Alfre Woodard

Personal Info

Birthday

November 8, 1952

(72 years old)

Place of Birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Also Known As

آلفره وودارد

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.

Known For

Grey's Anatomy

Desperate Housewives

Frasier

See

True Blood

Star Trek: Lower Decks

A Series of Unfortunate Events

The Last Ship

Filmography

2025
The Inquisitor
as Self
2024
Salem's Lot
as Dr. Cody
Summer Camp
as Mary
The Book of Clarence
as Mother Mary
2023
Weathering
as Mum
Space Oddity
as Dr. Olsen
2022
The Gray Man
as Margaret Cahill
2021
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
as Alma Thomas (voice)
Fatherhood
as Marian
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
as Mary Parrish (voice)
2020
The Making of Clemency
as Herself
2019
Clemency
as Warden Bernadine Williams
The Lion King
as Sarabi (voice)
No Small Matter
as Narrator (voice)
Juanita
as Juanita
Saint Judy
as Judge Benton
2017
Burning Sands
as Professor Hughes
2016
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
as Self
So B. It
as Bernadette
Captain America: Civil War
as Miriam
2015
Mississippi Grind
as Sam
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Mary Lou Williams (voice)
Knucklehead
as Sheila
A Path Appears
as Self
2014
Annabelle
as Evelyn
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as Self
And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)
2013
12 Years a Slave
as Mistress Shaw
The Door
as E
2012
Steel Magnolias
as Ouiser
2008
Medal of Honor
as Narrator
Reach for Me
as Evelyn
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
as Alice Pratt
American Violet
as Alma Roberts
2007
Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Edna Reilly
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
as Self - Narrator
2006
King Leopold's Ghost
as Ilanga (voice)
Take the Lead
as Augustine James
Something New
as Joyce McQueen
The Water Is Wide
as Mrs. Brown
2005
Beauty Shop
as Ms. Josephine
2004
The Forgotten
as Det. Anne Pope
2003
Radio
as Principal Daniels
The Singing Detective
as Chief of Staff
A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. Whatsit
The Core
as Stickley
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as Narrator
2002
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
Searching for Debra Winger
as Self
2001
K-PAX
as Claudia Villars
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
as Medicine Woman (voice)
2000
Holiday Heart
as Wanda Dean
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
as Narrator
Lost Souls
as Dr. Allen
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as Mary Parrish (voice)
John Henry
as Polly / Narrator (voice)
Dinosaur
as Plio (voice)
Love & Basketball
as Camille Wright
What's Cooking?
as Audrey Williams
Eleanor Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)
1999
Mumford
as Lily
Funny Valentines
as Joyce May
The Wishing Tree
as Clara
1998
Down in the Delta
as Loretta Sinclair
1997
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
as Maisie (voice)
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Narrator (voice)
Follow Me Home
as Evey
Miss Evers' Boys
as Eunice Evers, R.N.
The Member of the Wedding
as Berenice Sadie Brown
1996
Star Trek: First Contact
as Lily Sloane
A Step Toward Tomorrow
as Dr. Sadlin
Special Report: Journey to Mars
as Tamara O'Neil
Primal Fear
as Shoat
1995
How to Make an American Quilt
as Marianna
The Piano Lesson
as Berniece Charles
1994
Crooklyn
as Carolyn Carmichael
Aliens for Breakfast
as Mrs. Marks
Blue Chips
as Lavada McRae
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
as Narrator
1993
Bopha!
as Rosie Mangena
Heart and Souls
as Penny Washington
1992
Passion Fish
as Chantelle
Rich in Love
as Rhody Poole
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as Ann
1991
Grand Canyon
as Jane
1990
Blue Bayou
as Jessica Filley
1989
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
as Mary Thomas
Miss Firecracker
as Popeye Jackson
1988
Scrooged
as Grace Cooley
The Child Saver
as Andrea Crawford
1987
Mandela
as Winnie Mandela
1986
Unnatural Causes
as Maude DeVictor
L.A. Law: Pilot
as Adrianne Moore
Extremities
as Patricia
1985
Puss in Boots
as Princess Lovinia
Go Tell It on the Mountain
as Esther
Words by Heart
as Claudie Sills
1984
Black Hollywood
as Self
Sweet Revenge
as Vicki Teague
The Killing Floor
as Mattie
1983
Cross Creek
as Geechee
1982
Precious Blood
as Narrator
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman who lost her stuff
The Ambush Murders
as Karisha Ellsworth
1980
HealtH
as Sally Benbow
1979
Freedom Road
as Katie
1978
The Trial of the Moke
as Lucy Smith
Remember My Name
as Rita