Alfre Woodard

Acting · Born 1952-11-08 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA

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.

Filmography

• K-PAX as Claudia Villars
• Star Trek: First Contact as Lily Sloane
• Primal Fear as Shoat
• Radio as Principal Daniels
• Love & Basketball as Camille Wright
• 12 Years a Slave as Mistress Shaw
• Captain America: Civil War as Miriam
• The Lion King as Sarabi (voice)
• Fatherhood as Marian
• Dinosaur as Plio (voice)

TV

• Desperate Housewives as Betty Applewhite
• Static Shock as Jean Hawkins (voice)
• Hill Street Blues
• Frasier as Edna (voice)
• The Practice as Denise Freeman
• Homicide: Life on the Street as Dr. Roxanne Turner
• True Blood as Ruby Jean Reynolds
• Grey's Anatomy as Justine Campbell
• See as Paris
• Star Trek: Lower Decks as Lilly Sloane (voice)