Alfre Woodard

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1952-11-08 (73 years old)

Place of Birth

Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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.

Acting

2001

K-PAX

as Claudia Villars

1996

1996

Primal Fear

as Shoat

2000

Dinosaur

as Plio (voice)

1999

Mumford

as Lily

2024

2003

The Core

as Stickley

1994

Crooklyn

as Carolyn Carmichael

2006

Take the Lead

as Augustine James

2003

A Wrinkle in Time

as Mrs. Whatsit

1991

2003

Radio

as Principal Daniels

2005

Beauty Shop

as Ms. Josephine

1992

Passion Fish

as Chantelle

1997

2002

The Wild Thornberrys Movie

as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)

2000

Love & Basketball

as Camille Wright

2023

1984

Sweet Revenge

as Vicki Teague

2008

Reach for Me

as Evelyn

1980

HealtH

as Sally Benbow

1978

2013

12 Years a Slave

as Mistress Shaw

1993

Bopha!

as Rosie Mangena

2000

Holiday Heart

as Wanda Dean

1998

Down in the Delta

as Loretta Sinclair

1985

Words by Heart

as Claudie Sills

1983

Cross Creek

as Geechee

1992

Rich in Love

as Rhody Poole

1997

Miss Evers' Boys

as Eunice Evers, R.N.

2012

1997

The Member of the Wedding

as Berenice Sadie Brown

2001

2023

Space Oddity

as Dr. Olsen

1986

Unnatural Causes

as Maude DeVictor

1987

Mandela

as Winnie Mandela

1999

Funny Valentines

as Joyce May

1989

Miss Firecracker

as Popeye Jackson

2000

Lost Souls

as Dr. Allen

1986

Extremities

as Patricia

2014

Annabelle

as Evelyn

2015

1994

Blue Chips

as Lavada McRae

2013

2004

The Forgotten

as Det. Anne Pope

2000

What's Cooking?

as Audrey Williams

2016

So B. It

as Bernadette

1982

The Ambush Murders

as Karisha Ellsworth

2003

The Singing Detective

as Chief of Staff

2015

Knucklehead

as Sheila

2024

The Book of Clarence

as Mother Mary

2015

2008

Medal of Honor

as Narrator

2000

John Henry

as Polly / Narrator (voice)

1979

Freedom Road

as Katie

2007

1988

Scrooged

as Grace Cooley

2017

Burning Sands

as Professor Hughes

1996

2006

The Water Is Wide

as Mrs. Brown

1995

The Piano Lesson

as Berniece Charles

2008

American Violet

as Alma Roberts

1978

2019

The Lion King

as Sarabi (voice)

1999

1985

Puss in Boots

as Princess Lovinia

2006

King Leopold's Ghost

as Ilanga (voice)

1984

2010

Black Panther

as Dondi Reece

2019

Saint Judy

as Judge Benton

2019

Clemency

as Warden Bernadine Williams

2019

Juanita

as Juanita

2021

Fatherhood

as Marian

1993

Heart and Souls

as Penny Washington

2014

And the Oscar Goes To...

as Self (archive footage)

2000

Eleanor Roosevelt

as Narrator (voice)

1994

1988

The Child Saver

as Andrea Crawford

2019

No Small Matter

as Narrator (voice)

2007

1990

Blue Bayou

as Jessica Filley

2022

The Gray Man

as Margaret Cahill

2006

Something New

as Joyce McQueen

1984

1982

Precious Blood

as Narrator

1986

L.A. Law: Pilot

as Adrianne Moore

2021

Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color

as Alma Thomas (voice)

2024

Salem's Lot

as Dr. Cody

2025

Production

2019

Clemency

as Executive Producer

2019

No Small Matter

as Executive Producer

© All Rights Reserved 2025