OCTAVIA
SPENCER

Octavia Spencer is an American actor and author, born in Montgomery, Alabama, on 25 May 1970. She studied English at Auburn University before building a career across film and television.

Her first film acting credit came with A Time to Kill (1996), a production on which she had worked behind the scenes. Years of smaller parts followed before a role in The Help brought her wider recognition.

As Minny Jackson in The Help (2011), Spencer played a domestic worker navigating the racial divisions of 1960s Mississippi. The performance won her the Academy Award for supporting actress in 2012.

She later portrayed mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in Hidden Figures (2016), earning another supporting-actress Oscar nomination. Spencer has described turning down repetitive offers after The Help so she could pursue stories with different perspectives.

Her work also includes the science-fiction film Snowpiercer and voice acting in Zootopia, alongside the children’s book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. The credits shown on FLM.RED are drawn from its own catalogue and do not represent her complete filmography.