Alfre Woodard is an American actress as well as producer, famous for an Off-Broadway play For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide When the Rainbow Is Enuf. Woodard is also known for her versatility acting and has bagged four Emmy Awards and a Golden Globe Award inclusive of three Screen Actors Guild Awards.
Early Life and Education
Alfre Woodard was born on November 8, 1952, in Tulsa, Oklahoma, United States. She belongs to North American ethnicity and holds an American nationality.
Woodard is born to Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an entrepreneur, and interior designer. She was raised along with her siblings.
Woodard went to Bishop Kelley High School, a private Catholic school in Tulsa where she graduated in 1970. Later, she studied drama at Boston University, from which she graduated.
Career
Alfre Woodard began her career in theater. 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 as a Rita in Remember My Name.
In 1983, Woodard won major critical praise and was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Cross Creek.
In the same year, Woodard won her first Primetime Emmy Award for her performance in the NBC drama series Hill Street Blues.
Later in the 1980s, Woodard had to lead Emmy Award-nominated performances in a number of made for television movies, and another Emmy-winning role as a woman dying of leukemia in the pilot episode of L.A. Law.
Woodard also starred as Dr. Roxanne Turner in the NBC medical drama St. Elsewhere, for which she was nominated for a Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Drama Series in 1986, and for Guest Actress in 1988.
In the 1990s, Woodard starred in films like Grand Canyon, Heart and Souls, Crooklyn, How to Make an American Quilt, Primal Fear and Star Trek: First Contact.
Personal Life
Alfre Woodard married her boyfriend, writer Roderick M. Spencer on October 21, 1983. The pair together adopted their two children, Mavis born on September 29, 1989, and Duncan born on November 12, 1993.
Woodard‘s daughter, Mavis, served as Miss Golden Globe of the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.
It’s already been 23 years for their marriage but, still, they are going really smooth with their relationship with no signs of divorce in the coming days.
The couple lives with their children in Santa Monica, California.
Net Worth
Alfre Woodard is enriched with allure, poise, and diction which have made her an accomplished actress. Her dedication and hard work have earned her great success and fame. She earned a huge amount of net worth is around $13 million.
Quick Facts
Birth Date:
December 19, 1924
- The youngest of three children, she was a cheerleader in high school.
- Breakthrough role came in the 1977 Los Angeles stage production of For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf.
- Played Lily Stoane in 1996's Star Trek: First Contact, a role that resulted in the creation of an action figure made in her likeness.
- Cofounded Artists for a New South Africa in 1989. The nonprofit organization combats HIV/AIDS, helps orphaned children and advances civil rights in that country.
- Appeared in the 2004 Broadway production of Drowning Crow, opposite Anthony Mackie and Aunjanue Ellis.
- Daughter Mavis Spencer was Miss Golden Globe at the 2010 ceremony.
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Last Updated
November 2019
Original Published Date
November 2019
