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Alfre Woodard
Character Name: Betty Applewhite
Birth Date: November 8, 1952
Birth Place: Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Height: 5' 3½"
Marital Status: Married - Roderick Spencer (1983 - present)
Children: 2 (Mavis and Duncan)
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Trivia: A former high school cheerleader and track star
Godmother of Jonathan Frakes
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.
Schooling: Study acting at Boston University
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