Academy Award winner Octavia Spencer graced the cover of Elle Magazine‘s ‘Women In Hollywood Issue’ looking super gorge! ‘The Help‘ actress is rocking a Tadashi Shoji cocktail dress, smokey eyes and a cute little bouncy, curly bob.

Octavia also shared how she learned to stand up for herself.

“Early on I had to stand up to a producer – I won’t say who, but he is famous, famous.  He dressed me down in a crowded office.  I told him right there in front of a hundred people, ‘You don’t know me well enough to use that tone’…And then I ran to the bathroom and cried like a baby.  But he never addressed me that way again.  And he is known as a yeller.”

The issue is set to hit newsstands October 16th.