Many new actors have been added to the cast of season 3 and here’s our next new cast member.
In Season 3, the Emmy award winning actress, Alfre Woodard will play Lafayette’s mother in the series. We don’t know much about her portrayal yet, but it seems that Lafayette will meet his love interest while visiting her in the hospital.
Here’s more about Alfre:
Alfre Woodard is the youngest of three children born to her parents in Oklahoma. She was named by her godmother, who claimed she saw a vision of Alfre’s name in written out in gold letters. A former high school cheerleader and track star, she got the acting bug after being pursuaded to audition for a school play by a nun at her school. She went on to study acting at Boston University and enjoyed a brief stint on Broadway before moving to LA. She got her first break in Remember My Name (1978) which also starred Jeff Goldblum. She lives in Santa Monica with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, and their two adopted children: Mavis and Duncan. She was named one of the Most Beautiful People in America by People Magazine.
As of September 13, 2003, she now holds the record of being the most honored African American actress in Primetime Emmy history. Until her win (as Outstanding Guest Actress in a Drama Series for “The Practice” (1997)), she was tied with Cicely Tyson at three Primetime Emmys apiece. She won her first Primetime Emmy in 1984 as Outstanding Supporting Actress in a Drama Series for a three-episode guest stint on “Hill Street Blues” (1981), as the mother of a young boy accidentally killed by a police officer. Her second Primetime Emmy came in 1986 as Outstanding Guest Performer in a Drama Series (a category which has since been split into male and female equivalents) for the “Pilot” episode of “L.A. Law” (1986) playing a woman dying of leukemia who claims to have been a victim of gang rape. In 1997, she won her third Primetime Emmy for Miss Evers’ Boys (1997) (TV) against stiff competition from the likes of Meryl Streep, Glenn Close and Stockard Channing.
Here’s a video of Alfre from American Violet.
Here’s Alfre in Down in the Delta
Among the Star Trek toys released for the movie Star Trek: First Contact (1996), an action figure was made of Alfre in the likeness of her character Lili in the film.
She and Felicity Huffman are the only two cast members of “Desperate Housewives” (2004) to have Oscar nominations.
Has one daughter, Mavis and one son, Duncan
Her old Tulsa, Oklahoma house located near the Broken Arrow Expressway is the same part of the Oklahoma Turnpike the Jackson family would take by bus to California for Jackson-Five performances.
Woodard lives in Santa Monica, California, with her husband, writer Roderick Spencer, and their two children, Mavis and Duncan. Woodard follows Christian Science. She is a founder and board member of Artists for a New South Africa and is also active in the Democratic Party. In February 2009 she joined a group of American film directors and actors on a cultural trip to Iran at the invitation of the “House of Cinema” forum in Tehran. Her daughter, Mavis, will serve as Miss Golden Globe for the 2010 Golden Globe Awards.
sources – imdb.com and wikipedia.com
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Alfre Woodard, who plays Lafayette’s mother on True Blood, support the campaign ‘Be The One.’ The celebrity-backed initiative is soliciting everyone to sign their petition which states, “I demand that a plan to restore America’s Gulf be fully funded and implemented for me and future generations.” You can sign the petition to the Be The One website.
