FrameThrower · Actors · Alfre Woodard
Alfre Woodard
5 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1997–2024
Born 8 November 1952 · Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Alfre Ette Woodard is an American film, stage, and television actress. She has been nominated for an Academy Award and Grammy Award, 12 times for Emmy Awards (winning four), and has also won a Golden Globe and three Screen Actors Guild Awards. She is known for her role in films such as Cross Creek, Miss Firecracker, Grand Canyon, Passion Fish, Primal Fear, Star Trek: First Contact, Miss Evers' Boys, K-PAX, Radio, Take the Lead and The Family That Preys.
Awards
On FrameThrower we have: 5 films · 239 frames · top-billed in 2 · 1997–2024
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Miniseries or Television Movie
- Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by an Ensemble in a Comedy Series
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series2003
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Miniseries or a Movie1997
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series1987
- Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series1984
- Crystal Award1995
- Audie Award for Best Female Narrator
How their films are shot
Measured across 239 frames from the 5 films we hold. This is the look of the work Alfre takes, not a claim about any single frame — we index the cast of a film, never the people in a shot.
Across the 5 films we hold, 56% of their frames are day, 57% natural — the look of the work Alfre takes.
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Films in the library
Every poster opens that film — stills, cinematography notes and colour palette.
A reference database for filmmakers
FrameThrower is a fully machine-searchable film database and visual reference library — all 239 frames from Alfre Woodard's 5 films, and 5,000+ films besides, indexed frame by frame and readable by AI. Search it in plain language, from a reference image, or by colour; call it from an API, an MCP server or an SDK. It's the reference layer for making the next movie.