Alfre Woodard
Gender: Female
Born: 8th November 1952 (currently 59 years old)
Nationality: United States of America
TV programs: Desperate Housewives, St. Elsewhere, Homicide: Life on the Street, The Practice, My Own Worst Enemy, Three Rivers, Sara, Maggie Hill, Gulliver's Travels, Memphis Beat, Tucker's Witch, Black Panther
Movies: Beauty Shop, Blue Chips, Crooklyn, Dinosaur, Grand Canyon, Health, Heart and Souls, How to Make an American Quilt, K-PAX, Mumford, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Radio, Take the Lead, A Wrinkle in Time, Down in the Delta, Miss Evers' Boys, Miss Firecracker, What's Cooking?, The Forgotten, Scrooged, Something New, The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag, Extremities, Holiday Heart, The Core, The Singing Detective, The Wild Thornberrys Movie, Cross Creek, Follow Me Home, Pictures of Hollis Woods, The Family That Preys, Love & Basketball, The Dot ... and More Stories to Make You Feel Good, Unnatural Causes, The Wishing Tree, American Violet, Mandela, Disney's American Legends, Star Trek: First Contact, The Piano Lesson, Gulliver's Travels, Go Tell It on the Mountain, Trial of the Moke, Race to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad, Sweet Revenge, The Killing Floor, Reach for Me, Martin's Big Words ... and More Stories from the African-American Tradition, The Water Is Wide, Bopha!, Ambush Murders, Rich in Love, Marvel Knights: Black Panther, Remember My Name, Searching for Debra Winger, , Half Past Autumn, Medal of Honor, Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema, Eleanor Roosevelt: American Experience, The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom, Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives, Steel Magnolias, Trouble Don't Last Always
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, 17 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.
Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior designer. Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University, from which she graduated.
Woodard has made numerous appearances in television series and motion pictures. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her performance in the 1983 film Cross Creek. In 1993 she starred in the film Passion Fish for which she was nominated for a Golden Globe Award. She also appeared in the films Heart and Souls, Crooklyn, How to Make an American Quilt, Primal Fear, in Down in the Delta as a single alcoholic
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