Octavia Spencer

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

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.

Department: Acting

Place of Birth: Montgomery, Alabama, USA

Birthday: May 25, 1970

Adult: No

Gender: Female

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Known For:

Being John Malkovich
Spider-Man
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
Never Been Kissed
Seven Pounds
Halloween II
Sol Goode
Coach Carter
Pretty Ugly People
The Nines
Big Momma's House
Pulse
Spirited
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Beauty Shop
Love at First Hiccup
American Virgin
Flypaper
Dinner for Schmucks
Drag Me to Hell
Small Town Saturday Night
The Help
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
Smashed
The Spleenectomy
Snowpiercer
Little John
The Quest for Sleep
Paradise
Fruitvale Station
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Herpes Boy
Lost on Purpose
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
Black or White
Get on Up
Sparkler
Fathers and Daughters
Jesus People
Blues for Willadean
Insurgent
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
Becoming bell hooks
The Shack
Tow
Smurfs
Zootopia
The Great Gilly Hopkins
The Free World
Allegiant
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
Hidden Figures
Gifted
Small Town Crime
Blue Streak
The Shape of Water
Just Peck
Bad Santa 2
Four Dogs Playing Poker
Follow the Stars Home
The Sky is Falling
Pretty Persuasion
Lansky
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Missing Pieces
What Planet Are You From?
S.W.A.T.
Everything Put Together
Peep World
A Time to Kill
Breakin' All the Rules
The Soloist
The Journeyman
The 6th Man
Car Dogs
A Kid Like Jake
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
Luce
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Ma
Instant Family
Onward
Roald Dahl's The Witches
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
Thunder Force
The Heart
Dolittle
Chicken Party
Encounter
Love and Distrust
Superintelligence
Valley Girls
Bad Santa