Alfre Woodard

Highest Rated:
100% Passion Fish (1992)
Lowest Rated:
8% The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag (1992)
Birthday:
Nov 8, 1952
Birthplace:
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Bio:
Intense, versatile African-American actress Alfre Woodard attended Boston University, then made her stage bow in 1974 with Washington, D.C.'s Arena Stage. After a few minor appearances in films like Remember My Name (1978) and H.E.A.L.T.H (1979), the Tulsa, OK, native was nominated for an Oscar for…

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Filmography

Range of Movie T-meters: 8% - 100%
Number of Movies: 86
Box Office Since 2001: $496.3M
Year Rating Title Credit Box Office
2013 The Powerbroker: Whitney Young's Fight For CIVIL Rights
  • Actor
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2012 Steel Magnolias (2012)
  • Actor
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2010 For Love of Liberty: The Story of America's Black Patriots
  • Actor
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2010 Reach for Me
  • Actor
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2008 51% The Family That Preys
  • Alice Pratt
$37.0M
2008 Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema
  • Actor
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2008 74% American Violet
  • Alma Roberts
$0.5M
2008 Medal of Honor
  • Narrator
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2007 Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
  • Narrator
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2007 AmericanEast
  • Actor
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2007 Pictures of Hollis Woods
  • Edna Reilly
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2006 91% King Leopold's Ghost
  • Narrator
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2006 The Water Is Wide
  • Mrs. Brown
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2006 44% Take the Lead
  • Augustine James
$34.7M
2006 61% Something New
  • Joyce McQueen
$11.4M
2005 Dot...and More Stories to Make You Feel Good
  • Actor
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2005 38% Beauty Shop
  • Miss Josephine
$36.3M
2005 Martin's Big Words ... and More Stories from the African-American Tradition
  • Actor
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2004 31% The Forgotten
  • Anne Pope
$66.6M
2003 41% The Core
  • NASA Chief Talma Stickley
$31.0M
2003 36% Radio
  • Principal Reynolds
  • Director
$52.3M
2003 39% The Singing Detective
  • Chief of Staff
$0.3M
2003 A Wrinkle in Time
  • Mrs. Whatsit
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2002 Trial of the Moke
  • Actor
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2002 Searching for Debra Winger
  • Actor
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2002 Unchained Memories: Slave Narratives
  • Actor
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2002 80% The Wild Thornberrys Movie
  • Akela
$39.8M
2002 Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
  • Narrator
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2002 Unchained Memories - Readings from the Slave Narratives
  • Actor
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2001 41% K-PAX
  • Claudia Villars
$50.0M
2001 American Legends
  • Actor
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2001 Half Past Autumn
  • Narrator
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2001 Speak Truth to Power
  • Actor
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2000 65% Dinosaur
  • Plio
$135.6M
2000 The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
  • Actor
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2000 52% What's Cooking?
  • Audrey Williams
$0.7M
2000 82% Love and Basketball
  • Camille Wright
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2000 Holiday Heart
  • Actor
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2000 The Wishing Tree
  • Actor
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1999 People's Century - Skin Deep: The Fight Against Legislated Racism
  • Narrator
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1999 56% Mumford
  • Lily
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1999 Underground Railroad
  • Host
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1998 78% Down in the Delta
  • Loretta
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1998 The Voyage of La Amistad: A Quest for Freedom
  • Narrator
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1997 Miss Evers' Boys
  • Actor
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1997 The Member of the Wedding
  • Bernice Brown
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1996 74% Primal Fear
  • Judge Miriam Shoat
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1996 Gulliver's Travels
  • Actor
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1996 Run For The Dream:the Gail Devers Story
  • Actor
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1996 Follow Me Home
  • Evey
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1996 A Step Toward Tomorrow
  • Dr. Sandlin
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1996 92% Star Trek - First Contact
  • Lily Sloane
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1995 The Piano Lesson
  • Berniece
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1995 55% How to Make an American Quilt
  • Marianna
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1994 Race to Freedom: The Underground Railroad
  • Actor
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1994 37% Blue Chips
  • Lavada McRae
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1994 76% Crooklyn
  • Carolyn Carmichael
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1994 Frederick Douglass - When the Lion Wrote History
  • Actor
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1994 Race to Freedom: The Story of the Underground Railroad
  • Actor
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1993 55% Heart and Souls
  • Penny Washington
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1993 73% Rich in Love
  • Rhody Poole
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1993 80% Bopha
  • Rosie Mangena
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1992 100% Passion Fish
  • Chantelle
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1992 8% The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
  • Ann
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1991 76% Grand Canyon
  • Jane
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1990 Code of Honor
  • Actor
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1990 Mandela in America
  • Actor
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1989 A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
  • Actor
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1989 67% Miss Firecracker
  • Popeye Jackson
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1988 66% Scrooged
  • Grace Cooley
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1987 Mandela
  • Winnie Mandela
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1986 Genesis - A Living Conversation
  • Actor
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1986 Unnatural Causes
  • Actor
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1986 50% Extremities
  • Patricia
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1985 The Killing Floor
  • Actor
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1984 Black Hollywood: Blaxploitation and Advancing an Independent Black Cinema
  • Actor
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1984 Faerie Tale Theatre - Puss-In-Boots
  • Actor
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1984 Sweet Revenge (Bittersweet Revenge)(Code of Honor)(Her Revenge)
  • Vicki Teague
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1984 Go Tell It on the Mountain
  • Esther
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1983 64% Cross Creek
  • Geechee
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1982 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide
  • Actor
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1982 Ambush Murders
  • Kariha Ellsworth
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1981 Sophisticated Gents
  • Actor
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1979 HealtH (H.E.A.L.T.H.)
  • Hotel Manager
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1979 Freedom Road
  • Katie
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1978 Remember My Name
  • Rita
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Quotes from Alfre Woodard's Characters

    1. Alice Pratt: It's not that I don't trust you: it is your inner thoughts that give me pause.
    From The Family That Preys. Submitted by Sheree L (10 months ago)
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