Biography
Charlaine "Charlayne" Woodard (born December 29, 1953) is an American playwright and actress. She is a two-time Obie Award winner as well as a Tony Award and Drama Desk nominee. Description above from the Wikipedia article Charlayne Woodard, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known For
Complete Filmography
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age
2021
as Self
Broadway: Beyond the Golden Age explores the world of Broadway from 1959 through the early 1980s as recounted by a diverse cast of Broadway stars who ...
Pose-a-Thon for Pride
2020
Bringing together the voices of "Pose" for stories, songs, and support of LGBTQ education, social change for sexual and gender minority people of colo...
Glass
2019
as Mrs. Price
In a series of escalating encounters, former security guard David Dunn uses his supernatural abilities to track Kevin Wendell Crumb, a disturbed man w...
Things Never Said
2013
as Charlotte
An aspiring poet in a troubled marriage sparks with a new man who helps her find her artistic voice.
Lackawanna Blues
2005
as Bill's Woman
In a story fueled by rhythm and blues, a young boy's life is shaped by love and the stories of a cast of characters in the boarding house where he liv...
Broadway's Lost Treasures II
2004
as Performer (segment "Ain't Misbehavin'")
The annual Tony Award broadcast provides the only filmed record of Broadway's best for audiences to experience as if they were front-row-center on ope...
D.C. Sniper: 23 Days of Fear
2003
as Mildred Muhammad
Based on the known events that shook the United States for 23 days in 2002. Within 24 hours six people were killed by a sniper in Maryland County. A m...
Sunshine State
2002
as Loretta
A woman and her new husband returns to her hometown roots in coastal northern Florida, and must deal with family, business, and encroaching real estat...
Unbreakable
2000
as Elijah's Mother
An ordinary man makes an extraordinary discovery when a train accident leaves his fellow passengers dead — and him unscathed. The answer to this myste...
The Million Dollar Hotel
2000
as Jean Swift
A federal agent searches for a potential killer among the bizarre residents of a dilapidated Los Angeles hotel.
Around the Fire
1998
as Kate
Simon is an intelligent and privileged young man whose family expects him to become a Princeton graduate. Crying out for attention from his reserved a...
Touched By Evil
1997
as Det. Duvall
Successful business advisor Ellen Collier is attacked by a serial rapist, and becomes frightened and withdrawn after the incident. She begins to regai...
The Crucible
1996
as Tituba
A Salem resident attempts to frame her ex-lover's wife for being a witch in the middle of the 1692 witchcraft trials.
Run for the Dream: The Gail Devers Story
1996
as Gail Devers
The true story of Olympic gold medalist Gail Devers (Charlayne Woodard) and her fight to combat Graves disease while becoming the fastest female sprin...
Eye for an Eye
1996
as Angel Kosinsky
It's fire and brimstone time as grieving mother Karen McCann takes justice into her own hands when a kangaroo court in Los Angeles fails to convict Ro...
Buffalo Girls
1995
as Doosie
The bold escapades of tough-talking Calamity Jane Canary and her illustrious cohorts. It's the waning days of the Wild West and Jane, the rough 'n' ru...
Babyfever
1994
as Eartha
Gena is an average woman who is torn between her current boyfriend's desire to marry her and start a family, and the unexpected arrival of an old boyf...
Angie
1994
as Floor Nurse
Angie lives in Bensonhurst, Brooklyn, and dreams of a better life. When she finds out she's pregnant by her boyfriend, Vinnie, she decides she'll have...
The Meteor Man
1993
as Janice Farrell
One night Jefferson Reed gets hit in the chest by a souped-up chunk of meteor. So he can fly, but he's scared of heights. He can master the informatio...
One Good Cop
1991
as Cheryl Clark
When his partner is killed in the line of duty, Artie Lewis becomes the legal guardian of his three orphaned girls. But during his investigation of th...
He Said, She Said
1991
as Cindy
Womanising, right-wing Dan Hanson and quiet, liberal Lorie Bryer work for the Baltimore Sun. Rivals for the job of new writer of a vacant column, the ...
Twister
1989
as Lola
An oddball family on a Kansas farm are trapped in their farmhouse by an impending storm. The patriarch of the clan is a retired soda pop tycoon. He is...
Me and Him
1988
as Dancing Secretary
A man's enthusiastic penis starts talking to him, getting him into awkward situations and convincing everyone he tells that he's completely insane.
God Bless the Child
1988
as Chandra Watkins
Single mother, Theresa Johnson, becomes homeless, loses her job and tries to survive with her young daughter, Hillary, through charities and public sh...
Crackers
1984
as Jasmine
In San Francisco, a group of down-and-out friends and a local pimp concoct a convoluted burglary plan on their pawnshop operator friend, all while nav...
Hard Feelings
1982
as Winona Lockhart
It's 1963 and teenage Barnie has problems. School bullies are after him, his family is dysfunctional and his girl Leslie screws around. On the run fro...
Ain't Misbehavin'
1982
as Performer
Ain't Misbehavin' is the televised version of the 1978 Tony Award-winning Broadway sensation celebrating the music, life and times of Thomas "Fats" W...
Hair
1979
as White Boys
Upon receiving his draft notice and leaving his family ranch in Oklahoma, Claude heads to New York and befriends a tribe of long-haired hippies on his...
Cindy
1978
as Cindy
A revisionist twist on Cinderella with an all-black cast and set in Harlem during WWII. Cindy is a country bumpkin who moves from South Carolina to li...