Alfre Woodard Biography

Alfre is an actress, producer, and political activist who was ranked among the well versatile and accomplished actors of her error.

How old is Alfre Woodard?

He was born 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United State. Woodard is 68 years old as of 8th July 2021.

Alfre Woodard Family

She is a daughter to entrepreneur and interior designer Marion H. Woodard and homemaker Constance Woodard. She has two other siblings older than her. She is said to be a sister to Marionette Gibson.

Alfre Woodard Husband

Woodard is a wife to writer Roderick Spencer. The two together have two children Mavis Spencer and Duncan Spencer and they reside in Santa Monica, California. Their daughter, Mavis, worked as Miss Golden Globe for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.

Alfre Woodard Career

She made her professional theater first appearance in 1974 at the Arena Stage in Washington, D.C. In the 1977 Off-Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have contemplated Suicide, she made it to fame during her three-episode arc in Hill Street Blues, Woodard got her first Prime time Emmy Award in 1983, in the excellent Supporting Actress in a Drama Series category.

In different made-for-television movies, Woodard got critical acclaim for her main performances. For her roles in the films Words by Heart, Unnatural Causes, and A Mother’s Bravery, she was appointed for Emmy Awards: The Mary Thomas Story. In 1987, in the HBO film Mandela, Woodard acted the role of South African activist Winnie Mandela. She did not get an Emmy, but a CableACE Award and NAACP Image were gifted to her.

For her part in 12 Years a Slave, Star Trek: First Touch, and Desperate Housewives, Alfre Woodard is famous. For her role in The Practice in 2003, she bagged her fourth Prime time Emmy Award. Come March 2014, it was brought to the public that in the NBC political drama pilot, State Of Affairs, she will act the part of the first female President of the United States. After one season, the series was revoked.

With 17 nominations for 16 different roles in 2013, Woodard made Emmy history. She was put into the Oklahoma Hall of Fame in November 2014. In her consent speech, she said she feels it’s her work to use her fame to assist less privileged people. Woodard acted Mariah Dillard in Marvel’s Luke Cage, a Netflix series. In the CGI live-action remake of The Lion King, she voiced Sarabi. She has been appointed for the 2020 Academy Award for Best Actress.

Alfre Woodard Movies

•  2021 Fatherhood
• 2019 Clemency
•  2019 Juanita
•  2019 The Lion King
•  2018 Saint Judy
•  2017 Burning Sands
•  2016 Captain America: Civil War
•  2016 So B. It
•  2015 Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
•  2015 Mississippi Grind
•  2015 Knucklehead

Alfre Woodard TV Shows

•  2020 Make It Work!
• 2019 See
•  2018 Empire
•  2017–2018 A Series of Unfortunate Events
•  2016–2018 Luke Cage
•  2014–2015 The Last Ship
•  2014–2015 State of Affairs
•  2013 Copper
•  2012 Private Practice
•  2012 Steel Magnolias
•  2011 Grey’s Anatomy
•  2010–2012 True Blood
•  2010 Black Panther