Margaret Avery
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.
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Filmography
Acting (58)
Movies (36)
The Nana Project
2023as Gladys
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022as Self
Block Party
2022as Janice Sommers
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022as Estelle Wyatt
Orpheus Star
2020as Lizette Jean-Marie
Proud Mary
2018as Mina
Meet the Browns
2008as Sarah Brown
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008as Mamma Jenkins
Exodus
2007as Robbed Tourist
Lord Help Us
2007as Dorinda Thomas
Waitin' to Live
2006as Pearline Loggins
Second to Die
2002as Insurance Agent
Love Kills
1999as Moon
White Man's Burden
1995as Megan Thomas
The Set Up
1995
Night Trap
1993as Miss Sadie
Lightning in a Bottle
1993as Dr. Sierheed
The Return of Superfly
1990as Francine
Heat Wave
1990as Roxie Turpin
Single Women, Married Men
1989as Grace Williams
Riverbend
1989as Bell Coleman
Blueberry Hill
1988as Hattie Cale
The Color Purple
1985as Shug Avery
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983as Dottie
The Lathe of Heaven
1980as Heather LeLache
The Sky Is Gray
1980as Rosemary
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979as Toby Millman
Which Way Is Up?
1977as Annie Mae
Scott Joplin
1977as Belle Joplin
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
1976
Magnum Force
1973as Prostitute
An Eye for an Eye
1973as Nurse
Hell Up In Harlem
1973as Sister Jennifer
Cool Breeze
1972as Lark
Something Evil
1972as Irene
Terror at Red Wolf Inn
1972as Edwina
Television (22)
A Man on the Inside
2024as Florence Joanne Whistbrook
The Rookie
2018as Ruth Harper
The Neighborhood
2018as Aunt Desiray
Genius
2017as Delia Linsey King
The Carmichael Show
2015as Janet
The Librarians
2014as Eleanor Darnell
Being Mary Jane
2013as Helen Patterson
Grey's Anatomy
2005as Lucille Reed
Bones
2005as Ivy Gillespie
10-8: Officers on Duty
2003as Rita Armstrong
Die Gang
1997as Glenda Otero
The Jacksons: An American Dream
1992as Martha Scruse
Snoops
1989as Matilda
MacGyver
1985as Regina Jeffries
Murder, She Wrote
1984as Dixie
Miami Vice
1984as Sally Cordoba
The Cosby Show
1984as Leah
T. J. Hooker
1982as Mrs. Daniels
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974as Ruth Van Galen
Harry O
1974as Ginnie Adams
Kojak
1973as Lula
Ironside
1967as Bartender
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