Octavia Spencer profile
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Octavia Spencer

25th May 1970 Montgomery, Alabama, USA 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.

91 Movies 69 TV Shows 167 Credits
Filmography

Movies & TV Shows

Tow poster
Tow 20th March 2026 as Barbara
Smurfs poster
Smurfs 30th June 2025 as Asmodius (voice)
Onward poster
Onward 29th February 2020 as The Manticore (voice)
Dolittle poster
Dolittle 2nd January 2020 as Dab-Dab (voice)
Luce poster
Luce 2nd August 2019 as Harriet Wilson
Ma poster
Ma 29th May 2019 as Sue Ann
Gifted poster
Gifted 7th April 2017 as Roberta Taylor
Zootopia poster
Zootopia 11th February 2016 as Mrs. Otterton (voice)
Just Peck poster
Just Peck 16th February 2011 as Detention Teacher
Seven Pounds poster
Seven Pounds 18th December 2008 as Kate the Home Health Care Nurse
Pulse poster
Pulse 11th August 2006 as Landlady
S.W.A.T. poster
S.W.A.T. 8th August 2003 as Neighbor in Alley
Lansky poster
Lansky 27th February 1999 as Evelyn
black-ish poster
black-ish 24th September 2014 as Octavia Spencer
Mom poster
Mom 23rd September 2013 as Regina Tompkins
Dollhouse poster
Dollhouse 13th February 2009 as Professor Janack
30 Rock poster
30 Rock 11th October 2006 as Octavia Spencer
Standoff poster
Standoff 5th September 2006 as Rapid Air Clerk
Medium poster
Medium 3rd January 2005 as Jurist
CSI: NY poster
CSI: NY 22nd September 2004 as Child Welfare Rep
LAX poster
LAX 13th September 2004 as Flight Attendant
Titus poster
Titus 20th March 2000 as Ms. Alice Hays
Becker poster
Becker 2nd November 1998 as Ticket Woman
Moesha poster
Moesha 23rd January 1996 as Gloria
ER poster
ER 19th September 1994 as Maria Jones