Octavia Lenora Spencer (lahir 25 Mei 1970) adalah seorang aktris, penulis, dan produser Amerika. Dia adalah penerima beberapa penghargaan, termasuk Academy Award, Golden Globe Award, dan tiga Screen Actors Guild Awards. Dia adalah salah satu dari dua wanita kulit berwarna yang telah menerima tiga nominasi Oscar dan aktris kulit hitam pertama yang menerima dua nominasi berturut-turut.
Spencer membuat debut filmnya di drama 1996 A Time to Kill. Mengikuti satu dekade peran singkat dalam film dan televisi, terobosannya datang pada tahun 2011, ketika dia berperan sebagai pembantu di Amerika tahun 1960-an dalam The Help, di mana dia memenangkan beberapa penghargaan, termasuk Academy Award untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik. Untuk penampilannya dalam film biografi Ryan Coogler Fruitvale Station (2013), ia memenangkan Penghargaan Dewan Peninjau Nasional untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik.
Spencer menerima nominasi Academy Award lebih lanjut untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik karena memerankan wanita lain di Amerika tahun 1960-an, matematikawan Dorothy Vaughan dalam drama biografi Hidden Figures (2016), dan seorang wanita pembersih dalam drama fantasi The Shape of Water (2017). Dia juga muncul di film Smashed (2012), Snowpiercer (2013), Get on Up (2014), The Divergent Series (2015-16), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), dan Onward (2020); dan pernah membintangi peran dalam The Shack (2017), Luce (2019), dan Ma (2019).
Spencer juga memiliki peran berulang dalam sitkom CBS Mom (2013–15) dan peran utama dalam serial drama remaja Fox Red Band Society (2014–15). Dia memerankan peran utama dalam serial drama Apple TV + Truth Be Told (2019-sekarang), dan menerima nominasi untuk Primetime Emmy Award untuk Aktris Utama Luar Biasa dalam Serial atau Film Terbatas untuk perannya sebagai Madam CJ Walker dalam serial terbatas Netflix Self Made (2020). Sebagai penulis, Spencer menciptakan seri buku anak-anak Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. Dia telah menerbitkan dua buku dalam seri tersebut, berjudul The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) dan The Sweetest Heist in History (2015).
Filmography
Film
| Year | Title | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1997 | 413 Hope St. | Job Counselor #1 | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1998 | Moesha | Gloria Eckhart | Episode: "Teacher" |
| 1998 | To Have & to Hold | Clerk | Episode: "Right My Fire" |
| 1998 | ER | Maria Jones | Episode: "Hazed and Confused" |
| 1999 | Brimstone | Duty Nurse | Episode: "Faces" |
| 1999 | Lansky | Evelyn the Maid | Television film |
| 1999 | L.A. Doctors | Bus Driver | Episode: "Forty-Eight Minutes" |
| 1999 | Chicago Hope | Nurse Jane | Episode: "Oh What a Piece of Work Is Man" |
| 1999 | Roswell | Nurse | Episode: "Leaving Normal" |
| 1999 | The X-Files | Nurse Octavia | Episode: "Millennium" |
| 2000 | Missing Pieces | Elegant Guest | Television film |
| 2000 | Just Shoot Me! | Nurse | Episode: "Finch on Ice" |
| 2000 | Becker | Ticket Woman | Episode: "One Wong Move" |
| 2000 | Malcolm in the Middle | Cashier | Episode: "High School Play" |
| 2000 | City of Angels | Nurse Bernice | 5 episodes |
| 2001 | Grounded for Life | Admitting Nurse | Episode: "Jimmy's Got a Gun" |
| 2001 | Follow the Stars Home | Hildy | Television film |
| 2001 | Dharma & Greg | Gloria | Episode: "Wish We Weren't Here" |
| 2001–2002 | The Chronicle | Ruby Rydell | 6 episodes |
| 2001–2002 | Titus | Ms. Alice Hays | 2 episodes |
| 2002 | Little John | Waitress | Television film |
| 2002 | Presidio Med | Sheryl Washington | Episode: "Do No Harm" |
| 2002–2005 | NYPD Blue | Dawna Cahill / Eleanor Jackson | 2 episodes |
| 2004–2005 | LAX | Flight Attendant | 6 episodes |
| 2005 | CSI: NY | Child Welfare Rep | Episode: "On the Job" |
| 2005 | Medium | Jurist | Episode: "Judge, Jury and Executioner" |
| 2006 | Huff | Demetria | Episode: "Red Meat" |
| 2006 | Standoff | Rapid Air Clerk | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 2006–2007 | The Minor Accomplishments of Jackie Woodman | Cheryl / Female Security Guard | 4 episodes |
| 2007 | Ugly Betty | Constance Grady | 4 episodes |
| 2007 | Halfway Home | Serenity Johnson | 10 episodes |
| 2008 | Wizards of Waverly Place | Dr. Evilini | 2 episodes |
| 2008 | CSI: Crime Scene Investigation | Sherry | Episode: "Drops' Out" |
| 2008 | The Big Bang Theory | DMV Employee | Episode: "The Euclid Alternative" |
| 2009 | Worst Week | Nurse | Episode: "The Epidural" |
| 2009 | Dollhouse | Professor Jackie | Episode: "Echoes" |
| 2009 | Raising the Bar | Arvina Watkins | 5 episodes |
| 2010 | Hawthorne | Emily Thomkins | Episode: "Afterglow" |
| 2013 | 30 Rock | Herself | Episode: "Game Over" |
| 2013 | American Dad! | Shonteeva (voice) | Episode: "For Black Eyes Only" |
| 2013 | Call Me Crazy: A Five Film | Dr. Nance | Television film |
| 2013–2015 | Mom | Regina Tompkins | 9 episodes |
| 2014–2015 | Red Band Society | Nurse Dena Jackson | 13 episodes |
| 2015 | Drunk History | Harriet Tubman | Episode: "Spies" |
| 2017 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Octavia Spencer/Father John Misty" |
| 2019 | Black-ish | Herself | Episode: "Black History Month" |
| 2019–present | Truth Be Told | Poppy Parnell | Main role; also executive producer |
| 2020 | Self Made | Madam C. J. Walker | Main role; also executive producer |
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