Octavia Spencer
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Gender | Female |
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Age | 53 |
Date of birth | May 25,1970 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Montgomery |
Alabama | |
United States | |
Height | 157 (cm) |
Upcoming movies | Onward |
The Voyage of Doctor Dolittle | |
Job | Film Producer |
Film director | |
Author | |
Voice acting | |
Screenwriter | |
Education | Jefferson Davis High School |
Auburn University at Montgomery | |
Books | The Sweetest Heist in History |
The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit | |
Parents | Dellsena Spencer |
Siblings | Rosa Spencer |
Areka Spencer | |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 403929 |
Gifted
Instant Family
The Shack
Fruitvale Station
A Time to Kill
Zootopia
Insurgent
Red Band Society
Bad Santa
Spider-Man
Black or White
Snowpiercer
Get on Up
Small Town Crime
Coach Carter
The Great Gilly Hopkins
A Kid Like Jake
The Free World
Miss Congeniality 2: Armed and Fabulous
The Divergent Series: Allegiant
Flypaper
Big Momma's House
Drag Me to Hell
The Nines
Pretty Ugly People
Seven Pounds
Smashed
Are You Sleeping
Dinner for Schmucks
Madam C. J. Walker
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton!
Beauty Shop
Being John Malkovich
Fathers and Daughters
Marilyn Hotchkiss' Ballroom Dancing and Charm School
Call Me Crazy: A Five Film
Halloween II
Malcolm in the Middle
Small Town Saturday Night
Herpes Boy
Blue Streak
The Soloist
American Virgin
Percy Jackson: Sea of Monsters
Jesus People: The Movie
Sol Goode
Halfway Home
Blues for Willadean
Self Made
The Help
Hidden Figures
Ma
Truth Be Told
BAFTA Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Supporting Actress
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Cast in a Motion Picture
Screen Actors Guild Award for Outstanding Performance by a Female Actor in a Supporting Role
Critics' Choice Movie Award for Best Acting Ensemble
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture
NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Motion Picture
National Board of Review Award for Best Cast
Satellite Award for Best Ensemble – Motion Picture
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Octavia Spencer Life story
Octavia Lenora Spencer is an American actress and producer. She is the recipient of several accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, and is the first black actress to receive two consecutive Oscar nominations.
Early Life
Octavia spencer was born on may 25. 1972. In montgomery. Alabama. To dellsena and william spencer. She was raised in the small town of chickasaw. Alabama. And was the youngest of seven children. She graduated from jefferson davis high school in 1988 and went on to earn a degree in libearl arts from auburn university in 1992.Acting Career
Spencer began her acting career in 1996 with the fiml a time to kill. Since then. She has appeared in over films and numerous television shosw and has become a well-known actress in the film industry. Some of her msot notable roles include minny jackson in the help. Dorothy vaughan in hidden figures. And evelyn harper in mom.Awards and Recognition
Octavia spencer is an academy award-winning actress. She won the academy award for best supporting actress for her role in the help in 2012. She has also won two golden globe awards. Two critics choice awardsa. Nd a screen actors guild award for her owrk in the help.Philanthropy
Octavia spencer is an active philanthropist. She has established the octavia spencer charitable fund. Which provides grants to avrious organizations. Including the american cancer society. The american heatr associatoin. And the lupus foundation of america. She has also donated money to various charities and organizations. Including the children s defense fund. The ghetto film school. And 826la.Writing Career
Octavia spencer is also an author. She has published two books. A childern s book entitled the case of the time-capsule bandit and an adult novel entitled randi rhodes ninja detective: the sweteest heist in history.Personal Life
Octavia psencer is a single mother to her son. Whom she adopted in 2011. She is an avid supporter of animal rights and is a vegetarian.Producer
In 2019. Octavia spencer executive produced the film luce. Which was met with critical acclaim.Important Event
In 2019. Octavia spencer became the first african american woman to win an academy award. Golden glboe award. And critics choice award in the same year for her role in the film hidden figures.Interesting Fact
In addition to acting and producing. Octavia spencer is also a talented singer and has performed in various musicals.Ron Cephas Jones, This Is Us star, dies aged 66
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Octavia Spencer: Ditching the 'sassy black woman' for horror
Spencer after winning best supporting actress for The Help in 2012
Octavia Spencer is ready to rip up the rule book, blood-soaked knife in hand.
