Alfre Woodard
Alfre Ette Woodard (born November 8, 1952) 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.
The Lion King
as Sarabi (voice)Simba idolizes his father, King Mufasa, and takes to heart his own royal destiny. But not...
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Captain America: Civil War
as MiriamFollowing the events of Age of Ultron, the collective governments of the world pass an act...
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Salem's Lot
as Dr. CodyAuthor Ben Mears returns to his childhood home of Jerusalem's Lot only to discover his hometown...
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12 Years a Slave
as Mistress ShawIn the pre-Civil War United States, Solomon Northup, a free black man from upstate New York, is...
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Frank Cross is a wildly successful television executive whose cold ambition and curmudgeonly...
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When a shadowy CIA agent uncovers damning agency secrets, he's hunted across the globe by a...
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Dinosaur
as Plio (voice)An orphaned dinosaur raised by lemurs joins an arduous trek to a sancturary after a meteorite...
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Annabelle
as EvelynA couple begins to experience terrifying supernatural occurrences involving a vintage doll...
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Primal Fear
as ShoatAn arrogant, high-powered attorney takes on the case of a poor altar boy found running away from...
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The Core
as StickleyGeophysicist Dr. Josh Keyes discovers that an unknown force has caused the earth's inner core to...
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Heart and Souls
as Penny WashingtonA fateful night in 1959, four people die when the bus they are riding crashes. They continue as...
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K-PAX
as Claudia VillarsProt is a patient at a mental hospital who claims to be from a far away planet. His psychiatrist...
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The Borg, a relentless race of cyborgs, are on a direct course for Earth. Violating orders to...
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Summer Camp
as MaryChildhood best friends Nora, Ginny and Mary used to spend every summer at sleepaway camp...
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The Book of Clarence
as Mother MaryStreetwise but down-on-his-luck, Clarence is struggling to find a better life for his family,...
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The Forgotten
as Det. Anne PopeTelly Paretta is a grieving mother struggling to cope with the loss of her 8-year-old son. She...
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Radio
as Principal DanielsIn the racially divided town of Anderson, South Carolina in 1976, football coach Harold Jones...
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The Wild Thornberrys Movie
as Akela (Cheetah Mother) (voice)Eliza and Debbie are two sisters who don't always get along. But their relationship is put to...
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Beauty Shop
as Ms. JosephineFar from Chicago, hairdresser Gina Norris has relocated to Atlanta with her daughter and has...
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Lost Souls
as Dr. AllenA young woman becomes aware of a conspiracy to enable the Devil to walk the Earth in human form....
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The Singing Detective
as Chief of StaffFrom his hospital bed, a writer suffering from a skin disease hallucinates musical numbers and...
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How to Make an American Quilt
as MariannaSoon-to-be-wed graduate student Finn Dodd develops cold feet when she suspects her fiancé is...
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Fatherhood
as MarianA widowed new dad copes with doubts, fears, heartache and dirty diapers as he sets out to raise...
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Extremities
as PatriciaA woman escapes from the man who is about to rape her, but leaves her purse behind. Afraid that...
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Blue Chips
as Lavada McRaePete Bell, a college basketball coach is under a lot of pressure. His team isn't winning and he...
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Crooklyn
as Carolyn CarmichaelFrom Spike Lee comes this vibrant semi-autobiographical portrait of a school-teacher, her...
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Burning Sands
as Professor HughesDeep into Hell Week, a favored pledgee is torn between honoring his code of silence or standing...
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Take the Lead
as Augustine JamesA former professional dancer volunteers to teach dance in the New York public school system and,...
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Love & Basketball
as Camille WrightMonica Wright and Quincy McCall grew up in the same neighborhood and have known each other since...
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Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys
as Alice PrattWealthy socialite Charlotte Cartwright and her dear friend Alice Pratt, a working class woman of...
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Mississippi Grind
as SamGerry is a talented but down-on-his-luck gambler whose fortunes begin to change when he meets...
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Something New
as Joyce McQueenKenya McQueen, a corporate lawyer, finds love in the most unexpected place when she agrees to go...
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Mumford
as LilyWhen a would-be psychologist, curiously named Dr. Mumford, comes to the idyllic town of the same...
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Grand Canyon
as JaneGrand Canyon revolved around six residents from different backgrounds whose lives intertwine in...
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The Brave Little Toaster to the Rescue
as Maisie (voice)When Toaster and the gang spark friendships with the playful animals at the veterinary hospital,...
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And the Oscar Goes To...
as Self (archive footage)The story of the gold-plated statuette that became the film industry's most coveted prize, AND...
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Clemency
as Warden Bernadine WilliamsYears of carrying out death row executions have taken a toll on prison warden Bernadine...
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Space Oddity
as Dr. OlsenA space-obsessed man gets the opportunity of a lifetime thanks to a Mars colonization program...
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Steel Magnolias
as OuiserIn an updated contemporary version of the beloved stage play and 1989 film, "Steel Magnolias"...
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Saint Judy
as Judge BentonThe true story of immigration attorney Judy Wood and how she singlehandedly changed the U.S. law...
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Passion Fish
as ChantelleAfter an accident leaves her a paraplegic, a former soap opera star struggles to recover both...
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The Gun in Betty Lou's Handbag
as AnnA Southern librarian puts excitement in her life with a found murder weapon and a false confession.
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Searching for Debra Winger
as SelfRosanna Arquette talks to various actresses about the pressures they face as women working in...
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Miss Evers' Boys
as Eunice Evers, R.N.The true story of the US Government's 1932 Tuskeegee Syphilis Experiments, in which a group of...
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Weathering
as MumAfter losing her baby and nearly her life during labor, a journalist unravels amid disturbing...
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Black Panther
as Dondi ReeceBlack Panther is the ruler and protector of the African nation of Wakanda. Using technology,...
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John Henry
as Polly / Narrator (voice)The story of the legendary steel-driving folk hero born with a hammer in his hands, who pitted...
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HealtH
as Sally BenbowAt a luxury Florida resort, health food lobbyists choose their new president at their annual...
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Aliens for Breakfast
as Mrs. MarksSinbad plays Ari, an alien who comes to Earth in a cereal box in order to warn a kid about an...
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A Wrinkle in Time
as Mrs. WhatsitMeg and Charles Wallace are aided by Calvin and three interesting women in the search for their...
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Juanita
as JuanitaFed up with her deadbeat grown kids and marginal urban existence, Juanita takes a Greyhound bus...
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Miss Firecracker
as Popeye JacksonCarnelle Scott is a restless Mississippi girl looking for a life change. She decides to enter a...
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The Ambush Murders
as Karisha EllsworthAn African-American political activist is wrongfully imprisoned for killing two white policemen;...
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American Violet
as Alma RobertsA young single mother of four living in a small Texas town. Arrested during a drug raid and...
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What's Cooking?
as Audrey WilliamsFour families of different ethnicities prepare for a potentially explosive Thanksgiving dinner.
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Holiday Heart
as Wanda DeanAfter losing his police officer lover, Christian drag queen Holiday Heart meets 12-year-old Niki...
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Down in the Delta
as Loretta SinclairA single mother plagued by alcohol and drug addictions is sent with her children from Chicago to...
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Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise
as SelfA celebration of Dr. Maya Angelou by weaving her words with rare and intimate archival...
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Cross Creek
as GeecheeIn the 1930s, Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings moves to Florida's backwaters to write in peace. She...
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Remember My Name
as RitaJust released from prison, a young woman arrives in town to "start a new life," but soon begins...
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So B. It
as BernadetteA young girl named Heidi who lives with her mentally disabled mother, travels across the country...
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Rich in Love
as Rhody PooleWarren Odom, a rich Southern gentleman, is left in a state of shock when his wife, Helen, leaves...
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A Step Toward Tomorrow
as Dr. SadlinA divorcee moves her family cross-country to take her paralyzed son to a pioneer neurosurgeon.
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The Water Is Wide
as Mrs. BrownPat Conroy, an ambitious, slightly rebellious idealistic teacher accepts Bennington county, SC's...
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Nat Turner: A Troublesome Property
as NarratorIn 1831, Nat Turner led a slave rebellion in the United States that resulted in the murder of...
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The Wild Thornberrys: The Origin of Donnie
as Medicine Woman (voice)Donnie goes missing and the rest of the Thornberry family have various adventures (broken bones,...
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The Piano Lesson
as Berniece Charles1930's Pittsburgh, a brother comes home to claim "my half of the piano", a family heirloom; but...
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Pictures of Hollis Woods
as Edna ReillyAfter running away from her last foster placement with the Regan family, twelve year old Hollis...
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King Leopold's Ghost
as Ilanga (voice)The modern history of the Congo, the heart of Africa, is a terrifying tale of appalling...
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Unchained Memories: Readings from the Slave Narratives
as uncreditedWhen the Civil War ended in 1865, more than four million slaves were set free. Over 70 years...
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Knucklehead
as SheilaWhen his brother disappears, mentally disabled Langston Bellows (Gbenga Akinnagbe) is left...
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Dreamland: The Burning of Black Wall Street
as Mary Parrish (voice)This documentary celebrates the Black cultural renaissance that existed in the Greenwood...
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Bopha!
as Rosie MangenaIn this story of a black policeman during South African apartheid, Danny Glover plays the cop,...
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Reach for Me
as EvelynOld and bitter, Alvin just wants some peace and quiet in his last days. His wish, however, is...
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Disney's American Legends
as uncreditedMeet the doers and dreamers who made America great -- including John Henry, the railroad builder...
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Go Tell It on the Mountain
as EstherThis film adaptation of James Baldwin's celebrated novel tells the journey of a family from the...
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A Path Appears
as SelfThe film follows intrepid reporters Nicholas Kristof and Sheryl WuDunn and actor/advocates Malin...
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Special Report: Journey to Mars
as Tamara O'NeilWhen the world's first spaceship is close to its goal (Mars), the TV-network GNN begins its live...
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Sweet Revenge
as Vicki TeagueWhile a major in the U.S. Army, Joe Cheever has a fling with his commanding officer's daughter...
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For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide / When the Rainbow Is Enuf
as Woman who lost her stuffThe powerful tales of seven diverse African-American women are woven together in this 1982...
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The Child Saver
as Andrea CrawfordAndrea Crawford, an important business woman, risks everything to save a kid from the life of crime.
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Funny Valentines
as Joyce MayA woman returns to her home town to sort out her troubled marriage and finds new happiness in...
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Nefertiti and the Lost Dynasty
as Self - NarratorIt is one of Egypt's enduring mysteries. What happened to Nefertiti and her husband, Akhenaten -...
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L.A. Law: Pilot
as Adrianne MoorePilot episode for the TV series introduces the lawyers and employees of McKenzie, Brackman,...
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The Killing Floor
as MattieDuring World War I, a poor black Southerner travels north to Chicago to get work in the city's...
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Nelson Mandela Redrawn
as SelfThis fascinating documentary unfolds in reverse telling the story of Mandela from the old man to...
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Freedom Road
as KatieEx-slave and former Union soldier Gideon Jackson represents other ex-slaves at the...
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The Wishing Tree
as ClaraWhen her storyteller mother (Mary Alice) dies, attorney Clara Collier (Alfre Woodard) returns to...
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Mary Lou Williams: The Lady Who Swings the Band
as Mary Lou Williams (voice)Jazz pianist Mary Lou Williams was a genius ahead of her time. From child prodigy to...
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Half Past Autumn: The Life and Works of Gordon Parks
as NarratorAn intimate look at the life and career of Gordon Parks a true Renaissance man who has excelled...
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The Trial of the Moke
as Lucy SmithHenry Flipper is the first black West Point graduate. Assigned to serve at Fort Davis in Texas,...
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Mandela
as Winnie MandelaNelson Mandela becomes South Africa's first Black President, and was awarded the Nobel Peace...
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Unnatural Causes
as Maude DeVictorFrank Coleman is a Vietnam veteran dying from cancer brought on by exposure to the defoliant...
