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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.

Ride or Die
as Debbie Claybourne

Tow
as Barbara

Family Recipe Showdown
as Host

Smurfs
as Asmodius (voice)

My Happy Place
as Self

Number One on the Call Sheet
as Self

Hollywood Black
as Self (archive footage)

Becoming bell hooks
as Self

The Santa Stories
as Detective Grinchauser

Lost Women of Highway 20
as Host

Spirited
as Kimberly

Norman Lear: 100 Years of Music and Laughter
as Self

The Jennifer Hudson Show
as Self - Guest

The Quest for Sleep
as Narrator

Encounter
as Hattie Hayes

Thunder Force
as Emily Stanton

Superintelligence
as Octavia Spencer (voice)

Roald Dahl's The Witches
as Grandma

Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J. Walker
as Madam C. J. Walker

Onward
as The Manticore (voice)

Dolittle
as Dab-Dab (voice)

Truth Be Told
as Poppy Scoville

The Kelly Clarkson Show
as Self

Luce
as Harriet Wilson

Ma
as Sue Ann

HOMECOMING: A film by Beyoncé
as Self

Instant Family
as Karen

A Kid Like Jake
as Judy

Small Town Crime
as Kelly Banks

The Shape of Water
as Zelda Fuller

Young Sheldon
as Officer Rhonda Tomasson

Gifted
as Roberta Taylor

The Shack
as Papa / Elouisa

Hidden Figures
as Dorothy Vaughan

Bad Santa 2
as Opal

Martha & Snoop's Potluck Dinner Party
as Team Martha

The Free World
as Linda Workman

To Tell the Truth
as Self - Panelist

Car Dogs
as Mrs. Barrett

Allegiant
as Johanna Reyes

Zootopia
as Mrs. Otterton (voice)

The Great Gilly Hopkins
as Miss Harris

Fathers and Daughters
as Dr. Corman

Close Up with The Hollywood Reporter
as Self

The Late Late Show with James Corden
as Self - Guest

Insurgent
as Johanna Reyes

Black or White
as Rowena Jeffers

Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as Self

black-ish
as Octavia Spencer

Red Band Society
as Nurse Jackson

Get On Up
as Aunt Honey

Late Night with Seth Meyers
as Self

The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon
as Self

Off Camera with Sam Jones
as Self

Jesus People
as Angel Angelique

Paradise
as Loray

Lost on Purpose
as Nurse Keller

Mom
as Regina Tompkins

Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
as Martha (voice)

Snowpiercer
as Tanya