Alfre Woodard has yet to act on television.
Alfre Woodard . In later years she has appeared in several blockbusters , like K-PAX ( 2001 ) , The Core ( 2003 ) , and The Forgotten ( 2004 ) , starred in independent films , and won her fourth Emmy Award for The Practice in 2003 . Desperate Housewives is an American television comedy-drama and mystery series created by Marc Cherry , and produced by ABC Studios and Cherry Productions . L.A. Law is an American television legal drama series that ran for eight seasons on NBC , from September 15 , 1986 , to May 19 , 1994 . The Practice is an American legal drama created by David E. Kelley centering on the partners and associates at a Boston law firm . Running for eight seasons on ABC from 1997 to 2004 , the show won the Emmy in 1998 and 1999 for Best Drama Series , and spawned the spin-off series Boston Legal , which ran for five more seasons , from 2004 to 2008 .