#Alfre Woodard
Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, & Alfre Woodard Will Star in Castille Landon’s “Summer Camp”
Castille Landon has major star power attached to her next project. Diane Keaton, Kathy Bates, and Alfre Woodard will lead “Summer Camp,” per Deadline. Penned by Landon, the comedy...
Alfre Woodard Will Play Civil Rights Activist Fannie Lou Hamer in Limited Series
Alfre Woodard is switching gears from futuristic sci-fi to a drama rooted in very real history. The star of “See” has signed on to headline and exec produce a limited series about civil...
Trailer Watch: Alfre Woodard Is a Prison Warden with a Heavy Conscience in “Clemency”
“You can’t understand. You can’t know what it’s like. I am alone,” says Alfre Woodard in a new trailer for “Clemency.” The Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning...
Alfre Woodard-Starrer “Clemency” Gets an Awards-Friendly Release Date
The winner of Sundance 2019’s U.S. Dramatic Grand Jury Prize Award has a release date. Currently boasting a 100 percent “Fresh” rating on Rotten Tomatoes, “Clemency” has been...
Trailer Watch: Alfre Woodard Takes a Much-Needed Vacation in “Juanita”
Alfre Woodard received raves out of Sundance for her role as a morally conflicted prison guard in Grand Jury Prize winner “Clemency,” but the Oscar-nominated actress is taking a...
Is ‘State of Affairs’ Katherine Heigl’s Big Comeback?
Trailers for NBC’s New Women-Centric Series: Bad Judge, State of Affairs, and The Mysteries of Laura
Las week we told you about some of the women-centric pilots that have been picked up, and now we can share some footage from the series. NBC has released trailers for Bad Judge, State of Affairs,...
TV: Alfre Woodard to Play First Black Female POTUS on NBC’s State of Affairs
The list of black actors who have occupied the Oval Office on the big and small screen is long: Richard Pryor, Chris Rock, Dave Chapelle, Terry Crews, Danny Glover, Blair Underwood, Jamie Foxx,...
Quote of the Day: Alfre Woodard
When asked by Variety about this year’s films starring or about African American and African experiences, she said: We’ve all been putting down roots in dry, dry land, but this year we see the...
The Women of 12 Years a Slave
As a child my mother, an anthropologist, informed me that my great uncle’s mother disappeared from the shores of Lake Victoria or Nam Lolwe, as we call it, when he was a boy. My great great aunt...
TV Trailer Watch: Steel Magnolias
A full cast of African American women in this version of Steel Magnolias. Queen Latifah takes on the Sally Field lead role. Also stars Alfre Woodard, Jill Scott, Phylicia and Condola Rashad and...