Alfre Woodard

Q: Has Alfre Woodard won any Oscars?

Alfre Woodard has not won an Oscar, but she has been nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in 'Cross Creek' in 1984.

Q: What was Alfre Woodard's first film?

Alfre Woodard's first film was 'Remember My Name,' released in 1978, where she played a supporting role. This marked the beginning of her extensive film career.

Q: What are some of Alfre Woodard's most successful films?

Some of Alfre Woodard's most successful films include '12 Years a Slave,' 'Cross Creek,' and 'The Family That Preys.' These films have received critical acclaim and showcased her acting range.

Q: What is Alfre Woodard's personal life like?

Alfre Woodard is married to Roderick Spencer since 1990, and they have two children together. She is known for her commitment to social issues and often engages in humanitarian work.

Q: What is Alfre Woodard's estimated net worth?

Alfre Woodard's estimated net worth is approximately $13 million, reflecting her successful career in acting and producing across film and television.

Q: What are some milestones in Alfre Woodard's filmography?

Milestones in Alfre Woodard's filmography include her roles in '12 Years a Slave,' 'Star Trek: First Contact,' and 'The Help.' She has also made significant contributions to television, particularly in series like 'The Practice.'

Q: What awards has Alfre Woodard received?

Alfre Woodard has received numerous awards, including four Primetime Emmy Awards, a Screen Actors Guild Award, and a nomination for a Golden Globe. Her work has been recognized across various platforms.

Known for

The Lion King (2019)

IMDb 6.8 / 10

2019 / Action, Adventure / 113mins

Betrayed and exiled from his kingdom, lion cub Simba must figure out how to grow up and take back his royal destiny on the...

Annabelle (2014)

IMDb 5.4 / 10

2014 / Horror, Mystery / 99 min

A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic cultists.

Dinosaur (2000)

IMDb 6.4 / 10

2000 / Action, Adventure / 82mins

An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family home.

Name

Alfre Woodard

Height

5 ft 4 in (1.63 m)

Born

8 November 1952, Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

Spouses

Roderick Spencer (1990–present)

