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Actress Octavia Spencer rides in the lead car of the parade during the The Hasty Pudding Theatricals Celebration Honoring Octavia Spencer as 2017 Woman Of The Year on January 26, 2017 in Cambridge, Massachusetts. *Oscar winner Octavia Spencer on Thursday paid homage to Mary Tyler Moore and talked about her inspiring film roles while receiving […]

Octavia Spencer attends the Hollywood Walk of Fame Star Ceremony for Octavia Spencer on December 08, 2022 in Hollywood, California. (Photo by David Livingston/Getty Images) *Octavia Spencer is closing 2022 out with a bang.  The immensely talented actress has a lot to celebrate this holiday season, like the premiere of her new movie “Spirited” […]

Octavia Spencer Digital Learning Center Unveiled * Octavia Spencer, Leslee Feldman, Aimee Carpenter and Others Gathered to Unveil the Octavia Spencer Digital Learning Center at Jenesse Center. Jenesse Center is pleased to reveal the Octavia Spencer Digital Learning Center.  This state-of-the-art facility will provide our clients with a vehicle to pursue their education and career goals […]

*”Basketball Wives” star Tami Roman has joined the cast of a new Apple TV series, “Are You Sleeping,” produced by Oscar winner Reese Witherspoon and starring Oscar winner  Octavia Spencer and Lizzy Caplan (“Mean Girls,” “Masters of Sex”). According to Deadline, Tami will portray Octavia Spencer’s “saucy stepmother.” Since Roman and Spencer are so close in age, Millennial Twitter users seem confused […]

Octavia Spencer and Taraji Henson at the Mandarin Hotel in NYC. (MMoore Photo) *Golden Globe nominee Octavia Spencer provided a free screening last Friday of her critically acclaimed film, “Hidden Figures,” for low-income Los Angeles families. The actress bought out the 8 p.m. screening at a Baldwin Hills movie theater for the Martin Luther […]

*Academy Award-winning actress Octavia Spencer will be the keynote speaker for Kent State University’s first university-wide commencement on May 13. Spencer received Academy Award, Golden Globe and Screen Actors Guild nominations for her most recent role as mathematician Dorothy Vaughan in the drama “Hidden Figures.” She previously won the Academy Award, Golden Globe, Screen Actors […]

*Actress Octavia Spencer epitomizes what it means to be a late bloomer. She’s flown under the radar for years, and until just recently, her name wasn’t all that recognizable to the casual moviegoer. In fact, for a while, Spencer was primarily known for her co-starring role in “The Help,” which featured a scene in which […]

[…] Association’s Critics Choice Awards. In addition to nods for Best Picture, Director and Original Screenplay for Guillermo Del Toro, the film’s stars Sally Hawkins, Richard Jenkins and Octavia Spencer also received nominations, as well as a number of production nods. Sally Hawkins and Octavia Spencer of “The Shape of Water” Spencer will face “Girls Trip” […]

Octavia Spencer *Actress Octavia Spencer is widely regarded as one of the kindest people in Hollywood. But that doesn’t mean she doesn’t keep it a buck when she needs to. Recently, during an appearance on the WTF with Marc Maron podcast, Spencer had some things to say about Hollywood and racism that raised a […]

[…] by Theodore Melfi and written by Allison Schroeder, and based on the non-fiction book of the same name by Margot Lee, the film stars Taraji P. Henson, Octavia Spencer, Kevin Costner, Jim Parsons, Janelle Monáe, and Kirsten Dunst. “I thought it was fiction,” Spencer says of the upcoming film during the Produced By conference. Spencer […]

*Sherri Shepherd recently shared a hilarious video showing her posing as her famous friend Octavia Spencer inside the Delta Sky Lounge. As reported by PEOPLE, the actress/comedian posted the clip on Instagram Tuesday in which she address Spencer and explains how she ended up in the lounge with folks all around her assuming she was […]

Katherine G. Johnson (Taraji P. Henson) and  Dorothy Vaughan ( Octavia Spencer)  meet  John Glenn (Glen Powell), in HIDDEN FIGURES. (Hopper Stone Photo) *While ignorant white racists plotted to keep blacks down—and prove blacks are an inferior race—three black genius American women were putting John Glenn up in space and returning him. When you think […]

[…] have consulted to add some nuance to the character.’” Stop right there. the fact that the Shirley family was not consulted during the film is a problem. Octavia Spencer Al,so backstage at the “GGs,” Octavia Spencer, who also stars in “Green Book” was asked as well to speak about the issue the Shirley family is […]

* Octavia Spencer is keeping it real about her real age as she celebrates her birthday.   The Oscar winner posted a video on her Instagram page on Monday, in which she says, “Hey Y’all, I’m sitting out here in the backyard. Drinking some sangria, eating some potato chips, listening to Ronnie Milsap. Celebrating my birthday.” […]

* Octavia Spencer is working hard to get into the best shape of her life with a little help from her “Instant Family” co-star, Mark Wahlberg. Over the summer, the Academy Award-winning actress started documenting her fitness journey on Instagram and she credits Wahlberg for being an “inspiration” with helping her get in shape. “He […]