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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 i…
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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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Octavia Spencer's Filmography
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Margie Claus
as (voice)
Tow
as Barbara
Smurfs
as Asmodius (voice)
Becoming bell hooks
as Self
Spirited
as Kimberly
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self
The Quest for Sleep
as Narrator
Encounter
as Hattie Hayes
Thunder Force
as Emily Stanton
Superintelligence
as Octavia Spencer (voice)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
as Grandma
Onward
as The Manticore (voice)
Dolittle
as Dab-Dab (voice)
Luce
as Harriet Wilson
Ma
as Sue Ann
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
as Self
Instant Family
as Karen
A Kid Like Jake
as Judy
Small Town Crime
as Kelly Banks
The Shape of Water
as Zelda Fuller
Gifted
as Roberta Taylor
The Shack
as Papa / Elouisa
Hidden Figures
as Dorothy Vaughan
Bad Santa 2
as Opal
The Free World
as Linda Workman
Car Dogs
as Mrs. Barrett
Allegiant
as Johanna Reyes
Zootopia
as Mrs. Otterton (voice)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Miss Harris
Fathers and Daughters
as Dr. Corman
Insurgent
as Johanna Reyes
Black or White
as Rowena Jeffers
Get On Up
as Aunt Honey
Jesus People
as Angel Angelique
Paradise
as Loray
Lost on Purpose
as Nurse Keller
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
as Martha (voice)
Snowpiercer
as Tanya
Fruitvale Station
as Wanda
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
as Self - Narrator (voice)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
as Dr. Nance
Blues for Willadean
as LeSonia Robinson
Smashed
as Jenny
Flypaper
as Madge Wiggins
The Help
as Minny Jackson
Just Peck
as Detention Teacher
Peep World
as Alison
Love and Distrust
as Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")
Dinner for Schmucks
as Madame Nora
Small Town Saturday Night
as Rhonda Dooley
Herpes Boy
as Rochelle
Halloween II
as Nurse Daniels
Drag Me to Hell
as Bank Co-Worker
The Soloist
as Troubled Woman
Love at First Hiccup
as Mrs. Hambrick
Seven Pounds
as Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
Pretty Ugly People
as Mary
The Spleenectomy
as Nurse
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
as Dr. Evilini
The Nines
as Streetwalker
Pulse
as Landlady
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
as Ayisha Lebaron
Beauty Shop
as Big Customer
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
as Middle-Aged Woman
Pretty Persuasion
as Woman
Coach Carter
as Mrs. Battle
Breakin' All the Rules
as Stylist
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
as Janine
Bad Santa
as Opal
Chicken Party
as Laqueta Mills
S.W.A.T.
as Neighbor in Alley
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
as Security Guard
Sol Goode
as Unemployment Clerk
Little John
as Waitress
Spider-Man
as Check-In Girl
Everything Put Together
as Nurse B
The Sky is Falling
as Nurse #2
Follow the Stars Home
as Hildy
The Journeyman
as Black Belly
Missing Pieces
as Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)
Four Dogs Playing Poker
as Waitress
American Virgin
as Agnes Large
Big Momma's House
as Twila
Auto Motives
as Rhonda
What Planet Are You From?
as Baby Nurse
Being John Malkovich
as Woman in Elevator
Blue Streak
as Shawna
Never Been Kissed
as Cynthia
Lansky
as Evelyn
Sparkler
as Wanda
The 6th Man
as Nativity Watson
Valley Girls
as Cheerleader
A Time to Kill
as Roark's Nurse
No Poster
The Heart
Ma 2
as Sue Ann
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Death of a Salesman
as Linda Loman
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Nobody Nothing Nowhere
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Deck the Y'alls
as Gladys Gibbes
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