Acting

Alfre Woodard

1952-11-08 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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 & TV shows

80 credits

Grey's Anatomy

2005 · Justine Campbell

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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

2009 · Self - Guest

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The Daily Show

1996 · Self

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Frasier

1993 · Edna (voice)

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Desperate Housewives

2004 · Betty Applewhite

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The Last Ship

2014 · Amy Granderson

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The Jennifer Hudson Show

2022 · Self - Guest

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Homicide: Life on the Street

1993 · Dr. Roxanne Turner

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American Playhouse

1982 · Woman who lost her stuff

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American Playhouse

1982 · Mattie

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American Playhouse

1982 · Esther

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The Practice

1997 · Denise Freeman

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Captain America: Civil War

2016 · Miriam

True Blood

2008 · Ruby Jean Reynolds

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Hill Street Blues

1981

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L.A. Law

1986 · Adrianne Moore

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Private Practice

2007 · Dee Bennett

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American Experience

1988 · Narrator (voice)

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St. Elsewhere

1982 · Roxanne Turner

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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

2014 · Self

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See

2019 · Paris

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Star Trek: Lower Decks

2020 · Lilly Sloane (voice)

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The Wild Thornberrys

1998 · Medicine Woman (voice)

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Empire

2015 · Renee

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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur

2023 · Mimi (voice)

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The Last Frontier

2025 · Jacqueline Bradford

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The Oscars

1953 · Self

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Number One on the Call Sheet

2025 · Self

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The Megan Mullally Show

2006 · Self - Guest

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The Boroughs

2026 · Judy Daniels

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Static Shock

2000 · Jean Hawkins (voice)

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Marvel's Luke Cage

2016 · Mariah Dillard

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A Series of Unfortunate Events

2017 · Aunt Josephine

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The Lion King

2019 · Sarabi (voice)

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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child

1995 · Winsome (voice)

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Primal Fear

1996 · Shoat

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Faerie Tale Theatre

1982 · Self - Guest

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Faerie Tale Theatre

1982 · Princess Lovinia

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Reading Rainbow

1983 · Self - Narrator (voice)

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The Gray Man

2022 · Margaret Cahill

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12 Years a Slave

2013 · Mistress Shaw

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HBO First Look

1992 · Self

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Who Do You Think You Are?

2010 · Self

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Annabelle

2014 · Evelyn

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Radio

2003 · Principal Daniels

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Dinosaur

2000 · Plio (voice)

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The White Shadow

1978 · Sandra Wilcox

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Rachael Ray

2006 · Self - Guest

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Star Trek: First Contact

1996 · Lily Sloane

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Monsieur Spade

2024 · Virginia Dell

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The Core

2003 · Stickley

The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart

2020 · Self

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Salem's Lot

2024 · Dr. Cody

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K-PAX

2001 · Claudia Villars

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The Book of Clarence

2024 · Mother Mary

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The Wild Thornberrys Movie

2002 · Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

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Scrooged

1988 · Grace Cooley

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My Own Worst Enemy

2008 · Mavis Heller

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The Forgotten

2004 · Det. Anne Pope

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Beauty Shop

2005 · Ms. Josephine

Three Rivers

2009 · Dr. Sophia Jordan

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Gulliver's Travels

1996 · Queen of Brobdingnag

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Heart and Souls

1993 · Penny Washington

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Class of 3000

2006

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Something New

2006 · Joyce McQueen

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Fatherhood

2021 · Marian

Black Panther

2010 · Dondi Reece (voice)

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What Really Happened to the Class of '65?

1977

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Tucker's Witch

1982 · Marcia Fulbright

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WonderWorks

1984 · Claudie Sills

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Mississippi Grind

2015 · Sam

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Inconceivable

2005 · Dr. Lydia Crawford

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Take the Lead

2006 · Augustine James

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Space Oddity

2023 · Dr. Olsen

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Memphis Beat

2010 · Lieutenant Tanya Rice

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Cadillac Desert

1997 · Narrator (voice)

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The Singing Detective

2003 · Chief of Staff

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Lost Souls

2000 · Dr. Allen

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Crooklyn

1994 · Carolyn Carmichael

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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys

2008 · Alice Pratt

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