Octavia Spencer

Personal Info

Know For

Acting

Gender

Female

Birthday

1970-05-25 (55 years old)

Place of Birth

Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Octavia Spencer

Biography

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 biopi...

Acting

1999

Being John Malkovich

as Woman in Elevator

2002

Spider-Man

as Check-In Girl

1999

2008

Seven Pounds

as Kate the Home Health Care Nurse

2009

Halloween II

as Nurse Daniels

2003

Sol Goode

as Unemployment Clerk

2005

Coach Carter

as Mrs. Battle

2007

The Nines

as Streetwalker

2000

2006

Pulse

as Landlady

2022

Spirited

as Kimberly

2005

Beauty Shop

as Big Customer

2009

Love at First Hiccup

as Mrs. Hambrick

2000

American Virgin

as Agnes Large

2011

Flypaper

as Madge Wiggins

2010

Dinner for Schmucks

as Madame Nora

2009

Drag Me to Hell

as Bank Co-Worker

2010

2011

The Help

as Minny Jackson

2012

Smashed

as Jenny

2008

2013

Snowpiercer

as Tanya

2002

Little John

as Waitress

2022

2013

Paradise

as Loray

2013

2009

Herpes Boy

as Rochelle

2013

Lost on Purpose

as Nurse Keller

2014

Black or White

as Rowena Jeffers

2014

Get on Up

as Aunt Honey

1997

Sparkler

as Wanda

2015

2013

Jesus People

as Angel Angelique

2012

Blues for Willadean

as LeSonia Robinson

2015

Insurgent

as Johanna Reyes

2017

The Shack

as Papa / Elouisa

2025

Tow

as Barb

2025

Smurfs

as Asmodius (voice)

2016

Zootopia

as Mrs. Otterton (voice)

2015

2016

The Free World

as Linda Workman

2016

Allegiant

as Johanna Reyes

2016

Hidden Figures

as Dorothy Vaughan

2017

Gifted

as Roberta Taylor

2018

Small Town Crime

as Kelly Banks

1999

Blue Streak

as Shawna

2017

The Shape of Water

as Zelda Fuller

2011

Just Peck

as Detention Teacher

2016

2003

S.W.A.T.

as Neighbor in Alley

2001

Missing Pieces

as Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)

2000

2005

1999

Lansky

as Evelyn

1996

A Time to Kill

as Roark's Nurse

2001

The Journeyman

as Black Belly

2001

2009

The Soloist

as Troubled Woman

2013

1997

The 6th Man

as Nativity Watson

2010

Peep World

as Alison

2017

Car Dogs

as Mrs. Barrett

2018

2019

Luce

as Harriet Wilson

2019

Ma

as Sue Ann

2018

2020

Onward

as The Manticore (voice)

2021

Thunder Force

as Emily Stanton

2020

Dolittle

as Dab-Dab (voice)

2003

Chicken Party

as Laqueta Mills

2021

Encounter

as Hattie Hayes

2010

Love and Distrust

as Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")

2020

Superintelligence

as Octavia Spencer (voice)

1996

Valley Girls

as Cheerleader

2003

Bad Santa

as Opal

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Ma 2

as Sue Ann

Production

2018

Small Town Crime

as Executive Producer

2017

Candid

as Executive Producer

2018

Green Book

as Executive Producer

2013

Fruitvale Station

as Co-Executive Producer

2019

Ma

as Executive Producer

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