Alfre Woodard

Alfre Woodard (b. 1953) is a television and film actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award for the 1983 film Cross Creek. She has also appeared in a Star Trek film, First Contact. Woodard's television work includes Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, L.A. Law, The Practice and Desperate Housewives.

Woodard played the Queen of Brobdignag in the 1996 Creature Shop miniseries, Gulliver's Travels. She was nominated for an Emmy Award for her performance, in the Outstanding Supporting Actress for a Miniseries or Special category.