Octavia Spencer
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.
Filmography (51)
Smurfs
Spirited
Thunder Force
Encounter
Dolittle
Onward
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Superintelligence
Ma
Instant Family
A Kid Like Jake
Green Book
The Shape of Water
The Shack
Gifted
Allegiant
Zootopia
Bad Santa 2
Hidden Figures
Insurgent
Fathers and Daughters
Black or White
Get on Up
Snowpiercer
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Fruitvale Station
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
The Help
Flypaper
Dinner for Schmucks
Halloween II
Drag Me to Hell
The Soloist
Seven Pounds
The Nines
Pulse
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Coach Carter
Pretty Persuasion
Beauty Shop
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Bad Santa
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
S.W.A.T.
Spider-Man
Big Momma's House
What Planet Are You From?
Being John Malkovich
Never Been Kissed
Blue Streak
