
Alfre Woodard
Acting
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.
Known For

Grey's Anatomy
2005 · tv

Desperate Housewives
2004 · tv

The Daily Show
1996 · tv

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · tv

Frasier
1993 · tv

Private Practice
2007 · tv

The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · tv

True Blood
2008 · tv

The Practice
1997 · tv

A Series of Unfortunate Events
2017 · tv

Homicide: Life on the Street
1993 · tv

See
2019 · tv

Empire
2015 · tv

American Experience
1988 · tv

L.A. Law
1986 · tv

The Last Ship
2014 · tv

Hill Street Blues
1981 · tv

St. Elsewhere
1982 · tv

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · tv

Captain America: Civil War
2016 · movie

Star Trek: Lower Decks
2020 · tv

The Lion King
2019 · movie

The Wild Thornberrys
1998 · tv

Faerie Tale Theatre
1982 · tv

The Last Frontier
2025 · tv

Marvel's Luke Cage
2016 · tv

Static Shock
2000 · tv

The Oscars
1953 · tv

Reading Rainbow
1983 · tv

Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
2023 · tv