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Alfre Woodard

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Biography

Alfre Woodard is the youngest of three children born to her parents in Oklahoma. She was named by her godmother, who claimed she saw…more

Born

11/8/1952, Tulsa, Oklahoma

Birth Name

Alfre Woodard

Gender

Female

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Star (10)

Role
- Memphis Beat
  Lt. Tanya Rice
  - S 2: Ep 10 The Feud
    8/16/11
  - S 2: Ep 9 Ten Little Memphians
    8/9/11
  - S 2: Ep 8 Identity Crisis
    8/2/11
  - S 2: Ep 7 Body of Evidence
    7/26/11
  - S 2: Ep 6 Troubled Waters
    7/19/11
  - + 15 More Credits
- Three Rivers
  Dr. Sophia Jordan
  - S 1: Ep 13 Status 1A
    7/3/10
  - S 1: Ep 12 Case Histories
    6/26/10
  - S 1: Ep 11 Every Breath You Take
    6/19/10
  - S 1: Ep 10 A Roll of the Dice
    6/12/10
  - S 1: Ep 8 The Kindness of Strangers
    11/22/09
  - + 7 More Credits
- Delta Blues
  Tanya Rice
- The Black Panther
  Dondi Reese
- My Own Worst Enemy
  Mavis Heller
  - S 1: Ep 9 Henry And The Terrible...Day
    12/15/08
  - S 1: Ep 8 Love In All The Wrong Places
    12/8/08
  - S 1: Ep 7 Down Rio Way
    12/1/08
  - S 1: Ep 6 High Crimes and Turducken
    11/24/08
  - S 1: Ep 5 The Night Train To Moscow
    11/17/08
  - + 4 More Credits
- Desperate Housewives
  Betty Applewhite
  - S 2: Ep 23 Remember (1)
    5/21/06
  - S 2: Ep 24 Remember (2)
    5/21/06
  - S 2: Ep 22 No One Is Alone
    5/14/06
  - S 2: Ep 21 I Know Things Now
    5/7/06
  - S 2: Ep 20 It Wasn't Meant to Happen
    4/30/06
  - + 19 More Credits
- Inconceivable
  Lydia
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    9/23/05
- Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales For Every Child
  Winoome Bear
  - S 3: Ep 13 Aesop's Fables
    7/18/00
  - S 3: Ep 12 Robinita Hood
    6/19/00
  - S 3: Ep 10 Snow Queen
    4/18/00
  - S 1: Ep 11 Beauty and the Beast
  - S 1: Ep 3 Hansel and Gretel
    4/1/95
  - + 1 More Credits
- Sara
  Rozalyn Dupree
  - S 1: Ep 13 Brief Encounter
    5/8/85
  - S 1: Ep 12 A Night at the Ballet
    5/1/85
  - S 1: Ep 11 Girls Just Want to Have Fun
    4/24/85
  - S 1: Ep 10 Meet Mr. Cooper
    4/17/85
  - S 1: Ep 9 Sara's Short Story
    4/10/85
  - + 8 More Credits
- Tucker's Witch
  Marcia Fulbright
  - S 1: Ep 12 Murder Is the Key
    7/9/83
  - S 1: Ep 11 Living and Presumed Dead
    5/5/83
  - S 1: Ep 10 Formula for Revenge
    4/28/83
  - S 1: Ep 9 Rock Is a Hard Place
    4/14/83
  - S 1: Ep 8 Psych-Out
    4/7/83
  - + 6 More Credits
Recurring Role (3)

Role
- St. Elsewhere
  Dr. Roxanne Turner
  - S 6: Ep 21 The Abby Singer Show
    5/18/88
  - S 4: Ep 23 The Equalizer
    4/30/86
  - S 4: Ep 1 Remembrance of Things Past
    9/18/85
- St. Elsewhere
  Roxanne
  - S 5: Ep 23 Last Dance at the Wrecker's Ball
    5/27/87
  - S 5: Ep 17 Schwarzwald
    2/11/87
  - S 5: Ep 12 Cold War
    1/7/87
  - S 5: Ep 6 Not My Type
    11/5/86
  - S 5: Ep 5 You Beta Your Life
    10/29/86
  - + 7 More Credits
- St. Elsewhere
  Roxanne Turner
  - S 5: Ep 22 Slip Sliding Away
    5/20/87
  - S 4: Ep 2 Fathers and Sons
    9/25/85
Guest Star (33)

