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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
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The Daily Show
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L.A. Law
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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
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Palmerstown, U.S.A.
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/iOmtgcEwXy5q65UIDCgBTJpapWi.jpg)
A Series of Unfortunate Events
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5B0fvoxRPT7mhZMgMSAM27j6QZb.jpg)
Monsieur Spade
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nQU3uaBniLEYYBC6TQjlfEeIlPI.jpg)
What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?
![](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
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The Oscars
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The Sophisticated Gents
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See
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12 Years a Slave
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uO0znfB2ZzTXA1IS7jkrjNbpkYK.jpg)
Scrooged
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/fToBWkwVNjYzH6mjrEq5JDYRoLx.jpg)
Desperate Housewives
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nmWpcUQtWHC4kjVCygiFEDR1wCY.jpg)
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
![](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://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/exDuz53NNj4PdoT5Ckkri5rpK7o.jpg)
Three Rivers
![](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/zNZWNX19FZ5QyedprVM0ldsXFiP.jpg)
Love & Basketball
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qJf2TzE8nRTFbFMPJNW6c8mI0KU.jpg)
Primal Fear
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4h8WIvPb3nVh20xVHmvCzDJwnfP.jpg)
Beauty Shop
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/op1gn2mK4ohZfhpKj92KEbwvc9C.jpg)
Black Panther
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/jNFqmsulwUrhYQW3MvqzfMc7SdS.jpg)
Annabelle
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zgxIolqM9FmWd3WNdLfOWPt9xjK.jpg)
Tucker's Witch
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vkGSs0eeOOISEe9jddBZnRSkn46.jpg)
Take the Lead
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wv18uo0bzQAubvdAxn3hYW4UVXg.jpg)
The Ambush Murders
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mjnPCvFQmlzt67dDXi7IEPmELqg.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/pR2fzm82fl0giommpo310LBOMbV.jpg)
Fatherhood
![](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/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/nufQPRcu9sVOIwECC9fKvHlu39y.jpg)
Steel Magnolias
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ySqcek4mf9mM2BdHIXbv4RYHTEP.jpg)
Sara
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rSje3FS7ycJSglowlngjsvDt7vO.jpg)
Dinosaur
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2a4kzJHXFzPYXV09XmRe9OM58L8.jpg)
State of Affairs
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Burning Sands
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2ygShFSdj1hug8xj2q28OMktAU4.jpg)
Down in the Delta
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Juanita
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John Henry
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Clemency
Production Credits
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