Octavia Spencer
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
161 acting credits
Acting · 161
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The X-Files
1993
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Medium
2005
Saturday Night Live
1975
Young Sheldon
2017
ER
1994
CSI: NY
2004
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
The Big Bang Theory
2007
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
30 Rock
2006
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Mom
2013
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Chicago Hope
1994
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
black-ish
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Ugly Betty
2006
Spider-Man
2002
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Zootopia
2016
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007
Just Shoot Me!
1997
Becker
1998
Grounded for Life
2001
Drunk History
2013
Roswell
1999
The Oscars
1953
Moesha
1996
Truth Be Told
2019
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Dollhouse
2009
Dharma & Greg
1997
To Tell the Truth
2016
Titus
2000
Raising the Bar
2008
The Help
2011
Hidden Figures
2016
L.A. Doctors
1998
Snowpiercer
2013
Gifted
2017
Entertainment Tonight
1981
Insurgent
2015
Smurfs
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Allegiant
2016
Dolittle
2020
Brimstone
1998
The Shape of Water
2017
LAX
2004
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Presidio Med
2002
Onward
2020
Red Band Society
2014
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
Instant Family
2018
A Time to Kill
1996
The Chronicle
2001
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Coach Carter
2005
The Shack
2017
Being John Malkovich
1999
S.W.A.T.
2003
Blue Streak
1999
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
Big Momma's House
2000
Ma
2019
Seven Pounds
2008
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Bad Santa
2003
Hollywood Black
2024
Standoff
2006
Spirited
2022
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
Cavemen
2007
Tow
2026
Superintelligence
2020
Never Been Kissed
1999
Halloween II
2009
Pulse
2006
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008
Beauty Shop
2005
Bad Santa 2
2016
Pretty Persuasion
2005
Fathers and Daughters
2015
Fruitvale Station
2013
Thunder Force
2021
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Halfway Home
2007
Encounter
2021
The Santa Stories
2023
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019
My Happy Place
2025
Get On Up
2014
Flypaper
2011
Family Recipe Showdown
2025
The Soloist
2009
Luce
2019
Smashed
2012
The Nines
2007
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
What Planet Are You From?
2000
Lost Women of Highway 20
2023
Black or White
2015
Lansky
1999
The 6th Man
1997
Love and Distrust
2010
Sol Goode
2003
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Paradise
2013
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
A Kid Like Jake
2018
The Free World
2016
American Virgin
2000
Everything Put Together
2001
Small Town Crime
2018
Little John
2002
Pretty Ugly People
2008
The Journeyman
2001
Just Peck
2011
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
The Sky is Falling
2001
Peep World
2010
Love at First Hiccup
2009
Sparkler
1997
Follow the Stars Home
2001
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
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Missing Pieces
2001
The Spleenectomy
2008
Herpes Boy
2009
Lost on Purpose
2013
Valley Girls
1996
Chicken Party
2003
Blues for Willadean
2012
Jesus People
2013
Ma 2
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The Heart
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Car Dogs
2016
Becoming bell hooks
2024
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
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Deck the Y'alls
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Death of a Salesman
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Auto Motives
2000
The Quest for Sleep
2022