Octavia Spencer

Overview

Known for
Acting
Gender
Female
Birthday
May 25, 1970 (55 years old)

Octavia Spencer

Known For

Smurfs
Movie 2025

Smurfs

When Papa Smurf is mysteriously taken by evil wizards, Razamel and Gargamel, Smurfette leads the Smurfs on a mission into the real world to save him. With the help of new friends, the Smurfs must discover what defines their destiny to save the universe.

Tow
1h 45m
Movie 2025

Tow

Based on a true story, this poignant and inspiring underdog story follows Amanda, an unhoused woman living in her car who fights a predatory towing company when they refuse to return her stolen vehicle.

My Happy Place
TV Show 2025

My Happy Place

My Happy Place invites viewers on an immersive excursion across the world anchored by an all-star cast of hosts including Alan Cumming, Taraji P. Henson, Simu Liu, Billy Porter, Octavia Spencer and Questlove. Across six visually stunning episodes, each host reflects on why these meaningful sites have become their escape, revealing a never-before-seen side of the person and the destination.

Becoming bell hooks
0h 59m
Movie 2024

Becoming bell hooks

Explore the life and legacy of Kentucky-born author bell hooks, who wrote nearly 40 books and whose work at the intersection of race, class and gender serves as a lasting contribution to the feminist movement. Learn how bell’s childhood in Hopkinsville and her connection to Kentucky’s “hillbilly culture” informed her views and her belief that feminism is for everybody. Becoming bell hooks, a one-hour documentary, features selections read by Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer and interviews with feminist activist Gloria Steinem, Kentucky writers Crystal Wilkinson and Silas House, bell’s younger sister Gwenda Motley and many others.

Lost Women of Highway 20
TV Show 2023

Lost Women of Highway 20

Explores the crimes that occurred along Highway 20 between the late 1970s and the early 1990s, where several young women and girls vanished, were sexually assaulted, or were killed.

Spirited
2h 7m
Movie 2022

Spirited

Each Christmas Eve, the Ghost of Christmas Present selects one dark soul to be reformed by a visit from three spirits. But this season, he picked the wrong Scrooge. Clint Briggs turns the tables on his ghostly host until Present finds himself reexamining his own past, present and future.

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
1h 25m
Movie 2022

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter

The one-night-only celebration honoring the life and legacy of the famed producer features intimate conversations, special performances and surprise reunions that pay homage to the man behind some of television’s greatest stories in celebration of his 100th birthday.

The Quest for Sleep
1h 14m
Movie 2022

The Quest for Sleep

The Quest for Sleep is a documentary that follows real characters whose struggles with sleep threaten to unravel their waking lives.

Encounter
1h 48m
Movie 2021

Encounter

A decorated Marine goes on a rescue mission to save his two young sons from an unhuman threat. As their journey takes them in increasingly dangerous directions, the boys will need to leave their childhoods behind.

Thunder Force
1h 47m
Movie 2021

Thunder Force

In a world where supervillains are commonplace, two estranged childhood best friends reunite after one devises a treatment that gives them powers to protect their city.

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.

Acting

2025
Smurfs
2025
Tow
2025
My Happy Place
2024
Becoming bell hooks
2023
Lost Women of Highway 20
2022
Spirited
2022
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
The Quest for Sleep
2021
Encounter
2021
Thunder Force
2020
Superintelligence
2020
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
Onward
2020
Dolittle
2019
Truth Be Told
2019
Luce
2019
Ma
2019
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2018
Instant Family
2018
A Kid Like Jake
2018
Small Town Crime
2017
The Shape of Water
2017
Gifted
2017
Car Dogs
2017
The Shack
2016
Hidden Figures
2016
Bad Santa 2
2016
The Free World
2015
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2014
Red Band Society
2014
Black or White
2013
Paradise
2013
Lost on Purpose
2013
Snowpiercer
2013
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2011
The Help
2011
Just Peck
2010
Love and Distrust
2010
Small Town Saturday Night
2009
Herpes Boy
2009
Halloween II
2009
The Soloist
2009
Love at First Hiccup
2008
The Spleenectomy
2007
Halfway Home
2006
Pulse
2006
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2005
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
Pretty Persuasion
2004
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2003
Bad Santa
2003
Chicken Party
2003
S.W.A.T.
2003
Sol Goode
2001
Everything Put Together
2001
The Chronicle
2001
Follow the Stars Home
2001
The Journeyman
2001
Missing Pieces
2000
American Virgin
2000
Big Momma's House
1999
Being John Malkovich
1999
Blue Streak
1999
Never Been Kissed
1999
Lansky
1997
The 6th Man
1996
Valley Girls

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