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Alfre Woodard
0 FOLLOWERS • 65 CREDITS • NOV 8, 1952 • 71
Biography
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Awards, 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
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Grey's Anatomy
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The Daily Show
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L.A. Law
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dSeAHZYT2JLidmA9hfH15Ae3NPk.jpg)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wyMHJMQp8WpmBg9CxefvbQnFhrm.jpg)
The Oscars
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Faerie Tale Theatre
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ktEp6fzL4xzCWsSVtrcH8JaQNQy.jpg)
True Blood
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/7OKZSUIWhjFP0F2s478zTrAYwDB.jpg)
The Practice
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yOfpjbdrR4bc3Q0slw3o0j8b7sE.jpg)
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gYAb6GCVEFsU9hzMCG5rxaxoIv3.jpg)
Frasier
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mMfqHsOeI0yLwifmfCRGTaItvTS.jpg)
Hill Street Blues
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/crwTatZuf6Yz8ERwEuPz1PbD6Kl.jpg)
Who Do You Think You Are?
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/gTrzYR6gWMhQ8yINW9JCLeoJHvf.jpg)
Empire
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/43pAddeD10rllMQMGN7ucuOi4NI.jpg)
The Last Ship
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1R6pR4X5usNA7rPbt9q7a96S6HK.jpg)
HBO First Look
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Palmerstown, U.S.A.
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qg7WXAatXyQq6zO3SnWnRJEayeZ.jpg)
A Series of Unfortunate Events
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nQU3uaBniLEYYBC6TQjlfEeIlPI.jpg)
What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5B0fvoxRPT7mhZMgMSAM27j6QZb.jpg)
Monsieur Spade
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rAGiXaUfPzY7CDEyNKUofk3Kw2e.jpg)
Captain America: Civil War
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Homicide: Life on the Street
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jaG2vih2z4V5fP9pnYSIL65lr8d.jpg)
The Core
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The Sophisticated Gents
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See
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12 Years a Slave
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Scrooged
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zCJEMzVnxQC6fdxY9W3eDf3EFfl.jpg)
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fToBWkwVNjYzH6mjrEq5JDYRoLx.jpg)
Desperate Housewives
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nmWpcUQtWHC4kjVCygiFEDR1wCY.jpg)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bjkLSHpV294HIllRpHKWkNICs3N.jpg)
The Singing Detective
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vrC1lkTktFQ4AqBfqf4PXoDDLcw.jpg)
Star Trek: First Contact
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uEnGgBpeBNlfKn67C4lIaXF7nUZ.jpg)
Gulliver's Travels
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5Eom3JsXgQlCj6QIsGCwXkX7wyH.jpg)
The Gray Man
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/exDuz53NNj4PdoT5Ckkri5rpK7o.jpg)
Three Rivers
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/17459.jpg)
The Last Frontier
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tO71i4Ob64tchCRBB5MoqonPKAF.jpg)
Blue Chips
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dzBtMocZuJbjLOXvrl4zGYigDzh.jpg)
The Lion King
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qJf2TzE8nRTFbFMPJNW6c8mI0KU.jpg)
Primal Fear
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tO0EuW0EQVYIeau8KaEvWVepNjk.jpg)
My Own Worst Enemy
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4h8WIvPb3nVh20xVHmvCzDJwnfP.jpg)
Beauty Shop
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zNZWNX19FZ5QyedprVM0ldsXFiP.jpg)
Love & Basketball
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/aXmsbVlvLCuBDMxUvpDJdYSAOFQ.jpg)
Black Panther
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jNFqmsulwUrhYQW3MvqzfMc7SdS.jpg)
Annabelle
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zgxIolqM9FmWd3WNdLfOWPt9xjK.jpg)
Tucker's Witch
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vkGSs0eeOOISEe9jddBZnRSkn46.jpg)
Take the Lead
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/op1gn2mK4ohZfhpKj92KEbwvc9C.jpg)
Black Panther
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wv18uo0bzQAubvdAxn3hYW4UVXg.jpg)
The Ambush Murders
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/cjcidQjuuacpjQQaBpz3bQLjwFu.jpg)
Special Report: Journey to Mars
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/pR2fzm82fl0giommpo310LBOMbV.jpg)
Fatherhood
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/1oFkjiF9fT2asKWjRiJtlbhu3hn.jpg)
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uQ6ci4iFHhB6TWB2f4wftR7AEly.jpg)
Radio
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uUbRCGI9fWF953KKoWwCUD6VMVq.jpg)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2a4kzJHXFzPYXV09XmRe9OM58L8.jpg)
State of Affairs
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6R62oGGufhsf6DiMknCi047N0b7.jpg)
Marvel's Luke Cage
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nufQPRcu9sVOIwECC9fKvHlu39y.jpg)
Steel Magnolias
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ySqcek4mf9mM2BdHIXbv4RYHTEP.jpg)
Sara
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nTOithYdgE4jAdSIuH1nAaxkmzY.jpg)
Burning Sands
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qab1CcGejQPbDIcSRMLHMap5I6.jpg)
Holiday Heart
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/18989.jpg)
The Boroughs
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Dinosaur
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Juanita
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Down in the Delta
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Clemency
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John Henry
Production Credits
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