
Octavia Spencer
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).
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Acting (90 movies)

Being John Malkovich
1999

Spider-Man
2002

Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005

Never Been Kissed
1999

Seven Pounds
2008

Halloween II
2009

Sol Goode
2003

Coach Carter
2005

Pretty Ugly People
2008

The Nines
2007

Big Momma's House
2000

Pulse
2006

Spirited
2022

Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004

Beauty Shop
2005

Love at First Hiccup
2009

American Virgin
2000

Flypaper
2011

Dinner for Schmucks
2010

Drag Me to Hell
2009

Small Town Saturday Night
2010

The Help
2011

Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006

Smashed
2012

The Spleenectomy
2008

Snowpiercer
2013

Little John
2002

Paradise
2013

Fruitvale Station
2013

Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013

Herpes Boy
2009

Lost on Purpose
2013

Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013

Black or White
2014

Get on Up
2014

Sparkler
1997

Fathers and Daughters
2015

Jesus People
2013

Blues for Willadean
2012

Insurgent
2015

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022

Becoming bell hooks
2024

The Shack
2017

Tow
2025

Smurfs
2025

Zootopia
2016

The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015

The Free World
2016

Allegiant
2016

Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003

Hidden Figures
2016

Gifted
2017

Small Town Crime
2018

Blue Streak
1999

The Shape of Water
2017

Just Peck
2011

Bad Santa 2
2016

S.W.A.T.
2003

Breakin' All the Rules
2004

Missing Pieces
2001

What Planet Are You From?
2000

Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000

Pretty Persuasion
2005

Lansky
1999

A Time to Kill
1996

The Journeyman
2001

Follow the Stars Home
2001

The Sky is Falling
2001

The Soloist
2009

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013

The 6th Man
1997

Everything Put Together
2001

Peep World
2010

Car Dogs
2016

A Kid Like Jake
2018

Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008

Luce
2019

Ma
2019

Instant Family
2018

Onward
2020

Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019

Thunder Force
2021

Dolittle
2020

Chicken Party
2003

Encounter
2021

Love and Distrust
2010

Superintelligence
2020

Valley Girls
1996

Bad Santa
2003
| Title | Year | Job |
|---|---|---|
| Candid | 2017 | Executive Producer |
| Small Town Crime | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Green Book | 2018 | Executive Producer |
| Ma | 2019 | Executive Producer |