Alfre Woodard
Department: 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.
Known For
K-PAX
2001
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
Primal Fear
1996
Dinosaur
2000
Mumford
1999
Disney's American Legends
2001
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Summer Camp
2024
The Core
2003
Crooklyn
1994
Take the Lead
2006
A Wrinkle in Time
2003
Grand Canyon
1991
Radio
2003
Beauty Shop
2005
Passion Fish
1992
Follow Me Home
1997
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
Love & Basketball
2000
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008
Weathering
2023
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
Sweet Revenge
1984
Reach for Me
2008
HealtH
1980
Remember My Name
1978
12 Years a Slave
2013
Bopha!
1993
Holiday Heart
2000
Down in the Delta
1998
Words by Heart
1985
Cross Creek
1983
Rich in Love
1992
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Steel Magnolias
2012
The Member of the Wedding
1997
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001
Space Oddity
2023
Unnatural Causes
1986
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
Mandela
1987
Funny Valentines
1999
Miss Firecracker
1989
Lost Souls
2000
Extremities
1986
Annabelle
2014
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
Blue Chips
1994
The Door
2013
Mississippi Grind
2015
The Forgotten
2004
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
What's Cooking?
2000
So B. It
2016
The Ambush Murders
1982
The Singing Detective
2003
Knucklehead
2015
The Book of Clarence
2024
A Path Appears
2015
Medal of Honor
2008
John Henry
2000
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
Freedom Road
1979
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
Scrooged
1988
Captain America: Civil War
2016
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
Burning Sands
2017
A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996
The Water Is Wide
2006
The Piano Lesson
1995
American Violet
2008
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
The Trial of the Moke
1978
The Lion King
2019
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
The Wishing Tree
1999
Puss in Boots
1985
King Leopold's Ghost
2006
The Killing Floor
1984
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Black Panther
2010
Henry Box Brown
2008
Saint Judy
2018
Clemency
2019
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
Juanita
2019
Fatherhood
2021
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
Heart and Souls
1993
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
Aliens for Breakfast
1994
The Making of Clemency
2020
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
The Underground Railroad
1999
The Child Saver
1988
No Small Matter
2019
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007
Blue Bayou
1990
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
The Gray Man
2022
Something New
2006
Black Hollywood
1984
Precious Blood
1982
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021
Hate to See You Go
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Salem's Lot
2024
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
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The Inquisitor
2025
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997
The Thing That Hurts
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Pockets of Heaven
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Desperate Housewives
2004
L.A. Law
1986
Static Shock
2000
Class of 3000
2006
Hill Street Blues
1981
Frasier
1993
The Practice
1997
My Own Worst Enemy
2008
Tucker's Witch
1982
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The White Shadow
1978
True Blood
2008
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Three Rivers
2009
Black Panther
2010
The Oscars
1953
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
Sara
1985
Memphis Beat
2010
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Women, War & Peace
2011
State of Affairs
2014
The Last Ship
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
Reading Rainbow
1983
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
American Experience
1988
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Empire
2015
Monsieur Spade
2024
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Last Frontier
2025
Rachael Ray
2006
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Grey's Anatomy
2005
See
2019
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
HBO First Look
1992
The Boroughs
2026
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Private Practice
2007
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020
WonderWorks
1984
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
St. Elsewhere
1982