Alfre Woodard
Actor
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
12 Years a Slave
as Mistress Shaw 2013
The Lion King
as Sarabi (voice) 2019
Annabelle
as Evelyn 2014
The Gray Man
as Margaret Cahill 2022
Primal Fear
as Shoat 1996
Dinosaur
as Plio (voice) 2000
K-PAX
as Claudia Villars 2001
The Core
as Stickley 2003
Star Trek: First Contact
as Lily Sloane 1996
Scrooged
as Grace Cooley 1988
Fatherhood
as Marian 2021
The Forgotten
as Det. Anne Pope 2004
Radio
as Principal Daniels 2003
Take the Lead
as Augustine James 2006
Salem's Lot
as Dr. Cody 2024
Mississippi Grind
as Sam 2015