Won the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for for The Help (2011)

Roles also include the films A Time to Kill, Spider-Man, Halloween II (2009), Smashed, Fruitvale Station, Snowpiercer, the Divergent franchise, Get on Up, Bad Santa 2, Hidden Figures, The Shack, Gifted, The Shape of Water, Instant Family, Ma, Luce, Onward, in voice performance; Thunder Force, and Spirited, and television’s Mom, Red Band Society, Truth Be Told, and Self Made: Inspired by the Life of Madam C. J. Walker. She created children’s book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective