Alfre Woodard
Acting
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.
Born: November 8, 1952
Place of Birth: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Known For
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark play. A breakthrough portrayal of black women's experiences in America, the story combines music, poetry and dance to celebrate their unique culture while painting a poignant portrait of their terrible struggles.
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Islam, to his 1965 assassination.
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and the first Black woman to have her paintings exhibited in the White House (2009). Yet she did not receive national attention until she was 80.
Women, War & Peace
What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered? These two questions were at the heart of this critically acclaimed five-part special series.
The Ambush Murders
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him.
Hallmark Hall of Fame
Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards, 24 Christopher Awards, 11 Peabody Awards, 9 Golden Globes, and 4 Humanitas Prizes. Early seasons were a weekly live drama, eventually transitioning to videotaped and then filmed productions broadcast as occasional specials.
Reading Rainbow
Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from a book, or other children's literature, which is explored through a number of segments or stories.
Grey's Anatomy
Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.
Faerie Tale Theatre
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Faerie Tale Theatre
A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
Filmography
as Jacqueline Bradford
as Self
as Self
as Dr. Cody
as Mary
as Virginia Dell
as Mother Mary
as Mum
as Dr. Olsen
as Mimi (voice)
as Self
as Margaret Cahill
as Alma Thomas (voice)
as Marian
as Mary Parrish (voice)
as Lilly Sloane (voice)
as Warden Bernadine Williams
as Paris
as Sarabi (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Juanita
as Judge Benton
as Professor Hughes
as Aunt Josephine
as Mariah Dillard
as Bernadette
as Miriam
as Sam
as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
as Sheila
as Self
as Renee
as President Constance Payton
as Evelyn
as Self
as Amy Granderson
as Mistress Shaw
as Ouiser
as Narrator (voice)
as Lieutenant Tanya Rice
as Self
as Dondi Reece
as Dondi Reece (voice)
as Dr. Sophia Jordan
as Self - Guest
as Narrator
as Mavis Heller
as Evelyn
as Alice Pratt
as Ruby Jean Reynolds
as Alma Roberts
as Edna Reilly
as Dee Bennett
as Self - Narrator
as Self
as Self - Guest
as Ilanga (voice)
as Augustine James
as Mrs. Brown
as Joyce McQueen
as Ms. Josephine
as Justine Campbell
as Betty Applewhite
as Det. Anne Pope
as Principal Daniels
as Chief of Staff
as Mrs. Whatsit
as Stickley
as Narrator
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
as Self
as Claudia Villars
as Medicine Woman (voice)
as Wanda Dean
as Dr. Allen
as Jean Hawkins (voice)
as Mary Parrish (voice)
as Polly / Narrator (voice)
as Plio (voice)
as Camille Wright
as Audrey Williams
as Narrator (voice)
as Lily
as Joyce May
as Clara
as Loretta Sinclair
as Medicine Woman (voice)
as Narrator
as Maisie (voice)
as Narrator (voice)
as Denise Freeman
as Evey
as Eunice Evers, R.N.
as Lily Sloane
as Dr. Sadlin
as Self
as Tamara O'Neil
as Shoat
as Queen of Brobdingnag
as Marianna
as Winsome (voice)
as Berniece Charles
as Carolyn Carmichael
as Mrs. Marks
as Lavada McRae
as Narrator
as Edna (voice)
as Rosie Mangena
as Penny Washington
as Dr. Roxanne Turner
as Chantelle
as Rhody Poole
as Self
as Jane
as Jessica Filley
as Mary Thomas
as Popeye Jackson
as Grace Cooley
as Narrator (voice)
as Andrea Crawford
as Winnie Mandela
as Maude DeVictor
as Adrianne Moore
as Adrianne Moore
as Patricia
as Princess Lovinia
as Rozalyn Dupree
as Claudie Sills
as Self
as Vicki Teague
as Esther
as Mattie
as Geechee
as Self - Narrator (voice)
as Roxanne Turner
as Marcia Fulbright
as Self - Guest
as Princess Lovinia
as Narrator
as Woman who lost her stuff
as Karisha Ellsworth
as Evelyn Evers
as Sally Benbow
as Katie
as Sandra Wilcox
as Lucy Smith
as Rita
as Self
as Mrs. Brown