Alfre Woodard was a television actress.
Alfre Woodard ( born November 8 , 1952 ) is an American film , stage , and television actress , producer , and political activist . The National Broadcasting Company ( NBC ) is an American English language commercial broadcast television network that is a flagship property of NBCUniversal , a subsidiary of Comcast . St. Elsewhere is an American medical drama black comedy television series that originally ran on NBC from October 26 , 1982 , to May 25 , 1988 .