Filmografía de Alfre Woodard como actor
Películas protagonizadas por Alfre Woodard
0
2024
Nora, Ginny and Mary have been best friends since childhood, spending their summers together inseparably at sleepaway camp. As the years have passed, they’ve seen each other less and less, so w ...
🎭 Mother Mary
5.8
2024
Streetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family, while fighting to free himself of debt. Captivated by the power and glory of the rising Messiah and H ...
🎭 Mum
4.9
2023
After losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing visions and chilling attacks as she grieves alone at home. ...
🎭 Dr. Olsen
5.9
2023
A space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program but finds his plans compromised by his feelings for a woman who brings him down to Earth. ...
🎭 Margaret Cahill
7
2022
When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a sociopathic rogue operative who's put a bounty on his head. ...
🎭 Alma Thomas (voice)
10
2021
Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924), the first Black woman to mount a retrospective at the Whitney Museum of American Art (1972), and t ...
🎭 Marian
7.5
2021
Un viudo convertido en papá lidia con las dudas, los miedos, el dolor y los pañales sucios mientras trata de criar a su hija solo. Inspirada en una historia real. ...
🎭 Mary Parrish (voice)
6
2021
This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood district of Tulsa, OK, and investigates the 100-year-old race massacre that left an indelible, though hidd ...
🎭 Herself
0
2020
Behind the scenes of Clemency (2019). An Emotionally Charged Set, Clemency's Message, The Research Process, Working with Alfre Woodard, Working with Aldis Hodge, Working with Chinonye Chukwu ...
🎭 Warden Bernadine Williams
6.3
2019
Años y años de llevar a cabo ejecuciones en el corredor de la muerte , han pasado factura a la directora de la prisión, Bernadine Williams. Mientras se prepara para ejecutar a otro recluso, Be ...
🎭 Sarabi (voice)
7.1
2019
Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not everyone in the kingdom celebrates the new cub's arrival. Scar, Mufasa's brother—and former heir to the ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
0
2019
A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare to preschool; the tragic cost of getting it wrong; and the huge payoff - for our kids, our families ...
0
2019
"The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring universal appeal of "The Lion King" franchise, tap into its past and how it came to be, and offer a gli ...
🎭 Juanita
5.2
2019
Agobiada por los problemas de la vida y el amor, una madre de tres hijos ya adultos decide viajar a Paper Moon (Montana) en busca de la paz que ansía. ...
🎭 Judge Benton
7
2019
The true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law of asylum to save women's lives. ...
🎭 Professor Hughes
5.8
2017
Deep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing up against the intensifying violence of underground hazing. ...
🎭 Herself
7.9
2016
A celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival photographs and videos, which paint hidden moments of her exuberant life during some of America’s most def ...
🎭 Bernadette
6.5
2016
A young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country to find out about her and her mothers past. ...
🎭 Miriam Sharpe
7.4
2016
Following the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act designed to regulate all superhuman activity. This polarizes opinion amongst the Avengers, causing two f ...
🎭 Sam
6
2015
Gerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets Curtis, a younger, highly charismatic poker player. The two strike up an immediate friendship and Ge ...
🎭 Mary Lou Williams (voice)
8
2015
Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to "Boogie-Woogie Queen" to groundbreaking composer to mentoring some of the greatest musicians of all time, she ...
🎭 Self
8
2015
The film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin Akerman, Mia Farrow, Ronan Farrow, Jennifer Garner, Regina Hall, Ashley Judd, Blake Lively, Eva Lo ...
🎭 Evelyn
5.8
2014
John Form encuentra el regalo perfecto para su mujer embarazada, Mia: una preciosa e inusual muñeca vintage que lleva un vestido de novia blanco inmaculado. Sin embargo, la alegría de Mia al re ...
🎭 Self
0
2014
This fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to the rural child. With contributions from storytellers from every corner of the globe, we gain a un ...
🎭 Self (archive footage)
7
2014
The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND THE OSCAR GOES TO... traces the history of the Academy itself, which began in 1927 when Louis B. May ...
🎭 Ouiser
6.9
2012
In an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias" chronicles the lives and friendship of six women in Louisiana. Supporting each other through their tr ...
