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.
Known For
Movies
- K-PAX
2001
- Star Trek: First Contact
1996
- Primal Fear
1996
- Dinosaur
2000
- Mumford
1999
- Disney's American Legen...
2001
- How to Make an American...
1995
- Summer Camp
2024
- The Core
2003
- Crooklyn
1994
- Take the Lead
2006
- A Wrinkle in Time
2003
- Grand Canyon
1991
- Radio
2003
- Beauty Shop
2005
- Passion Fish
1992
- Follow Me Home
1997
- The Wild Thornberrys Mo...
2002
- Love & Basketball
2000
- Tyler Perry's The Famil...
2008
- Weathering
2023
- The Gun in Betty Lou's ...
1992
- Sweet Revenge
1984
- Reach for Me
2008
- HealtH
1980
- Remember My Name
1978
- 12 Years a Slave
2013
- Bopha!
1993
- Holiday Heart
2000
- Down in the Delta
1998
- Words by Heart
1985
- Cross Creek
1983
- Rich in Love
1992
- Miss Evers' Boys
1997
- Steel Magnolias
2012
- The Member of the Weddi...
1997
- Go Tell It on the Mount...
1985
- The Wild Thornberrys: T...
2001
- Space Oddity
2023
- Unnatural Causes
1986
- A Mother's Courage: The...
1989
- Mandela
1987
- Funny Valentines
1999
- Miss Firecracker
1989
- Lost Souls
2000
- Extremities
1986
- Annabelle
2014
- Mary Lou Williams: The ...
2015
- Blue Chips
1994
- The Door
2013
- Mississippi Grind
2015
- The Forgotten
2004
- Nelson Mandela Redrawn
2014
- What's Cooking?
2000
- So B. It
2016
- The Ambush Murders
1982
- The Singing Detective
2003
- Knucklehead
2015
- The Book of Clarence
2024
- A Path Appears
2015
- Medal of Honor
2008
- John Henry
2000
- Cadillac Desert: Water ...
1997
- Freedom Road
1979
- Pictures of Hollis Woods
2007
- Scrooged
1988
- Captain America: Civil ...
2016
- For Colored Girls Who H...
1982
- Burning Sands
2017
- A Step Toward Tomorrow
1996
- The Water Is Wide
2006
- The Piano Lesson
1995
- American Violet
2008
- Maya Angelou: And Still...
2016
- The Trial of the Moke
1978
- The Lion King
2019
- Nat Turner: A Troubleso...
2003
- The Wishing Tree
1999
- Puss in Boots
1985
- King Leopold's Ghost
2006
- The Killing Floor
1984
- Unchained Memories: Rea...
2003
- Black Panther
2010
- Henry Box Brown
2008
- Saint Judy
2019
- Clemency
2019
- Special Report: Journey...
1996
- Juanita
2019
- Fatherhood
2021
- The Lion King: Can You ...
2019
- Heart and Souls
1993
- And the Oscar Goes To...
2014
- The Tulsa Lynching of 1...
2000
- Eleanor Roosevelt
2000
- Malcolm X: Make It Plain
1994
- Aliens for Breakfast
1994
- The Making of Clemency
2020
- Half Past Autumn: The L...
2000
- The Underground Railroad
1999
- The Child Saver
1988
- No Small Matter
2019
- Nefertiti and the Lost ...
2007
- Blue Bayou
1990
- Searching for Debra Win...
2002
- The Gray Man
2022
- Something New
2006
- Black Hollywood
1984
- Precious Blood
1982
- The Brave Little Toaste...
1997
- L.A. Law: Pilot
1986
- Miss Alma Thomas: A Lif...
2021
- Dreamland: The Burning ...
2021
- Hate to See You Go
- Salem's Lot
2024
- Playing for Your Heart:...
- The Inquisitor
2025
TV Shows
- Desperate Housewives
2004
- L.A. Law
1986
- Static Shock
2000
- Class of 3000
2006
- Hill Street Blues
1981
- Frasier
1993
- The Practice
1997
- My Own Worst Enemy
2008
- Tucker's Witch
1982
- Homicide: Life on the S...
1993
- Homicide: Life on the S...
1993
- Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
- The White Shadow
1978
- True Blood
2008
- Gulliver's Travels
1996
- Palmerstown, U.S.A.
1980
- Three Rivers
2009
- Black Panther
2010
- The Oscars
1953
- What Really Happened to...
1977
- WonderWorks
1984
- Sara
1985
- Memphis Beat
2010
- The Wild Thornberrys
1998
- Women, War & Peace
2011
- State of Affairs
2014
- The Last Ship
2014
- The Daily Show
1996
- Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
- Marvel's Luke Cage
2016
- A Series of Unfortunate...
2017
- Reading Rainbow
1983
- Who Do You Think You Ar...
2010
- American Experience
1988
- Faerie Tale Theatre
1982
- Empire
2015
- Monsieur Spade
2024
- Happily Ever After: Fai...
1995
- Watch What Happens Live...
2009
- The Last Frontier
- Rachael Ray
2006
- Marvel's Moon Girl and ...
2023
- Grey's Anatomy
2005
- See
2019
- The Sophisticated Gents
1981
- HBO First Look
1992
- The Boroughs
- The Megan Mullally Show
2006
- Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020
- Variety Studio: Actors ...
2014
- Private Practice
2007
- Number One on the Call ...
2025