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.
Filmography
Women, War & Peace
2011 · 10.0
Blue Bayou
1990 · 10.0
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021 · 10.0
Inconceivable
2005 · 9.0
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000 · 9.0
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994 · 9.0
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951 · 8.8
The Sophisticated Gents
1981 · 8.5
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982 · 8.5
Sara
1985 · 8.3
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · 8.2
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · 8.1
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · 8.1
See
2019 · 8.1
Static Shock
2000 · 8.0
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000 · 8.0
King Leopold's Ghost
2006 · 8.0
The Ambush Murders
1982 · 8.0
The Killing Floor
1984 · 8.0
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015 · 8.0
12 Years a Slave
2013 · 7.9
Desperate Housewives
2004 · 7.9
Frasier
1993 · 7.7
Funny Valentines
1999 · 7.7
Primal Fear
1996 · 7.7
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020 · 7.6
Hill Street Blues
1981 · 7.6
True Blood
2008 · 7.6
The Practice
1997 · 7.6
The Piano Lesson
1995 · 7.6
Private Practice
2007 · 7.5
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000 · 7.5
The Wishing Tree
1999 · 7.5
The Child Saver
1988 · 7.5
Fatherhood
2021 · 7.5
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · 7.5
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017 · 7.4
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023 · 7.4
Radio
2003 · 7.4
Star Trek: First Contact
1996 · 7.3
Gulliver's Travels
1996 · 7.3
Love & Basketball
2000 · 7.3
K-PAX
2001 · 7.2
The Last Frontier
2025 · 7.2
The Boroughs
2026 · 7.2
Empire
2015 · 7.1
The White Shadow
1978 · 7.1
Disney's American Legends
2001 · 7.1
Holiday Heart
2000 · 7.1
The Lion King
2019 · 7.1
John Henry
2000 · 7.0
L.A. Law
1986 · 7.0
Three Rivers
2009 · 7.0
Heart and Souls
1993 · 7.0
Passion Fish
1992 · 7.0
Knucklehead
2015 · 7.0
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001 · 7.0
The Water Is Wide
2006 · 7.0
The Underground Railroad
1999 · 7.0
The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · 7.0
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016 · 6.9
Memphis Beat
2010 · 6.9
Black Panther
2010 · 6.9
Take the Lead
2006 · 6.9
Saint Judy
2018 · 6.9
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008 · 6.9
The Gray Man
2022 · 6.9
The Last Ship
2014 · 6.9
Class of 3000
2006 · 6.8
Crooklyn
1994 · 6.8
Scrooged
1988 · 6.8
Sweet Revenge
1984 · 6.7
American Violet
2008 · 6.7
American Playhouse
1982 · 6.6
So B. It
2016 · 6.6
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007 · 6.6
Mumford
1999 · 6.6
Cross Creek
1983 · 6.6
Dinosaur
2000 · 6.6
American Experience
1988 · 6.5
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002 · 6.5
Miss Evers' Boys
1997 · 6.5
Medal of Honor
2008 · 6.5
My Own Worst Enemy
2008 · 6.4
Something New
2006 · 6.4
How to Make an American Quilt
1995 · 6.4
Grand Canyon
1991 · 6.4
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003 · 6.4
Rich in Love
1992 · 6.4
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995 · 6.3
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980 · 6.3
Beauty Shop
2005 · 6.3
Clemency
2019 · 6.3
A Wrinkle in Time
2003 · 6.3
Down in the Delta
1998 · 6.3
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984 · 6.3
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021 · 6.3
Monsieur Spade
2024 · 6.2
Extremities
1986 · 6.2
Black Panther
2010 · 6.2
Blue Chips
1994 · 6.1
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997 · 6.1
Remember My Name
1978 · 6.1
Mississippi Grind
2015 · 6.0
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977 · 6.0
Space Oddity
2023 · 6.0
The Member of the Wedding
1997 · 6.0
Salem's Lot
2024 · 5.9
The Forgotten
2004 · 5.9
The Core
2003 · 5.9
Burning Sands
2017 · 5.9
The Book of Clarence
2024 · 5.8
Miss Firecracker
1989 · 5.8
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996 · 5.8
Annabelle
2014 · 5.8
St. Elsewhere
1982 · 5.7
Aliens for Breakfast
1994 · 5.7
State of Affairs
2014 · 5.6
What's Cooking?
2000 · 5.5
Summer Camp
2024 · 5.4
Juanita
2019 · 5.4
Bopha!
1993 · 5.4
HealtH
1980 · 5.4
Tucker's Witch
1982 · 5.2
Freedom Road
1979 · 5.2
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003 · 5.2
The Singing Detective
2003 · 5.1
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992 · 5.1
Lost Souls
2000 · 5.0
Follow Me Home
1997 · 5.0
Puss in Boots
1985 · 5.0
Weathering
2023 · 4.8
The Door
2013 · 4.0
Reach for Me
2008 · 2.8
2034
— · 0.0
WonderWorks
1984 · 0.0
The Inquisitor
2025 · 0.0
Cadillac Desert
1997 · 0.0
Baby of the Family
— · 0.0
Pockets of Heaven
— · 0.0
The Thing That Hurts
— · 0.0
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997 · 0.0
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986 · 0.0
Hate to See You Go
— · 0.0
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019 · 0.0
No Small Matter
2019 · 0.0
Henry Box Brown
2008 · 0.0