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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
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dSeAHZYT2JLidmA9hfH15Ae3NPk.jpg)
Hallmark Hall of Fame
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/wyMHJMQp8WpmBg9CxefvbQnFhrm.jpg)
The Oscars
![](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/w342/5pKkikAvKfyiAmxwkw1HHb2z2Za.jpg)
Faerie Tale Theatre
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/mMfqHsOeI0yLwifmfCRGTaItvTS.jpg)
Hill Street Blues
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nb5310xlFjx5r9TnpKoaOTQsAlP.jpg)
Homicide: Life on the Street
![](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
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/il1UnzcnudPYedti4jNiqtiwk82.jpg)
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/nQU3uaBniLEYYBC6TQjlfEeIlPI.jpg)
What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5B0fvoxRPT7mhZMgMSAM27j6QZb.jpg)
Monsieur Spade
![](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/jaG2vih2z4V5fP9pnYSIL65lr8d.jpg)
The Core
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4sHpAbmQRGZkebzNSfP9oG8GaK.jpg)
The Sophisticated Gents
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/xdANQijuNrJaw1HA61rDccME4Tm.jpg)
12 Years a Slave
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/lKDIhc9FQibDiBQ57n3ELfZCyZg.jpg)
See
![](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/bjkLSHpV294HIllRpHKWkNICs3N.jpg)
The Singing Detective
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/vrC1lkTktFQ4AqBfqf4PXoDDLcw.jpg)
Star Trek: First Contact
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/exDuz53NNj4PdoT5Ckkri5rpK7o.jpg)
Three Rivers
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uEnGgBpeBNlfKn67C4lIaXF7nUZ.jpg)
Gulliver's Travels
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/5Eom3JsXgQlCj6QIsGCwXkX7wyH.jpg)
The Gray Man
![](https://images.rivr.app/posters/1000/17459.jpg)
The Last Frontier
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/dzBtMocZuJbjLOXvrl4zGYigDzh.jpg)
The Lion King
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tO71i4Ob64tchCRBB5MoqonPKAF.jpg)
Blue Chips
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/4h8WIvPb3nVh20xVHmvCzDJwnfP.jpg)
Beauty Shop
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zNZWNX19FZ5QyedprVM0ldsXFiP.jpg)
Love & Basketball
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/tO0EuW0EQVYIeau8KaEvWVepNjk.jpg)
My Own Worst Enemy
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qJf2TzE8nRTFbFMPJNW6c8mI0KU.jpg)
Primal Fear
![](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/vkGSs0eeOOISEe9jddBZnRSkn46.jpg)
Take the Lead
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/zgxIolqM9FmWd3WNdLfOWPt9xjK.jpg)
Tucker's Witch
![](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/wv18uo0bzQAubvdAxn3hYW4UVXg.jpg)
The Ambush Murders
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ySqcek4mf9mM2BdHIXbv4RYHTEP.jpg)
Sara
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nufQPRcu9sVOIwECC9fKvHlu39y.jpg)
Steel Magnolias
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/uUbRCGI9fWF953KKoWwCUD6VMVq.jpg)
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/2a4kzJHXFzPYXV09XmRe9OM58L8.jpg)
State of Affairs
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/6R62oGGufhsf6DiMknCi047N0b7.jpg)
Marvel's Luke Cage
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/rSje3FS7ycJSglowlngjsvDt7vO.jpg)
Dinosaur
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/qab1CcGejQPbDIcSRMLHMap5I6.jpg)
Holiday Heart
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/nTOithYdgE4jAdSIuH1nAaxkmzY.jpg)
Burning Sands
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/ujkju3UpYknKvSAdwAYp1fmnmTm.jpg)
John Henry
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/yKq6LErlgWizCtl3DcdYv86xn2e.jpg)
Juanita
![](https://image.tmdb.org/t/p/w342/c03mA6GYRqcRLgxXQpKcYWEKxRn.jpg)
Clemency
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Down in the Delta
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