Children

2, Mavis Spencer, Duncan Spencer

Parents

Woodrow Wilson, Ethel Woodard

Estimated Net Worth

$13 million

Year	Title	Character	Rating
2026	TV The Boroughs In a seemingly perfect retirement community, a crew of unlikely heroes must stop an otherworldly threat from stealing the one...	Judy Daniels	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2025	TV The Last Frontier When a prison transport plane crashes in the remote Alaskan wilderness—freeing dozens of violent inmates—the region's lone marshal must protect...	Jacqueline Bradford	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2025	Movie The Inquisitor In 1972, Congresswoman Barbara Jordan became the first Southern Black woman to join Congress, one of many firsts in her...	Narration	Not rated
2025	TV Number One on the Call Sheet Some of Hollywood's biggest stars reveal their journeys to game-changing leading roles. In candid interviews, they shine a light on...	Self	TMDB 3.6 / 10
2024	Movie Salem's Lot Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon...	Dr. Cody	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2024	Movie Summer Camp Childhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp together, and now, fifty years...	Mary	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2024	TV Monsieur Spade Detective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series of brutal murders.	Virginia Dell	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2024	Movie The Book of Clarence Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of...	Mother Mary	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2023	Movie Weathering After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing visions and chilling attacks as...	Mum	TMDB 4.9 / 10
2023	Movie Space Oddity A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised...	Dr. Olsen	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2023	TV Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into present-day New York City via a time vortex, the...	Mimi (voice)	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2022	TV The Jennifer Hudson Show Talented entertainer and newly-minted EGOT Jennifer Hudson takes on the daytime talk show landscape.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.6 / 10
2022	Movie The Gray Man When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's...	Margaret Cahill	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2021	Movie Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black...	Alma Thomas (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2021	Movie Fatherhood A widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise his daughter...	Marian	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2021	Movie Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old...	Mary Parrish (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2020	TV The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart Examining the high stakes surrounding key issues affecting communities across America, cutting through the political noise with compelling, in-depth and...	Self	Not rated
2020	TV Star Trek: Lower Decks The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S. Cerritos, in 2380. Ensigns...	Lilly Sloane (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
2020	Movie The Making of Clemency Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research Process, Working with Alfre Woodard, Working...	Herself	Not rated
2019	Movie Clemency Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to...	Warden Bernadine Williams	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	TV See A virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins are born with the mythic ability...	Paris	TMDB 8.1 / 10
2019	Movie The Lion King Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom...	Sarabi (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2019	Movie No Small Matter A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the...	Narrator (voice)	Not rated
2019	Movie The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts "The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring universal appeal of "The...	Unknown character	Not rated
2019	Movie Juanita Fed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus to Paper Moon, Montana...	Juanita	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2018	Movie Saint Judy The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save...	Judge Benton	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2017	Movie Burning Sands Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the...	Professor Hughes	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2017	TV A Series of Unfortunate Events The orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their quest to uncover the secret...	Aunt Josephine	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2016	Movie Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2016	TV Marvel's Luke Cage Given superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes prison to become a superhero for hire.	Mariah Dillard	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2016	Movie So B. It A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about...	Bernadette	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2016	Movie Captain America: Civil War Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all...	Miriam	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2015	Movie Mississippi Grind Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic...	Sam	TMDB 6.0 / 10
2015	Movie Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking...	Mary Lou Williams (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	Movie Knucklehead When his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left without a protector in Brooklyn's housing projects. Now...	Sheila	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2015	Movie A Path Appears The film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner,...	Self	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2015	TV Empire A powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle for his...	Renee	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2014	TV Variety Studio: Actors on Actors PBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through candid conversations...	Self	TMDB 4.2 / 10
2014	TV State of Affairs Each day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the biggest international crises...	President Constance Payton	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2014	Movie Annabelle A couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll shortly after their home is invaded by satanic...	Evelyn	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2014	Movie Nelson Mandela Redrawn This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With...	Self	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2014	TV The Last Ship Their mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic wipes out eighty...	Amy Granderson	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2013	Movie 12 Years a Slave In the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is abducted and sold...	Mistress Shaw	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2013	Movie The Door The Door, by Ava DuVernay, is a celebration of the transformative power of feminine bonds, and a symbolic story of...	E	TMDB 4.0 / 10
