Octavia Lenora Spencer (lahir 25 Mei 1970)
adalah seorang aktris dan penulis Amerika. Dia membuat debut filmnya di A Time
to Kill. Terobosannya datang di tahun 2011, saat ia membintangi karakter Minny
Jackson di film The Help, yang dengannya ia memenangkan Academy Award, Golden
Globe, SAG, BAFTA, dan Critics 'Choice Movie Award untuk Best Supporting
Actress. Dia memiliki penampilan yang sangat terkenal dalam drama Ryan Coogler
Fruitvale Station (2013), yang dengannya dia menerima National Board of Review
Award untuk Best Supporting Actress. Baru-baru ini, Spencer telah menerima
pujian atas karyanya di film Get on Up, Black or White, Smashed, Snowpiercer,
Seri Divergent, dan Zootopia. Pada tahun 2017, ia menerima
nominasi Academy Award, Golden Globe, dan SAG untuk Aktris Pendukung Terbaik
untuk penampilannya sebagai matematikawan Dorothy Vaughan dalam drama Hidden
Figures.
Sebagai penulis, Spencer telah memulai sebuah seri buku
anak-anak berjudul Randi Rhodes Ninja Detective, menerbitkan dua buku dalam
seri - The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) dan The Sweetest Heist in
History (2015).
Octavia Lenora Spencer lahir di Montgomery, Alabama, dan
memiliki enam saudara kandung, termasuk saudara perempuan Rosa dan Areka. Ibunya, Dellsena Spencer (1945-1988), bekerja sebagai pembantu. Spencer
lulus dari Jefferson Davis High School pada tahun 1988. Dia belajar
drama selama dua tahun (1988-1989), dan menerima gelar sarjana di bidang
Liberal Arts dari Auburn University.
Filmography
Film
Television
| Year | Project | Role | Notes |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | A Time to Kill | Roark's Nurse | |
| 1997 | The 6th Man | Nativity Watson | |
| 1997 | Sparkler | Wanda | |
| 1999 | Never Been Kissed | Cynthia | |
| 1999 | Being John Malkovich | Woman in Elevator | |
| 1999 | Blue Streak | Shawna | |
| 2000 | The Sky Is Falling | Nurse No. 2 | |
| 2000 | Everything Put Together | Nurse B | |
| 2000 | American Virgin | Agnes Large | |
| 2000 | What Planet Are You From? | Baby Nurse | |
| 2000 | Auto Motives | Rhonda | |
| 2000 | Big Momma's House | Twila | |
| 2000 | Four Dogs Playing Poker | Waitress | |
| 2001 | Sol Goode | Unemployment Clerk | |
| 2001 | The Journeyman | Black Belly | |
| 2002 | Spider-Man | Check-In Girl | |
| 2003 | Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde | Security Guard | |
| 2003 | S.W.A.T. | Neighbor in Alley | |
| 2003 | Chicken Party | Laqueta Mills | |
| 2003 | Bad Santa | Opal | |
| 2004 | Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! | Janine | |
| 2004 | Breakin' All the Rules | Stylist | |
| 2005 | Coach Carter | Mrs. Battle | |
| 2005 | Pretty Persuasion | Woman | |
| 2005 | Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School |
Ayisha Lebaron | |
| 2005 | Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous | Octavia – Bookstore | |
| 2005 | Beauty Shop | Big Customer | |
| 2005 | Wannabe | Lady Chanet Janney Jones | |
| 2006 | Pulse | Landlady | |
| 2007 | The Nines | Streetwalker | |
| 2008 | Next of Kin | Grace | |
| 2008 | Pretty Ugly People | Mary | |
| 2008 | The Spleenectomy | Nurse | |
| 2008 | Seven Pounds | Kate (Home Health Care Nurse) | |
| 2009 | The First Time (Love At First Hiccup) | Mrs. Hambrick | |
| 2009 | Drag Me to Hell | Bank Co-Worker No. 1 | |
| 2009 | Jesus People: The Movie | Angel Angelique | |
| 2009 | The Soloist | Troubled Woman | |
| 2009 | Just Peck | Detention Room Teacher | |
| 2009 | Halloween II | Nurse Daniels | |
| 2009 | Herpes Boy | Rochelle | |
| 2009 | Small Town Saturday Night | Rhonda Dooley | |
| 2010 | Dinner for Schmucks | Madame Nora | |
| 2011 | The Help | Minny Jackson | |
| 2011 | Peep World | Allison | |
| 2011 | Flypaper | Madge Wiggins | |
| 2012 | Blues for Willadean | LaSonia Robinson | |
| 2012 | Smashed | Jenny | |
| 2013 | Fruitvale Station | Wanda | Also co-executive producer |
| 2013 | Snowpiercer | Tanya | |
| 2013 | Paradise | Loray | |
| 2014 | Get On Up | Aunt Honey Washington | |
| 2015 | The Great Gilly Hopkins | Miss Harris | |
| 2015 | Black or White | Rowena Jeffers | |
| 2015 | The Divergent Series: Insurgent | Johanna Reyes | |
| 2015 | Fathers and Daughters | Dr. Korman | |
| 2016 | Zootopia | Mrs. Otterton (voice) | |
| 2016 | The Divergent Series: Allegiant | Johanna Reyes | |
| 2016 | The Free World | Linda Workman | |
| 2016 | Bad Santa 2 | Opal | |
| 2016 | Hidden Figures | Dorothy Vaughan | |
| 2017 | The Shack | Papa | |
| 2017 | Small Town Crime | Kelly Banks | Also executive producer |
| 2017 | Gifted | Roberta Taylor | |
| 2017 | The Shape of Water | Zelda | |
| 2018 | A Kid Like Jake | Judy | In post-production |
| Year | Project | Role | Notes |
| 1997 | 413 Hope St. | Job Counselor #1 | Episode: "Pilot" |
| 1998 | Moesha | Gloria | 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 | TV movie |
| 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 | Episode: "Millennium" |
| 2000 | Missing Pieces | Elegant Guest | TV movie |
| 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 | TV movie |
| 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 | TV movie |
| 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 | TV movie |
| 2013–2015 | Mom | Regina | Recurring; 9 episodes |
| 2014–2015 | Red Band Society | Nurse Dena Jackson | Main role; 13 episodes |
| 2015 | Drunk History | Harriet Tubman | Episode: "Spies" |
| 2017 | Saturday Night Live | Herself (host) | Episode: "Octavia Spencer/Father John Misty" |
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