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Alfre Woodard
8 November 1952
Alfre Woodard played in 19 movies in the Drama, Thriller, Comedy, Fantasy, Crime, Music, Romance, Mystery, Action, Adventure, Sci-Fi, Sport, Family, Horror, Music genres.
Alfre Woodard got succeed with average imdb rating 6.4.
Intense, well-schooled African-American actress Alfre Woodard attended Boston University, then made her stage bow in 1974 with Washington, D.C.'s Arena Manoeuvre.
After a two minor appearances in films Reward My Name (1978) and H.E.A.L.T.H (1979), the Tulsa, OK, native was nominated respecting an Oscar for her deportment as Geechee in 1983's Cross Brook. She went on to further telly acclaim during the decade, appearing on St. Elsewhere and winning Emmys respecting her recurring
... roles on Hill Street Blues and L.A. Law, and an ACE confer for the made-for-cable Mandela (1987).
In layer, the actress uniformly shone in roles that featured her as unconventional women who usually had a troubled past; after a unforgettable appearance in Omit Firecracker (1989), she went on to peerless in such films as Lawrence Kasdan's Bottom-line Defile (1991) and John Sayles' Passion Fish (1992), in the course of which she won a Glowing Ball nomination. Other notable film appearances included those in Rich in Love (1993), Crooklyn (1994), and Maya Angelou's Down in the Delta, in which Woodard played a unwed mommy with psychedelic and alcohol problems who returns to her family's southern hometown. In 1999, the actress starred in two films, Funny Valentines and Mumford, Lawrence Kasdan's tale of a small-township psychologist.
Woodard has also continued to exploit in television, earning considerable acclaim for her performances. In 1995, she won an Emmy nomination and a Screen Actors Guild Best Actress Award since her play in the The Piano Lesson, and two years later won an Emmy, a Favourable Globule, and a Slump Confer to go to her portrayal of the title character of Miss Evers' Boys, a treat who consoled many of the subjects of the memorable 1930s Tuskeegee Ruminate on of Untreated Blacks with Syphilis. In addition, she has done a fair amount of narration, lending her air to a discrepancy of small screen documentaries.
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