🎭 Dondi Reece
5.8
2010
Black Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology, wits, and extraordinary fighting ability he must protect his nation from an invasion led by Ulysses Kl ...
🎭 Narrator
6.5
2008
The story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through personal accounts of bravery and daring ...
🎭 Evelyn
2
2008
Old and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is not granted when a young, vibrant and ironically full of life Kevin becomes Alvin's hospice roommate. ...
🎭 Alice Evans
6.6
2008
Wealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of high ideals, have enjoyed a lasting friendship throughout several decades. Recently, their lives h ...
🎭 Alma Roberts
6.7
2008
A young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and accused of a crime she didn't commit, Dee goes against the wishes of her mother, Alma, and rejects the ...
0
2008
In a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond, Virginia, to freedom in Philadelphia in 1848. ...
🎭 Edna Reilly
6.7
2007
After running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis Woods is placed with a new foster mother, the loving, retired art teacher, Josie Cahill. ...
🎭 Self - Narrator
7
2007
It is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten - the radical king, and likely father of King Tut? In a dark and mysterious tomb located in the Vall ...
🎭 Ilanga (voice)
7.7
2006
The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling brutality: how the greedy and incredibly ruthless King Leopold II of Belgium (1935-1909) turned a vast coun ...
🎭 Augustine James
6.9
2006
A former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and, while his background first clashes with his students' tastes, together they create a completely ne ...
🎭 Joyce McQueen
6.5
2006
Kenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go on a blind date with Brian Kelly, a sexy and free-spirited landscaper. ...
🎭 Mrs. Brown
6
2006
Pat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's school board superintendent's offer to teach the all-black kids of the pauper fishery community on ...
🎭 Ms. Josephine
6.3
2005
Far from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has quickly established herself as a rare talent in her profession. But after repeatedly butting heads wit ...
🎭 Det. Anne Pope
5.9
2004
Telly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She is stunned when her psychiatrist reveals that she has created eight years of memories about a son sh ...
🎭 Principal Daniels
7.2
2003
High school football coach, Harold Jones befriends Radio, a mentally-challenged man who becomes a student at T.L. Hanna High School in Anderson, South Carolina. Their friendship extends over seve ...
🎭 Chief of Staff
5.1
2003
From his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and paranoid plots. ...
🎭 Mrs. Whatsit
6.2
2003
Meg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their father who disappeared during a government experiment. Their travels take them around the universe ...
🎭 Stickley
5.8
2003
Los científicos descubren que el núcleo del planeta Tierra ha detenido su movimiento giratorio, lo que causará catástrofes a nivel mundial, eliminando la vida tal y como la conocemos. Un grup ...
🎭 Narrator
6.1
2003
In 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of local slave owners and their families, the eventual execution of 55 rebels and the retribution lynchi ...
5.9
2003
When the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years later, the memories of some 2,000 slave-era survivors were transcribed and preserved by the Library of ...
🎭 Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)
6.4
2002
Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to the test when Debbie's life is in danger, and Eliza might have to give up her power to talk to animal ...
🎭 Self
6.2
2002
Rosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in the entertainment industry. ...
🎭 Claudia Villars
7.2
2001
Prot is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist tries to help him, only to begin to doubt his own explanations. ...
🎭 Medicine Woman (voice)
7
2001
Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones, getting lost in a cave, and a forest fire) while looking for him. It has been screened as a TV mov ...
7.6
2001
Meet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder who proved the value of believing in oneself. Journey with giant lumberjack Paul Bunyan as he clea ...
🎭 Wanda Dean
6.7
2000
After losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki and her drug-addicted mother, Wanda. Heart finds relief from heartache and a renewed sense of purp ...
🎭 Narrator
6
2000
An intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled as a photographer, novelist, journalist, poet, musician and filmmaker. ...
🎭 Dr. Allen
5
2000
Maya Larkin, una devota católica que, al parecer, fue poseída por el demonio en su juventud, colabora con el padre Lareaux y con John Townshend expertos exorcistas que atienden a almas atorment ...
