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.
Movies (112)
The Inquisitor
2025
Salem's Lot
2024
Summer Camp
2024
The Book of Clarence
2024
Weathering
2023
Space Oddity
2023
The Gray Man
2022
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021
Fatherhood
2021
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021
Clemency
2019
The Lion King
2019
No Small Matter
2019
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
Juanita
2019
Saint Judy
2018
Burning Sands
2017
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
So B. It
2016
Captain America: Civil War
2016
Mississippi Grind
2015
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
Knucklehead
2015
A Path Appears
2015
Annabelle
2014
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
12 Years a Slave
2013
Steel Magnolias
2012
Black Panther
2010
Medal of Honor
2008
Reach for Me
2008
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008
American Violet
2008
Henry Box Brown
2008
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007
King Leopold's Ghost
2006
Take the Lead
2006
The Water Is Wide
2006
Something New
2006
Beauty Shop
2005
The Forgotten
2004
Radio
2003
The Singing Detective
2003
A Wrinkle in Time
2003
The Core
2003
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
K-PAX
2001
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001
Disney's American Legends
2001
Holiday Heart
2000
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Lost Souls
2000
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
John Henry
2000
Dinosaur
2000
Love & Basketball
2000
What's Cooking?
2000
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000
Mumford
1999
Funny Valentines
1999
The Wishing Tree
1999
The Underground Railroad
1999
Down in the Delta
1998
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
Follow Me Home
1997
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996
Primal Fear
1996
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
The Piano Lesson
1995
Crooklyn
1994
Aliens for Breakfast
1994
Blue Chips
1994
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
Bopha!
1993
Heart and Souls
1993
Passion Fish
1992
Rich in Love
1992
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
Grand Canyon
1991
Blue Bayou
1990
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
Miss Firecracker
1989
Scrooged
1988
The Child Saver
1988
Mandela
1987
Unnatural Causes
1986
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986
Extremities
1986
Puss in Boots
1985
Words by Heart
1985
Black Hollywood
1984
Sweet Revenge
1984
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
The Killing Floor
1984
Cross Creek
1983
Precious Blood
1982
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
The Ambush Murders
1982
HealtH
1980
Freedom Road
1979
The Trial of the Moke
1978
Remember My Name
1978
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
TV Shows (53)
The Boroughs
2026
The Last Frontier
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Monsieur Spade
2024
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
See
2019
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
Empire
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
State of Affairs
2014
The Last Ship
2014
Women, War & Peace
2011
Memphis Beat
2010
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Black Panther
2010
Three Rivers
2009
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
My Own Worst Enemy
2008
True Blood
2008
Private Practice
2007
Class of 3000
2006
Rachael Ray
2006
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Desperate Housewives
2004
Static Shock
2000
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
The Practice
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Frasier
1993
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
HBO First Look
1992
American Experience
1988
L.A. Law
1986
Sara
1985
Reading Rainbow
1983
St. Elsewhere
1982
Tucker's Witch
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
Hill Street Blues
1981
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
The White Shadow
1978
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951