Alfre Woodard
- Birthday
- Nov 8, 1952
- Birthplace
- Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Bio: Intense, versatile African-American actress Alfre Woodard attended Boston University, then made her stage bow in 1974 with Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. After a few minor appearances in films like Remember My Name (1978) and H.E.A.L.T.H (1979), the Tulsa, OK, native was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Geechee in 1983's Cross Creek. She went on to… More Bio: Intense, versatile African-American actress Alfre Woodard attended Boston University, then made her stage bow in 1974 with Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. After a few minor appearances in films like Remember My Name (1978) and H.E.A.L.T.H (1979), the Tulsa, OK, native was nominated for an Oscar for her performance as Geechee in 1983's Cross Creek. She went on to further television acclaim during the decade, appearing on St. Elsewhere and winning Emmys for her recurring roles on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, and an ACE award for the made-for-cable Mandela (1987). In film, the actress consistently shone in roles that featured her as unconventional women who usually had a troubled past; after a memorable appearance in Miss Firecracker (1989), she went on to star in such films as Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) and John Sayles' Passion Fish (1992), for which she won a Golden Globe nomination. Other notable film appearances included those in Rich in Love (1993), Crooklyn (1994), and Maya Angelou's Down in the Delta, in which Woodard played a single mother with drug and alcohol problems who returns to her family's southern hometown. In 1999, the actress starred in two films, Funny Valentines and Mumford, Lawrence Kasdan's tale of a small-town psychologist.Woodard has also continued to work in television, earning considerable acclaim for her performances. In 1995, she won an Emmy nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award for her performance in the The Piano Lesson, and two years later won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award for her portrayal of the title character of Miss Evers' Boys, a nurse who consoled many of the subjects of the notorious 1930s Tuskeegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. In addition, she has done a fair amount of narration, lending her voice to a variety of television documentaries.The actress reteamed with HBO in 2003 for the film Unchained Memories, and took on a starring role on ABC's Desperate Housewives in 2006. In addition to appearing on a variety of popular television shows (Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, The Practice, Homicide: Life on the Street). Woodard played the part of a woman falsely accused of drug trafficking in the 2009 drama American Violet, and was nominated for yet another Emmy in 2010 for her work on HBO's hit drama True Blood. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi
Filmography
-
Twelve Years a Slave (2013)
- Mistress Shaw
-
-
Steel Magnolias (2012) (2012)
- Actor
-
Reach for Me (2010)
- Actor
-
- See all 87 films
Alfre Woodard Videos
Love And Basketball
2 minutes 26 seconds
The Core
2 minutes 29 seconds
K-pax
2 minutes 30 seconds
Reach For Me
3 minutes 36 seconds
The Singing Detective
2 minutes 19 seconds
Born Today
- Paul Dano (29 years old)
- Hugh Dancy (38 years old)
- Mia Maestro (35 years old)
- Blake Woodruff (18 years old)
- Zoe Saldana (35 years old)
- Gena Rowlands (83 years old)
- Louis Jourdan (94 years old)
- Ryan Hurst (37 years old)
- Samuel West (47 years old)
- Aidan Turner (30 years old)
- Poppy Montgomery (41 years old)
- Reza Kianian (62 years old)
- Sean Marshall (48 years old)
- Robin Tunney (41 years old)
- Lauren Lee Smith (33 years old)
- Daria Nicolodi (63 years old)
- Virginia Hey (61 years old)
- Vanessa Martinez (34 years old)
- Mia Sara (46 years old)
- Eric Schweig (46 years old)
- Phylicia Rashad (65 years old)
- Paula Abdul (51 years old)
- Sadie Frost (48 years old)
- Jean Dujardin (41 years old)
- See more (24)
