Octavia Spencer

Acting · 3.8 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

Smurfs

20255.7

Snowpiercer

20136.9

Gifted

20178.0

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

20035.7

Spirited

20226.8

Instant Family

20187.5

The Shape of Water

20177.2

Onward

20207.6

The Shack

20177.5

Dolittle

20206.6

Coach Carter

20057.6

Drag Me to Hell

20096.5

Blue Streak

19996.5

A Time to Kill

19967.4

Seven Pounds

20087.6

Allegiant

20166.1

Roald Dahl's The Witches

20206.3

S.W.A.T.

20036.2

Big Momma's House

20005.8

Bad Santa

20036.6

Being John Malkovich

19997.4

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

20055.7

Halloween II

20095.3

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

20136.0

Fathers and Daughters

20157.1

20195.8

Bad Santa 2

20165.4

The Soloist

20096.7

Beauty Shop

20056.3

Get On Up

20146.8

Never Been Kissed

19996.2

Fruitvale Station

20137.4

Pretty Persuasion

20055.8

Dinner for Schmucks

20105.7

Superintelligence

20205.9

Pulse

20065.1

Thunder Force

20215.5

The Nines

20076.0

Tow

20266.6

Flypaper

20116.4

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

20137.0

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

20045.7

The Great Gilly Hopkins

20156.6

Lansky

19995.5

The 6th Man

19976.1

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

20198.0

Black or White

20156.8

Encounter

20216.3

Smashed

20126.5

What Planet Are You From?

20005.4

Luce

20196.4

Follow the Stars Home

20016.4

The Heart

2026

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

20065.9

Breakin' All the Rules

20046.0

Pretty Ugly People

20084.3

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

20136.6

Auto Motives

20006.0

Small Town Crime

20186.4

Sol Goode

20034.2

A Kid Like Jake

20186.0

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

2026

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

20228.0

Small Town Saturday Night

20105.2

American Virgin

20003.5

Car Dogs

20165.7

The Journeyman

20015.0

Peep World

20104.8

Everything Put Together

20014.9

Love at First Hiccup

20095.3

Love and Distrust

20103.8

Nobody Nothing Nowhere

2026

Paradise

20134.9

Just Peck

20115.3

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

20089.0

The Free World

20166.1

Four Dogs Playing Poker

20004.0

The Spleenectomy

20086.3

Valley Girls

1996

Little John

20026.4

Herpes Boy

2009

Ma 2

2026

The Sky is Falling

20018.3

Missing Pieces

20015.7

Becoming bell hooks

2024

Death of a Salesman

2026

Deck the Y'alls

2026

Sparkler

19974.3

Lost on Purpose

20134.3

Chicken Party

20038.0

Blues for Willadean

20124.5

Jesus People

20134.0

The Quest for Sleep

20227.0