Octavia Spencer
Acting
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.
Tow
Barb
Smurfs
Asmodius (voice)
Becoming bell hooks
Self
Spirited
Kimberly
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Self
The Quest for Sleep
Narrator
Encounter
Hattie Hayes
Thunder Force
Emily Stanton
Superintelligence
Octavia Spencer (voice)
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Grandma
Onward
The Manticore (voice)
Dolittle
Dab-Dab (voice)
Luce
Harriet Wilson
Ma
Sue Ann
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Self
Instant Family
Karen
A Kid Like Jake
Judy
Small Town Crime
Kelly Banks
The Shape of Water
Zelda Fuller
Gifted
Roberta Taylor
The Shack
Papa / Elouisa
Hidden Figures
Dorothy Vaughan
Bad Santa 2
Opal
The Free World
Linda Workman
Car Dogs
Mrs. Barrett
Allegiant
Johanna Reyes
Zootopia
Mrs. Otterton (voice)
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Miss Harris
Fathers and Daughters
Dr. Corman
Insurgent
Johanna Reyes
Black or White
Rowena Jeffers
Get On Up
Aunt Honey
Jesus People
Angel Angelique
Paradise
Loray
Lost on Purpose
Nurse Keller
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Martha (voice)
Snowpiercer
Tanya
Fruitvale Station
Wanda
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Self - Narrator (voice)
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Dr. Nance
Blues for Willadean
LeSonia Robinson
Smashed
Jenny
Flypaper
Madge Wiggins
The Help
Minny Jackson
Just Peck
Detention Teacher
Peep World
Alison
Love and Distrust
Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")
Dinner for Schmucks
Madame Nora
Small Town Saturday Night
Rhonda Dooley
Herpes Boy
Rochelle
Halloween II
Nurse Daniels
Drag Me to Hell
Bank Co-Worker
The Soloist
Troubled Woman
Love at First Hiccup
Mrs. Hambrick
Seven Pounds
Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
Pretty Ugly People
Mary
The Spleenectomy
Nurse
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Dr. Evilini
The Nines
Streetwalker
Pulse
Landlady
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Ayisha Lebaron
Beauty Shop
Big Customer
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Middle-Aged Woman
Pretty Persuasion
Woman
Coach Carter
Mrs. Battle
Breakin' All the Rules
Stylist
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Janine
Bad Santa
Opal
Chicken Party
Laqueta Mills
S.W.A.T.
Neighbor in Alley
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Security Guard
Sol Goode
Unemployment Clerk
Little John
Waitress
Spider-Man
Check-In Girl
Everything Put Together
Nurse B
The Sky is Falling
Nurse #2
Follow the Stars Home
Hildy
The Journeyman
Black Belly
Missing Pieces
Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Waitress
American Virgin
Agnes Large
Big Momma's House
Twila
Auto Motives
Rhonda
What Planet Are You From?
Baby Nurse
Being John Malkovich
Woman in Elevator
Blue Streak
Shawna
Never Been Kissed
Cynthia
Lansky
Evelyn
Sparkler
Wanda
The 6th Man
Nativity Watson
Valley Girls
Cheerleader
A Time to Kill
Roark's Nurse