Role
- The Talk
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 162 Episode 162
    6/27/11
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Edna Reilly
  - S 57: Ep 1 Pictures of Hollis Woods
    12/2/07
- Biography
  Herself
  - S 20: Ep 127 20 on 20
    6/22/07
- The Megan Mullally Show
  Herself
  - S 1: Ep 45 Alfre Woodard, Milo Ventimiglia, Self-Portrait installment
    12/20/06
- Sidewalks Entertainment
  Herself / Guest
  - S 17: Ep 4 Paul, Holly and Alfre
    11/1/06
- The Primetime Emmy Awards
  Herself
  - S 58: Ep 1 The 58th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    8/27/06
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Mrs. Brown
  - S 55: Ep 2 The Water is Wide.
    1/29/06
- Desperate Housewives
  Betty Applewhite
  - S 1: Ep 23 One Wonderful Day
    5/22/05
  - S 1: Ep 22 Goodbye For Now
    5/15/05
- Tavis Smiley
  Herself
  - S 2: Ep 47 Peter Whybrow, Alfre Woodard
    3/21/05
- Reading Rainbow
  Narrator
  - S 20: Ep 1 Visiting Day
    12/15/04
- The Primetime Emmy Awards
  Herself - Presenter
  - S 55: Ep 1 The 55th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    9/21/03
  - S 49: Ep 1 The 49th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    9/14/97
  - S 48: Ep 1 The 48th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    9/8/96
  - S 47: Ep 1 The 47th Annual Primetime Emmy Awards
    9/10/95
- Static Shock
  Jean Hawkins
  - S 3: Ep 14 Flashback
    6/7/03
- The Practice
  Denise Freeman
  - S 7: Ep 12 Final Judgment (2)
    2/3/03
  - S 7: Ep 11 Down The Hatch (1)
    1/27/03
- The Wild Thornberrys
  Akela (Cheetah Mother)
  - S 4: Ep 7 The Wild Thornberrys Movie
    12/20/02
- Dennis Miller Live
  Herself
  - S 8: Ep 2 Al Gore
    1/19/01
- American Experience
  Narrator
  - S 12: Ep 6 Eleanor Roosevelt
    1/10/00
  - S 6: Ep 5 Malcolm X: Make It Plain
    1/26/94
- Homicide: Life on the Street
  Dr. Roxanne Turner
  - S 6: Ep 16 Mercy
    3/20/98
- Adventures from the Book of Virtues
  Harriet Tubman (Voice)
  - S 2: Ep 1 Faith
    1/1/97
- Screen Actors Guild Awards
  Herself, Nominee
  - S 2: Ep 1 2nd Annual Screen Actors Guild Awards
    2/24/96
- Hallmark Hall Of Fame
  Berniece
  - S 44: Ep 2 The Piano Lesson
    2/5/95
- Frasier
  Voice of Edna
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Botched Language of Cranes
    11/1/94
- The Arsenio Hall Show
  Herself
  - S 6: Ep 8 September 21, 1993
    9/21/93
  - S 1: Ep 91 May 9, 1989
    5/9/89
- The Academy Awards
  Herself - Presenter
  - S 65: Ep 1 The 65th Annual Academy Awards
    3/29/93
- L.A. Law
  Adrian Moore
  - S 1: Ep 1 Pilot
    9/15/86
- Shelley Duvall's Faerie Tale Theatre
  princess lovina
  - S 4: Ep 6 Puss 'n Boots
    9/9/85
- American Playhouse
  Esther
  - S 4: Ep 5 Go Tell It on the Mountain
    1/14/85
- American Playhouse
  Mattie
  - S 3: Ep 9 The Killing Floor
    4/10/84
- Hill Street Blues
  Doris Robson
  - S 4: Ep 7 Goodbye, Mr. Scripps
    11/24/83
  - S 4: Ep 6 Praise Dilaudid
    11/17/83
  - S 4: Ep 5 Doris in Wonderland
    11/10/83
- American Playhouse
  Guest Star
  - S 1: Ep 7 For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow is Enuf
    2/23/82
- Enos
  Darlene
  - S 1: Ep 18 Forever Blowing Baubles
    5/20/81
- Palmerstown, U.S.A.
  Nona
  - S 2: Ep 6 The Threat
    4/21/81
- The White Shadow
  Sandra Wilcox
  - S 3: Ep 1 Reunion (1)
    10/16/80
- What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?
  Nadja
  - S 1: Ep 4 The Girl Nobody Knew
    12/29/77
Special Guest Star (2)

Role
- True Blood
  Ruby Jean Reynolds
  - S 3: Ep 9 Everything Is Broken
    8/15/10
  - S 3: Ep 8 Night on the Sun
    8/8/10
- True Blood
  Ruby Jean
  - S 3: Ep 2 Beautifully Broken
    6/20/10

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- Betty Applewhite's house was once home to The Munsters.
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- She was named by her godmother.
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- Alfre Woodard is the youngest of three children born to her parents in Oklahoma.
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- Alfre Woodard: There aren't many roles for black actresses who are the lovely age of post fifty.
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- Alfre Woodard: Television studios bet the farm on reality shows, where they didn't need any actors and movie studios had no plans for any quality movies that required the presence of me.
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- Alfre Woodard: My mother said she didn't care where we went to church but to develop my own relationship with God, the rest is who you commune with.
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