Octavia Spencer

Known for ActingBorn 1970-05-25 (age 56)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.Read more

Movies & web series

Family Recipe Showdown

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Wizards of Waverly Place

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

L.A. Doctors

Malcolm in the Middle

Green Book

The Help

The Sky is Falling

Hallmark Hall of Fame

The X-Files

Lost Women of Alaska

Lost Women of Highway 20

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

The Chronicle

Hidden Figures

Young Sheldon

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Gifted

Chicken Party

Presidio Med

The Big Bang Theory

Zootopia

Onward

ER

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

Roswell

Seven Pounds

The Shack

Instant Family

Coach Carter

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

30 Rock

Medium

Fruitvale Station

Brimstone

Mom

Being John Malkovich

The Shape of Water

Spider-Man

CSI: NY

A Time to Kill

Fathers and Daughters

Red Band Society

Dollhouse

The Graham Norton Show

The Santa Stories

The Quest for Sleep