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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 Actors of the 21st Century". She is a board member of the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences.
“…as an actor, trying to do the best you can on a film, you think, do I say thank you or fuck you?”
“…When we see a film, half of what we see is what we bring to it…”
“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.”
Quotes via Wikiquote (CC BY-SA), each with its original source.
The Boroughs
2026 · as Judy Daniels
The Last Frontier
2025 · as Jacqueline Bradford
Summer Camp
2024 · as Mary
Salem's Lot
2024 · as Dr. Cody
The Book of Clarence
2024 · as Mother Mary
Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023 · as Mimi (voice)
Space Oddity
2023 · as Dr. Olsen
The Gray Man
2022 · as Margaret Cahill
Fatherhood
2021 · as Marian
The Lion King
2019 · as Sarabi (voice)
Saint Judy
2018 · as Judge Benton
Captain America: Civil War
2016 · as Miriam
Marvel's Luke Cage
2016 · as Mariah Dillard
Annabelle
2014 · as Evelyn
12 Years a Slave
2013 · as Mistress Harriet Shaw
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
2008 · as Alice Pratt
Take the Lead
2006 · as Augustine James
Something New
2006 · as Joyce McQueen
Studio characters