Alfre Woodard
Biography
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 12 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.
Also Known As
Movie Appearances
K-PAX
as Claudia Villars
2001
Star Trek: First Contact
as Lily Sloane
1996
Primal Fear
as Shoat
1996
Dinosaur
as Plio (voice)
2000
Mumford
as Lily
1999
Disney's American Legends
2001
How to Make an American Quilt
as Marianna
1995
Summer Camp
as Mary
2024
The Core
as Stickley
2003
Crooklyn
as Carolyn Carmichael
1994
Take the Lead
as Augustine James
2006
A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. Whatsit
2003
Grand Canyon
as Jane
1991
Radio
as Principal Daniels
2003
Beauty Shop
as Ms. Josephine
2005
Passion Fish
as Chantelle
1992
Follow Me Home
as Evey
1997
The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
2002
Love & Basketball
as Camille Wright
2000
Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
as Alice Pratt
2008
TV Appearances
Desperate Housewives
as Betty Applewhite
2004
L.A. Law
as Adrianne Moore
1986
Static Shock
as Jean Hawkins (voice)
2000
Class of 3000
2006
Hill Street Blues
1981
Frasier
as Edna (voice)
1993
The Practice
as Denise Freeman
1997
My Own Worst Enemy
as Mavis Heller
2008
Tucker's Witch
as Marcia Fulbright
1982
Homicide: Life on the Street
as Dr. Roxanne Turner
1993
Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. Brown
1951
The White Shadow
as Sandra Wilcox
1978