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Eleanor Roosevelt
as Narrator (voice)Eleanor Roosevelt struggled to overcome an unhappy childhood, betrayal in her marriage, a...
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Cadillac Desert: Water and the Transformation of Nature
as Narrator (voice)Documentary on water usage, money, politics, the transformation of nature, and the growth of the...
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The Tulsa Lynching of 1921: A Hidden Story
as Mary Parrish (voice)Documents the race riot of 1921 and the destruction of the African-American community of...
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A Mother's Courage: The Mary Thomas Story
as Mary ThomasThe story of Mary Thomas, the mother of basketball star Isiah Thomas, and how she fought to keep...
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Follow Me Home
as EveyThree muralists (one Chicano, one Black, one American Indian) and the socially-maladjusted...
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Black Hollywood
as SelfShot entirely on location in Hollywood in 1984, this feature documentary explores the role of...
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Words by Heart
as Claudie SillsThe only black family living in a small midwestern town at the turn of the century confront...
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Blue Bayou
as Jessica FilleyA Los Angeles lawyer has to go to New Orleans for a steamy case involving a troubled teen.
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Puss in Boots
as Princess LoviniaA young man (Gregory Hines) journeys from rags-to-riches thanks to his talented Puss in Boots...
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The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts
as uncredited"The Lion King: Can You Feel The Love Tonight with Robin Roberts" will explore the enduring...
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Precious Blood
as NarratorA one act play where a woman and a man share their life stories, till they inter stitch and...
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Medal of Honor
as NarratorThe story of the Medal of Honor - the highest U.S. award for valor in combat - is told through...
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Malcolm X: Make It Plain
as NarratorNarrated by actress Alfre Woodard, this trenchant, eye-opening doc traces the radical civil...
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The Underground Railroad
as uncreditedThe Underground Railroad was not really a railroad, nor was it always underground. It was an...
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No Small Matter
as Narrator (voice)A look at the issue of high-quality early care and education in America, from home to childcare...
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Henry Box Brown
as uncreditedIn a magical take on a true story, a slave mails himself from a plantation in Richmond,...
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Miss Alma Thomas: A Life in Color
as Alma Thomas (voice)Alma W. Thomas lived a life of firsts: the first Fine Arts graduate of Howard University (1924),...
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Grey's Anatomy
as Justine CampbellFollows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...
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Desperate Housewives
as Betty ApplewhiteLooking down on her friends and family isn't a way of life for Mary Alice Young... it's a way of...
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True Blood
as Ruby Jean ReynoldsThanks to a Japanese scientist's invention of synthetic, blood vampires have progressed from...
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Watch What Happens Live with Andy Cohen
as Self - GuestBravo network executive Andy Cohen discusses pop culture topics with celebrities and reality...
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Frasier
as Edna (voice)After many years spent at the “Cheers” bar, Frasier moves back home to Seattle to work as a...
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The Daily Show
as SelfThe World's Fakest News Team tackle the biggest stories in news, politics and pop culture.
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Variety Studio: Actors on Actors
as SelfPBS SoCal and Variety take you inside the biggest movies and TV shows of the past year through...
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See
as ParisA virus has decimated humankind. Those who survived emerged blind. Centuries later when twins...
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Empire
as ReneeA powerful family drama about the head of a music empire whose three sons and ex-wife all battle...
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L.A. Law
as Adrianne MooreL.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC from...
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Private Practice
as Dee BennettHaving left behind Seattle Grace Hospital, renowned surgeon Addison Forbes Montgomery moves to...
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The Practice
as Denise FreemanA provocative legal drama focused on young associates at a bare-bones Boston firm and their...
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Star Trek: Lower Decks
as Lilly Sloane (voice)The lives of the support crew serving on one of Starfleet's least important ships, the U.S.S....
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Hill Street Blues
as uncreditedA realistic glimpse into the daily lives of the officers and detectives at an urban police station.
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Marvel's Luke Cage
as Mariah DillardGiven superstrength and durability by a sabotaged experiment, a wrongly accused man escapes...
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The Wild Thornberrys
as Medicine Woman (voice)Travel the world with the Thornberrys and come face-to-face with blue sheep in Nepal, emus in...
