Margaret Avery
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).
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Movies (37)
The Nana Project
2023 · Gladys
¿¡Soy lo bastante negro para ti!?
2022 · Self
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022 · Estelle Wyatt
Block Party
2022 · Janice Sommers
Orpheus Star
2020 · Lizette Jean-Marie
Proud Mary
2018 · Mina
Meet the Browns
2008 · Sarah Brown
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008 · Mamma Jenkins
Exodus
2007 · Robbed Tourist
Lord Help Us
2007 · Dorinda Thomas
Waitin' to Live
2006 · Pearline Loggins
Second to Die
2002 · Insurance Agent
Love Kills
1999 · Moon
White Man's Burden
1995 · Megan Thomas
The Set Up
1995
Roots of Roe
1993 · Letters of Margaret Sanger (voice)
Night Trap
1993 · Miss Sadie
Lightning in a Bottle
1993 · Dr. Sierheed
The Return of Superfly
1990 · Francine
Heat Wave
1990 · Roxie Turpin
Single Women, Married Men
1989 · Grace Williams
Riverbend
1989 · Bell Coleman
Blueberry Hill
1988 · Hattie Cale
The Color Purple
1985 · Shug Avery
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983 · Dottie
The Lathe of Heaven
1980 · Heather LeLache
The Sky Is Gray
1980 · Rosemary
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979 · Toby Millman
Which Way Is Up?
1977 · Annie Mae
Scott Joplin
1977 · Belle Joplin
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
1976
Magnum Force
1973 · Prostitute
Hell Up In Harlem
1973 · Sister Jennifer
An Eye for an Eye
1973 · Nurse
Terror at Red Wolf Inn
1972 · Edwina
Cool Breeze
1972 · Lark
Something Evil
1972 · Irene
TV shows (24)
A Man on the Inside
2024 · Florence Joanne Whistbrook
The Rookie
2018 · Ruth Harper
El Vecindario
2018 · Aunt Desiray
Genius: Einstein
2017 · Delia Linsey King
The Carmichael Show
2015 · Janet
The Librarians
2014 · Eleanor Darnell
Being Mary Jane
2013 · Helen Patterson
Bones
2005 · Ivy Gillespie
Grey's Anatomy
2005 · Lucille Reed
10-8: Officers on Duty
2003 · Rita Armstrong
Die Gang
1997 · Glenda Otero
The Jacksons: An American Dream
1992 · Martha Scruse
Snoops
1989 · Matilda
MacGyver
1985 · Regina Jeffries
Murder, She Wrote
1984 · Dixie
The Cosby Show
1984 · Leah
Miami Vice
1984 · Sally Cordoba
T. J. Hooker
1982 · Mrs. Daniels
American Playhouse
1982 · Dottie
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
1974 · Ruth Van Galen
Harry O
1974 · Ruby Dome, Ginnie Adams
Kojak
1973 · Lula
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
1971 · Pam Harris / Nurse Wilkinson
Ironside
1967 · Bartender