2012	Movie Steel Magnolias In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship...	Ouiser	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2011	TV Women, War & Peace What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women mattered?...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
2010	TV Memphis Beat Memphis Beat is an American drama series that debuted on TNT on June 22, 2010 and ended on August 16,...	Lieutenant Tanya Rice	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	TV Who Do You Think You Are? From roots in the Deep South to the slums of New Jersey, "Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the...	Self	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2010	Movie Black Panther Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability...	Dondi Reece	TMDB 6.2 / 10
2010	TV Black Panther Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family of warrior kings possessing superior...	Dondi Reece (voice)	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2009	TV Three Rivers Three Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009, starring Alex O'Loughlin in...	Dr. Sophia Jordan	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2009	TV Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen Bravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality show personalities.	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2008	Movie Medal of Honor The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through...	Narrator	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	TV My Own Worst Enemy My Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on October 13...	Mavis Heller	TMDB 6.5 / 10
2008	Movie Reach for Me Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted...	Evelyn	TMDB 2.8 / 10
2008	Movie Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a...	Alice Pratt	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2008	TV True Blood Thanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic blood, vampires have progressed overnight from legendary monsters to fellow citizens. And...	Ruby Jean Reynolds	TMDB 7.6 / 10
2008	Movie American Violet A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of...	Alma Roberts	TMDB 6.7 / 10
2008	Movie Henry Box Brown In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom...	Unknown character	Not rated
2007	Movie Pictures of Hollis Woods After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with...	Edna Reilly	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2007	TV Private Practice Having left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to Los Angeles for sunnier weather and happier...	Dee Bennett	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2007	Movie Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the radical king, and...	Self - Narrator	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2006	TV Class of 3000 Magical, musical superstar Sunny Bridges, played by André 3000 of OutKast, has given up fame to return to his roots...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.8 / 10
2006	TV The Megan Mullally Show Two-time Emmy Award-winner Megan Mullally, coming off eight seasons as wisecracking socialite Karen Walker on NBC's "Will & Grace," moves...	Self - Guest	TMDB 4.7 / 10
2006	TV Rachael Ray Rachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is an American talk show starring Rachael Ray that debuted in...	Self - Guest	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2006	Movie King Leopold's Ghost The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy...	Ilanga (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2006	Movie Take the Lead A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first...	Augustine James	TMDB 6.9 / 10
2006	Movie Something New Kenya McQueen thought she had it all: a successful career, good friends and family. There was just one thing she...	Joyce McQueen	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2006	Movie The Water Is Wide Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black...	Mrs. Brown	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2005	Movie Beauty Shop Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a...	Ms. Josephine	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2005	TV Grey's Anatomy Follows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle's Grey Sloan Memorial Hospital.	Justine Campbell	TMDB 8.2 / 10
2004	TV Desperate Housewives Looking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of...	Betty Applewhite	TMDB 7.9 / 10
2004	Movie The Forgotten Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 9-year-old son. She is stunned when...	Det. Anne Pope	TMDB 5.9 / 10
2003	Movie Radio In the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones spots a mentally disabled African-American...	Principal Daniels	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2003	Movie The Singing Detective Tormented and bedridden by a debilitating disease, a mystery writer relives his detective stories through his imagination and hallucinations.	Chief of Staff	TMDB 5.1 / 10
2003	Movie A Wrinkle in Time Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared...	Mrs. Whatsit	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie The Core Geophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to stop rotating. With the...	Stickley	TMDB 5.8 / 10
2003	Movie Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave...	Narrator	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2003	Movie Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the...	Unknown character	TMDB 5.2 / 10
2002	Movie The Wild Thornberrys Movie Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when...	Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2002	Movie Searching for Debra Winger Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
2001	Movie K-PAX Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries...	Claudia Villars	TMDB 7.2 / 10
2001	Movie The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, getting lost in a cave,...	Medicine Woman (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2001	Movie Disney's American Legends Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.4 / 10
2000	Movie Holiday Heart After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart...	Wanda Dean	TMDB 7.0 / 10
2000	Movie Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a...	Narrator	TMDB 7.5 / 10