🎭 Mary Parrish (voice)
0
2000
Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of Greenwood in Tulsa, Oklahoma. With testimony by eyewitnesses and background accounts by historians. ...
🎭 Polly / Narrator (voice)
7.3
2000
The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted his strength against a mighty railroad-building machine. ...
🎭 Plio (voice)
6.5
2000
Prehistoria, hace 65 millones de años, al final del periodo cretáceo. Un iguanodonte de tres toneladas llamado Aladar se cría separado de los de su especie y crece en una isla paradisiaca al a ...
🎭 Camille Wright
7.4
2000
Monica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since childhood. As they grow into adulthood, they fall in love, but they also share another all-consumi ...
🎭 Audrey Williams
5.9
2000
Four families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner. ...
🎭 Narrator (voice)
0
2000
Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a controlling mother-in-law, and gripping depressions — all the while staying true to her passion for soc ...
🎭 Lily
6.5
1999
As a relative newcomer to an Oregon town that bears his name, Dr. Mumford seems charming and skillful to his neighbors and patients. His unique, frank approach to psychotherapy soon attracts pati ...
🎭 Joyce May
7.3
1999
A woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in the rekindling of a broken friendship with her cousin. ...
🎭 Clara
7.4
1999
When her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to her Georgia hometown and is soon captivated by a local legend of the "Magic Man" (Blair Underwood) ...
0
1999
The Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an informal network of people and hiding places that helped slaves escape the American South. It extended ...
🎭 Loretta Sinclair
6.4
1998
A single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to her ancestral home in the Mississippi Delta, to live with her uncle and aunt for the summer. ...
🎭 Maisie (voice)
6
1997
When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital, they soon discover their new pals are about to be sent to a testing laboratory. ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1997
Documentary on water usage and the growth of the American west, shown on PBS as a four-part miniseries ...
🎭 Evey
6
1997
Three muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted cousin of the Chicano muralist set off on a road trip with the intent of painting their images on the Wh ...
🎭 Eunice Evers, R.N.
6.3
1997
The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of black test subjects were allowed to die, despite a cure having been developed. ...
🎭 Berenice Sadie Brown
6
1997
In the last days leading up to her older brother's marriage, a young girl is forced to face realities and grow up quickly. A tender adaptation of Carson McCullers' classic novel, which has seen p ...
🎭 Lily Sloane
7.3
1996
The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to stay away from the battle, Captain Picard and the crew of the newly-commissioned USS Enterprise E pur ...
🎭 Dr. Sadlin
5
1996
A divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon. ...
🎭 Tamara O'Neil
5
1996
When the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live coverage of the last two hours of the mission and then the problems start. The landing-computer ma ...
🎭 Shoat
7.7
1996
An arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from the scene of the grisly murder of the bishop who has taken him in. The case gets a lot more comple ...
🎭 Marianna
6.4
1995
Soon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is cheating on her. In order to clear her head, Finn visits her grandmother, Hy, and great aunt, Glady J ...
🎭 Berniece Charles
7
1995
1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but his sister is not wanting to part with it. This is a glimpse of the conditions for African-American ...
🎭 Carolyn Carmichael
6.8
1994
Comedia dramática que muestra la vida de una familia negra de clase media de Brooklyn a través de un niña de 10 años. ...
🎭 Mrs. Marks
3
1994
Sinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about an imminent alien invasion. ...
🎭 Lavada McRae
6
1994
Pete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he cannot attract new players. The stars of the future are secretly being paid by boosters. This pract ...
🎭 Narrator
10
1994
Narrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil rights leader’s life from his tumultuous childhood, through his rise in the ranks of the Nation of Is ...
🎭 Mistress Shaw
7.9
1993
In this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop, who believes he's trying to help his people, even while serving as a pawn of the racist government. ...
🎭 Rosie Mangena
5.1
1993
Micah Mangena está sentado sobre un auténtico polvorín y no lo sabe. Es sargento en la fuerza de policía de Sudáfrica, y un incuestionable defensor del poder establecido. Pero las rebeliones ...
🎭 Penny Washington
6.9
1993
A fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as ghosts; their souls become eternally entwined to the life of a child born at the moment of their de ...
