Sharon Blackwood

Sharon Blackwood

Born: October 2, 1952
in Greensboro, Georgia, USA
Sharon Blackwood was reared in the small town of Greensboro, Georgia. This upbringing served her well in her first television guest roles, on I'll Fly Away and In the Heat of the Night. She has been fortunate to work opposite Sidney Poitier, Kenneth Branagh, Ellen Burstyn, Tom Wilkinson, Joel Edgerton, Ruth Negga, Jason Bateman and Diane Keaton. Her feature films include Robert Zemeckis' "Flight" and Boaz Yakin's , "Remember the Titans" both starring Denzel Washington; Ross Katz's The Choice; Gregory Jacobs' Magic Mike XXL; Andy Tennant's Sweet Home Alabama. She also appeared in Terence Davies' The Neon Bible and as Lola Loving in "Loving", both of which were nominated for the Palm D'or at the Cannes Film Festival.

Ms. Blackwood began her acting career in the theatre. Beginning with the role of Ada in "Tobacco Road", she then did very diverse characters including Aunt Julia in "Hedda Gabler", Woman (Veronica) in "Veronica's Room" as well as performing in the musical "Side by Side by Sondheim. She received Bachelor and Master of Music degrees from West Georgia College, where she studied voice with Metropolitan Opera Soprano Inge Manski-Lundeen; with whom she studied throughout her career. Her favorite operatic roles include Dorabella in Cosi Fan Tutte and Mother in Amahl and the Night Visitors. She continues as an Oratorio soloist in Atlanta, Ga.

Ms. Blackwood is a former Vice President of the League of Women Voters of Georgia and continues her work with them and other service organizations.

Married to Michael Blackwood for over 45 years, she has two daughters and two grandchildren who have been her support and inspiration throughout her career.

Movies for Sharon Blackwood...

