Octavia Spencer

Octavia Spencer is an American actress. She is perhaps best known for her role as Constance Grady on the US sitcom "Ugly Betty" and as Minny, the outspoken maid in the 2011 film, The Help, for which she received a Golden Globe Award for Best Supporting Actress, and an Academy Award nomination.
==Filmography==
===As an actor===
*A Time to Kill (1996) - Roark's Nurse
*The Sixth Man (1997) - Nativity Watson
*Sparkler (1997) - Wanda
*Making Sandwiches (1998) (uncredited)
*Lansky (1999) - Evelyn the Maid
*Never Been Kissed (1999) - Cynthia
*American Virgin (1999) - Agnes Large
*Being John Malkovich (1999) - Woman in Elevator
*Blue Streak (1999) - Shawna
*The Sky Is Falling (1999) - Nurse #2
*Everything Put Together (2000) - Nurse B
*Missing Pieces (2000) - Elegant Guest
*What Planet Are You From? (2000) - Baby Nurse
*Auto Motives (2000) - Rhonda
*Big Momma's House (2000) - Twila
*Four Dogs Playing Poker (2000) - Waitress
*The Journeyman (2001) - Black Belly
*A Second Chance (2001) - Hildy
*Spider-Man (2002) - Check in Girl
*Little John (2002) - Waitress
*Sol Goode (2003) - Unemployment Clerk
*Legally Blonde 2: Red, White & Blonde - Security Guard
*S.W.A.T. (2003) - Neighbor in Alley
*Chicken Party (2003) - Laqueta Mills
*Bad Santa (2003) - Opal
*Win a Date with Tad Hamilton! (2004) - Janine
*Breakin' All the Rules (2004) - Stylist
*Coach Carter (2005) - Mrs. Battle
*Pretty Persuasion (2005) - Woman
*Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing & Charm School (2005) - Ayisha Lebaron
*Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous (2005) - Octavia
*Beauty Shop (2005) - Big Customer
*Wannabe (2005) - Lady Chanet Janney Jones
*Pulse (2006) - Landlady
*The Nines (2007) - Streetwalker/Pedestrian
*Pretty Ugly People (2008) - Mary
*The Spleenectomy (2008) - Nurse
*Seven Pounds (2008) - Kate / Home Health Care Nurse
*Next of Kin (2008) - Grace
*Drag Me to Hell (2009) - Bank Co-Worker
*The Soloist (2009) - Troubled Woman
*Jesus People: The Movie (2009) - Angel Angelique
*Just Peck (2009) - Detention Teacher
*Halloween II (2009) - Nurse Daniels
*Love at First Hiccup (2009) - Mrs. Hambrick
*Herpes Boy (2009) - Rochelle
*Small Town Saturday Night (2010) - Rhonda Dooley
*Dinner for Schmucks (2010) - Madame Nora - Pet Psychic
*Love & Distrust (2010) - Rhonda
*Peep World (2010) - Alison
*Flypaper (2011) - Madge
*The Help (2011) - Minny Jackson
*Girls! Girls! Girls! (2011)
*Family Practice (2011) - Helen Overby
*Smashed (2012) - Jenny
*The Perfect Fit (2012) - Shy Girl
*Blues for Willadean (2012) - LaSonia Robinson
*Fruitvale Station (2013) - Wanda
*Lost on Purpose (2013) - Nurse Keller
*Call Me Crazy: A Five Film (2013) - Dr. Nance
*Snowpiercer (2013) - Tanya
*Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters (2013) - Martha (voice)
*Paradise (2013) - Loray
*Get on Up (2014) - Aunt Honey
*Black or White (2014) - Rowena Jeffers
*Insurgent (2015) - Johanna Reyes
*Fathers & Daughters (2015) - Dr. Corman
*The Great Gilly Hopkins (2015) - Ms. Harris
*The Free World (2016) - Linda Workman
*Zootopia (2016) - Mrs. Otterton
*Allegiant (2016) - Johanna Reyes
*Car Dogs (2016) - Mrs. Barrett
*Bad Santa 2 (2016) - Opal
*Hidden Figures (2016) - Dorothy Vaughan
*The Shack (2017) - Papa
*Small Town Crime (2017) - Kelly Banks
*Gifted (2017) - Roberta Taylor
*The Shape of Water (2017) - Zelda Fuller
*A Kid Like Jake (2018) - Judy
*The Goldbergs: 1990-Something (2018) - Narrator (voice)
*Instant Family (2018) - Karen
*Luce (2019) - Harriet Wilson
*Ma (2019) - Sue Ann
===Other===
*The Captain (2008; as producer and director)
*The Unforgiving Minute (2010; as producer, writer and director)
*Candid (2017; as an executive producer)
*Green Book (2018; as executive producer)
== Academy Award Nominations ==
; 84th Academy Awards, 2012
: Best Supporting Actress for The Help
Category:2012 nominated individuals
Category:Individuals with 1 nomination
Category:Best Supporting Actress nominated individuals
Category:Oscar nominated actresses
Category:Oscar nominated inviduals
Category:1970 births
Category:20th-century American actresses
Category:21st-century American actresses
Category:People from Montgomery, Alabama
Category:Actresses from Alabama
Category:African-American actresses
Category:Actresses
Category:Females
Category:American film actresses
Category:American television actresses
Category:American voice actresses
Category:African-American voice actresses
Category:Best Supporting Actress Academy Award winners
Category:Best Supporting Actor BAFTA Award winners
Category:Living people
Category:Screen Actors Guild Award winners
Category:BAFTA winners (people)
Category:Best Drama Actress Golden Globe (film) winners