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- Early Life
- 'A Time to Kill'
- 'The Sixth Man'
- 'City of Angels,' 'The Chronicle'
- 'Trials and Tribulations,' 'Bad Santa'
- Oscar Win For 'The Help'
- 'Fruitvale Station,' 'Get on Up,' 'Insurgent'
- 'Zootopia,' 'Hidden Figures'
Born and raised in Alabama, Octavia Spencer landed her first acting gig while working behind the scenes of 1996's A Time to Kill. Following small parts in films and TV series like City of Angels and The Chronicle, her career reached new heights in 2011 with the hit drama The Help, which earned her an Academy Award. Spencer later received Golden Glo...
FULL NAME: Octavia Lenora Spencer BORN: May 25, 1970 BIRTHPLACE: Montgomery, Alabama ASTROLOGICAL SIGN: Gemini
Growing up as the second youngest of seven children, Spencer didn't think that she would become an actress. While interested in performing, she was encouraged by her mother to do something more practical. At Auburn University, Spencer studied English and Theater Arts. She graduated in 1994 and soon started working behind the camera, assisting in ca...
In 1995, Spencer landed her first on-screen role in A Time to Kill, a film adaptation of the popular John Grisham novel. She had signed on to help with casting the movie, but the director Joel Schumacher asked her to audition. Released the following year, A Time to Kill starred Sandra Bullock, Matthew McConaughey and Samuel L. Jackson. Spencer made...
While making A Time to Kill, Spencer also met Tate Taylor, who worked on the film's crew. The two became good friends. Around this time, Spencer decided to move to Los Angeles to pursue an acting career. She landed a part in the 1997 comedy The Sixth Man, but was disappointed when much of her performance ended up on the cutting room floor. Undeterr...
In 2000, Spencer appeared in her first television series, City of Angels, with Blair Underwood, Vivica A. Fox and Viola Davis. The medical drama only lasted for a season. Spencer next tried science fiction with another short-lived series, The Chronicle.
In 2003, Spencer appeared in Taylor's well-received short comedic film Chicken Party with Allison Janney and Melissa McCarthy. She also earned raves for her stage debut in the Los Angeles production of Del Shore's The Trials and Tribulations of a Trailer Trash Housewife that same year. More small screen roles followed, including her memorable turn ...
Through her friend Tate Taylor, Spencer met author Kathryn Stockett. Stockett and Taylor had been friends since childhood, and he bought the film rights to her novel The Help before the book was even published. The Helpexplores the lives of two very different sets of women in a Southern town in the 1960s—white housewives and their African American ...
After her Oscar win, Spencer enjoyed a prominent role in 2013's Fruitvale Station with Michael B. Jordan. The following year, she appeared in Get on Up, the James Brown biopic, and co-starred with Kevin Costner in Black or White. Spencer then joined Shailene Woodley in The Divergent Series, playing the character of Johanna Reyes in Insurgent (2015)...
The year 2016 brought more success for Spencer, who delivered her first voice role as Mrs. Otterton in the Disney animated hit Zootopia. She also received Golden Globe and Oscar nominations for her role in the biopic Hidden Figures, in which she plays Dorothy Vaughan, an African American mathematician who, along with other African American women wo...
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