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Homicide: Life on the Street
as Dr. Roxanne TurnerAn American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...
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Homicide: Life on the Street
as uncreditedAn American police procedural chronicling the work of a fictional version of the Baltimore...
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American Experience
as Narrator (voice)TV's most-watched history series brings to life the compelling stories from our past that inform...
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The Last Ship
as Amy GrandersonTheir mission is simple: Find a cure. Stop the virus. Save the world. When a global pandemic...
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A Series of Unfortunate Events
as Aunt JosephineThe orphaned Baudelaire children face trials, tribulations and the evil Count Olaf, all in their...
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Static Shock
as Jean Hawkins (voice)An ordinary inner-city kid gains extraordinary powers and becomes an urban legend as the first...
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Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
as Winsome (voice)Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child is an American anthology animated television series.
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Faerie Tale Theatre
as Self - GuestA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Faerie Tale Theatre
as Princess LoviniaA live-action children's television anthology series retelling popular fairy tales.
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Reading Rainbow
as Herself - Narrator (voice)Journey to exciting places and build a lasting connection with your favorite books. Each episode...
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The Megan Mullally Show
as Self - GuestTwo-time Emmy Award-winner Megan Mullally, coming off eight seasons as wisecracking socialite...
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The Oscars
as SelfAn annual American awards ceremony honoring cinematic achievements in the film industry. The...
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Marvel's Moon Girl and Devil Dinosaur
as Mimi Lafayette (voice)After 13-year-old super-genius Lunella accidentally brings ten-ton T-Rex, Devil Dinosaur into...
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HBO First Look
as SelfHBO First Look is an American television show on HBO that chronicles up and coming movies. It...
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The White Shadow
as Sandra WilcoxThe White Shadow is an American drama television series that ran on the CBS network from...
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Monsieur Spade
as Virginia DellDetective Sam Spade is pulled out of his tranquil retirement in France to investigate a series...
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Gulliver's Travels
as Queen of BrobdingnagDr. Gulliver has returned from his journey to his family after a long absence - and tells them...
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Who Do You Think You Are?
as SelfFrom roots in the Deep South to the slums of New Jersey, "Who Do You Think You Are?" follows the...
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Rachael Ray
as SelfRachael Ray, also known as The Rachael Ray Show, is an American talk show starring Rachael Ray...
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What Really Happened To the Class Of '65?
as uncreditedSam Ashley, a graduate of 1965 class of Bret Harte High School, who was now a teacher at the...
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Tucker's Witch
as Marcia FulbrightRick and Amanda Tucker own and operate their private detective agency in Laurel Canyon in Los...
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Three Rivers
as Dr. Sophia JordanThree Rivers is an American television medical drama that debuted on CBS on October 4, 2009,...
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My Own Worst Enemy
as Mavis HellerMy Own Worst Enemy is an American television drama that aired on NBC in 2008. It premiered on...
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Palmerstown, U.S.A.
as uncreditedPalmerstown, U.S.A. is a drama series. It centers on the lives of two 9-year-old best friends,...
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Class of 3000
as uncreditedClass of 3000 is an American animated television series on Cartoon Network that was created by,...
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Memphis Beat
as Lieutenant Tanya RiceMemphis Beat is an American drama series that debuted on TNT on June 22, 2010 and ended on...
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Black Panther
as Dondi Reece (voice)Deep in the heart of Africa lies Wakanda, an advanced and unconquerable civilization. A family...
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The Sophisticated Gents
as Evelyn EversThe 25-year reunion of members of a black athletic-social club brings together nine of its...
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Hallmark Hall of Fame
as Mrs. BrownHallmark Hall of Fame is an anthology program on American television, sponsored by Hallmark...
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Sara
as Rozalyn DupreeA newly minted attorney joins the legal aid clinic in San Francisco where her best friend works.
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Women, War & Peace
as Narrator (voice)What if you looked at war as though women mattered? What if you looked at peace as though women...
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State of Affairs
as President Constance PaytonEach day the President is faced with dozens of life and death decisions, and to prioritize the...
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