2000	Movie Lost Souls A young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form. To...	Dr. Allen	TMDB 5.0 / 10
2000	TV Static Shock An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first teenage African-American superhero.	Jean Hawkins (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
2000	Movie The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony...	Mary Parrish (voice)	TMDB 9.0 / 10
2000	Movie John Henry The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his strength against...	Polly / Narrator (voice)	TMDB 7.1 / 10
2000	Movie Dinosaur An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite shower destroys his family...	Plio (voice)	TMDB 6.6 / 10
2000	Movie Love & Basketball Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they...	Camille Wright	TMDB 7.3 / 10
2000	Movie What's Cooking? Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.	Audrey Williams	TMDB 5.7 / 10
2000	Movie Eleanor Roosevelt Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controlling mother-in-law, and gripping depressions — all...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1999	Movie Mumford When a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same name and offers his...	Lily	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1999	Movie Funny Valentines A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling...	Joyce May	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1999	Movie The Wishing Tree When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon...	Clara	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1999	Movie The Underground Railroad The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people...	Unknown character	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1998	Movie Down in the Delta A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home...	Loretta Sinclair	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1998	TV The Wild Thornberrys Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in Australia, marmots in Pakistan,...	Medicine Woman (voice)	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1997	Movie Seven Candles For Kwanzaa For each new day of Kwanzaa, a new candle is lit and children and adults share their thoughts, songs, stories...	Narrator	Not rated
1997	Movie The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new...	Maisie (voice)	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1997	Movie Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1997	TV The Practice A provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their scrappy boss, Bobby Donnell. The...	Denise Freeman	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1997	Movie Follow Me Home Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on...	Evey	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1997	Movie Miss Evers' Boys The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were...	Eunice Evers, R.N.	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1997	Movie The Member of the Wedding In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and...	Berenice Sadie Brown	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1996	Movie Star Trek: First Contact The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from...	Lily Sloane	TMDB 7.3 / 10
1996	Movie A Step Toward Tomorrow A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.	Dr. Sadlin	TMDB 4.5 / 10
1996	TV The Daily Show The World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.	Self	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1996	Movie Primal Fear Defense attorney Martin Vail takes on jobs for money and prestige rather than any sense of the greater good. His...	Shoat	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1996	Movie Special Report: Journey to Mars When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV network GNN begins its live coverage of...	Tamara O'Neil	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1996	TV Gulliver's Travels Dr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence - and tells them the story...	Queen of Brobdingnag	TMDB 7.2 / 10
1995	Movie How to Make an American Quilt Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to...	Marianna	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1995	TV Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.	Winsome (voice)	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1995	Movie The Piano Lesson 1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is...	Berniece Charles	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1994	Movie Crooklyn From Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her stubborn jazz-musician husband and their five kids living...	Carolyn Carmichael	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1994	Movie Aliens for Breakfast Sinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about...	Mrs. Marks	TMDB 5.5 / 10
1994	Movie Blue Chips Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract...	Lavada McRae	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1994	Movie Malcolm X: Make It Plain Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood,...	Narrator	TMDB 9.0 / 10
1993	TV Frasier After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a radio psychiatrist...	Edna (voice)	TMDB 7.7 / 10
1993	Movie Bopha! In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying...	Rosie Mangena	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1993	Movie Heart and Souls A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their...	Penny Washington	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1993	TV Homicide: Life on the Street An American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore Police Department's Homicide Unit.	Dr. Roxanne Turner	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1992	Movie Passion Fish After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until...	Chantelle	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1992	Movie Rich in Love Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly....	Rhody Poole	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1992	Movie The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.	Ann	TMDB 5.1 / 10
1992	TV HBO First Look HBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It first started in...	Self	TMDB 5.6 / 10
1991	Movie Grand Canyon Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of...	Jane	TMDB 6.4 / 10
1990	Movie Blue Bayou A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.	Jessica Filley	TMDB 10.0 / 10
1989	Movie A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family...	Mary Thomas	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1989	Movie Miss Firecracker Unhappy Carnelle Scott is desperate to escape her reputation as Yazoo City's 'Miss Hot Tamale.' She throws herself into a...	Popeye Jackson	TMDB 5.8 / 10
1988	Movie Scrooged Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of...	Grace Cooley	TMDB 6.8 / 10
