Octavia Spencer
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).
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Filmography (158 Appearances)
Death of a Salesman
Deck the Y'alls
Ma 2
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
The Heart
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Tow
Family Recipe Showdown
Smurfs
My Happy Place
Number One on the Call Sheet
Becoming bell hooks
The Santa Stories
Lost Women of Highway 20
Spirited
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
The Jennifer Hudson Show
The Quest for Sleep
Encounter
Thunder Force
Superintelligence
Roald Dahl's The Witches
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
Onward
Dolittle
Truth Be Told
The Kelly Clarkson Show
Luce
Ma
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Instant Family
A Kid Like Jake
Small Town Crime
The Shape of Water
Young Sheldon
Gifted
The Shack
Hidden Figures
Bad Santa 2
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
The Free World
To Tell the Truth
Car Dogs
Allegiant
Zootopia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
Fathers and Daughters
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
The Late Late Show with James Corden
Insurgent
Black or White
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
black-ish
Red Band Society
Get On Up
Late Night with Seth Meyers
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
Off Camera with Sam Jones
Jesus People
Paradise
Lost on Purpose
Mom
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Snowpiercer
Fruitvale Station
Drunk History
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Blues for Willadean
Smashed
Flypaper
The Help
Just Peck
Peep World
Love and Distrust
Dinner for Schmucks
Small Town Saturday Night
Herpes Boy
Halloween II
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
Drag Me to Hell
The Soloist
Dollhouse
Love at First Hiccup
Seven Pounds
Pretty Ugly People
The Spleenectomy
Raising the Bar
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Wizards of Waverly Place
Cavemen
The Big Bang Theory
Halfway Home
The Graham Norton Show
The Nines
30 Rock
Ugly Betty
Standoff
Pulse
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Beauty Shop
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
American Dad!
Pretty Persuasion
Coach Carter
Medium
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
CSI: NY
LAX
Breakin' All the Rules
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Bad Santa
Chicken Party
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
S.W.A.T.
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Sol Goode
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
Presidio Med
Little John
Spider-Man
Everything Put Together
The Chronicle
The Sky is Falling
Follow the Stars Home
The Journeyman
Grounded for Life
Missing Pieces
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
Four Dogs Playing Poker
American Virgin
Big Momma's House
Titus
Auto Motives
What Planet Are You From?
Malcolm in the Middle
Being John Malkovich
Roswell
Blue Streak
Never Been Kissed
Lansky
Becker
Brimstone
L.A. Doctors
Sparkler
Dharma & Greg
The 6th Man
Just Shoot Me!
Valley Girls
A Time to Kill
The Daily Show
Moesha
ER
Chicago Hope
The X-Files
Entertainment Tonight
Saturday Night Live