Known For
Acting
Born
May 25, 1970
Place of Birth
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Credits
166 titles
Octavia Spencer
Biography
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.
Known For
Filmography
Ride or Die
Debbie Claybourne
Tow
Barbara
Family Recipe Showdown
Host
Smurfs
Asmodius (voice)
My Happy Place
Self
Number One on the Call Sheet
Self
Hollywood Black
Self (archive footage)
Becoming bell hooks
Self
The Santa Stories
Detective Grinchauser
Lost Women of Highway 20
Host
Spirited
Kimberly
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Self
The Jennifer Hudson Show
Self - Guest
The Quest for Sleep
Narrator
Encounter
Hattie Hayes
Thunder Force
Emily Stanton
Superintelligence
Octavia Spencer (voice)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Grandma
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Madam C. J. Walker
Onward
The Manticore (voice)
Dolittle
Dab-Dab (voice)
Truth Be Told
Poppy Scoville
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Self
Luce
Harriet Wilson
Ma
Sue Ann
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Self
Green Book
Executive Producer
Instant Family
Karen
A Kid Like Jake
Judy
Small Town Crime
Kelly Banks
The Shape of Water
Zelda Fuller
Candid
Executive Producer
Young Sheldon
Officer Rhonda Tomasson
Gifted
Roberta Taylor
The Shack
Papa / Elouisa
Hidden Figures
Dorothy Vaughan
Bad Santa 2
Opal
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
Team Martha
The Free World
Linda Workman
To Tell the Truth
Self - Panelist
Car Dogs
Mrs. Barrett
Allegiant
Johanna Reyes
Zootopia
Mrs. Otterton (voice)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Miss Harris
Fathers and Daughters
Dr. Corman
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
Self
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Self - Guest
Insurgent
Johanna Reyes
Black or White
Rowena Jeffers
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
Self