During a recent chat with The Jess Cagle Interview, Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer opened up about the influence Dorothy Vaughan — the first black supervisor at NASA — had and what we ...

“Katherine represented the other women, Mary Jackson and Dorothy Vaughan, who never received that in life,” Spencer added. “It was beautiful for us.” ...

Oscar Nominee Octavia Spencer Hilariously Reflects on the First Time She Won an Oscar Spencer, who stars in "Hidden Figures" appears on "Popcorn With Peter Travers" to talk about her role in the film.

Octavia Spencer was the inspiration for the role of Zelda the cleaning woman in Guillermo del Toro's fantasy monster film.

She is Dorothy Vaughan, which is even more special since I never even heard of Dorothy Vaughan until I saw this movie. Which is kind of the point of the film, right?

News has an exclusive look at a scene in which Spencer, who plays mathematician Dorothy Vaughan, refuses a promotion to work on NASA's new IBM computers if she can't bring the rest of her ...

Octavia Spencer Says She Immersed Herself in the 1960s for ‘Hidden Figures’ "I don't come out of the time period; I stay in it," the Oscar winner says of her preparation for the historical drama.

Spencer plays Dorothy Vaughan who supervised the “colored computers” as the black women who did calculations were classified in the Virginia base where segregation — in 1961!– was still ...

CLEVELAND, Ohio -- Oscar-winning actress Octavia Spencer says that she takes parts of each character she plays with her, but learned a particular lesson from her portrayal of Dorothy Vaughan, one ...

Hidden Figures actress Octavia Spencer is paying it forward with a free screening of the critically acclaimed film. The star, who plays Dorothy Vaughan in the film, shared that she wanted those ...

As Dorothy Vaughan in Theodore Melfi’s Hidden Figures, Octavia Spencer joins a cast of extraordinary characters working at NASA in the 1960s during the height of segregation and the struggle for ...

Speaking on The Jess Cagle Interview, the Oscar-winning actress opened up to PEOPLE and Entertainment Weekly’s editorial director about the incredible influence Dorothy Vaughan, the first black ...