Personal Info

Known For

Acting

Known Credits

168

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-11-08 (72 years old)

Place of Birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As

آلفره وودارد

Alfre Woodard

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

7.4%

Captain America: Civil War

Apr 27, 2016

7.9%

12 Years a Slave

Oct 18, 2013

8.2%

Grey's Anatomy

Mar 27, 2005

7.1%

The Lion King

Jul 12, 2019

5.8%

Annabelle

Oct 2, 2014

6.9%

The Gray Man

Jul 13, 2022

7.7%

Primal Fear

Mar 6, 1996

8.1%

See

Nov 1, 2019

6.5%

Dinosaur

May 19, 2000

7.2%

K-PAX

Oct 26, 2001

5.8%

The Core

Mar 28, 2003

7.6%

True Blood

Sep 7, 2008

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Acting

—		Hate to See You Go
—		Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball” as Herself
—		The Last Frontier as Bradford
—		The Boroughs as Judy

2025		The Inquisitor as Self
2025		Number One on the Call Sheet as Self

2024		Salem's Lot as Dr. Cody
2024		Summer Camp as Mary
2024		Monsieur Spade as Virginia Dell
2024		The Book of Clarence as Mother Mary

2023		Weathering as Mum
2023		Space Oddity as Dr. Olsen
2023		Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur as Mimi (voice)

2022

The Gray Man as Margaret Cahill

2021		Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color as Alma Thomas (voice)
2021		Fatherhood as Marian
2021		Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street as Mary Parrish (voice)

2020		Star Trek: Lower Decks as Lilly Sloane (voice)
2020		The Making of Clemency as Herself

2019		Clemency as Warden Bernadine Williams
2019		See as Paris
2019		The Lion King as Sarabi (voice)
2019		No Small Matter as Narrator (voice)
2019		The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019		Juanita as Juanita
2019		Saint Judy as Judge Benton

2017		Burning Sands as Professor Hughes
2017		A Series of Unfortunate Events as Aunt Josephine

2016		Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise as Self
2016		Marvel's Luke Cage as Mariah Dillard
2016		So B. It as Bernadette
2016		Captain America: Civil War as Miriam

2015		Mississippi Grind as Sam
2015		Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
2015		Knucklehead as Sheila
2015		A Path Appears as Self
2015		Empire as Renee

2014		Variety Studio: Actors on Actors as Self
2014		State of Affairs as President Constance Payton
2014		Annabelle as Evelyn
2014		Nelson Mandela Redrawn as Self
2014		The Last Ship as Amy Granderson
2014		And the Oscar Goes To... as Self (archive footage)

2013		12 Years a Slave as Mistress Shaw
2013		The Door as E

2012

Steel Magnolias as Ouiser

2011

Women, War & Peace as Narrator (voice)

2010		Memphis Beat as Lieutenant Tanya Rice
2010		Who Do You Think You Are? as Self
2010		Black Panther as Dondi Reece
2010		Black Panther as Dondi Reece (voice)

2009		Three Rivers as Dr. Sophia Jordan
2009		Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen as Self - Guest

2008		Medal of Honor as Narrator
2008		My Own Worst Enemy as Mavis Heller
2008		Reach for Me as Evelyn
2008		Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys as Alice Pratt
2008		True Blood as Ruby Jean Reynolds
2008		American Violet as Alma Roberts
2008		Henry Box Brown

2007		Pictures of Hollis Woods as Edna Reilly
2007		Private Practice as Dee Bennett
2007		Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty as Self - Narrator

2006		Class of 3000
2006		Rachael Ray as Self
2006		The Megan Mullally Show as Self - Guest
2006		King Leopold's Ghost as Ilanga (voice)
2006		Take the Lead as Augustine James
2006		Something New as Joyce McQueen
2006		The Water Is Wide as Mrs. Brown

2005		Beauty Shop as Ms. Josephine
2005		Grey's Anatomy as Justine Campbell

2004		Desperate Housewives as Betty Applewhite
2004		The Forgotten as Det. Anne Pope

2003		Radio as Principal Daniels
2003		The Singing Detective as Chief of Staff
2003		A Wrinkle in Time as Mrs. Whatsit
2003		The Core as Stickley
2003		Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property as Narrator
2003		Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2002		The Wild Thornberrys Movie as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2002		Searching for Debra Winger as Self