1988	TV American Experience TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform our understanding of the world...	Narrator (voice)	TMDB 6.5 / 10
1988	Movie The Child Saver Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.	Andrea Crawford	TMDB 7.5 / 10
1987	Movie Mandela Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating...	Winnie Mandela	TMDB 4.8 / 10
1986	Movie Unnatural Causes Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which...	Maude DeVictor	TMDB 7.4 / 10
1986	TV L.A. Law L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from September 15, 1986,...	Adrianne Moore	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1986	Movie L.A. Law: Pilot Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles...	Adrianne Moore	Not rated
1986	Movie Extremities A woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that her...	Patricia	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1985	Movie Puss in Boots A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen,...	Princess Lovinia	TMDB 5.0 / 10
1985	TV Sara A newly minted attorney joins the legal aid clinic in San Francisco where her best friend works.	Rozalyn Dupree	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1985	Movie Words by Heart The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen...	Claudie Sills	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1984	Movie Black Hollywood Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and...	Self	Not rated
1984	Movie Sweet Revenge While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in...	Vicki Teague	TMDB 6.7 / 10
1984	TV WonderWorks Anthology series aimed at children and families. Many of the episodes were based on popular children's and young adult novels.	Claudie Sills	Not rated
1984	Movie Go Tell It on the Mountain This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big...	Esther	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1984	Movie The Killing Floor During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where...	Mattie	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1983	Movie Cross Creek In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men,...	Geechee	TMDB 6.6 / 10
1983	TV Reading Rainbow Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode centers on a theme from...	Self - Narrator (voice)	TMDB 8.3 / 10
1982	TV St. Elsewhere St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26, 1982 to May...	Roxanne Turner	TMDB 5.7 / 10
1982	TV Tucker's Witch Rick and Amanda Tucker own and operate their private detective agency in Laurel Canyon in Los Angeles. Amanda's psychic powers...	Marcia Fulbright	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1982	TV Faerie Tale Theatre A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.	Princess Lovinia	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1982	TV Faerie Tale Theatre A live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.	Self - Guest	TMDB 8.1 / 10
1982	Movie Precious Blood A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict...	Narrator	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1982	Movie For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning...	Woman who lost her stuff	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1982	Movie The Ambush Murders An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer...	Karisha Ellsworth	TMDB 8.0 / 10
1981	TV The Sophisticated Gents The 25-year reunion of members of a black athletic-social club brings together nine of its members for the first time...	Evelyn Evers	TMDB 8.5 / 10
1981	TV Hill Street Blues A realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.	Unknown character	TMDB 7.6 / 10
1980	Movie HealtH At a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual convention. As the conference progresses,...	Sally Benbow	TMDB 5.4 / 10
1980	TV Palmerstown, U.S.A. Palmerstown, U.S.A. is a drama series. It centers on the lives of two 9-year-old best friends, one black and one...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.3 / 10
1979	Movie Freedom Road Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the...	Katie	TMDB 5.2 / 10
1978	TV The White Shadow The White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from November 27 1978, to...	Sandra Wilcox	TMDB 7.1 / 10
1978	Movie The Trial of the Moke Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the...	Lucy Smith	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1978	Movie Remember My Name Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a...	Rita	TMDB 6.1 / 10
1977	TV What Really Happened to the Class of '65? Sam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the school,...	Unknown character	TMDB 6.0 / 10
1953	TV The Oscars An annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The various category winners are awarded a copy...	Self	TMDB 7.0 / 10
1951	TV Hallmark Hall of Fame Long-running anthology program sponsored by Hallmark Cards. Beginning in 1951 and continuing into 2019, the series received 80 Emmy Awards,...	Mrs. Brown	TMDB 8.8 / 10
TBA	Movie 2034 A near-future narrative exploring the conflict between human creativity and artificial intelligence. Plot details TBA.	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Hate to See You Go The story of Sonny Bell, an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defiantly hits the road with...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie The Thing That Hurts A group of patients converges in Paris following the demise of their renowned American psychoanalyst, unveiling profound bonds as they...	Unknown character	Not rated
TBA	Movie Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball” Documentary on the making of the film “Love & Basketball” produced by the Criterion Collection in 2021	Self	Not rated
TBA	Movie Pockets of Heaven Against the backdrop of an LA wildfire evacuation, the lives of three young people from vastly different worlds—a privileged runaway...	Unknown character	Not rated

Year	Title	Role	Rating
2022	TV The Porter In 1921, friends and train porters Junior and Zeke find their unbreakable bond stretched to its limits when tragedy inspires...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 5.4 / 10
2019	Movie Clemency Years of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine Williams. As she prepares to...	Executive Producer Production	TMDB 6.3 / 10
2019	Movie No Small Matter A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the...	Executive Producer Production	Not rated

The Inquisitor

2025

Salem's Lot

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Summer Camp

2024 / TMDB 5.2

The Book of Clarence

2024 / TMDB 5.8

Weathering

2023 / TMDB 4.9

Space Oddity

2023 / TMDB 6.0

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Annabelle (2014)

Dinosaur (2000)

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