Octavia Spencer
Acting
Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self
Age 52 (now 56)
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
as Martha (voice)
Age 43 (now 56)
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Age 43 (now 56)
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
as Dr. Evilini
Age 37 (now 56)
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Ayisha Lebaron
Age 35 (now 56)
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as Middle-Aged Woman
Age 34 (now 56)
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Security Guard
Age 33 (now 56)
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Executive Producer
Age 49 (now 56) Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
as Madam C. J. Walker
Age 49 (now 56)
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
as Team Martha
Age 46 (now 56)
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self
Age 45 (now 56)
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
Age 44 (now 56)
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self
Age 44 (now 56)
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self - Guest
Age 43 (now 56) The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
Age 43 (now 56)
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
Age 39 (now 56)
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Age 34 (now 56)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Sherry
Age 30 (now 56)
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Also Known As
Octavia L. Spencer, Octavia Lenora Spencer
IMDB
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