Alfre Woodard

Biography: While this talented actress has never truly risen to superstar status, she is an accomplished performer of stage and screen. She's played a host of diverse characters---doctor, detective, judge, junkie, teacher---yet she is consistently believable, her portrayals rooted in rich realism and radiating an intuitive humanity. Her prolific, decades-spanning career---which includes TV stints on St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues as well as a number of TV-movies and a wide array of theatrical films---has won her critical praise and numerous acting awards. A married mother of two, Woodard has maintained a low personal profile, even when she signed on to one of TV's hottest shows in 2005, Desperate Housewives. Although her turn as enigmatic Wisteria Lane denizen Betty Applewhite boosted her entertainment stature, she retired the role in 2006. She returned to the small screen in the Christian Slater espionage outing My Own Worst Enemy (2008), playing a spy-organization supervisor, andWhile this talented actress has never truly risen to superstar status, she is an accomplished performer of stage and screen. She's played a host of diverse characters---doctor, detective, judge, junkie, teacher---yet she is consistently believable, her portrayals rooted in rich realism and radiating an intuitive humanity. Her prolific, decades-spanning career---which includes TV stints on St. Elsewhere and Hill Street Blues as well as a number of TV-movies and a wide array of theatrical films---has won her critical praise and numerous acting awards. A married mother of two, Woodard has maintained a low personal profile, even when she signed on to one of TV's hottest shows in 2005, Desperate Housewives. Although her turn as enigmatic Wisteria Lane denizen Betty Applewhite boosted her entertainment stature, she retired the role in 2006. She returned to the small screen in the Christian Slater espionage outing My Own Worst Enemy (2008), playing a spy-organization supervisor, and in the equally short-lived medical drama Three Rivers (2009). Off stage, Woodard champions various humanitarian causes, including raising awareness for global poverty and HIV/AIDS, and cofounding Artists for a New South Africa, a non-profit organization devoted to advancing democracy and equality in that country. Expand

Alfre Woodard's Scores

Average career score: 59
Highest Metascore: 83 L.A. Law: Season 1
Lowest Metascore: 32 Inconceivable: Season 1
Score distribution:
  1. Positive: 8 out of 16
  2. Negative: 3 out of 16
16 tv reviews
Title: Year: Credit: User score:
tbd Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Season 2 Feb 2, 2024 Alfre Woodard tbd
tbd Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur: Season 1 Feb 10, 2023 Alfre Woodard tbd
tbd See: Season 3 Aug 26, 2022 Alfre Woodard 4.8
59 See: Season 2 Aug 27, 2021 Alfre Woodard 5.5
37 See: Season 1 Nov 1, 2019 Paris 6.1
tbd Inside the Actors Studio: Season 23 Oct 20, 2019 Guest tbd
tbd The Daily Show: Season 25 Sep 30, 2019 Guest tbd
tbd Empire (2015): Season 6 Sep 24, 2019 Renee tbd
tbd The Late Late Show with James Corden: Season 5 Sep 3, 2019 Guest / Alfre Woodard tbd
tbd Empire (2015): Season 5 Sep 26, 2018 Renee 1.9
64 Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 2 Jun 22, 2018 Mariah Dillard / Mariah Dillard 6.7
tbd Empire (2015): Season 4 Sep 27, 2017 Renee 3.1
tbd The Talk: Season 8 Sep 11, 2017 Guest tbd
79 Marvel's Luke Cage: Season 1 Sep 30, 2016 Mariah Dillard / Mariah Dillard 8.0
tbd The Talk: Season 7 Sep 12, 2016 Guest tbd
tbd Who Do You Think You Are?: Season 7 Apr 3, 2016 Appearing tbd
tbd Who Do You Think You Are?: Season 6 Jul 26, 2015 Alfre Woodard tbd
43 State of Affairs: Season 1 Nov 17, 2014 President Constance Payton / President Constance Payton 6.0
tbd The Talk: Season 5 Sep 8, 2014 Guest tbd
tbd The Queen Latifah Show (2013): Season 1 Sep 16, 2013 Guest tbd
tbd Copper : Season 2 Jun 23, 2013 Hattie Lemaster / Hattie Lemaster tbd
tbd Independent Lens: Season 14 Oct 8, 2012 Narrator tbd
tbd Private Practice: Season 6 Sep 25, 2012 Dee Bennett 7.7
tbd The Wendy Williams Show: Season 5 Sep 10, 2012 Guest tbd
tbd The View: Season 16 Sep 4, 2012 Guest tbd
74 True Blood: Season 5 Jun 10, 2012 Ruby Jean Reynolds / Alfre Woodard / Ruby Jean Reynolds 6.9
tbd Memphis Beat: Season 2 Jun 14, 2011 Lt. Tanya Rice / Lt. Tanya Rice tbd
39 The Talk: Season 1 Oct 18, 2010 Guest 5.4
57 Memphis Beat: Season 1 Jun 22, 2010 Lt. Tanya Rice / Lt. Tanya Rice 8.0
79 True Blood: Season 3 Jun 13, 2010 Ruby Jean Reynolds / Ruby Jean Reynolds 7.6