Octavia Spencer
Biography
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Movies (92)
Tow
2026
Smurfs
2025
Becoming bell hooks
2024
Spirited
2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
The Quest for Sleep
2022
Encounter
2021
Thunder Force
2021
Superintelligence
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Onward
2020
Dolittle
2020
Luce
2019
Ma
2019
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019
Instant Family
2018
A Kid Like Jake
2018
Small Town Crime
2018
The Shape of Water
2017
Gifted
2017
The Shack
2017
Hidden Figures
2016
Bad Santa 2
2016
The Free World
2016
Car Dogs
2016
Allegiant
2016
Zootopia
2016
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Fathers and Daughters
2015
Insurgent
2015
Black or White
2015
Get On Up
2014
Jesus People
2013
Paradise
2013
Lost on Purpose
2013
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
Snowpiercer
2013
Fruitvale Station
2013
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Blues for Willadean
2012
Smashed
2012
Flypaper
2011
The Help
2011
Just Peck
2011
Peep World
2010
Love and Distrust
2010
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Herpes Boy
2009
Halloween II
2009
Drag Me to Hell
2009
The Soloist
2009
Love at First Hiccup
2009
Seven Pounds
2008
Pretty Ugly People
2008
The Spleenectomy
2008
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008
The Nines
2007
Pulse
2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Beauty Shop
2005
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
Pretty Persuasion
2005
Coach Carter
2005
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
Bad Santa
2003
Chicken Party
2003
S.W.A.T.
2003
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Sol Goode
2003
Little John
2002
Spider-Man
2002
Everything Put Together
2001
The Sky is Falling
2001
Follow the Stars Home
2001
The Journeyman
2001
Missing Pieces
2001
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
American Virgin
2000
Big Momma's House
2000
What Planet Are You From?
2000
Being John Malkovich
1999
Blue Streak
1999
Never Been Kissed
1999
Lansky
1999
Sparkler
1997
The 6th Man
1997
Valley Girls
1996
A Time to Kill
1996
Ma 2
TV Shows (67)
Family Recipe Showdown
2025
My Happy Place
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Hollywood Black
2024
The Santa Stories
2023
Lost Women of Highway 20
2023
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
Truth Be Told
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Young Sheldon
2017
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
To Tell the Truth
2016
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
black-ish
2014
Red Band Society
2014
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Mom
2013
Drunk History
2013
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Dollhouse
2009
Raising the Bar
2008
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007
Cavemen
2007
The Big Bang Theory
2007
Halfway Home
2007
The Graham Norton Show
2007
30 Rock
2006
Ugly Betty
2006
Standoff
2006
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
2006
American Dad!
2005
Medium
2005
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
CSI: NY
2004
LAX
2004
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Presidio Med
2002
The Chronicle
2001
Grounded for Life
2001
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
Titus
2000
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
Roswell
1999
Becker
1998
Brimstone
1998
L.A. Doctors
1998
Dharma & Greg
1997
Just Shoot Me!
1997
The Daily Show
1996
Moesha
1996
ER
1994
Chicago Hope
1994
The X-Files
1993
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Saturday Night Live
1975
The Oscars
1953
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951