Octavia Spencer

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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.

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2027
Margie Claus
Movie (voice)
2026
Ride or Die
TV show Debbie Claybourne
2026
Tow
Movie Barbara
2026
Lost Women of Alaska
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
2025
Family Recipe Showdown
TV show Host
2025
Smurfs
Movie Asmodius (voice)
2025
My Happy Place
TV show Self
2025
Number One on the Call Sheet
TV show Self
2024
Hollywood Black
TV show Self (archive footage)
2024
Becoming bell hooks
Movie Self
2023
The Santa Stories
TV show Detective Grinchauser
2023
Lost Women of Highway 20
TV show Self - Narrator (voice)
2022
Spirited
Movie Kimberly
2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Movie Self
2022
The Jennifer Hudson Show
TV show Self - Guest
2022
The Quest for Sleep
Movie Narrator

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2021
Encounter
Movie Hattie Hayes
2021
Thunder Force
Movie Emily Stanton
2020
Superintelligence
Movie Octavia Spencer (voice)
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Movie Grandma
2020
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
TV show Madam C. J. Walker
2020
Onward
Movie The Manticore (voice)
2020
Dolittle
Movie Dab-Dab (voice)
2019
Truth Be Told
TV show Poppy Scoville
2019
The Kelly Clarkson Show
TV show Self
2019
Luce
Movie Harriet Wilson
2019
Ma
Movie Sue Ann
2019
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Movie Self
2018
Green Book
Movie Executive Producer
2018
Instant Family
Movie Karen
2018
A Kid Like Jake
Movie Judy
2018
Small Town Crime
Movie Kelly Banks
2017
The Shape of Water
Movie Zelda Fuller
2017
Candid
Movie Executive Producer
2017
Young Sheldon
TV show Officer Rhonda Tomasson
2017
Gifted
Movie Roberta Taylor
2017
Gifted: Inside the Equation
Movie Herself
2017
The Shack
Movie Papa / Elouisa
2016
Hidden Figures
Movie Dorothy Vaughan
2016
Bad Santa 2
Movie Opal