Alfre Woodard

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Alfre Woodard

at a Barack Obama rally at the Democratic National Convention, 2008-08-28
Born Alfre Ette Woodard
November 8, 1952 (1952-11-08) (age 57)
Tulsa, Oklahoma
United States
Occupation actress
Years active 1978 – present
Spouse(s) Roderick Spencer (1983 – present)

Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American actress.

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[edit] Personal life

Woodard was born in Tulsa, Oklahoma to African American parents: Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur and interior designer.[1] Woodard attended Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa. She studied drama at Boston University, from where she later graduated. Woodard lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, and their two adopted children, Mavis and Duncan. Woodard follows Christian Science.[2] She is a founder and board member of Artists for a New South Africa and is also active in the Democratic Party. In February 2009 she joined a group of American film directors and actors on a cultural trip to Iran at the invitation of the "House of Cinema" forum in Tehran.[3]

Alfre Woodard speaks for the Barack Obama campaign in New Philadelphia, Ohio, on 2008-02-20.

[edit] Career

Woodard has made numerous guest 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. She also appeared as Lily Sloane, Zefram Cochrane's assistant in Star Trek: First Contact and Down in the Delta as a single alcoholic mother from Chicago forced to spend a summer with her uncle in Mississippi.

Woodard's television credits include Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Puss in Boots, L.A. Law, and Homicide: Life on the Street. Woodard has won four Primetime Emmy Awards for her television performances in Hill Street Blues, L.A. Law, the television movie Miss Evers' Boys, and The Practice. She has also received Emmy nominations for Words by Heart, St. Elsewhere, Unnatural Causes, a second for St. Elsewhere, A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story, The Piano Lesson, Gulliver's Travels, Homicide: Life on the Street, and The Water Is Wide. From 2005 to 2006, Woodard starred in the ABC series Desperate Housewives, and received another Emmy nomination for her role as Betty Applewhite. Woodard has appeared on stage in such plays as Map of the World, Drowning Crow, Me & Bessie, and The Winter's Tale. She starred in Tyler Perry's latest film The Family That Preys.

Alfre Woodard's latest film is the upcoming American Violet, where she plays the mother of a 24-year-old African American woman who is wrongfully swept up in a drug raid.

[edit] Awards and nominations

[edit] Awards

[edit] Nominations

[edit] Filmography

[edit] References

  1. ^ Alfre Woodard Biography (1952-)
  2. ^ The religion of Alfre Woodard, actress
  3. ^ Iranians newspaper, Ashburn, Virginia, March 6, 2009

[edit] External links

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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress - Miniseries or a Movie

Susan Clark / Rosemary Harris (1976) · Sally Field / Patty Duke (1977) · Joanne Woodward / Meryl Streep (1978) · Bette Davis (1979) · Patty Duke (1980) · Vanessa Redgrave (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Barbara Stanwyck (1983) · Jane Fonda (1984) · Joanne Woodward (1985) · Marlo Thomas (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Jessica Tandy (1988) · Holly Hunter (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Lynn Whitfield (1991) · Gena Rowlands (1992) · Holly Hunter (1993) · Kirstie Alley (1994) · Glenn Close (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Ellen Barkin (1998) · Helen Mirren (1999) · Halle Berry (2000)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress - Drama Series

Ellen Corby (1976) · Kristy McNichol (1977) · Nancy Marchand (1978) · Kristy McNichol (1979) · Nancy Marchand (1980) · Nancy Marchand (1981) · Nancy Marchand (1982) · Doris Roberts (1983) · Alfre Woodard (1984) · Betty Thomas (1985) · Bonnie Bartlett (1986) · Bonnie Bartlett (1987) · Patricia Wettig (1988) · Melanie Mayron (1989) · Marg Helgenberger (1990) · Madge Sinclair (1991) · Valerie Mahaffey (1992) · Mary Alice (1993) · Leigh Taylor-Young (1994) · Julianna Margulies (1995) · Tyne Daly (1996) · Kim Delaney (1997) · Camryn Manheim (1998) · Holland Taylor (1999) · Allison Janney (2000)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series

Zohra Lampert (1974) · Fionnula Flanagan (1976) · Beulah Bondi (1977) · Rita Moreno (1978) · Alfre Woodard (1987) · Shirley Knight (1988) · Kay Lenz (1989) · Viveca Lindfors (1990) · Peggy McCay (1991) · Elaine Stritch (1993) · Faye Dunaway (1994) · Shirley Knight (1995) · Amanda Plummer (1996) · Dianne Wiest (1997) · Cloris Leachman (1998) · Debra Monk (1999) · Beah Richards (2000)
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Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress - Drama Series

Sally Field (2001) · Patricia Clarkson (2002) · Alfre Woodard (2003) · Sharon Stone (2004) · Amanda Plummer (2005) · Patricia Clarkson (2006) · Leslie Caron (2007) · Cynthia Nixon (2008) · Ellen Burstyn (2009)
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Golden Globe Award for Best Actress – Miniseries or Television Film

Jane Seymour (1981) · Ingrid Bergman (1982) · Ann-Margret (1983) · Ann-Margret (1984) · Liza Minnelli (1985) · Loretta Young (1986) · Gena Rowlands (1987) · Ann Jillian (1988) · Christine Lahti (1989) · Barbara Hershey (1990) · Judy Davis (1991) · Laura Dern (1992) · Bette Midler (1993) · Joanne Woodward (1994) · Jessica Lange (1995) · Helen Mirren (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Angelina Jolie (1998) · Halle Berry (1999)

Complete List · (1981-1999) · (1990–2009)
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Screen Actors Guild Award - Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor - TV Miniseries/Movie

Joanne Woodward (1994) · Alfre Woodard (1995) · Kathy Bates (1996) · Alfre Woodard (1997) · Angelina Jolie (1998) · Halle Berry (1999) · Vanessa Redgrave (2000) · Judy Davis (2001) · Stockard Channing (2002) · Meryl Streep (2003) · Glenn Close (2004) · S. Epatha Merkerson (2005) · Helen Mirren (2006) · Queen Latifah (2007) · Laura Linney (2008)
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