Octavia Spencer [6944] Gender: Female Popularity: 3.6767 Birthplace: Montgomery, Alabama, USA Birthday: 1970-05-25 Age: 55 years Movies: 94 Links: Homepage, IMDB 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. Smurfs2025-07-10 Tow2025-06-07 Becoming bell ho2024-02-27 Spirited2022-11-10 Norman Lear: 1002022-09-22 The Quest for Sl2022-03-18 Encounter2021-12-03 Thunder Force2021-04-09 Superintelligenc2020-12-11 Roald Dahl's The2020-10-26 Onward2020-02-29 Dolittle2020-01-02 Ma2019-05-29 HOMECOMING: A fi2019-04-16 Luce2019-08-02 Instant Family2018-11-13 A Kid Like Jake2018-06-01 The Shape of Wat2017-12-01 Gifted2017-04-07 Car Dogs2017-03-24 Small Town Crime2018-01-19 The Shack2017-03-03 Hidden Figures2016-12-10 Bad Santa 22016-11-23 The Free World2016-09-23 Allegiant2016-03-09 Zootopia2016-02-11 The Great Gilly 2015-10-05 Fathers and Daug2015-10-01 Insurgent2015-03-18 Black or White2014-09-06 Get on Up2014-08-01 Jesus People2013-12-19 Paradise2013-10-18 Lost on Purpose2013-10-04 Percy Jackson: S2013-08-07 Snowpiercer2013-08-01 Letters to Jacki2013-06-19 Call Me Crazy: A2013-04-20 Fruitvale Statio2013-07-26 Blues for Willad2012-10-05 Smashed2012-01-22 Flypaper2011-08-19 The Help2011-08-09 Peep World2010-09-15 Love and Distrus2010-08-16 Dinner for Schmu2010-07-30 Small Town Satur2010-05-31 Herpes Boy2009-10-24 Halloween II2009-08-28 Just Peck2011-02-16 The Soloist2009-04-24 Drag Me to Hell2009-05-27 Love at First Hi2009-02-02 Seven Pounds2008-12-18 The Spleenectomy2008-10-14 Pretty Ugly Peop2008-11-14 The Nines2007-01-21 Pulse2006-08-11 Beauty Shop2005-04-22 Miss Congenialit2005-03-11 Marilyn Hotchkis2006-01-12 Pretty Persuasio2005-01-22 Coach Carter2005-01-14 Breakin' All the2004-05-14 Win a Date with 2004-01-23 Bad Santa2003-11-26 Chicken Party2003-10-14 S.W.A.T.2003-08-08 Legally Blonde 22003-07-02 Sol Goode2003-03-11 Little John2002-05-05 Spider-Man2002-05-01 Follow the Stars2001-05-06 The Journeyman2001-03-10 Four Dogs Playin2000-06-06 American Virgin2000-06-02 Big Momma's Hous2000-05-31 What Planet Are 2000-03-03 Missing Pieces2001-01-01 Everything Put T2001-11-02 Blue Streak1999-09-17 Being John Malko1999-10-29 The Sky is Falli2001-06-07 Never Been Kisse1999-04-09 Lansky1999-02-27 Sparkler1997-10-01 The 6th Man1997-03-28 Valley Girls1996-11-09 A Time to Kill1996-07-24 Ma 2 Nobody Nothing N The Heart Untitled Holiday