Alfre Woodard Biography

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 her performance as Geechee in 1983's Cross Creek. She went on to further television acclaim during the decade, appearing on St. Elsewhere and winning Emmys for her recurring roles on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, and an ACE award for the made-for-cable Mandela (1987). In film, the actress consistently shone in roles that featured her as unconventional women who usually had a troubled past; after a memorable appearance in Miss Firecracker (1989), she went on to star in such films as Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon (1991) and John Sayles' Passion Fish (1992), for which she won a Golden Globe nomination. Other notable film appearances included those in Rich in Love (1993), Crooklyn (1994), and Maya Angelou's Down in the Delta, in which Woodard played a single mother with drug and alcohol problems who returns to her family's southern hometown. In 1999, the actress starred in two films, Funny Valentines and Mumford, Lawrence Kasdan's tale of a small-town psychologist.Woodard has also continued to work in television, earning considerable acclaim for her performances. In 1995, she won an Emmy nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award for her performance in the The Piano Lesson, and two years later won an Emmy, a Golden Globe, and a SAG Award for her portrayal of the title character of Miss Evers' Boys, a nurse who consoled many of the subjects of the notorious 1930s Tuskeegee Study of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. In addition, she has done a fair amount of narration, lending her voice to a variety of television documentaries. ~ Rebecca Flint Marx, Rovi

• 1. Lily Sloane: Jean-Luc blow up the damned ship!
  2. Capt. Jean-Luc Picard: NO!
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• 1. Mrs. Whatsit: In all the one of who you are now. In the glory of everything you are becoming. In all that you feel, you have something the darkness does not have. Can never have, my darling.
  2. Meg Murry: What? What is it?
  3. Mrs. Whatsit: It is only yours if you find it for yourself.
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• 1. Lily Sloane: Definitely not Swedish.
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• 1. Lily Sloane: You broke your little ships.
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• 1. Pam: I am tired of her looking down her nose at us... like we didn't live in the same house or the same neighborhood!
  2. Andrea: I didn't like it then, and I don't like it now.
  3. Alice Pratt: This is your sister! When are you two going to act like it?
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• 1. Alice Pratt: I've never seen you drive! Where is Morgan Freeman?
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• 1. Charlotte Cartwright: She's seen me through two divorces.
  2. Alice Pratt: Three.
  3. Charlotte Cartwright: Three?
  4. Alice Pratt: Three.
  5. Charlotte Cartwright: Oh right, I try to forget that one.
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• 1. Alice Pratt: What you're up to now is only going to lead to disaster.
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