Alfre Woodard
Film

Alfre Woodard

Section Title: Film
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Year	Title	Role	Notes	Ref.

1978	Remember My Name	Rita

1980	Health	Sally Benbow

1982	For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf	American Playhouse production

1983	Cross Creek	Beatrice "Geechee"

1984	Go Tell It on the Mountain	Esther

1984	Sweet Revenge	Vicki Teague

1986	Extremities	Patricia

1988	Scrooged	Grace Cooley

1989	Miss Firecracker	Popeye Jackson

1990	Blue Bayou	Jessica Filley

1991	Grand Canyon	Jane

1991	Pretty Hattie's Baby	Hattie	Unreleased

1992	The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag	Attorney Ann Orkin

1992	Passion Fish	Chantelle

1993	Rich in Love	Rhody Poole

1993	Heart and Souls	Penny Washington

1993	Bopha!	Rosie Mangena

1994	Blue Chips	Lavada McRae

1994	Crooklyn	Carolyn Carmichael

1994	Countdown to Freedom: 10 Days That Changed South Africa	Narrator	Documentary

1995	How to Make an American Quilt	Marianna

1996	Statistically Speaking	Middle aged woman	Short film

1996	Follow Me Home	Evey	Unreleased

1996	Star Trek: First Contact	Lily Sloane

1996	Primal Fear	Judge Miriam Shoat

1996	A Step Toward Tomorrow	Dr. Sandlin

1997	Cadillac Desert	Narrator

1997	The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue	Maisie the Cat	Voice role

1998	Down in the Delta	Loretta Sinclair

1999	Funny Valentines	Joyce May

1999	The Wishing Tree	Clara Collier

1999	Different Moms	Narrator	Documentary

1999	Mumford	Lily

2000	What's Cooking?	Audrey Williams

2000	Lost Souls	Dr. Allen	Cameo

2000	John Henry	Polly / Narrator

2000	Love & Basketball	Camille Wright

2000	Dinosaur	Plio	Voice role

2001	K-PAX	Claudia Villars

2001	American Exile	Narrator	Documentary

2002	Searching for Debra Winger	Herself

2002	Baby of the Family	Rachel

2002	The Wild Thornberrys Movie	Akela	Voice role

2003	The Singing Detective	Chief of Staff

2003	Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property	Narrator	Documentary

2003	The Core	Talma Stickley

2003	Unchained Memories	Narrator

2003	Radio	Principal Daniels

2004	The Forgotten	Detective Anne Pope

2004	All Our Sons: Fallen Heroes of 9/11	Narrator	Documentary

2005	Beauty Shop	Miss Josephine

2006	Something New	Joyce McQueen

2006	Take the Lead	Principal Augustine James

2006	King Leopold's Ghost	Ilanga	Voice role

2008	American Violet	Alma Roberts

2008	The Family That Preys	Alice Pratt

2008	Road to Ingwavuma	Narrator	Documentary

2008	AmericanEast	Angela Jensen

2009	Reach for Me	Evelyn

2010	Have You Heard From Johannesburg	Narrator	Documentary

2013	The Door	E	Short film

2013	Miracle Rising: South Africa	Narrator	Documentary

2013	12 Years a Slave	Mistress Harriet Shaw

2014	The Hadza: Last of the First	Narrator	Documentary

2014	Annabelle	Evelyn

2015	Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band	Mary Lou Williams / Narrator	Documentary

2015	Mississippi Grind	Sam

2015	Knucklehead	Sheila

2016	Captain America: Civil War	Miriam Sharpe	Cameo

2016	So B. It	Bernadette

2017	Burning Sands	Professor Hughes

2018	Saint Judy	Judge Benton

2019	Clemency	Warden Bernadine Williams

2019	Juanita	Juanita

2019	The Lion King	Sarabi	Post-production; voice role

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In 1996, Woodard played Judge Miriam Shoat in the film Primal Fear and Lily Sloane in the film Star Trek: First Contact.

final_sentence: In 1996, Woodard played Judge Miriam Shoat in the film Primal Fear and Lily Sloane in the film Star Trek: First Contact.