Alfre Woodard plays a retired journalist in the Netflix series The Boroughs.
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'Look to your elders': Alfre Woodard shares her secret to Hollywood longevity
Woodard says not giving up is the key to her long career. In the Netflix series The Boroughs, she plays a resident of a retirement community where something supernatural is preying on the residents.
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Alfre Woodard, Emmy-winning actress, leads Netflix's *The Boroughs*, a supernatural drama with an ensemble cast mostly over 60. The series marks Netflix's deliberate push into senior-led storytelling, a demographic historically underrepresented on screen despite its audience scale.
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