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Octavia Spencer
Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer

ActingBorn May 25, 1970 (age 56)Montgomery, Alabama, USA

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.

Filmography

2026
Ride or Die

as Debbie Claybourne

TV
2026
Tow

as Barbara

Movie
2025
Smurfs

as Asmodius (voice)

Movie
2025TV
2024
Hollywood Black

as Self (archive footage)

TV
2024Movie
2023
The Santa Stories

as Detective Grinchauser

TV
2022
Spirited

as Kimberly

Movie
2022TV
2022Movie
2021
Encounter

as Hattie Hayes

Movie
2021
Thunder Force

as Emily Stanton

Movie
2020
Superintelligence

as Octavia Spencer (voice)

Movie
2020Movie
2020
Onward

as The Manticore (voice)

Movie
2020
Dolittle

as Dab-Dab (voice)

Movie
2019
Truth Be Told

as Poppy Scoville

TV
2019
Luce

as Harriet Wilson

Movie
2019
Ma

as Sue Ann

Movie
2018Movie
2018Movie
2018
Small Town Crime

as Kelly Banks

Movie
2017
The Shape of Water

as Zelda Fuller

Movie
2017
Young Sheldon

as Officer Rhonda Tomasson

TV
2017
Gifted

as Roberta Taylor

Movie
2017
The Shack

as Papa / Elouisa

Movie
2016
Hidden Figures

as Dorothy Vaughan

Movie
2016Movie
2016
The Free World

as Linda Workman

Movie
2016
To Tell the Truth

as Self - Panelist

TV
2016
Car Dogs

as Mrs. Barrett

Movie
2016
Allegiant

as Johanna Reyes

Movie
2016
Zootopia

as Mrs. Otterton (voice)

Movie
2015Movie
2015Movie
2015
Insurgent

as Johanna Reyes

Movie
2015
Black or White

as Rowena Jeffers

Movie
2014
black-ish

as Octavia Spencer

TV
2014
Red Band Society

as Nurse Jackson

TV
2014
Get On Up

as Aunt Honey

Movie
2013
Jesus People

as Angel Angelique

Movie
2013
Paradise

as Loray

Movie
2013
Lost on Purpose

as Nurse Keller

Movie
2013
Mom

as Regina Tompkins

TV
2013Movie
2013
Snowpiercer

as Tanya

Movie
2013Movie
2013
Drunk History

as Harriet Tubman

TV
2013Movie
2013Movie
2012
Blues for Willadean

as LeSonia Robinson

Movie
2012
Smashed

as Jenny

Movie
2011
Flypaper

as Madge Wiggins

Movie
2011
The Help

as Minny Jackson

Movie
2011
Just Peck

as Detention Teacher

Movie
2010
Peep World

as Alison

Movie
2010
Love and Distrust

as Rhonda (segment "Auto Motives")

Movie
2010
Dinner for Schmucks

as Madame Nora

Movie
2010Movie
2009
Herpes Boy

as Rochelle

Movie
2009
Halloween II

as Nurse Daniels

Movie
2009
Drag Me to Hell

as Bank Co-Worker

Movie
2009
The Soloist

as Troubled Woman

Movie
2009
Dollhouse

as Professor Janack

TV
2009
Love at First Hiccup

as Mrs. Hambrick

Movie
2008
Seven Pounds

as Kate the Home Health Care Nurse

Movie
2008Movie
2008Movie
2008
Raising the Bar

as Arvina Watkins

TV
2007TV
2007TV
2007TV
2007
The Nines

as Streetwalker

Movie
2006
30 Rock

as Octavia Spencer

TV
2006
Ugly Betty

as Constance Grady

TV
2006
Standoff

as Rapid Air Clerk

TV
2006
Pulse

as Landlady

Movie
2005
Beauty Shop

as Big Customer

Movie
2005Movie
2005
American Dad!

as Shonteeva (voice)

TV
2005Movie
2005
Coach Carter

as Mrs. Battle

Movie
2005
Medium

as Jurist

TV
2004
CSI: NY

as Child Welfare Rep

TV
2004
LAX

as Flight Attendant

TV
2004Movie
2003
Bad Santa

as Opal

Movie
2003
Chicken Party

as Laqueta Mills

Movie
2003
S.W.A.T.

as Neighbor in Alley

Movie
2003Movie
2003
Sol Goode

as Unemployment Clerk

Movie
2003TV
2003
Jimmy Kimmel Live!

as Self - Guest

TV
2002
Presidio Med

as Sheryl Washington

TV
2002
Little John

as Waitress

Movie
2002
Spider-Man

as Check-In Girl

Movie
2001Movie
2001
The Chronicle

as Ruby Rydell

TV
2001Movie
2001Movie
2001
The Journeyman

as Black Belly

Movie
2001
Grounded for Life

as Admitting Nurse

TV
2001
Missing Pieces

as Elegant Guest (as Octavia L. Spencer)

Movie
2000Movie
2000
American Virgin

as Agnes Large

Movie
2000Movie
2000
Titus

as Ms. Alice Hays

TV
2000
Auto Motives

as Rhonda

Movie
2000Movie
2000TV
1999
Being John Malkovich

as Woman in Elevator

Movie
1999
Roswell

as Nurse

TV
1999
Blue Streak

as Shawna

Movie
1999Movie
1999
Lansky

as Evelyn

Movie
1998
Becker

as Ticket Woman

TV
1998
Brimstone

as Duty Nurse

TV
1998
L.A. Doctors

as Bus Driver

TV
1997
Sparkler

as Wanda

Movie
1997
Dharma & Greg

as Gloria

TV
1997
The View

as Self

TV
1997
The 6th Man

as Nativity Watson

Movie
1997TV
1996
Valley Girls

as Cheerleader

Movie
1996
A Time to Kill

as Roark's Nurse

Movie
1996TV
1996
Moesha

as Gloria

TV
1994
ER

as Maria Jones

TV
1994
Chicago Hope

as Nurse Jane

TV
1993
The X-Files

as Nurse

TV
1975
Saturday Night Live

as Self - Host

TV
1953
The Oscars

as Self - Presenter

TV
1951
Hallmark Hall of Fame

as Elegant guest

TV
1951TV
1951TV
Movie
Ma 2

as Sue Ann

Movie
Death of a Salesman

as Linda Loman

Movie
Deck the Y'alls

as Gladys Gibbes

Movie

Personal Info

DepartmentActing
BirthdayMay 25, 1970
Place of BirthMontgomery, Alabama, USA
Popularity2.3