Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 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.
K-PAX
Claudia Villars
Star Trek: First Contact
Lily Sloane
Primal Fear
Shoat
Dinosaur
Plio (voice)
Mumford
Lily
Disney's American Legends
How to Make an American Quilt
Marianna
Summer Camp
Mary
The Core
Stickley
Crooklyn
Carolyn Carmichael
Take the Lead
Augustine James
A Wrinkle in Time
Mrs. Whatsit
Grand Canyon
Jane
Radio
Principal Daniels
Beauty Shop
Ms. Josephine
Passion Fish
Chantelle
Follow Me Home
Evey
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
Love & Basketball
Camille Wright
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
Alice Pratt
Weathering
Mum
The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
Ann
Sweet Revenge
Vicki Teague
Reach for Me
Evelyn
HealtH
Sally Benbow
Remember My Name
Rita
12 Years a Slave
Mistress Shaw
Bopha!
Rosie Mangena
Holiday Heart
Wanda Dean
Down in the Delta
Loretta Sinclair
Words by Heart
Claudie Sills
Cross Creek
Geechee
Rich in Love
Rhody Poole
Miss Evers' Boys
Eunice Evers, R.N.
Steel Magnolias
Ouiser
Go Tell It on the Mountain
Esther
The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
Medicine Woman (voice)
Space Oddity
Dr. Olsen
Unnatural Causes
Maude DeVictor
A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
Mary Thomas
Mandela
Winnie Mandela
Funny Valentines
Joyce May
Miss Firecracker
Popeye Jackson
Lost Souls
Dr. Allen
Extremities
Patricia
Annabelle
Evelyn
Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
Mary Lou Williams (voice)
Blue Chips
Lavada McRae
Mississippi Grind
Sam
The Forgotten
Det. Anne Pope
Nelson Mandela Redrawn
Self
What's Cooking?
Audrey Williams
So B. It
Bernadette
The Ambush Murders
Karisha Ellsworth
The Singing Detective
Chief of Staff
Knucklehead
Sheila
The Book of Clarence
Mother Mary
A Path Appears
Self
Medal of Honor
Narrator
John Henry
Polly / Narrator (voice)
Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
Narrator (voice)
Freedom Road
Katie
Pictures of Hollis Woods
Edna Reilly
Scrooged
Grace Cooley
Captain America: Civil War
Miriam
For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
Woman who lost her stuff
Burning Sands
Professor Hughes
A Step Toward Tomorrow
Dr. Sadlin
The Water Is Wide
Mrs. Brown
The Piano Lesson
Berniece Charles
American Violet
Alma Roberts
Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
Self
The Trial of the Moke
Lucy Smith
The Lion King
Sarabi (voice)
Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
Narrator
The Wishing Tree
Clara
Puss in Boots
Princess Lovinia
King Leopold's Ghost
Ilanga (voice)
The Killing Floor
Mattie
Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
Black Panther
Dondi Reece
Henry Box Brown
Saint Judy
Judge Benton
Clemency
Warden Bernadine Williams
Special Report: Journey to Mars
Tamara O'Neil
Juanita
Juanita
Fatherhood
Marian
The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
Heart and Souls
Penny Washington
The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
Mary Parrish (voice)
Eleanor Roosevelt
Narrator (voice)
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
Narrator
Aliens for Breakfast
Mrs. Marks
Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
Narrator
The Underground Railroad
The Child Saver
Andrea Crawford
No Small Matter
Narrator (voice)
Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
Self - Narrator
Blue Bayou
Jessica Filley
Searching for Debra Winger
Self
The Gray Man
Margaret Cahill
Something New
Joyce McQueen
Black Hollywood
Self
Precious Blood
Narrator
The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
Maisie (voice)
L.A. Law: Pilot
Adrianne Moore
Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
Alma Thomas (voice)
Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
Mary Parrish (voice)
Salem's Lot
Dr. Cody
Playing for Your Heart: The Making of “Love & Basketball”
Self
The Inquisitor
Self
Seven Candles For Kwanzaa
Narrator