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Alfre Woodard
0 FOLLOWERS • 62 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
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ixcfyK7it6FjRM36Te4OdblAq4X.jpg)
The Daily Show
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/hs1TBk6KlPBlnb7ybpqgK6IzcCx.jpg)
L.A. Law
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dSeAHZYT2JLidmA9hfH15Ae3NPk.jpg)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5pKkikAvKfyiAmxwkw1HHb2z2Za.jpg)
Faerie Tale Theatre
![](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
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/il1UnzcnudPYedti4jNiqtiwk82.jpg)
Palmerstown, U.S.A.
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/t9P2QglC8wPG9DcLjuqKAppTjsD.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
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ktEp6fzL4xzCWsSVtrcH8JaQNQy.jpg)
True Blood
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nb5310xlFjx5r9TnpKoaOTQsAlP.jpg)
Homicide: Life on the Street
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jaG2vih2z4V5fP9pnYSIL65lr8d.jpg)
The Core
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wyMHJMQp8WpmBg9CxefvbQnFhrm.jpg)
The Oscars
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4sHpAbmQRGZkebzNSfP9oG8GaK.jpg)
The Sophisticated Gents
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xdANQijuNrJaw1HA61rDccME4Tm.jpg)
12 Years a Slave
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lKDIhc9FQibDiBQ57n3ELfZCyZg.jpg)
See
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uO0znfB2ZzTXA1IS7jkrjNbpkYK.jpg)
Scrooged
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nmWpcUQtWHC4kjVCygiFEDR1wCY.jpg)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fToBWkwVNjYzH6mjrEq5JDYRoLx.jpg)
Desperate Housewives
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vrC1lkTktFQ4AqBfqf4PXoDDLcw.jpg)
Star Trek: First Contact
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/bjkLSHpV294HIllRpHKWkNICs3N.jpg)
The Singing Detective
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uEnGgBpeBNlfKn67C4lIaXF7nUZ.jpg)
Gulliver's Travels
![](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/w342/5Eom3JsXgQlCj6QIsGCwXkX7wyH.jpg)
The Gray Man
![](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/tO0EuW0EQVYIeau8KaEvWVepNjk.jpg)
My Own Worst Enemy
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4h8WIvPb3nVh20xVHmvCzDJwnfP.jpg)
Beauty Shop
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qJf2TzE8nRTFbFMPJNW6c8mI0KU.jpg)
Primal Fear
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zNZWNX19FZ5QyedprVM0ldsXFiP.jpg)
Love & Basketball
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jNFqmsulwUrhYQW3MvqzfMc7SdS.jpg)
Annabelle
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vkGSs0eeOOISEe9jddBZnRSkn46.jpg)
Take the Lead
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zgxIolqM9FmWd3WNdLfOWPt9xjK.jpg)
Tucker's Witch
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/op1gn2mK4ohZfhpKj92KEbwvc9C.jpg)
Black Panther
![](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/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/qab1CcGejQPbDIcSRMLHMap5I6.jpg)
Holiday Heart
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2a4kzJHXFzPYXV09XmRe9OM58L8.jpg)
State of Affairs
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ySqcek4mf9mM2BdHIXbv4RYHTEP.jpg)
Sara
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nufQPRcu9sVOIwECC9fKvHlu39y.jpg)
Steel Magnolias
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nTOithYdgE4jAdSIuH1nAaxkmzY.jpg)
Burning Sands
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uUbRCGI9fWF953KKoWwCUD6VMVq.jpg)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6R62oGGufhsf6DiMknCi047N0b7.jpg)
Marvel's Luke Cage
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rSje3FS7ycJSglowlngjsvDt7vO.jpg)
Dinosaur
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yKq6LErlgWizCtl3DcdYv86xn2e.jpg)
Juanita
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/c03mA6GYRqcRLgxXQpKcYWEKxRn.jpg)
Clemency
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2ygShFSdj1hug8xj2q28OMktAU4.jpg)
Down in the Delta
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ujkju3UpYknKvSAdwAYp1fmnmTm.jpg)
John Henry
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