Alfre Woodard
Acting • Born 1952-11-08
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.
Filmography
171 credits
K-PAX
Movie • 2001
Claudia Villars
Star Trek: First Contact
Movie • 1996
Lily Sloane
Primal Fear
Movie • 1996
Shoat
Dinosaur
Movie • 2000
Plio (voice)
Mumford
Movie • 1999
Lily
Disney's American Legends
Movie • 2001
How to Make an American Quilt
Movie • 1995
Marianna
Summer Camp
Movie • 2024
Mary
The Core
Movie • 2003
Stickley
Crooklyn
Movie • 1994
Carolyn Carmichael
Take the Lead
Movie • 2006
Augustine James
A Wrinkle in Time
Movie • 2003
Mrs. Whatsit
Grand Canyon
Movie • 1991
Jane
Radio
Movie • 2003
Principal Daniels
Beauty Shop
Movie • 2005
Ms. Josephine
Passion Fish
Movie • 1992
Chantelle
Follow Me Home
Movie • 1997
Evey
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Movie • 2002
Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
Love & Basketball
Movie • 2000
Camille Wright
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Movie • 2008
Alice Pratt
Weathering
Movie • 2023
Mum
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Movie • 1992
Ann
Sweet Revenge
Movie • 1984
Vicki Teague
Reach for Me
Movie • 2008
Evelyn
HealtH
Movie • 1980
Sally Benbow
Remember My Name
Movie • 1978
Rita
12 Years a Slave
Movie • 2013
Mistress Shaw
Bopha!
Movie • 1993
Rosie Mangena
Holiday Heart
Movie • 2000
Wanda Dean
Down in the Delta
Movie • 1998
Loretta Sinclair
Words by Heart
Movie • 1985
Claudie Sills
Cross Creek
Movie • 1983
Geechee
Rich in Love
Movie • 1992
Rhody Poole
Miss Evers' Boys
Movie • 1997
Eunice Evers, R.N.
Steel Magnolias
Movie • 2012
Ouiser
The Member of the Wedding
Movie • 1997
Berenice Sadie Brown
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Movie • 1984
Esther
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
Movie • 2001
Medicine Woman (voice)
Space Oddity
Movie • 2023
Dr. Olsen
Unnatural Causes
Movie • 1986
Maude DeVictor
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Movie • 1989
Mary Thomas
Mandela
Movie • 1987
Winnie Mandela
Funny Valentines
Movie • 1999
Joyce May
Miss Firecracker
Movie • 1989
Popeye Jackson
Lost Souls
Movie • 2000
Dr. Allen
Extremities
Movie • 1986
Patricia
Annabelle
Movie • 2014
Evelyn
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Movie • 2015
Mary Lou Williams (voice)
Blue Chips
Movie • 1994
Lavada McRae
The Door
Movie • 2013
E
Mississippi Grind
Movie • 2015
Sam
The Forgotten
Movie • 2004
Det. Anne Pope
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Movie • 2014
Self
What's Cooking?
Movie • 2000
Audrey Williams
So B. It
Movie • 2016
Bernadette
The Ambush Murders
Movie • 1982
Karisha Ellsworth
The Singing Detective
Movie • 2003
Chief of Staff
Knucklehead
Movie • 2015
Sheila
The Book of Clarence
Movie • 2024
Mother Mary
A Path Appears
Movie • 2015
Self
Medal of Honor
Movie • 2008
Narrator
John Henry
Movie • 2000
Polly / Narrator (voice)
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Movie • 1997
Narrator (voice)
Freedom Road
Movie • 1979
Katie
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Movie • 2007
Edna Reilly
Scrooged
Movie • 1988
Grace Cooley
Captain America: Civil War
Movie • 2016
Miriam
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Movie • 1982
Woman who lost her stuff
Burning Sands
Movie • 2017
Professor Hughes
A Step Toward Tomorrow
Movie • 1996
Dr. Sadlin
The Water Is Wide
Movie • 2006
Mrs. Brown
The Piano Lesson
Movie • 1995
Berniece Charles
American Violet
Movie • 2008
Alma Roberts
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Movie • 2016
Self
The Trial of the Moke
Movie • 1978
Lucy Smith
The Lion King
Movie • 2019
Sarabi (voice)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Movie • 2003
Narrator
The Wishing Tree
Movie • 1999
Clara
Puss in Boots
Movie • 1985
Princess Lovinia
King Leopold's Ghost
Movie • 2006
Ilanga (voice)
The Killing Floor
Movie • 1984
Mattie
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Movie • 2003
Black Panther
Movie • 2010
Dondi Reece
Henry Box Brown
Movie • 2008
Saint Judy
Movie • 2018
Judge Benton
Clemency
Movie • 2019
Warden Bernadine Williams
