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Alfre Woodard
Alfre LaWanda Jeen Woodard is an American actress. Known for portraying strong-willed and dignified roles on stage and screen, she has received various accolades, including four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards as well as nominations for an Academy Award, BAFTA Award, and two Grammy Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of "The 25 Greatest Act…
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Born 8 November 1952 · Q526620
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2026· 5 entries
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AOL: Alfre Woodard Says She Built Her Career by Taking Roles 'Meant for a Curmudgeonly, Older White Guy'
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Is set to join Joseph Gordon-Levitt’s AI Thriller for Netflix
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2024· 1 entry
Woodard reprised her role as Lily Sloane from Star Trek: First Contact in the penultimate episode of Star Trek: Lower Decks "Fissure Quest
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2022· 2 entries
To positive reviews and became the most nominated show at the 11th Canadian Screen Awards
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Had a cameo role in the Kyra Sedgwick’s directorial debut, the romantic comedy film Space Oddity
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2021· 4 entries
The Cheat Sheet: Alfre Woodard Reveals Her Experiences While Filming ‘See’
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The Cheat Sheet: Alfre Woodard Still Has Scars From Making ‘Star Trek: First Contact’
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Yahoo: Alfre Woodard to star in thriller ‘Viral’ with Blair Underwood
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Woodard starred opposite Kevin Hart in the drama film Fatherhood directed by Paul Weitz
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2020· 3 entries
Essence: Alfre Woodard's Sistahs’ Soirée Looks To 'Foster Camaraderie, Not Competition' Among Black Women
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Time: Alfre Woodard's Latest Project Is a Film About the Death Penalty. She Says Her Activism Is 'Beside the Point'
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The New York Times ranked her as one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century"
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2019· 2 entries
Yahoo: Alfre Woodard Reflects on Her First Oscar Nomination and Her Career So Far
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Woodard voiced Sarabi in the CGI live action remake of The Lion King, directed by Jon Favreau
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2018· 1 entry
Took a recurring role in the Fox prime time soap opera Empire, playing Renee, Cookie Lyon's mother
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2015· 1 entry
Woodard appeared on TLC's Who Do You Think You Are
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2014· 2 entries
Woodard played the role of the first female President of the United States in the NBC political drama series State of Affairs opposite Katherine Heigl
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And in November 2020, ABC Signature ordered it to series
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2013· 4 entries
Woodard made Emmy history with 17 nominations for 16 different roles
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Woodard appeared in Steve McQueen's historical drama film 12 Years a Slave as Mistress Harriet Shaw, a formerly enslaved woman who has risen in the Southern caste system
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Had a recurring role in the BBC America period drama Copper
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Also appeared in Ava DuVernay's short film The Door, a part of Miu Miu's Women's Tales series
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2012· 2 entries
UPI: Topic: Alfre Woodard
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Woodard appeared in the Lifetime television remake of the 1989 comedy-drama film Steel Magnolias as Ouiser, a role previously played by Shirley MacLaine
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2010· 1 entry
Appeared in the third season of HBO's True Blood as Ruby Jean Reynolds
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2005· 1 entry
Joined the cast of the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives as Betty Applewhite, the new mystery housewife
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2004· 1 entry
Received an honorary doctoral degree in fine arts (DFA) from Boston University
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2003· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for The Practice (2003).
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For which she won her fourth Primetime Emmy Award
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1999· 1 entry
Woodard had roles in two films: Mumford (alongside her Passion Fish co-star Mary McDonnell), and The Wishing Tree as lead character
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1998· 2 entries
Starred as an alcoholic single mother from Chicago forced to spend a summer with her uncle in Mississippi, in the critically acclaimed independent drama Down in the Delta directed by Maya Angelou, her How to Make an
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Woodard reprised the role for a sixth-season episode of Homicide: Life on the Street entitled "Mercy"
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1997· 2 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie for Miss Evers' Boys (1997).
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Had the leading roles in both The Member of the Wedding (based on the novel by Carson McCullers) and Miss Evers' Boys on HBO
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1996· 1 entry
Woodard played Judge Miriam Shoat in the neo-noir crime film Primal Fear with Richard Gere and Edward Norton, as well as portraying Lily Sloane, Zefram Cochrane's assistant in the science fiction film Star Trek: First Co
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1995· 2 entries
Awarded Crystal Award (1995).
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Co-starred alongside Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, and Maya Angelou in the female ensemble drama film How to Make an American Quilt, for which the entire cast was nominated for the Screen
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1992· 3 entries
“…as an actor, trying to do the best you can on a film, you think, do I say thank you or fuck you?”
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“…When we see a film, half of what we see is what we bring to it…”
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“Even in stories written by exceptional writers, even when they write a well-crafted piece…the mother is a cliché, though it might be a good rendering of a cliché.”
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1991· 1 entry
Woodard co-starred in drama film Grand Canyon, directed by Lawrence Kasdan
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1987· 3 entries
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for L.A. Law (1987).
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Woodard played the role of South African activist Winnie Mandela in the HBO film Mandela
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The HBO film Miss Evers' Boys (1997), and The Practice in 2003
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1986· 2 entries
And for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series in 1988, for St
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Woodard starred opposite Farrah Fawcett in the drama film Extremities, which was based on the 1982 Off-Broadway play by William Mastrosimone
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1984· 1 entry
Awarded Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for Hill Street Blues (1984).
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1983· 3 entries
And they have two children, Mavis and Duncan
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Woodard starred opposite Mary Steenburgen in the biography drama film Cross Creek directed by Martin Ritt
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Woodard won her first Primetime Emmy Award in the Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category for her three-episode arc as Doris Robson in the NBC critically acclaimed serial drama Hill Street Blues
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1980· 1 entry
Woodard had a role in the ensemble comedy film Health directed by Robert Altman
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1952· 1 entry
Born 1952-11-08.
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1898· 1 entry
Alex Woodard and his wife Elizabeth sold their 80 acres to her brother, Aaron Stell, as they had moved to Wharton County, Texas, by that time
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1867· 1 entry
Indicating that he was registered to vote two years after the Civil War ended
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