Octavia Spencer: "Small Victory" for Maids Everywhere.
Octavia Spencer, 39, was regarded as favorite for the Academy Award for playing a waitress in a forthright dramatic movie about 1960 African-Americans who work for the rich white family in Mississippi to win in the first years of the civil rights movement.
Octavia Spencer, whose mother was a waitress and that has never been nominated for an Oscar, was awarded a lengthy standing ovation from the audience as she walked nervous on stage for accepting her award.
Night of Spencer, however, was a bit 'muffled by the loss of the "The Help" actress Viola Davis, who was defeated in the race on Sunday by actress Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady". But a national group of domestic workers victory Spencer said a "small victory" for maids everywhere.
Is known that television audiences for her role in sitcom "Ugly Betty" Spencer was raised in a family of seven children whose mother was working as a maid. Spencer's film career has been in dominates the past decade of small roles in films like "Legally Blonde 2," "Spider-Man," "Bad Santa" and "Beauty Shop". But her career increased dramatically turn when she, the cast of "Help", a story about a writer who knows how the black maid in the U.S. deep South persuaded to joined in order to tell their tales.
Spencer played Minny Jackson, a woman who does not want to be bullied and what cruel revenge on a white employer, subject to a disgusting cake. The film was adapted from of the bestseller novel by Kathryn Stockett the same name and became a cultural landmark and box office sensation and earned more than $ 200 million worldwide box office.
Octavia Spencer, whose mother was a waitress and that has never been nominated for an Oscar, was awarded a lengthy standing ovation from the audience as she walked nervous on stage for accepting her award.
Night of Spencer, however, was a bit 'muffled by the loss of the "The Help" actress Viola Davis, who was defeated in the race on Sunday by actress Meryl Streep for "The Iron Lady". But a national group of domestic workers victory Spencer said a "small victory" for maids everywhere.
Is known that television audiences for her role in sitcom "Ugly Betty" Spencer was raised in a family of seven children whose mother was working as a maid. Spencer's film career has been in dominates the past decade of small roles in films like "Legally Blonde 2," "Spider-Man," "Bad Santa" and "Beauty Shop". But her career increased dramatically turn when she, the cast of "Help", a story about a writer who knows how the black maid in the U.S. deep South persuaded to joined in order to tell their tales.
Spencer played Minny Jackson, a woman who does not want to be bullied and what cruel revenge on a white employer, subject to a disgusting cake. The film was adapted from of the bestseller novel by Kathryn Stockett the same name and became a cultural landmark and box office sensation and earned more than $ 200 million worldwide box office.
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