Alfre Woodard
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.
171 acting credits
Acting · 171
Grey's Anatomy
2005
The Boroughs
2026
The Daily Show
1996
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Desperate Housewives
2004
Private Practice
2007
Frasier
1993
True Blood
2008
Hill Street Blues
1981
The Practice
1997
American Experience
1988
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
Empire
2015
St. Elsewhere
1982
L.A. Law
1986
Homicide: Life on the Street
1993
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
See
2019
The Last Ship
2014
The Wild Thornberrys
1998
Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
Captain America: Civil War
2016
A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017
The Oscars
1953
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
The Last Frontier
2025
Reading Rainbow
1983
The Lion King
2019
Static Shock
2000
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
1995
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023
The Megan Mullally Show
2006
The White Shadow
1978
HBO First Look
1992
The Gray Man
2022
Who Do You Think You Are?
2010
Primal Fear
1996
12 Years a Slave
2013
Rachael Ray
2006
Heart and Souls
1993
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Dinosaur
2000
Annabelle
2014
Three Rivers
2009
Monsieur Spade
2024
The Core
2003
Memphis Beat
2010
Salem's Lot
2024
Class of 3000
2006
K-PAX
2001
WonderWorks
1984
Star Trek: First Contact
1996
Radio
2003
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Gulliver's Travels
1996
The Forgotten
2004
My Own Worst Enemy
2008
Tucker's Witch
1982
What Really Happened to the Class of '65?
1977
Black Panther
2010
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
Scrooged
1988
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
2002
Fatherhood
2021
Beauty Shop
2005
The Sunday Show with Jonathan Capehart
2020
The Book of Clarence
2024
Sara
1985
The Sophisticated Gents
1981
Take the Lead
2006
Women, War & Peace
2011
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008
Lost Souls
2000
Blue Chips
1994
How to Make an American Quilt
1995
Love & Basketball
2000
Mississippi Grind
2015
Something New
2006
Space Oddity
2023
Crooklyn
1994
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
2003
Summer Camp
2024
Clemency
2019
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
1997
Holiday Heart
2000
Mumford
1999
Searching for Debra Winger
2002
Saint Judy
2018
Passion Fish
1992
Grand Canyon
1991
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
2001
Miss Evers' Boys
1997
Bopha!
1993
Steel Magnolias
2012
The Singing Detective
2003
Black Panther
2010
American Violet
2008
Miss Firecracker
1989
So B. It
2016
Extremities
1986
State of Affairs
2014
HealtH
1980
Weathering
2023
Burning Sands
2017
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
1992
A Wrinkle in Time
2003
King Leopold's Ghost
2006
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
1997
John Henry
2000
Remember My Name
1978
The Ambush Murders
1982
Juanita
2019
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
2000
What's Cooking?
2000
Special Report: Journey to Mars
1996
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
2003
Sweet Revenge
1984
Freedom Road
1979
Down in the Delta
1998
Cross Creek
1983
The Killing Floor
1984
Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
2021
Rich in Love
1992
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
2019
Disney's American Legends
2001
The Water Is Wide
2006
Aliens for Breakfast
1994
The Door
2013
Go Tell It on the Mountain
1984
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
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Unnatural Causes
1986
Blue Bayou
1990
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
2016
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
1982
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
2015
The Member of the Wedding
1997
Reach for Me
2008
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
L.A. Law: Pilot
1986
Mandela
1987
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
2021
Hate to See You Go
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Puss in Boots
1985
The Thing That Hurts
—
A Path Appears
2015
The Trial of the Moke
1978
The Piano Lesson
1995
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
2000
Words by Heart
1985
Knucklehead
2015
The Wishing Tree
1999
Follow Me Home
1997
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996
Funny Valentines
1999
Black Hollywood
1984
The Making of Clemency
2020
The Child Saver
1988
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
1989
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
2007
Medal of Honor
2008
Eleanor Roosevelt
2000
The Inquisitor
2025
No Small Matter
2019
Precious Blood
1982
Pockets of Heaven
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Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
1997
The Underground Railroad
1999
Henry Box Brown
2008