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Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard pushed the art of deadpan to new heights as the hotel manager in Robert Altman's droll satire "Health" (1979). Eventually, she would create a rich gallery of characterizations which, whether poverty-stricken or upper class, educated or not, never lost a certain instinctual savvy and realistic viewpoint. Committed to political activism in the United States and Africa, Woodard was among artists and activists who, in 1989, founded Artists for a New South Africa, a nonprofit organization dedicated to democracy and equality in South Africa and civil rights in the United States. She also has been active in campaigns against environmental racism and efforts to raise AIDS awareness. Woodard recently played the mysterious Betty Applewhite on ABC’s hit series “Desperate Housewives”. She has starred in “Beauty Shop”, “The Forgotten”, “K-PAX”, "Star Trek: First Contact", and many more. In 1998, she starred in Maya Angelou’s directorial debut, “Down in the Delta”, as a troubled woman sent to live with relatives in the South. Woodard has also lent her voice to animation, portraying the cheetah mother in “The Wild Thornberrys Movie”, as well as Plio in “Dinosaur’s." A four-time Emmy Award winner, Woodard was honored for her performances as a grieving mother of a... Next

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