🎭 Chantelle
6.8
1992
After an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both emotionally and mentally, until she meets her newest nurse, who has struggles of her own. ...
🎭 Rhody Poole
6.9
1992
Warren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves him unexpectedly. With Helen gone, Warren's kindhearted teenage daughter, Lucille, cares for him a ...
🎭 Ann
5.1
1992
A Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession. ...
🎭 Jane
6.5
1991
Grand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in modern-day Los Angeles. At the center of the film is the unlikely friendship of two men from differ ...
🎭 Jessica Filley
0
1990
A Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen. ...
🎭 Mary Thomas
0
1989
The story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep her family together and her sons out of trouble despite the surroundings of poverty, drugs, crime ...
🎭 Popeye Jackson
5.5
1989
Carnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a beauty pageant, which her cousin had won years before. Despite a lack of support from those close t ...
🎭 Grace Cooley
6.8
1988
Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly nature has driven away the love of his life. But after firing a staff member on Christmas Eve, Frank i ...
🎭 Andrea Crawford
0
1988
Andrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime. ...
🎭 Winnie Mandela
4.3
1987
Nelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace Prize for his leadership in negotiating a bloodless revolution in that country. ...
🎭 Maude DeVictor
6.8
1986
Frank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant chemical Agent Orange which he turns to Maude DeVictor, a Veterans Administration benefits counselor w ...
🎭 Adrianne Moore
0
1986
Pilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman, Chaney and Kuzak, a Los Angeles law firm, in dealing with their courtroom cases and personal matters ou ...
🎭 Patricia
6
1986
Marjorie (Farrah Fawcett) es una mujer normal que vive en la gran ciudad. Una noche, de vuelta de su trabajo, es atacada por un hombre enmascarado que intenta violarla. Marojie logra escapar con ...
🎭 Princess Lovinia
5
1985
A young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots (Ben Vereen). Starring Ben Vereen, Gregory Hines, Alfre Woodard, George Kirby, and Brock Peters. Narr ...
🎭 Esther
5
1985
This film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the rural South to "big city" Harlem seeking both salvation and understanding and of a young boy strugg ...
🎭 Claudie Sills
0
1985
The only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront prejudice, as seen through the eyes of the young daughter. ...
🎭 Self
0
1984
Shot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of black actors, black directors and the black audience in American movies. ...
🎭 Vicki Teague
6.2
1984
While a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter that results in a pregnancy. Cheever convinces the girl to have an illegal abortion. The abortion go ...
🎭 Mattie
8
1984
During World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's slaughterhouses, where he becomes embroiled in the organized labor movement. ...
🎭 Geechee
6.6
1983
In the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She feels bothered by affectionate men, editors and confused neighbors, but soon she connects and writes Th ...
🎭 Narrator
0
1982
A one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and conflict with each other. ...
🎭 Woman who lost her stuff
10
1982
The powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982 performance of Ntozake Shange's Obie Award-winning landmark play. A breakthrough portrayal of black wome ...
🎭 Karisha Ellsworth
9
1982
An African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen; he is unwary of yet another white lawyer who claims that he will help free him. ...
🎭 Sally Benbow
5.2
1980
La película se inscribe en la tradición de las obras críticas y densas de Robert Altman. El director se pregunta en esta película por la salud moral y física de los americanos del Norte. ...
🎭 Katie
4.8
1979
Ex-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the constitutional convention, and is soon elected to the U.S. Senate despite opposition from white landowners, law ...
🎭 Lucy Smith
10
1978
Henry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas, Flipper becomes the object of a conspiracy by his fellow cadets to rid the base of its only black g ...
🎭 Rita
6.2
1978
Just released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins stalking a married construction worker for no apparent reason, turning his life inside out and even ...
🎭 Dr. Cody
0
Author Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem’s Lot in search of inspiration for his next book, only to discover his hometown is being preyed upon by a bloodthirsty vampire. ...
0
The story of Sonny Bell (Freeman), an aging Chicago Blues musician, who refuses to retire and defiantly hits the road with his band for one last long-shot to keep doing the only thing that makes ...