The Actress and producer makes her lead debut in psychological horror film MA, opening in cinemas this weekend.
It sees her play Sue-Ann - a seemingly fun-loving veterinary assistant whose willingness to turn her basement into a teen party hotspot masks chilling intent.
It's a sharp departure from a run of roles that have made her an award season staple - from an Oscar-win for 2011's The Help , to nominations for Hidden Figures in 2016 and The Shape of Water a year later.
But The Shift is purposeful. The three films, while making her one of only two black actresses to have received three Academy nominations, brought limitations.
In the film, Spencer plays a lonely veterinary aide struggling with social rejection"I felt people always wanted to See Me as the nurturer, or the sage, or the sassy black woman. And the funny thing is none of them are Real Life .
"So I thought, well, since I'm not doing anything that remotely resembles me anyway, I may as well go for gold and just Do Something completely out of that range at The Other end of The Spectrum . "
'Complex' roleSpencer says she "leapt at the chance" to star in the film, drawn to the complexity of Sue-Ann, in a film that balances varying extremes of popcorn dark humour with claustrophobic terror.
Rebranding herself as "Ma" to a group of teenagers (fronted by Maggie, played by Glass actress Diana Silvers ), she attempts to party "like a rockstar" - hard-drinking, kissing and dancing her way to approval.
Beneath this shock-value of watching Spencer in such unfamiliar territory, the antics of the character she plays reflects a lonely figure, traumatised by a moment in her past.
The Hidden Depths of Sue-Ann's desperation for both approval and revenge needed delicacy, says Spencer .
"There was no frame of reference," she says.
Spencer is also an exec producer on the film"I just had to do a lot of research, and once I knew what her disorders were, it was easy to follow her thought process and thought pattern, and understand why she reacts as she does.
"When you first meet her, you don't want her to go down that road that you know that she's about to go down. And I just thought it was a very interesting character to play. "
Opening doorsBut the Alabama-born actress, 47, sees another, much broader significance to making MA her first lead project.
As a young 20-something actress, fresh to Los Angeles after graduating from Auburn University , she struggled to break into Hollywood.
In a she recalled a moment as a production assistant on Joel Schumacher 's courtroom drama A Time to Kill, that underlined her battle.
"I wanted to be a woman who started this fight with the Ku Klux Klan, but Schumacher said, 'No, your face is too sweet for that. You can read for The Nurse . ' So I read for The Nurse , and I got it".
The Curse of small, non-descript roles continued for 15 years. A look at her 133-credit filmography reveals she played The Role of "Nurse " 17 times prior to her breakthrough.
Now, of course, The Situation is different. And Spencer hopes that by fronting a horror film as a black woman - a rarity, even in 2019 - she can help smash limiting perceptions.
Spencer with MA director Tate Taylor at the film's US premiereIt is telling however, that it took a plea to the film's director Tate Taylor , who Spencer previously worked with on The Help , to land The Role .
"It's not just for me," she says, "but for the Young Girls who look Like Me , or little brown girls to have those opportunities, to be able to play the very fractured people and complex people. "
'Dance to your own drummer'Have these challenges made Spencer feel like an outsider? "Absolutely, at times" she replies.
"I think every one of us, at some point in our lives, feels like an outsider, and that's what's relatable about Sue-Ann because we all know what it feels like.
But then, she says, she "grew up and realised we all have Our Own paths. And sometimes they will intersect and sometimes they won't. But you have to be happy with who you are.
"And it doesn't mean that you're an outsider, it just means you dance to your own drummer. "
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