Octavia Spencer
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 A
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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Born
May 25, 1970
Montgomery, Alabama, USA
Known For
Acting
Movies
99 acting
9 crew
Popularity
3.2
Known For
Zootopia
2016
as Mrs. Otterton (voice)
Spider-Man
2002
as Check-In Girl
Onward
2020
as The Manticore (voice)
Insurgent
2015
as Johanna Reyes
The Help
2011
as Minny Jackson
A Time to Kill
1996
as Roark's Nurse
Hidden Figures
2016
as Dorothy Vaughan
The Shape of Water
2017
as Zelda Fuller
S.W.A.T.
2003
as Neighbor in Alley
Smurfs
2025
as Asmodius (voice)
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