Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer

Birthday: 1970-05-25

Place of birth: Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Also known as: Octavia L. Spencer, Octavia Spenser, Октавія Спенсер, Октавія Ленора Спенсер, Οκτάβια Σπένσερ, Октавия Спенсер, 옥타비아 스펜서, Octavia Lenora Spencer, 奧塔薇亞·史班森, اوکتیویا اسپنسر, اکتاویا اسپنسر

imdb_id: nm0818055

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.

Played in movies:

Tow

Score: 10.0

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School

Score: 8.7

The Help

Score: 8.2

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé

Score: 8.1

Hidden Figures

Score: 8.1

Gifted

Score: 8.0

The Sky is Falling

Score: 8.0

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

Score: 8.0

Zootopia

Score: 7.8

Onward

Score: 7.7

Seven Pounds

Score: 7.6

Coach Carter

Score: 7.6

Instant Family

Score: 7.5

The Shack

Score: 7.5

Being John Malkovich

Score: 7.4

Fruitvale Station

Score: 7.4

A Time to Kill

Score: 7.4

Spider-Man

Score: 7.3

The Shape of Water

Score: 7.2

Fathers and Daughters

Score: 7.1

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film

Score: 7.0

The Quest for Sleep

Score: 7.0

Snowpiercer

Score: 6.9

Spirited

Score: 6.9

Black or White

Score: 6.8

Get on Up

Score: 6.8

The Soloist

Score: 6.7

Dolittle

Score: 6.6

The Great Gilly Hopkins

Score: 6.6

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy

Score: 6.6

Bad Santa

Score: 6.5

Blue Streak

Score: 6.5

Smashed

Score: 6.5

Drag Me to Hell

Score: 6.5

Flypaper

Score: 6.4

Small Town Crime

Score: 6.4

Luce

Score: 6.4

Insurgent

Score: 6.4

Roald Dahl's The Witches

Score: 6.4

The Spleenectomy

Score: 6.3

Encounter

Score: 6.3

Beauty Shop

Score: 6.3

Follow the Stars Home

Score: 6.2

Smurfs

Score: 6.2

Never Been Kissed

Score: 6.2

S.W.A.T.

Score: 6.2

Allegiant

Score: 6.1

The Free World

Score: 6.1

The 6th Man

Score: 6.1

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters

Score: 6.0

A Kid Like Jake

Score: 6.0

Breakin' All the Rules

Score: 6.0

The Nines

Score: 6.0

Superintelligence

Score: 6.0

Big Momma's House

Score: 5.8

Ma

Score: 5.8

Pretty Persuasion

Score: 5.8

Little John

Score: 5.8

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School

Score: 5.8

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous

Score: 5.8

Dinner for Schmucks

Score: 5.7

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!

Score: 5.7

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde

Score: 5.7

Missing Pieces

Score: 5.6

Car Dogs

Score: 5.5

What Planet Are You From?

Score: 5.5

Lansky

Score: 5.5

Thunder Force

Score: 5.5

Just Peck

Score: 5.5

Bad Santa 2

Score: 5.4

Small Town Saturday Night

Score: 5.4

Love at First Hiccup

Score: 5.4

Halloween II

Score: 5.3

Pulse

Score: 5.0

The Journeyman

Score: 5.0

Paradise

Score: 5.0

Everything Put Together

Score: 4.8

Peep World

Score: 4.7

Blues for Willadean

Score: 4.5

Sol Goode

Score: 4.4

Pretty Ugly People

Score: 4.4

Lost on Purpose

Score: 4.3

Jesus People

Score: 4.0

Love and Distrust

Score: 3.7

Four Dogs Playing Poker

Score: 3.6

American Virgin

Score: 3.3

Sparkler

Score: 2.5

Death of a Salesman

Score: 0.0

Ma 2

Score: 0.0

Valley Girls

Score: 0.0

Chicken Party

Score: 0.0

The Heart

Score: 0.0

Untitled Holiday Comedy Project

Score: 0.0

Becoming bell hooks

Score: 0.0

Herpes Boy

Score: 0.0

Nobody Nothing Nowhere

Score: 0.0

Played in tv shows:

Family Recipe Showdown

Score: 10.0

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Hallmark Hall of Fame

Score: 8.6

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party

Score: 8.5

Wizards of Waverly Place

Score: 8.5

Malcolm in the Middle

Score: 8.5

The X-Files

Score: 8.4

The Chronicle

Score: 8.4

Lost Women of Highway 20

Score: 8.2

Young Sheldon

Score: 8.0

Presidio Med

Score: 8.0

The Big Bang Theory

Score: 7.9

ER

Score: 7.8

Roswell

Score: 7.7

CSI: Crime Scene Investigation

Score: 7.6

Brimstone

Score: 7.6

Medium

Score: 7.5

30 Rock

Score: 7.5

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker

Score: 7.4

LAX

Score: 7.4

CSI: NY

Score: 7.4

Mom

Score: 7.3

Chicago Hope

Score: 7.2

Dollhouse

Score: 7.2

The Graham Norton Show

Score: 7.2

black-ish

Score: 7.2

Becker

Score: 7.1

Truth Be Told

Score: 7.1

Truth Be Told

Score: 7.1

Red Band Society

Score: 7.1

Moesha

Score: 7.0

L.A. Doctors

Score: 7.0

Number One on the Call Sheet

Score: 7.0

American Dad!

Score: 7.0

The Santa Stories

Score: 7.0

Titus

Score: 7.0

The Oscars

Score: 7.0

Saturday Night Live

Score: 7.0

Grounded for Life

Score: 6.9

Drunk History

Score: 6.9

Halfway Home

Score: 6.8

The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson

Score: 6.8

Just Shoot Me!

Score: 6.6

The Kelly Clarkson Show

Score: 6.5

The Daily Show

Score: 6.4

Raising the Bar

Score: 6.4

Ugly Betty

Score: 6.4

Dharma & Greg

Score: 6.4

To Tell the Truth

Score: 6.2

Standoff

Score: 6.0

The Jennifer Hudson Show

Score: 6.0

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter

Score: 6.0

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon

Score: 5.8

The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman

Score: 5.8

The Ellen DeGeneres Show

Score: 5.7

Jimmy Kimmel Live!

Score: 5.5

Late Night with Seth Meyers

Score: 5.3

Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen

Score: 5.1

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors

Score: 5.0

Entertainment Tonight

Score: 4.1

Off Camera with Sam Jones

Score: 4.0

Cavemen

Score: 3.4

My Happy Place

Score: 0.0

Ride or Die

Score: 0.0