Octavia Spencer

Acting · 4.5 popularity

Age

Movies

Born: May 25, 1970
From: 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.

Works

98 films

Spider-Man

20027.3

Zootopia

20167.8

Hidden Figures

20168.0

The Help

20118.2

Insurgent

20156.4

Snowpiercer

20136.9

Smurfs

20255.7

Gifted

20178.0

Instant Family

20187.5

Spirited

20226.8

The Shape of Water

20177.2

Onward

20207.6

Dolittle

20206.6

Coach Carter

20057.6

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

20035.7

The Shack

20177.5

Drag Me to Hell

20096.5

Blue Streak

19996.5

Allegiant

20166.1

A Time to Kill

19967.4

Roald Dahl's The Witches

20206.3

Seven Pounds

20087.6

Big Momma's House

20005.8

Bad Santa

20036.6

S.W.A.T.

20036.2

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

20195.8

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

20055.7

Halloween II

20095.3

Fathers and Daughters

20157.1

Bad Santa 2

20165.4

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

20136.0

Get On Up

20146.8

The Soloist

20096.7

Never Been Kissed

19996.2

Pretty Persuasion

20055.8

Fruitvale Station

20137.4

Dinner for Schmucks

20105.7

Pulse

20065.1

Beauty Shop

20056.3

Tow

20266.6

Superintelligence

20205.9

Thunder Force

20215.5

The Nines

20076.0

The Great Gilly Hopkins

20156.6

Flypaper

20116.4

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

20045.7

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

20137.0

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

20198.0

Encounter

20216.3

The 6th Man

19976.1

Black or White

20156.8

Lansky

19995.5

Small Town Crime

20186.4

Pretty Ugly People

20084.3

Luce

20196.4

Follow the Stars Home

20016.4

What Planet Are You From?

20005.4

Breakin' All the Rules

20046.0

Smashed

20126.5

A Kid Like Jake

20186.0

Peep World

20104.8

Small Town Saturday Night

20105.2

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

20228.0

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

20065.9

The Heart

2026

Paradise

20134.9

Love and Distrust

20103.8

Auto Motives

20006.0

American Virgin

20003.5

Car Dogs

20165.7

Four Dogs Playing Poker

20004.0

The Journeyman

20015.0

Little John

20026.4

Sol Goode

20034.2

The Free World

20166.1

Love at First Hiccup

20095.3

Nobody Nothing Nowhere

2026

The Sky is Falling

20018.3

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

2026

Just Peck

20115.3

Becoming bell hooks

2024

Valley Girls

1996

Missing Pieces

20015.7

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

20089.0

Sparkler

19974.3

Everything Put Together

20014.9

Ma 2

2026

The Spleenectomy

20086.3

Herpes Boy

2009

Death of a Salesman

2026

Lost on Purpose

20134.3

Deck the Y'alls

2026

Blues for Willadean

20124.5

Chicken Party

20038.0

Jesus People

20134.0

The Quest for Sleep

20227.0