Alfre Woodard
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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.
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Complete Filmography & Verdicts
| Year | Movie | Character | Rating | Verdict |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2022 | The Gray Man | Margaret Cahill | HIT | |
| 2021 | Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color | Alma Thomas (voice) | HIT | |
| 2021 | Fatherhood | Marian | HIT | |
| 2019 | The Lion King | Sarabi (voice) | HIT | |
| 2019 | Saint Judy | Judge Benton | HIT | |
| 2016 | Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise | Self | HIT | |
| 2016 | Captain America: Civil War | Miriam | HIT | |
| 2015 | Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band | Mary Lou Williams (voice) | HIT | |
| 2015 | Knucklehead | Sheila | HIT | |
| 2015 | A Path Appears | Self | HIT | |
| 2013 | 12 Years a Slave | Mistress Shaw | HIT | |
| 2012 | Steel Magnolias | Ouiser | HIT | |
| 2008 | Medal of Honor | Narrator | HIT | |
| 2008 | Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys | Alice Pratt | HIT | |
| 2008 | American Violet | Alma Roberts | HIT | |
| 2007 | Pictures of Hollis Woods | Edna Reilly | HIT | |
| 2007 | Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty | Self - Narrator | HIT | |
| 2006 | King Leopold's Ghost | Ilanga (voice) | HIT | |
| 2006 | Take the Lead | Augustine James | HIT | |
| 2006 | The Water Is Wide | Mrs. Brown | HIT | |
| 2003 | Radio | Principal Daniels | HIT | |
| 2002 | The Wild Thornberrys Movie | Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice) | FLOP | |
| 2001 | K-PAX | Claudia Villars | HIT | |
| 2001 | The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie | Medicine Woman (voice) | HIT | |
| 2001 | Disney's American Legends | - | HIT | |
| 2000 | Holiday Heart | Wanda Dean | HIT | |
| 2000 | John Henry | Polly / Narrator (voice) | HIT | |
| 2000 | Dinosaur | Plio (voice) | HIT | |
| 2000 | Love & Basketball | Camille Wright | HIT | |
| 2000 | Eleanor Roosevelt | Narrator (voice) | HIT | |
| 1999 | Mumford | Lily | HIT | |
| 1999 | Funny Valentines | Joyce May | HIT | |
| 1999 | The Wishing Tree | Clara | HIT | |
| 1996 | Star Trek: First Contact | Lily Sloane | HIT | |
| 1996 | Primal Fear | Shoat | HIT | |
| 1995 | How to Make an American Quilt | Marianna | FLOP | |
| 1995 | The Piano Lesson | Berniece Charles | HIT | |
| 1994 | Crooklyn | Carolyn Carmichael | HIT | |
| 1994 | Malcolm X: Make It Plain | Narrator | HIT | |
| 1993 | Heart and Souls | Penny Washington | HIT | |
| 1992 | Passion Fish | Chantelle | HIT | |
| 1991 | Grand Canyon | Jane | FLOP | |
| 1988 | Scrooged | Grace Cooley | HIT | |
| 1986 | Unnatural Causes | Maude DeVictor | HIT | |
| 1984 | Go Tell It on the Mountain | Esther | FLOP | |
| 1984 | The Killing Floor | Mattie | HIT | |
| 1983 | Cross Creek | Geechee | HIT | |
| 1982 | Precious Blood | Narrator | HIT | |
| 1982 | For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf | Woman who lost her stuff | HIT | |
| 1982 | The Ambush Murders | Karisha Ellsworth | HIT |