Acting
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.
Movies with Octavia Spencer
Spider-Man
2002
Zootopia
2016
A Time to Kill
1996
Hidden Figures
2016
The Help
2011
Snowpiercer
2013
Gifted
2017
Flypaper
2011
Smurfs
2025
Seven Pounds
2008
Instant Family
2018
Insurgent
2015
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
The Shape of Water
2017
S.W.A.T.
2003
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Onward
2020
Dolittle
2020
The Shack
2017
Allegiant
2016
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Big Momma's House
2000
Coach Carter
2005
Blue Streak
1999
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
Beauty Shop
2005
Ma
2019
Superintelligence
2020
Bad Santa
2003
Tow
2026
Being John Malkovich
1999
Pretty Persuasion
2005
Pulse
2006
Halloween II
2009
Spirited
2022
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
Thunder Force
2021
Never Been Kissed
1999
Fathers and Daughters
2015
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Fruitvale Station
2013
Bad Santa 2
2016
Get On Up
2014
The Heart
The Soloist
2009
The Nines
2007
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
Black or White
2015
Lansky
1999
Pretty Ugly People
2008
The 6th Man
1997
A Kid Like Jake
2018
Encounter
2021
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Valley Girls
1996
Just Peck
2011
Auto Motives
2000
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019
What Planet Are You From?
2000
The Free World
2016
Sol Goode
2003
American Virgin
2000
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Luce
2019
Smashed
2012
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Peep World
2010
Love and Distrust
2010
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Small Town Crime
2018
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
Missing Pieces
2001
Death of a Salesman
The Spleenectomy
2008
Little John
2002
The Journeyman
2001
Paradise
2013
Herpes Boy
2009
Car Dogs
2016
Follow the Stars Home
2001
Chicken Party
2003
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
Love at First Hiccup
2009
Sparkler
1997
Jesus People
2013
Ma 2
Everything Put Together
2001
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
Lost on Purpose
2013
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
The Sky is Falling
2001
Blues for Willadean
2012
Deck the Y'alls
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Becoming bell hooks
2024
The Quest for Sleep
2022
TV Shows with Octavia Spencer
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
American Dad!
2005
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
The Daily Show
1996
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
The X-Files
1993
Young Sheldon
2017
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Medium
2005
ER
1994
Saturday Night Live
1975
CSI: NY
2004
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Big Bang Theory
2007
Mom
2013
The View
1997
30 Rock
2006
Chicago Hope
1994
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
black-ish
2014
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Dollhouse
2009
Roswell
1999
Ugly Betty
2006
Moesha
1996
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
The Oscars
1953
Just Shoot Me!
1997
Becker
1998
Truth Be Told
2019
Drunk History
2013
Grounded for Life
2001
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
To Tell the Truth
2016
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
Dharma & Greg
1997
Titus
2000
L.A. Doctors
1998
Brimstone
1998
Raising the Bar
2008
Presidio Med
2002
The Chronicle
2001
Entertainment Tonight
1981
LAX
2004
Hollywood Black
2024
Red Band Society
2014
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
Ride or Die
2026
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
Halfway Home
2007
Standoff
2006
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
2006
Cavemen
2007
Family Recipe Showdown
2025
The Santa Stories
2023
My Happy Place
2025
Lost Women of Highway 20
2023