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Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard is an American actress, producer, and political activist. She has been named one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation. She has been nominated once each for an Academy Award and Grammy Award and 18 times for an Emmy Award and has also won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked Woodard seventeenth on its list of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century".

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Filmography

Annabelle

2014
as Evelyn

The Lion King

2019
as Sarabi (voice)

Fatherhood

2021
as Marian

Captain America: Civil War

2016
as Miriam Sharpe

12 Years a Slave

2013
as Mistress Shaw

The Gray Man

2022
as Margaret Cahill

Dinosaur

2000
as Plio (voice)

Primal Fear

1996
as Richterin Miriam Shoat

Salem’s Lot

2024
as Dr. Cody

Star Trek: First Contact

1996
as Lily Sloane

The Forgotten

2004
as Det. Anne Pope

Blue Chips

1994
as Lavada McRae

Reach for Me

2009
as Evelyn

Cross Creek

1983
as Geechee

Passion Fish

1992
as Chantelle

King Leopold's Ghost

2006
as Ilanga

Miss Firecracker

1989
as Popeye Jackson

Radio

2003
as Principle Daniels

The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie

2001
as Medicine Woman

Miss Evers' Boys

1997
as Eunice Evers, R.N.

Go Tell It On The Mountain

1984
as Esther

A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story

1989
as Mary Thomas

Holiday Heart

2000
as Wanda

Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property

2003
as Narrator

Take the Lead

2006
as Augustine James

Special Report: Journey to Mars

1996
as Tamara O'Neil

A Wrinkle in Time

2003
as Mrs. Whatsit

The Child Saver

1988
as Andrea Crawford

So B. It

2016
as Bernadette

Bopha!

1993
as Rosie Mangena

The Wishing Tree

1999
as Clara

Rich in Love

1992
as Rhody Poole

Beauty Shop

2005
as Ms. Josephine

Bridging the Divide: Tom Bradley and the Politics of Race

2015
as Narrator

The Family That Preys

2008
as Alice Pratt

American Violet

2008
as Alma Roberts

Disney's American Legends

2001

Follow Me Home

1996
as Evey

The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag

1992
as Attorney Ann Orkin

The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story

2000

Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa

2014
as Alfre Woodard

Black Hollywood

1984
as Alfre Woodard

Aliens for Breakfast

1994
as Mrs. Marks

Saint Judy

2019
as Judge Benton

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

2002
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

The Hadza: Last of the First

2014
as Narrator

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise

2016
as Herself

Henry Box Brown

2008
as Self - Narrator

Words by Heart

1985
as Claudie Sills

The War We Are Living

2011
as Self - Narrator

What's Cooking?

2000
as Audrey Williams

Scrooged

1988
as Grace Cooley

Love & Basketball

2000
as Camille Wright

Pictures of Hollis Woods

2007
as Edna Reilly

Remember My Name

1978
as Rita

Burning Sands

2017
as Professor Hughes

The Singing Detective

2003
as Chief of Staff

Mumford

1999
as Lily

Down in the Delta

1998
as Loretta Sinclair

Extremities

1986
as Patricia

Clemency

2019
as Warden Bernadine Williams

Crooklyn

1994
as Carolyn Carmichael

K-PAX

2001
as Claudia Villars

The Piano Lesson

1995
as Berniece Charles

Juanita

2019
as Juanita

Funny Valentines

1999
as Joyce May

John Henry

2000
as Polly / Narrator (voice)

Lost Souls

2000
as Dr. Allen

The Ambush Murders

1982
as Kariha Ellsworth

The Trial of the Moke

1978
as Lucy

No Small Matter

2020
as Narrator

Summer Camp

2024
as Mary

Steel Magnolias

2012
as Ouiser

Mississippi Grind

2015
as Bookmaker

The Water Is Wide

2006
as Mrs. Brown

Heart and Souls

1993
as Penny Washington

How to Make an American Quilt

1995
as Marianna

A Step Toward Tomorrow

1997
as Dr. Sadlin

The Core

2003
as Stickley

American Experience: Eleanor Roosevelt

2000
as Self - Narrator

HealtH

1980
as Sally Benbow

Malcolm X: Make It Plain

1994
as Alfre Woodard

Grand Canyon

1991
as Jane

The Underground Railroad

1999
as Host

Mandela

1987
as Winnie Mandela

Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives

2003

Producer

Movie Soft Vengeance: Albie Sachs and the New South Africa 2014
Movie No Small Matter 2020