
Octavia Spencer
Born May 25, 1970 · Montgomery, Alabama, USA
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.
Movies

Spider-Man

Zootopia

Hidden Figures

The Help

The Shape of Water

Snowpiercer

Insurgent

A Time to Kill

Drag Me to Hell

Dolittle

Smurfs

Onward

Coach Carter

Seven Pounds

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Gifted

Allegiant

S.W.A.T.

Blue Streak

Instant Family

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Big Momma's House

Being John Malkovich

The Shack

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Halloween II

Ma

Never Been Kissed

Bad Santa

Dinner for Schmucks

Tow

Spirited

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Fruitvale Station

The Soloist

Beauty Shop

Fathers and Daughters

Pretty Persuasion

Thunder Force

Pulse

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Bad Santa 2

Get On Up

Flypaper

The Nines

Superintelligence

The Great Gilly Hopkins

What Planet Are You From?

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Encounter

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

The 6th Man

Breakin' All the Rules

A Kid Like Jake

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Lansky

Black or White

Follow the Stars Home

Love and Distrust

Small Town Crime

American Virgin
TV Shows

The Kelly Clarkson Show

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

American Dad!

Saturday Night Live

The View

The Late Late Show with James Corden

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

The Graham Norton Show

The Jennifer Hudson Show

The X-Files

Young Sheldon

ER

Medium

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Chicago Hope

CSI: NY

30 Rock

Malcolm in the Middle

The Big Bang Theory

Mom

black-ish

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Ugly Betty

Wizards of Waverly Place

Moesha

Just Shoot Me!

Roswell

The Oscars

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Grounded for Life

Drunk History

Becker

To Tell the Truth

Dharma & Greg

Truth Be Told

Dollhouse

Ride or Die

Number One on the Call Sheet

Entertainment Tonight

Raising the Bar

Titus

L.A. Doctors

LAX

Brimstone

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

Hollywood Black

Presidio Med

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Red Band Society

The Chronicle

Cavemen

Standoff

Halfway Home

My Happy Place

Family Recipe Showdown

The Santa Stories

Lost Women of Highway 20

Lost Women of Alaska
More Movies

Small Town Saturday Night

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

The Sky is Falling

Love at First Hiccup

Smashed

Margie Claus

Luce

Sol Goode

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Just Peck

The Free World

Paradise

Peep World

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Pretty Ugly People

The Spleenectomy

Little John

The Journeyman

Car Dogs

Valley Girls

Auto Motives

Missing Pieces

Sparkler

Everything Put Together

Lost on Purpose

Jesus People

Ma 2

Becoming bell hooks

Herpes Boy

Chicken Party

Blues for Willadean




