Acting
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.
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009 · TV
The Daily Show
1996 · TV
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014 · TV
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014 · TV
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000 · TV
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005 · TV
American Dad!
2005 · TV
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019 · TV
ER
1994 · TV
Young Sheldon
2017 · TV
The X-Files
1993 · TV
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015 · TV
Saturday Night Live
1975 · TV
The Graham Norton Show
2007 · TV
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003 · TV
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022 · TV
The View
1997 · TV
Chicago Hope
1994 · TV
Medium
2005 · TV
Ride or Die
2026 · TV
Spider-Man
2002 · Movie
CSI: NY
2004 · TV
Malcolm in the Middle
2000 · TV
The Big Bang Theory
2007 · TV
Mom
2013 · TV
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003 · TV
black-ish
2014 · TV
30 Rock
2006 · TV
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014 · TV
Just Shoot Me!
1997 · TV
Zootopia
2016 · Movie
Roswell
1999 · TV
Ugly Betty
2006 · TV
The Oscars
1953 · TV
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007 · TV
Moesha
1996 · TV
Dollhouse
2009 · TV
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015 · TV
Hidden Figures
2016 · Movie
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2014 · TV
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1998 · TV
Truth Be Told
2019 · TV
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2013 · TV
Grounded for Life
2001 · TV
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2025 · TV
The Help
2011 · Movie
Dharma & Greg
1997 · TV
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2016 · TV
Entertainment Tonight
1981 · TV
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2025 · Movie
Snowpiercer
2013 · Movie
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2017 · Movie
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2022 · Movie
Gifted
2017 · Movie
S.W.A.T.
2003 · Movie
Titus
2000 · TV
Onward
2020 · Movie
Raising the Bar
2008 · TV
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1996 · Movie
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2015 · Movie
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2009 · Movie
L.A. Doctors
1998 · TV
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2020 · Movie
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2003 · Movie
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2020 · Movie
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1998 · TV
Blue Streak
1999 · Movie
Instant Family
2018 · Movie
Allegiant
2016 · Movie
Big Momma's House
2000 · Movie
LAX
2004 · TV
The Shack
2017 · Movie
Coach Carter
2005 · Movie
Being John Malkovich
1999 · Movie
Fruitvale Station
2013 · Movie
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016 · TV
Seven Pounds
2008 · Movie
Halloween II
2009 · Movie
Ma
2019 · Movie
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2002 · TV
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013 · Movie
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2007 · TV
The Chronicle
2001 · TV
Bad Santa
2003 · Movie
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020 · TV
Red Band Society
2014 · TV
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2024 · TV
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005 · Movie
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1999 · Movie
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2010 · Movie
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2005 · Movie
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2015 · Movie
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2006 · TV
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1951 · TV
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2006 · Movie
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2006 · TV
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2007 · TV
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2004 · Movie
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2020 · Movie
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2007 · Movie
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2016 · Movie
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2013 · Movie
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2000 · Movie
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2021 · Movie
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2019 · Movie
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2011 · Movie
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2014 · Movie
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2025 · TV
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1999 · Movie
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2009 · Movie
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2025 · TV
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2015 · Movie
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2023 · TV
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2004 · Movie
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2008 · Movie
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1997 · Movie
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2021 · Movie
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2010 · Movie
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2008 · Movie
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2006 · Movie
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2012 · Movie
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2018 · Movie
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2001 · Movie
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2000 · Movie
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2015 · Movie
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2010 · Movie
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2013 · Movie
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2019 · Movie
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2023 · TV
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2000 · Movie
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2011 · Movie
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2009 · Movie
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2013 · Movie
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2002 · Movie
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1996 · Movie
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2003 · Movie
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2016 · Movie
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2001 · Movie
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