Octavia Spencer
Known for: Acting
Born: May 25, 1970
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…
Known for
Nobody Nothing Nowhere
The Quest for Sleep
2022
Ma
2019
Chicken Party
2003
Ma 2
Blues for Willadean
2012
Becoming bell hooks
2024
The Shack
2017
Hidden Figures
2016
The Journeyman
2001
Car Dogs
2016
Untitled Holiday Comedy Project
Roald Dahl's The Witches
2020
Thunder Force
2021
Encounter
2021
Death of a Salesman
Deck the Y'alls
Spirited
2022
Smashed
2012
The Spleenectomy
2008
Paradise
2013
Fruitvale Station
2013
The Free World
2016
Small Town Crime
2018
A Kid Like Jake
2018
Luce
2019
The Heart
Pretty Ugly People
2008
The Help
2011
Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
2022
The Shape of Water
2017
Onward
2020
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
2013
Black or White
2015
The Great Gilly Hopkins
2015
Gifted
2017
The 6th Man
1997
The Nines
2007
Lost on Purpose
2013
Four Dogs Playing Poker
2000
Wizards of Waverly Place: Wizard School
2008
Pulse
2006
Snowpiercer
2013
Herpes Boy
2009
Fathers and Daughters
2015
Jesus People
2013
Follow the Stars Home
2001
The Sky is Falling
2001
Instant Family
2018
Never Been Kissed
1999
Small Town Saturday Night
2010
Get On Up
2014
Sparkler
1997
Tow
2026
Allegiant
2016
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
2004
Love at First Hiccup
2009
Breakin' All the Rules
2004
Insurgent
2015
Smurfs
2025
Zootopia
2016
Everything Put Together
2001
Big Momma's House
2000
Bad Santa 2
2016
Peep World
2010
Valley Girls
1996
Lansky
1999
The Soloist
2009
Auto Motives
2000
Flypaper
2011
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School
2006
What Planet Are You From?
2000
Sol Goode
2003
Little John
2002
Letters to Jackie: Remembering President Kennedy
2013
Dolittle
2020
Superintelligence
2020
Coach Carter
2005
Being John Malkovich
1999
S.W.A.T.
2003
HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
2019
Seven Pounds
2008
American Virgin
2000
Dinner for Schmucks
2010
Pretty Persuasion
2005
Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde
2003
Blue Streak
1999
Halloween II
2009
Drag Me to Hell
2009
Just Peck
2011
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
2013
A Time to Kill
1996
Bad Santa
2003
Missing Pieces
2001
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
2005
Beauty Shop
2005
Spider-Man
2002
Love and Distrust
2010
Presidio Med
2002
Medium
2005
Titus
2000
The Big Bang Theory
2007
CSI: Crime Scene Investigation
2000
The Chronicle
2001
Malcolm in the Middle
2000
CSI: NY
2004
Dharma & Greg
1997
Wizards of Waverly Place
2007
Moesha
1996
Halfway Home
2007
LAX
2004
Cavemen
2007
The X-Files
1993
Becker
1998
Roswell
1999
Ugly Betty
2006
The Ellen DeGeneres Show
2003
Grounded for Life
2001
Hallmark Hall of Fame
1951
Chicago Hope
1994
Just Shoot Me!
1997
ER
1994
The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman
2006
Dollhouse
2009
Raising the Bar
2008
Mom
2013
Red Band Society
2014
The Daily Show
1996
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson
2005
Drunk History
2013
Late Night with Seth Meyers
2014
30 Rock
2006
The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
2014
Lost Women of Highway 20
2023
The Jennifer Hudson Show
2022
The Kelly Clarkson Show
2019
Truth Be Told
2019
Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
2009
The Santa Stories
2023
Saturday Night Live
1975
Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
2016
black-ish
2014
The Oscars
1953
To Tell the Truth
2016
Entertainment Tonight
1981
The Graham Norton Show
2007
Young Sheldon
2017
American Dad!
2005
Standoff
2006
Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
2015
Jimmy Kimmel Live!
2003
Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
2020
Off Camera with Sam Jones
2014
Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
2014
Number One on the Call Sheet
2025
L.A. Doctors
1998
My Happy Place
2025
Brimstone
1998
Family Recipe Showdown
2025
The Late Late Show with James Corden
2015
Hollywood Black
2024
Ride or Die
2026
The View
1997