005-2006) as Betty Applewhite
    Betty Applewhite

    Betty Applewhite is a fictional character on the American Broadcasting Company television series Desperate Housewives. The character is portrayed by actress Alfre Woodard....
  • Something New
    Something New (film)

    Something New is a 2006 in film romance film, screenplay by Kriss Turner and film director by Sanaa Hamri. This film stars Sanaa Lathan and Simon Baker....
     (2006) as Joyce McQueen
  • Take the Lead
    Take the Lead

    Take the Lead is a movie starring Antonio Banderas, Rob Brown , Alfre Woodard, Dante Basco, Marcus T. Paulk, Jenna Dewan, Lauren Collins and also features fashion model Yaya DaCosta....
     (2006) as Principal Augustine James
  • Pictures of Hollis Woods
    Pictures of Hollis Woods

    Pictures of Hollis Woods is a television movie that debuted on the CBS television network as a Hallmark Hall of Fame movie on December 2, 2007....
     (2007) as Edna Reilly
  • American Violet
    American Violet

    American Violet is a 2009 in film drama film directed by Tim Disney and starring Nicole Beharie. The story is based on Regina Kelly, a victim of Texas police drug enforcement tactics....
     (2008) as Alma Roberts
  • The Family That Preys
    The Family That Preys

    The Family That Preys is a 2008 in film drama film written and directed by Tyler Perry, who also produced and co-stars. The film stars Alfre Woodard, Kathy Bates, and Sanaa Lathan....
     (2008) as Alice Pratt
  • My Own Worst Enemy
    My Own Worst Enemy (TV series)

    My Own Worst Enemy was an United States television series drama airing on NBC, and Global Television Network in Canada. It premiered on October 13, 2008....
     (2008) as Mavis Heller


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    Sidewalks Entertainment

    Sidewalks Entertainment is a long-running, weekly United States television series that is a combination of a talk show, magazine show and variety show featuring celebrity interviews, music, artistic and novelty acts, and rising performers....