Alfre Woodard
Acting1952Tulsa, 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
Acting History
2026
The Boroughs
TVas Judy
2025
The Inquisitor
as Narration
The Last Frontier
TVas Jacqueline Bradford• 10 eps
Number One on the Call Sheet
TVas Self• 1 eps
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TVas Self• 1 eps
2024
The Book of Clarence
as Mother Mary
Salem's Lot
as Dr. Cody
Summer Camp
as Mary
Star Trek: Lower Decks
TVas Lilly Sloane (voice)• 1 eps
Monsieur Spade
TVas Virginia Dell
2023
Space Oddity
as Dr. Olsen
Weathering
as Mum
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TVas Mimi (voice)• 40 eps
2022
The Gray Man
as Margaret Cahill
The Porter
TVExecutive Producer
2021
Fatherhood
as Marian
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
as Alma Thomas (voice)
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
as Mary Parrish (voice)
2020
The Making of Clemency
as Herself
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TVas Self• 1 eps
2019
No Small Matter
as Narrator (voice)
Juanita
as Juanita
Clemency
as Warden Bernadine Williams
The Lion King
as Sarabi (voice)
See
TVas Paris• 16 eps
Clemency
Executive Producer
No Small Matter
Executive Producer
2018
Saint Judy
as Judge Benton
Empire
TVas Renee• 1 eps
2017
Burning Sands
as Professor Hughes
A Series of Unfortunate Events
TVas Aunt Josephine• 3 eps
2016
Captain America: Civil War
as Miriam
So B. It
as Bernadette
Marvel's Luke Cage
TVas Mariah Dillard• 26 eps
2015
Mississippi Grind
as Sam
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
Knucklehead
as Sheila
A Path Appears
as Self
Who Do You Think You Are?
TVas Self• 1 eps
2014
Annabelle
as Evelyn
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as Self
State of Affairs
TVas President Constance Payton• 13 eps
The Last Ship
TVas Amy Granderson• 3 eps
2013
12 Years a Slave
as Mistress Shaw
The Door
as E
2012
Steel Magnolias
as Ouiser
Private Practice
TVas Dee Bennett• 1 eps
2011
Grey's Anatomy
TVas Justine Campbell• 1 eps
Women, War & Peace
TVas Narrator (voice)
2010
Black Panther
as Dondi Reece
Black Panther
TVas Dondi Reece (voice)
True Blood
TVas Ruby Jean Reynolds• 5 eps
Memphis Beat
TVas Lieutenant Tanya Rice
2009
Three Rivers
TVas Dr. Sophia Jordan• 13 eps
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TVas Self - Guest
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
as Alice Pratt
Reach for Me
as Evelyn
American Violet
as Alma Roberts
Medal of Honor
as Narrator
My Own Worst Enemy
TVas Mavis Heller
2007
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Edna Reilly
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
as Self - Narrator
2006
Take the Lead
as Augustine James
Something New
as Joyce McQueen
The Water Is Wide
as Mrs. Brown
King Leopold's Ghost
as Ilanga (voice)
The Megan Mullally Show
TVas Self - Guest• 1 eps
HBO First Look
TVas Self• 1 eps
Rachael Ray
TVas Self - Guest
2005
Beauty Shop
as Ms. Josephine
Desperate Housewives
TVas Betty Applewhite• 25 eps
2004
The Forgotten
as Det. Anne Pope
Reading Rainbow
TVas Self - Narrator (voice)• 1 eps
2003
The Core
as Stickley
A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. Whatsit
Radio
as Principal Daniels
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Narrator
The Singing Detective
as Chief of Staff
Static Shock
TVas Jean Hawkins (voice)• 1 eps
The Practice
TVas Denise Freeman• 2 eps
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2001
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
as Medicine Woman (voice)
K-PAX
as Claudia Villars
The Wild Thornberrys
TVas Medicine Woman (voice)• 2 eps
2000
Lost Souls
as Dr. Allen
What's Cooking?
as Audrey Williams
Holiday Heart
as Wanda Dean
John Henry
as Polly / Narrator (voice)
Love & Basketball
as Camille Wright
Dinosaur
as Plio (voice)
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as Mary Parrish (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
1999
1998
Down in the Delta
as Loretta Sinclair
Homicide: Life on the Street
TVas Dr. Roxanne Turner• 1 eps
1997
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
as Maisie (voice)
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
Miss Evers' Boys
as Eunice Evers, R.N.
Follow Me Home
as Evey
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
as Narrator
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Narrator (voice)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TVas Winsome (voice)• 1 eps
1996
Primal Fear
as Shoat
Star Trek: First Contact
as Lily Sloane
Special Report: Journey to Mars
as Tamara O'Neil
A Step Toward Tomorrow
as Dr. Sadlin
The Daily Show
TVas Self
Gulliver's Travels
TVas Queen of Brobdingnag• 2 eps
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Marianna
The Piano Lesson
as Berniece Charles
1994
Blue Chips
as Lavada McRae
Crooklyn
as Carolyn Carmichael
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
as Narrator
Aliens for Breakfast
as Mrs. Marks
Frasier
TVas Edna (voice)• 1 eps
American Experience
TVas Narrator (voice)• 2 eps
1993
1992
1991
Grand Canyon
as Jane
1990
Blue Bayou
as Jessica Filley
1989
Miss Firecracker
as Popeye Jackson
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
as Mary Thomas
1988
Scrooged
as Grace Cooley
The Child Saver
as Andrea Crawford
1987
Mandela
as Winnie Mandela
1986
Extremities
as Patricia
Unnatural Causes
as Maude DeVictor
L.A. Law: Pilot
as Adrianne Moore
L.A. Law
TVas Adrianne Moore• 1 eps
1985
Words by Heart
as Claudie Sills
Puss in Boots
as Princess Lovinia
St. Elsewhere
TVas Roxanne Turner• 17 eps
Faerie Tale Theatre
TVas Princess Lovinia• 1 eps
Sara
TVas Rozalyn Dupree
1984
Sweet Revenge
as Vicki Teague
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Esther
The Killing Floor
as Mattie
Black Hollywood
as Self
WonderWorks
TVas Claudie Sills
1983
Cross Creek
as Geechee
1982
The Ambush Murders
as Karisha Ellsworth
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman who lost her stuff
Precious Blood
as Narrator
Tucker's Witch
TVas Marcia Fulbright
1981
The Sophisticated Gents
TVas Evelyn Evers
1980
1979
Freedom Road
as Katie
1978
Remember My Name
as Rita
The Trial of the Moke
as Lucy Smith
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TVas Mrs. Brown