
Octavia Spencer
Born: 1970-05-25
Place of Birth: 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.
Known For

Zootopia

Spider-Man

Smashed

Smurfs

Snowpiercer

A Time to Kill

Hidden Figures

Dolittle

Insurgent

The Help

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Drag Me to Hell

Gifted

Instant Family

Allegiant

Blue Streak

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

The Shape of Water

Big Momma's House

Onward

The Shack

Coach Carter

Bad Santa

Spirited

S.W.A.T.

Being John Malkovich

Ma

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Superintelligence

American Virgin

The 6th Man

Seven Pounds

Fruitvale Station

Encounter

Beauty Shop

Just Peck

Peep World

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Little John

Paradise

Luce

Never Been Kissed

Dinner for Schmucks

The Quest for Sleep

Pretty Persuasion

Tow

The Nines

Herpes Boy

Black or White

Fathers and Daughters

Lansky

Halloween II

Bad Santa 2

Sparkler

Blues for Willadean

Chicken Party

Pulse

Thunder Force

Flypaper

The Soloist

Get on Up

Valley Girls

Car Dogs

Breakin' All the Rules

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

The Spleenectomy

Pretty Ugly People

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Becoming bell hooks

Love at First Hiccup

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Follow the Stars Home

What Planet Are You From?

Small Town Crime

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Love and Distrust

Sol Goode

A Kid Like Jake

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Missing Pieces

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

The Free World

Small Town Saturday Night

Lost on Purpose

Four Dogs Playing Poker

The Journeyman

The Sky is Falling

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Jesus People
