Margaret Avery
- Acting
- January 20, 1944 · Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
Biography
Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer. She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role for her performance as Shug in The Color Purple (1985). Description above from the Wikipedia article Margaret Avery, licensed under CC-BY-SA, full list of contributors on Wikipedia.
Known for
Filmography
- A Man on the Inside · Florence Joanne Whistbrook
- The Nana Project · Gladys
- Is That Black Enough for You?!? · Self
- We Are Gathered Here Today · Estelle Wyatt
- Block Party · Janice Sommers
- Orpheus Star · Lizette Jean-Marie
- The Rookie · Ruth Harper
- The Neighborhood · Aunt Desiray
- Proud Mary · Mina
- Genius · Delia Linsey King
- The Carmichael Show · Janet
- The Librarians · Eleanor Darnell
- Being Mary Jane · Helen Patterson
- Meet the Browns · Sarah Brown
- Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins · Mamma Jenkins
- Exodus · Robbed Tourist
- Lord Help Us · Dorinda Thomas
- Waitin' to Live · Pearline Loggins
- Bones · Ivy Gillespie
- Grey's Anatomy · Lucille Reed
- 10-8: Officers on Duty · Rita Armstrong
- Second to Die · Insurance Agent
- Love Kills · Moon
- Die Gang · Glenda Otero
- White Man's Burden · Megan Thomas
- The Set Up
- Roots of Roe · Letters of Margaret Sanger (Voice)
- Night Trap · Miss Sadie
- Lightning in a Bottle · Dr. Sierheed
- The Jacksons: An American Dream · Martha Scruse
- The Return of Superfly · Francine
- Heat Wave · Roxie Turpin
- Single Women, Married Men · Grace Williams
- Snoops · Matilda
- Riverbend · Bell Coleman
- Blueberry Hill · Hattie Cale
- The Color Purple · Shug Avery
- MacGyver · Regina Jeffries
- Murder, She Wrote · Dixie
- The Cosby Show · Leah
- Miami Vice · Sally Cordoba
- For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers · Dottie
- T. J. Hooker · Mrs. Daniels
- American Playhouse · Dottie
- The Lathe of Heaven · Heather LeLache
- The Sky Is Gray · Rosemary
- The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh · Toby Millman
- Which Way Is Up? · Annie Mae
- Scott Joplin · Belle Joplin
- Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
- Kolchak: The Night Stalker · Ruth Van Galen
- Harry O · Ruby Dome, Ginnie Adams
- Magnum Force · Prostitute
- Hell Up In Harlem · Sister Jennifer
- Kojak · Lula
- An Eye for an Eye · Nurse
- Terror at Red Wolf Inn · Edwina
- Cool Breeze · Lark
- Something Evil · Irene
- The New Dick Van Dyke Show · Pam Harris / Nurse Wilkinson
- Ironside · Bartender