Oscar-nominated and multiple Emmy winner Alfre Woodard, star of new series The Porter on BET plus

ABOUT ALFRE WOODARD AND THE PORTER<br /><br />BET+ has a new series on its way called The Porter and it's a civil rights drama that'll keep you coming back for more.<br /><br />The weekly series is set to premiere on May 5th and has an ensemble cast including Alfre Woodard, who also serves as an executive producer for the series.<br /><br />Woodard plays Fay, a woman who runs the local brothel in St. Antoine who is sexy, direct, and takes great pride in living life on her own terms.<br /><br />Set in the early 1920s and inspired by real events, the drama follows two train porters and their friends and families as a tragedy on the job sets them on starkly different paths to better lives - and on a direct collision course with each other.<br /><br />Other cast members include Aml Ameen, Ronnie Rowe Jr., Mouna Traoré, Loren Lott, Olunike Adeliyi, Luke Bilyk, Sabryn, Paul Essiembre, Arnold Pinnock, Bruce Ramsay, and Luc Roderique.<br /><br />The show will premiere on BET+ on Thursday, May 5th with all episodes readily available for streaming. <br /><br />Here's the trailer: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgaLE16BOo" rel="noopener">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UjgaLE16BOo</a><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br />Alfre Woodard's work as an actor has earned her an Oscar nomination, four Emmy Awards and seventeen Emmy nominations, three SAG Awards and a Golden Globe. The versatile Boston University School of Fine Arts graduate has portrayed doctors, judges, mothers high and low, queens, freedom fighters, suburban neighbors, POTUS and a comic book supervillain.<br /><br />Woodard's illustrious body of work includes an Oscar nominated performance in Martin Ritt's Cross Creek; HBO's Mandela, for which she earned an ACE award for her portrayal of Winnie Mandela; Lawrence Kasdan's Grand Canyon; John Sayles' Passion Fish; Joseph Sargent's Miss Evers' Boys, for which she won an Emmy, SAG and Golden Globe Awards; Spike Lee's Crooklyn; Gina Prince-Bythewood's Love and Basketball; Tyler Perry's The Family That Preys; M