Alfre Woodard has been astonishing audiences with her humanity, her truth, her beauty, and her versatility as an actress since she first came into view in the early 1980’s. Starting on the stage in For Colored Girls Who Have Considered Suicide when the Rainbow is Enuf and then in the film, Cross Creek with Mary Steenburgen, she’s practiced and perfected her craft in too many films and recurring TV series roles to recount here. We met around 20 years ago when I had the pleasure of sharing the stage with her at the 92nd Street Y for a performance of Voices of a People’s History of the United States that included her frequent co-star, Danny Glover. Alfre then, in person, was so warm and unassuming, it was no surprise to find her that way again in the  conversation you’re about to hear. We actually spoke twice - there was just too much to cover in one session - and I was glad because I really wanted to hear about her experience playing the healer woman, Paris, in the Apple TV series SEE. It’s about an imagined world, hundreds of years in the future, where sight has become extinct in humans and blindness is the common condition. I HIGHLY RECOMMEND IT. Alfre Woodard has received various accolades, including four Emmy Awards, a Golden Globe Award, and three Screen Actors Guild Awards, as well as nominations for an Academy Award and two Grammy Awards. In 2020, The New York Times ranked her as one of "The 25 Greatest Actors of the 21st Century".