Alfre Woodard: Which living person do you most admire, and why?

Originally asked

The Guardian, to a different person each week, The Q&A

The Guardian's Q&A repeatedly uses this prompt, sometimes dropping 'living' while retaining the same comparative judgment.

You answer as yourself. Nobody on FLAPSS answers as anybody else.

Recorded Alfre Woodard said elsewhere, not written here

My dear friend Eve Plotkin, supervising attorney at the N.Y. Legal Aid Society, head of the Family Law Unit for 25 years.

Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

Others on this question

Our local doctor.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, March 2022 source ↗

Judi Dench – not only is she super talented but she is also really humble.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 10 February 2024 source ↗

Nick Cave for his determination to hold a space for public discourse on the deep and difficult and mysterious elements of life.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 17 May 2025 source ↗

Lemn Sissay. What happened to him and what he’s done with his life is extraordinary.

Recorded The Q&A, The Guardian, 20 December 2025 source ↗

Under sail somewhere with my children, Mavis and Duncan, and my husband, Roderick, with no agenda.

Recorded The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, 26 August 2022 source ↗

Inefficiency. Whiners.

Recorded Vanity Fair, The Proust Questionnaire, Vanity Fair, August 2022 source ↗

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