Octavia Spencer

Acting

Born May 25, 1970

From Montgomery, Alabama, USA

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.

Octavia Spencer

Known For

Spider-Man

Zootopia

The Help

Smurfs

Gifted

Hidden Figures

Snowpiercer

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Insurgent

The Shape of Water

Filmography — Acting

Spider-Man

Zootopia

The Help

Smurfs

Gifted

Hidden Figures

Snowpiercer

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Insurgent

The Shape of Water

The Shack

Big Momma's House

Onward

Dolittle

A Time to Kill

Coach Carter

S.W.A.T.

Allegiant

Instant Family

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Ma

Drag Me to Hell

Being John Malkovich

Bad Santa 2

Blue Streak

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Seven Pounds

Tow

Bad Santa

Dinner for Schmucks

Halloween II

Pulse

Never Been Kissed

Fruitvale Station

Spirited

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Fathers and Daughters

Beauty Shop

Black or White

The Soloist

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Lansky

Superintelligence

What Planet Are You From?

Get On Up

Luce

Thunder Force

The Nines

Flypaper

The 6th Man

Smashed

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Encounter

Sol Goode

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Love and Distrust

A Kid Like Jake

Small Town Crime

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

American Virgin

Paradise

Love at First Hiccup

Peep World

Breakin' All the Rules

Car Dogs

Pretty Ugly People

Just Peck