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.
As actor 173
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Daily Show
1996
Grey's Anatomy
2005
Desperate Housewives
2004
Frasier
1993
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Last Ship
2014
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Practice
1997
L.A. Law
1986
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
True Blood
2008
American Playhouse
1982
Private Practice
2007
American Experience
1988
Captain America: Civil War
2016
See
2019
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
St. Elsewhere
1982
Empire
2015
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Reading Rainbow
1983
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
The Last Frontier
2025
Static Shock
2000
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
The Boroughs
2026
The Oscars
1953
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
The Lion King
2019
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
The White Shadow
1978
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
Primal Fear
1996
The Gray Man
2022
Rachael Ray
2006
Monsieur Spade
2024
Radio
2003
HBO First Look
1992
12 Years a Slave
2013
The Core
2003
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020
My Own Worst Enemy
2008
Dinosaur
2000
Annabelle
2014
Salem's Lot
2024
The Forgotten
2004
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
K-PAX
2001
Memphis Beat
2010
Beauty Shop
2005
Scrooged
1988
Class of 3000
2006
Fatherhood
2021
Three Rivers
2009
The Book of Clarence
2024
WonderWorks
1984
Something New
2006
Inconceivable
2005
Tucker's Witch
1982
Black Panther
2010
Women, War & Peace
2011
Gulliver's Travels
1996
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Take the Lead
2006
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Summer Camp
2024
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
Heart and Souls
1993
Saint Judy
2018
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Mississippi Grind
2015
Sara
1985
Lost Souls
2000
Space Oddity
2023
Blue Chips
1994
Passion Fish
1992
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
Crooklyn
1994
The Singing Detective
2003
Cadillac Desert
1997
Extremities
1986
The Inquisitor
2025
Steel Magnolias
2012
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008
Love & Basketball
2000
Mandela
1987
Remember My Name
1978
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Sweet Revenge
1984
Cross Creek
1983
Grand Canyon
1991
What's Cooking?
2000
Disney's American Legends
2001
American Violet
2008
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
Holiday Heart
2000
Clemency
2019
The Water Is Wide
2006
2034
Burning Sands
2017
The Door
2013
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
Mumford
1999
Follow Me Home
1997
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997
Weathering
2023
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Knucklehead
2015
So B. It
2016
A Wrinkle in Time
2003
Precious Blood
1982
A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996
Pockets of Heaven
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Miss Firecracker
1989
Black Panther
2010
Reach for Me
2008
The Killing Floor
1984
Down in the Delta
1998
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
John Henry
2000
Bopha!
1993
King Leopold's Ghost
2006
Aliens for Breakfast
1994
The Ambush Murders
1982
Juanita
2019
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
HealtH
1980
Puss in Boots
1985
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
Rich in Love
1992
The Thing That Hurts
The Child Saver
1988
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
State of Affairs
2014
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986
Hate to See You Go
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001
Freedom Road
1979
Unnatural Causes
1986
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
Blue Bayou
1990
Words by Heart
1985
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
The Piano Lesson
1995
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021
Funny Valentines
1999
Medal of Honor
2008
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
The Wishing Tree
1999
The Trial of the Moke
1978
The Making of Clemency
2020
The Member of the Wedding
1997
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021
Black Hollywood
1984
The Underground Railroad
1999
No Small Matter
2019
Henry Box Brown
2008
