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Octavia Spencer
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and author. She is the recipient of 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.
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entertainment · American actress (born 1970) · television actor · film actor · voice actor · film director · film producer · also Octavia Spencer, Octavia L. Spencer, Spencer
Born 25 May 1970 · Q229254
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2026· 6 entries
Public attention spiked: 9,728 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3.7× the usual 2,649, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 8,046 Wikipedia readers in one day, 3× the usual 2,649, with 1 article edits. Editors noted: changed “American” to “Mississippi”. Although the film is set in Mississippi, USA, it is very specifically about the experience in Mississippi in the 1960’s and
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Public attention spiked: 13,477 Wikipedia readers in one day, 5.1× the usual 2,649, with 0 article edits.
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Public attention spiked: 12,392 Wikipedia readers in one day, 4.7× the usual 2,649, with 4 article edits. Editors noted: missing word
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Public attention spiked: 18,672 Wikipedia readers in one day, 7.1× the usual 2,649, with 2 article edits. Editors noted: Removed the awkward and redundant phrasing re: her playing black women in movies.
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2022· 1 entry
Starred in the Apple TV+ musical comedy film Spirited with Will Ferrell and Ryan Reynolds
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2021· 2 entries
Snopes rated the claim “Actors Kevin Costner and Octavia Spencer got married.” False.
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Spencer co-starred with Melissa McCarthy as women who suddenly develop superpowers in the superhero comedy film Thunder Force
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2020· 1 entry
The Guardian: Self Made review – Octavia Spencer sparkles in inspiring Netflix drama
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2019· 4 entries
The Guardian: Ma review – schlock horror with Octavia Spencer
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The Guardian: Ma review – Octavia Spencer kills it in creepy exploitation thriller
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Spencer returned to television by executive producing and starring in the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told
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Starred as Harriet Wilson, a history teacher who makes an alarming discovery about an all-star student, in the drama film Luce
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2018· 1 entry
Spencer has starring roles as a preschool principal in the drama film A Kid Like Jake and a social worker in the comedy film Instant Family
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2017· 4 entries
And was awarded the Golden Lion for best film in the competition
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Awarded Hasty Pudding Woman of the Year (2017).
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Spencer starred in the Christian drama film The Shack and the family drama film Gifted
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Spencer described herself as Southern Baptist
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2012· 5 entries
Awarded BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for The Help (2012).
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Won Golden Globe Awards (2012).
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Awarded Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for The Help (2012).
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Spencer won a BAFTA for Best Supporting Actress for her Performance in The Help, and on February 26 she won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for the same performance; it was her first Oscar nomination and fi
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2011· 1 entry
When she played a maid in 1960s Mississippi in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress
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2008· 1 entry
Spencer's brief appearance in Seven Pounds as Kate, Rosario Dawson's home care nurse, garnered her high praise and media attention
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2003· 1 entry
Spencer made her stage debut in Los Angeles, in Del Shores' play, The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife, starring opposite veteran actress Beth Grant
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1997· 1 entry
Moved to Los Angeles on the advice of her friend Tate Taylor, the future director of The Help, in which Spencer would later star
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1996· 1 entry
Spencer made her film debut as a nurse in Joel Schumacher's A Time to Kill, based on the book by John Grisham
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1970· 2 entries
In Montgomery, Alabama, and has six siblings, including sisters Rosa and Areka Spencer
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Born 1970-05-25.
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