Cast

Octavia Spencer

Acting

Cast

Octavia Spencer

Known for

Acting

Born

1970-05-25

From

Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Also known as Octavia L. Spencer, Octavia Lenora 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.

Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer

Biography

Spider-Man

Zootopia

The Shape of Water

Hidden Figures

Snowpiercer

The Help

Smurfs

Instant Family

Insurgent

Allegiant

Gifted

Dolittle

Onward

Fruitvale Station

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Drag Me to Hell

Roald Dahl's The Witches

A Time to Kill

The Shack

Coach Carter

Seven Pounds

Ma

S.W.A.T.

Being John Malkovich

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Blue Streak

Big Momma's House

Spirited

Pretty Persuasion

Tow

Bad Santa

Halloween II

Fathers and Daughters

Pulse

Never Been Kissed

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Dinner for Schmucks

Superintelligence

Flypaper

Beauty Shop

Thunder Force

Lansky

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Bad Santa 2

Get On Up

The Nines

The Great Gilly Hopkins

The Heart

The Soloist

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Small Town Crime

What Planet Are You From?

A Kid Like Jake

Follow the Stars Home

Black or White

Smashed

Luce

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Pretty Ugly People

The Spleenectomy

Encounter

The 6th Man

Breakin' All the Rules

American Virgin

Small Town Saturday Night

Love at First Hiccup

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Everything Put Together

Little John

Nobody Nothing Nowhere

Peep World

Auto Motives

Car Dogs

The Sky is Falling

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Becoming bell hooks