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Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
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Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Hallmark Hall of Fame
The Oscars
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
30 Rock
The Daily Show
The Graham Norton Show
Saturday Night Live
Young Sheldon
American Dad!
Entertainment Tonight
The X-Files
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
Raising the Bar
CSI: NY
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Ugly Betty
Just Shoot Me!
Medium
Chicago Hope
The Goldbergs
LAX
Malcolm in the Middle
black-ish
Becker
ER
Roswell
Number One on the Call Sheet
Mom
Drunk History
The Big Bang Theory
Spider-Man
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Bad Santa
A Time to Kill
Halloween II
Drag Me to Hell
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Blue Streak
Dinner for Schmucks
Seven Pounds
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Beauty Shop
S.W.A.T.
Dolittle
Lansky
Bad Santa 2
Coach Carter
Insurgent
Zootopia
Smurfs
Never Been Kissed
Allegiant
Instant Family
Fathers and Daughters
Snowpiercer
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Gifted
A Kid Like Jake
The Help
The Shape of Water
Onward
Fruitvale Station
Spirited
Luce
Halfway Home
Thunder Force
Encounter
Roald Dahl's The Witches
The Shack
Hidden Figures
Ride or Die
Ma
Truth Be Told
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Production Credits
Ma
Fruitvale Station
Truth Be Told
Ride or Die
Green Book
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
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