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.
92 movies · 65 shows
Tow
2026·6.4
Smurfs
2025·5.8
Becoming bell hooks
2024·0.0
Spirited
2022·6.8
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022·8.0
The Quest for Sleep
2022·7.0
Encounter
2021·6.3
Thunder Force
2021·5.5
Superintelligence
2020·5.9
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020·6.3
Onward
2020·7.6
Dolittle
2020·6.6
Luce
2019·6.4
Ma
2019·5.8
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019·8.0
Instant Family
2018·7.5
A Kid Like Jake
2018·6.0
Small Town Crime
2018·6.4
The Shape of Water
2017·7.2
Gifted
2017·8.0
The Shack
2017·7.5
Hidden Figures
2016·8.0
Bad Santa 2
2016·5.4
The Free World
2016·6.1
Car Dogs
2016·5.8
Allegiant
2016·6.1
Zootopia
2016·7.8
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015·6.6
Fathers and Daughters
2015·7.1
Insurgent
2015·6.4
Black or White
2015·6.8
Get On Up
2014·6.8
Jesus People
2013·4.0
Paradise
2013·4.9
Lost on Purpose
2013·4.3
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013·6.0
Snowpiercer
2013·6.9
Fruitvale Station
2013·7.4
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013·6.6
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013·7.0
Blues for Willadean
2012·4.5
Smashed
2012·6.5
Flypaper
2011·6.4
The Help
2011·8.2
Just Peck
2011·5.3
Peep World
2010·4.8
Love and Distrust
2010·3.8
Dinner for Schmucks
2010·5.7
Small Town Saturday Night
2010·5.2
Herpes Boy
2009·0.0
Halloween II
2009·5.3
Drag Me to Hell
2009·6.5
The Soloist
2009·6.7
Love at First Hiccup
2009·5.3
Seven Pounds
2008·7.6
Pretty Ugly People
2008·4.3
The Spleenectomy
2008·6.3
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008·9.0
The Nines
2007·6.0
Pulse
2006·5.1
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006·5.9
Beauty Shop
2005·6.3
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005·5.7
Pretty Persuasion
2005·5.8
Coach Carter
2005·7.6
Breakin' All the Rules
2004·6.0
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004·5.7
Bad Santa
2003·6.6
Chicken Party
2003·8.0
S.W.A.T.
2003·6.2
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003·5.7
Sol Goode
2003·4.2
Little John
2002·6.4
Spider-Man
2002·7.3
Everything Put Together
2001·4.9
The Sky is Falling
2001·8.3
Follow the Stars Home
2001·6.4
The Journeyman
2001·5.0
Missing Pieces
2001·5.7
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000·4.0
American Virgin
2000·3.5
Big Momma's House
2000·5.8
Auto Motives
2000·6.0
What Planet Are You From?
2000·5.4
Being John Malkovich
1999·7.4
Blue Streak
1999·6.5
Never Been Kissed
1999·6.2
Lansky
1999·5.5
Sparkler
1997·4.3
The 6th Man
1997·6.1
Valley Girls
1996·0.0
A Time to Kill
1996·7.4