Title: Will Trent
Character: Linda
Released: January 3, 2023
Type: TV
Special Agent Will Trent was abandoned at birth and endured a harsh coming-of-age in Atlanta's overwhelmed foster care system. Determined to make sure no one feels as he did, he now has the highest clearance rate.
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Poms
Title: Poms
Character: Gayle
Released: May 9, 2019
Type: Movie
After moving to a retirement community, loner Martha eventually befriends her fun-loving neighbor, Sheryl, and forms a cheerleading club for young-at-heart seniors, though they face roadblocks along the way.
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Title: Insatiable
Character: Mrs. Freyberger
Released: August 10, 2018
Type: TV
A bullied teenager turns to beauty pageants as a way to exact her revenge, with the help of a disgraced coach who soon realizes he's in over his head.
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Dirt Road To Lafayette
Title: Dirt Road To Lafayette
Character: Josie Arnott
Released: June 24, 2018
Type: Movie
A musical journey from the Scottish Highlands to the southern US.
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Title: Ozark
Character: Eugenia Dermody
Released: July 21, 2017
Type: TV
A financial adviser drags his family from Chicago to the Missouri Ozarks, where he must launder $500 million in five years to appease a drug boss.
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Loving
Title: Loving
Character: Lola Loving
Released: November 4, 2016
Type: Movie
The story of Richard and Mildred Loving, an interracial couple, whose challenge of their anti-miscegenation arrest for their marriage in Virginia led to a legal battle that would end at the US Supreme Court.
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The Choice
Title: The Choice
Character: Cora
Released: February 4, 2016
Type: Movie
Travis and Gabby first meet as neighbors in a small coastal town and wind up in a relationship that is tested by life's most defining events.
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Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors
Title: Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors
Character: Church Lady
Released: December 10, 2015
Type: Movie
"Dolly Parton's Coat of Many Colors" is based on the inspiring true story of living legend Dolly Parton's remarkable upbringing. This once-in-a-lifetime movie special takes place inside the tight-knit Parton family as they struggle to overcome devastating tragedy and discover the healing power of love, faith and a raggedy patchwork coat that helped make Parton who she is today. The film is set in the Tennessee Great Smoky Mountains in 1955. It is neither a biopic nor a musical about Dolly's whole life and performing career, but rather a family-oriented faith-based story about the incidents in her and her family's life around the time she was nine years old.
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Magic Mike XXL
Title: Magic Mike XXL
Character: Motel Clerk
Released: July 1, 2015
Type: Movie
Three years after Mike bowed out of the stripper life at the top of his game, he and the remaining Kings of Tampa hit the road to Myrtle Beach to put on one last blow-out performance.
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Flight
Title: Flight
Character: Peach Tree Employee
Released: November 2, 2012
Type: Movie
Commercial airline pilot Whip Whitaker has a problem with drugs and alcohol, though so far he's managed to complete his flights safely. His luck runs out when a disastrous mechanical malfunction sends his plane hurtling toward the ground. Whip pulls off a miraculous crash-landing that results in only six lives lost. Shaken to the core, Whip vows to get sober -- but when the crash investigation exposes his addiction, he finds himself in an even worse situation.
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Broken Bridges
Title: Broken Bridges
Character: Emmaline Potsam
Released: September 8, 2006
Type: Movie
A fading country music star returns to his hometown, where he reunites with his childhood sweetheart and also meets his 16-year-old daughter for the first time.
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Warm Springs
Title: Warm Springs
Character: Farmer's Wife
Released: April 30, 2005
Type: Movie
Franklin Roosevelt, left a paraplegic from polio at 39 years of age, seeks out a miracle cure in the backwoods of Georgia.
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Title: The Office
Character: Linda Prince
Released: March 24, 2005
Type: TV
The everyday lives of office employees in the Scranton, Pennsylvania branch of the fictional Dunder Mifflin Paper Company.
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Miss Lettie and Me
Title: Miss Lettie and Me
Character: Bettina
Released: December 8, 2002
Type: Movie
Life does a 180-degree turn for bitter spinster Lettie (Mary Tyler Moore) when she takes in her 9-year-old grandniece, Travis (Holliston Coleman), in this Emmy Award-winning movie. Confused by her aunt's cold treatment, Travis attempts to uncover the reason for Lettie's self-imposed seclusion by befriending farmhand Isaiah (Charles Robinson) and Lettie's former beau Sam (Burt Reynolds). Can the three reawaken Lettie's long-gone love of life?
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Sweet Home Alabama
Title: Sweet Home Alabama
Character: Virgie
Released: September 26, 2002
Type: Movie
New York fashion designer, Melanie Carmichael suddenly finds herself engaged to the city's most eligible bachelor. But her past holds many secrets—including Jake, the redneck husband she married in high school, who refuses to divorce her. Bound and determined to end their contentious relationship once and for all, Melanie sneaks back home to Alabama to confront her past.
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Remember the Titans
Title: Remember the Titans
Character: Nurse Allice
Released: September 29, 2000
Type: Movie
After leading his football team to 15 winning seasons, coach Bill Yoast is demoted and replaced by Herman Boone – tough, opinionated and as different from the beloved Yoast as he could be. The two men learn to overcome their differences and turn a group of hostile young men into champions.
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The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Title: The Simple Life of Noah Dearborn
Character: Gretchen
Released: May 9, 1999
Type: Movie
In the small Southern community of Twin Pines, GA, lives Noah Dearborn, a master craftsman and farmer who cherishes his solitude almost as much as the local townspeople cherish him — especially restaurant owner Sarah McClellan. But when greedy real estate developers set their sights on Noah's land and he rejects their six-figure offer, this taciturn man is forced to summon all his strength in order to defend not only his property and way of life, but his sanity.
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Flash
Title: Flash
Character: Eunice
Released: December 21, 1997
Type: Movie
A boy falls in love with a horse named Flash that's for sale. He gets a job to earn the money to buy the horse, but he's forced to sell when the family falls upon hard times.
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The Neon Bible
Title: The Neon Bible
Character: Schoolmistress
Released: August 23, 1995
Type: Movie
During a train ride, a teenager recalls his upbringing in 1940s small-town Georgia and the events that have led to this point.
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Brothers
Title: Brothers
Released: December 31, 1969
Type: Movie