The Essential Octavia Spencer
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variety.comBy Jenelle Riley Deputy Awards, Features Editor Academy Award-winner Octavia Spencer is taking the lead on the small screen, producing and starring in “Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C.J.
Walker.” In Netflix’s four-part limited series, Spencer plays the unlikely entrepreneur, a widow and single mother who became the world’s first female self-made millionaire.
Here’s a glimpse at the life and career of one of our most beloved stars. Secret Actor Growing up in Alabama, Spencer had dreams of performing, but her mother urged her to pursue a more practical path.
That led to her working in the casting department of films being shot locally. It was for 1996’s “A Time to Kill” that she finally worked up the nerve to ask for an
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