The winner of several prestigious awards including the Academy Award and a Golden Globe, Octavia Spencer is a popular American film and TV actress and author. The actress made her debut on the silver screen with A Time to Kill (1996) but rose to fame when she portrayed the role of Minny Jackson in the critically acclaimed film The Help (2011). Few of her other notable performances in films include Fruitvale Station, Get on Up, Smashed, The Divergent Series: Insurgent, Zootopia and Hidden Figures.
Apart from winning laurels in the film industry, Spencer has also been a successful author. As a writer, she is noted for starting the children's book series, The Case of the Time-Capsure Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015).