Alfre Woodard (born November 8, 1952) is an American film, stage, and television actress, producer, and political activist. Woodard is called one of the most versatile and accomplished actors of her generation. She has been nominated once for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 18 times for the Emmy Award (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe Award and three Screen Actors Guild Awards.Woodard began her acting career in theatre. After her breakthrough role in the Off-Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf (1977), she made her film debut in Remember My Name (1978). In 1980 she starred in Robert Altman's Health and in 1983 has won major critical praise and she was nominated for a Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for role in Cross Creek. In same year, Woodard has won her first Primetime Emmy Award for performance in the NBC drama series Hill Street Blues. Later in 1980s, Woodard had leading Emmy Award-nominated performances in number of made for television movies, and another Emmy-winning role as dying of leukemia woman in the pilot episode of L.A. Law. She also starred as Dr. Roxanne Turner in the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated an Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986 and for Guest Actress in 1988.In 1990s, Woodard starred in films, such as Grand Canyon (1991), Heart and Souls (1993), Crooklyn (1994), How to Make an American Quilt (1995), Primal Fear (1996) and Star Trek: First Contact (1996). She also drew critical praise for her performances in the independent dramas Passion Fish (1992), for which she won Independent Spirit Award and was nominated for a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and well Down in the Delta (1998). For her lead role in the HBO film Miss Evers' Boys (1997), Woodard won Golden Globe, Emmy, Screen Actors Guild Award and several another awards. In later years she appeared in several blockbuster, like K-PAX (2001), The Core (2001), and The Forgotten (2004), starred in independent films and has won her four Emmy Award for The Practice in 2003. From 2005 to 2006, Woodard starred as Betty Applewhite in the ABC comedy-drama series Desperate Housewives, and later starred in several short-lived series. She appeared in films The Family That Preys (2008) and 12 Years a Slave (2013), and also worked as political activist and producer. Woodard is a founder of Artists for a New South Africa, organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country. She is a board member of AMPAS.
Fecha de nacimiento
1952-11-08
Nombre de nacimiento
Alfre Ette Woodard
Año de nacimiento
1952
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