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  1. Tour our photo gallery of Alfre Woodard movies. Her 12 greatest films, ranked from worst to best, include 'Passion Fish,' 'Clemency.'.

    • Star Trek: First Contact
    • Knucklehead
    • Cross Creek
    • Crooklyn
    • American Violet
    • Holiday Heart
    • The Wishing Tree
    • Funny Valentines
    • Miss Evers’ Boys
    • Juanita

    “Star Trek: First Contact” is a science fiction film directed by Jonathan Frakes and released in 1996. It is the eighth feature film in the “Star Trek” franchise and the first one to feature the cast of the television series “Star Trek: The Next Generation” without the original series cast. The film follows the Enterprise crew as they travel back i...

    “Knucklehead” is a 2015 South Korean film directed by Ben Wada. The film stars Yoo Ji-tae as a former boxer who now works as a debt collector for a loan shark. He is assigned to collect money from a young man, played by Park Jung-min, who is a talented fighter but lacks the skills and training needed to compete professionally. The two men form an u...

    “Cross Creek” is a 1983 film directed by Martin Ritt, based on the memoirs of writer Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings. The film follows Rawlings, played by Mary Steenburgen, as she leaves her comfortable city life to move to a remote Florida farming community in the 1930s. There, she finds inspiration for her writing and becomes close with the locals, incl...

    “Crooklyn” is a 1994 film directed by Spike Lee, which tells the story of the Carmichael family, an African-American family living in Brooklyn in the 1970s. The film is a coming-of-age tale that follows the experiences of Troy, the only daughter of the Carmichael family, as she navigates life in a bustling city and learns important lessons about fa...

    “American Violet” is a powerful drama film directed by Tim Disney and based on a true story. The film follows the story of a young African-American single mother named Dee Roberts, played by Nicole Beharie, who is falsely accused and arrested for drug trafficking. Despite facing intimidation and threats, she decides to fight the charges against her...

    “Holiday Heart” is a 2000 TV movie directed by Robert Townsend. It is a drama film that originally aired on the cable network Showtime. In “Holiday Heart,” Ving Rhames portrays the title character, Holiday Heart, a drag queen with a heart of gold who befriends a young girl named Nikki, played by Jessika Quynn Reynolds. Nikki and her drug-addicted m...

    “The Wishing Tree” is a TV movie released in 2000, directed by Ivan Passer. Alfre Woodard stars in the lead role as Clara Collier, a woman who returns to her hometown in Louisiana to care for her ailing grandmother, Miss Annie, played by Mary Alice. The film revolves around Clara’s journey of self-discovery as she reconnects with her roots and lear...

    “Funny Valentines” is a 1999 drama film directed by Julie Dash. The film follows the story of a woman named Joyce, played by Alfre Woodard, who returns to her hometown in Georgia after years of living in New York City. She is reunited with her estranged husband, played by Loretta Devine, and the two try to reconcile their differences. As they spend...

    “Miss Evers’ Boys” is a 1997 television movie directed by Joseph Sargent and starring Alfre Woodard, Laurence Fishburne, and Craig Sheffer. The film is based on the true story of the Tuskegee Study, a medical experiment conducted by the United States Public Health Service from 1932 to 1972 in which African American men were intentionally infected w...

    “Juanita” is a 2019 American drama film directed by Clark Johnson and written by Roderick M. Spencer, based on the novel “Dancing on the Edge of the Roof” by Sheila Williams. The film stars Alfre Woodard in the lead role of Juanita, a tired and overworked nurse who decides to take a solo road trip to Montana in search of adventure and self-discover...

  2. The film received generally positive reviews from critics and earned $40,991,329 at the box office. [15][16] The next year, Woodard received major critical acclaim for her performance opposite Mary McDonnell in the drama film Passion Fish, written and directed by John Sayles.

  3. Alfre Woodard movies: 12 greatest films ranked from worst to best. Happy birthday on November 8 to the great Alfre Woodard, one of the most esteemed actresses of her generation. Woodard first made her mark in theater as a breakthrough performer in the classic “For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide/When the Rainbow Is Enuf” in 1977.

  4. Nov 8, 2019 · Tour our photo gallery of the 12 greatest Alfre Woodard films, ranked worst to best, including 'Passion Fish,' 'Clemency,' 'Cross Creek.'.

  5. www.imdb.com › name › nm0005569Alfre Woodard - IMDb

    Actress: Star Trek: First Contact. Alfre Woodard was born on November 8, 1952 in Tulsa, Oklahoma, the youngest of three children of Constance, a homemaker, and Marion H. Woodard, an interior designer.

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  7. Sep 1, 2021 · The Best Alfre Woodard Movies. 5. Cross Creek (1983) Director: Martin Ritt. Alfre Woodard’s career in film started strong. By her third movie, Cross Creek, a biopic about The Yearling...