• Alfre Woodard is an American television and film actress. She portrayed Alice Pratt in the 2008 film, The Family That Preys.

• Fast Facts

  1. Full name: Alfre Ette Woodard
  2. Born: November 8, 1952
  3. Birth place: Tulsa, Oklahoma
  4. Husband: Roderick Spencer
  5. Children: Two (adopted)
  6. Religion: Christian Science
  7. Emmy awards: Four
  8. Oscar nominations: One

• Career

  After years of work, Woodard found her breakout role in hospital drama St. Elsewhere, as Dr. Roxanne Turner (a role she would reprise a decade later in Life on the Street). Since then, while never achieving superstar status, Woodard has turned in notable work in feature films that have often not found a large audience.

• Charity Work

  Woodard is a cofounder of Artists for a New South Africa, an organization that works to end AIDS in South Africa and increase democracy in the country, as well as to improve civil rights in the United States.

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