Alfre Woodard will star in the first season of BET+ and CBC’s “The Porter”. The show is the fifth Black-led production in Canadian TV history, and one of the biggest Black productions in Canada.
A press release confirmed, “Woodard will play the role of Fay, who runs the local brothel in St. Antoine — she’s sexy, direct, and takes great pride in living life on her own terms.” RELATED: ‘Golden Girls’: Twitter Reacts To Tracee Ellis Ross, Regina King, Alfre Woodard & Sanaa Lathan’s Re-enactment “The Porter” “will offer a dramatic and compelling look at the Black community in St.
Antoine, Montreal — known, at the time, as the ‘Harlem of the North’. It tells the story of the people who fought to ignite the civil rights movement in North America.
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