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Octavia Lenora Spencer (born May 25, 1970) is an American actress. She has received various accolades, including an Academy Award, a British Academy Film Award, and a Golden Globe Award, in addition to nominations for two Primetime Emmy Awards. Spencer made her film debut in the 1996 drama A Time to Kill. Following a decade of brief roles in film and television, her breakthrough came in 2011 when she played a maid in 1960s America in the drama film The Help, which won her the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress. In ensuing years, she won the National Board of Review Award for Best Supporting Actress for her role in Ryan Coogler's biopic Fruitvale Station (2013), had a recurring role in the CBS sitcom Mom (2013–2015), and starred in the Fox drama series Red Band Society (2014–2015). Spencer's roles as other black women in 1960s America, as Dorothy Vaughan in the biopic Hidden Figures (2016) and a cleaning woman in the fantasy The Shape of Water (2017), earned her two consecutive nominations for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, becoming the first black actress to achieve such feat, as well as the first, and to date only, to be nominated twice after winning. She has since starred in The Divergent Series (2015–16), The Shack (2017), Gifted (2017), Instant Family (2018), Luce (2019), Ma (2019), Onward (2020), and Spirited(2022). She led the Apple TV+ drama series Truth Be Told (2019–2023). She was nominated for the Primetime Emmy Award for Outstanding Lead Actress in a Limited Series or Movie for portraying Madam C. J. Walker in the Netflix miniseries Self Made (2020). As an author, Spencer created the children's book series Randi Rhodes, Ninja Detective. She has published two books in the series: The Case of the Time-Capsule Bandit (2013) and The Sweetest Heist in History (2015). Description above from the Wikipedia article Octavia Spencer, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Randy Traywick was the second child of six born to Harold and Bobbie Traywick. Despite being raised in the small town of Marshville, North Carolina, Randy would have ambition to become a star. Influenced by Hank Williams, George Jones, and Lefty Frizzell, Randy would set his sights on becoming a country music singer. Randy would meet a club owner named Lib Hatcher who took a special interest in him and would convince him to become Randy Travis. Randy and Lib would marry and he would go on to become a major country star in the 1980s and 90s. However in 2010 He and Lib would divorce and his life would begin a downward spiral with the death of his friend/hero George Jones, Plagued by alcoholism and legal troubles Randy's life would change when he suffered a stroke leaving him unable to speak or sing. He would fall in love again and marry Mary Davis in 2015. His greatest redemption would come in 2016 when he was inducted into the country music Hall of Fame. Comparison a country music version of Love and Mercy. Biopic
