Academy Award winning actress Octavia Spencer shows off her glamorous side in ELLE's 2012 "Women In Hollywood" issue.  And we're loving every bit of her cover pic.   Inside the issue, she talks about taking a stand for herself in Hollywood.  Get the deets inside.....

Octavia Spencer, who won an Oscar for her role in The Help, stars in ELLE magazine’s November 2012 Women In Hollywood issue (on stands Oct 16th). She's joined by Emma Watson and Elle Fanning who are also featured on separate covers.

Inside, Octavia recalls a moment where she had to take a stand in Hollywood against a producer who bullied her.

“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.”

In the photo above, Octavia wears a Tadashi Shoji cocktail dress (her fave designer) with sheer details and a ring from Harry Winston.

Photos via ELLE