2001		K-PAX as Claudia Villars
2001		The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie as Medicine Woman (voice)
2001		Disney's American Legends

2000		Holiday Heart as Wanda Dean
2000		Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks as Narrator
2000		Lost Souls as Dr. Allen
2000		Static Shock as Jean Hawkins (voice)
2000		The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story as Mary Parrish (voice)
2000		John Henry as Polly / Narrator (voice)
2000		Dinosaur as Plio (voice)
2000		Love & Basketball as Camille Wright
2000		What's Cooking? as Audrey Williams
2000		Eleanor Roosevelt as Narrator (voice)

1999		Mumford as Lily
1999		Funny Valentines as Joyce May
1999		The Wishing Tree as Clara
1999		The Underground Railroad

1998		Down in the Delta as Loretta Sinclair
1998		The Wild Thornberrys as Medicine Woman (voice)

1997		The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue as Maisie (voice)
1997		Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature as Narrator (voice)
1997		The Practice as Denise Freeman
1997		Follow Me Home as Evey
1997		Miss Evers' Boys as Eunice Evers, R.N.
1997		The Member of the Wedding as Berenice Sadie Brown

1996		Star Trek: First Contact as Lily Sloane
1996		A Step Toward Tomorrow as Dr. Sadlin
1996		The Daily Show as Self
1996		Special Report: Journey to Mars as Tamara O'Neil
1996		Primal Fear as Shoat
1996		Gulliver's Travels as Queen of Brobdingnag

1995		How to Make an American Quilt as Marianna
1995		Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child as Winsome (voice)
1995		The Piano Lesson as Berniece Charles

1994		Crooklyn as Carolyn Carmichael
1994		Aliens for Breakfast as Mrs. Marks
1994		Blue Chips as Lavada McRae
1994		Malcolm X: Make It Plain as Narrator

1993		Frasier as Edna (voice)
1993		Bopha! as Rosie Mangena
1993		Heart and Souls as Penny Washington
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street as Dr. Roxanne Turner
1993		Homicide: Life on the Street

1992		Passion Fish as Chantelle
1992		Rich in Love as Rhody Poole
1992		The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag as Ann
1992		HBO First Look as Self

1991

Grand Canyon as Jane

1990

Blue Bayou as Jessica Filley

1989		A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story as Mary Thomas
1989		Miss Firecracker as Popeye Jackson

1988		Scrooged as Grace Cooley
1988		American Experience as Narrator (voice)
1988		The Child Saver as Andrea Crawford

1987

Mandela as Winnie Mandela

1986		Unnatural Causes as Maude DeVictor
1986		L.A. Law as Adrianne Moore
1986		L.A. Law: Pilot as Adrianne Moore
1986		Extremities as Patricia

1985		Puss in Boots as Princess Lovinia
1985		Sara as Rozalyn Dupree
1985		Go Tell It on the Mountain as Esther
1985		Words by Heart as Claudie Sills

1984		Black Hollywood as Self
1984		Sweet Revenge as Vicki Teague
1984		WonderWorks
1984		The Killing Floor as Mattie

1983		Cross Creek as Geechee
1983		Reading Rainbow as Herself - Narrator (voice)

1982		Tucker's Witch as Marcia Fulbright
1982		Faerie Tale Theatre as Self - Guest
1982		Faerie Tale Theatre as Princess Lovinia
1982		Precious Blood as Narrator
1982		For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf as Woman who lost her stuff
1982		The Ambush Murders as Karisha Ellsworth

1981		The Sophisticated Gents as Evelyn Evers
1981		Hill Street Blues

1980		HealtH as Sally Benbow
1980		Palmerstown, U.S.A.

1979

Freedom Road as Katie

1978		The White Shadow as Sandra Wilcox
1978		The Trial of the Moke as Lucy Smith
1978		Remember My Name as Rita

1977

What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

1953

The Oscars as Self

1951

Hallmark Hall of Fame as Mrs. Brown

Production

2019		Clemency as Executive Producer
2019		No Small Matter as Executive Producer