Octavia Spencer
Known For
Acting
Born
1970-05-25 in 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.
Most Known For
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - Guest
The X-Files
as Nurse
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self
American Dad!
as Shonteeva (voice)
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
as Sherry
The Daily Show
as Self
Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self
Young Sheldon
as Officer Rhonda Tomasson
Saturday Night Live
as Self - Host
The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self
The Graham Norton Show
as Self
The Big Bang Theory
as Octavia
ER
as Maria Jones
Mom
as Regina Tompkins
Malcolm in the Middle
as Cashier
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
as Self
Medium
as Jurist
The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest
30 Rock
as Octavia Spencer
CSI: NY
as Child Welfare Rep