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Movie • 1996
Tamara O'Neil
Juanita
Movie • 2019
Juanita
Fatherhood
Movie • 2021
Marian
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
Movie • 2019
Heart and Souls
Movie • 1993
Penny Washington
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Movie • 2000
Mary Parrish (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Movie • 2000
Narrator (voice)
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Movie • 1994
Narrator
Aliens for Breakfast
Movie • 1994
Mrs. Marks
The Making of Clemency
Movie • 2020
Herself
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Movie • 2000
Narrator
The Underground Railroad
Movie • 1999
The Child Saver
Movie • 1988
Andrea Crawford
No Small Matter
Movie • 2019
Narrator (voice)
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
Movie • 2007
Self - Narrator
Blue Bayou
Movie • 1990
Jessica Filley
Searching for Debra Winger
Movie • 2002
Self
The Gray Man
Movie • 2022
Margaret Cahill
Something New
Movie • 2006
Joyce McQueen
Black Hollywood
Movie • 1984
Self
Precious Blood
Movie • 1982
Narrator
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Movie • 1997
Maisie (voice)
L.A. Law: Pilot
Movie • 1986
Adrianne Moore
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Movie • 2021
Alma Thomas (voice)
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
Movie • 2021
Mary Parrish (voice)
Hate to See You Go
Movie
Salem's Lot
Movie • 2024
Dr. Cody
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
Movie
Self
The Inquisitor
Movie • 2025
Narration
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
Movie • 1997
Narrator
The Thing That Hurts
Movie
Desperate Housewives
TV • 2004
Betty Applewhite
L.A. Law
TV • 1986
Adrianne Moore
Static Shock
TV • 2000
Jean Hawkins (voice)
Class of 3000
TV • 2006
Hill Street Blues
TV • 1981
Frasier
TV • 1993
Edna (voice)
The Practice
TV • 1997
Denise Freeman
My Own Worst Enemy
TV • 2008
Mavis Heller
Tucker's Witch
TV • 1982
Marcia Fulbright
Homicide: Life on the Street
TV • 1993
Dr. Roxanne Turner
Hallmark Hall of Fame
TV • 1951
Mrs. Brown
The White Shadow
TV • 1978
Sandra Wilcox
True Blood
TV • 2008
Ruby Jean Reynolds
Gulliver's Travels
TV • 1996
Queen of Brobdingnag
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
TV • 1980
Three Rivers
TV • 2009
Dr. Sophia Jordan
Black Panther
TV • 2010
Dondi Reece (voice)
The Oscars
TV • 1953
Self
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
TV • 1977
Sara
TV • 1985
Rozalyn Dupree
Memphis Beat
TV • 2010
Lieutenant Tanya Rice
The Wild Thornberrys
TV • 1998
Medicine Woman (voice)
Women, War & Peace
TV • 2011
Narrator (voice)
State of Affairs
TV • 2014
President Constance Payton
The Last Ship
TV • 2014
Amy Granderson
The Daily Show
TV • 1996
Self
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Self - Guest
Marvel's Luke Cage
TV • 2016
Mariah Dillard
A Series of Unfortunate Events
TV • 2017
Aunt Josephine
Reading Rainbow
TV • 1983
Self - Narrator (voice)
Who Do You Think You Are?
TV • 2010
Self
American Experience
TV • 1988
Narrator (voice)
Faerie Tale Theatre
TV • 1982
Princess Lovinia
Empire
TV • 2015
Renee
Monsieur Spade
TV • 2024
Virginia Dell
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV • 1995
Winsome (voice)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
TV • 2009
Self - Guest
The Last Frontier
TV • 2025
Jacqueline Bradford
Rachael Ray
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
TV • 2023
Mimi (voice)
Grey's Anatomy
TV • 2005
Justine Campbell
See
TV • 2019
Paris
The Sophisticated Gents
TV • 1981
Evelyn Evers
HBO First Look
TV • 1992
Self
The Boroughs
TV • 2026
Judy
The Megan Mullally Show
TV • 2006
Self - Guest
Star Trek: Lower Decks
TV • 2020
Lilly Sloane (voice)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
TV • 2014
Self
Private Practice
TV • 2007
Dee Bennett
Number One on the Call Sheet
TV • 2025
Self
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
TV • 2020
Self
WonderWorks
TV • 1984
Claudie Sills
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV • 2022
Self
St. Elsewhere
TV • 1982
Roxanne Turner