Margaret Avery
Date of birth: 1944-01-20
Place of birth: Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
Known for: Acting
Also known as: Margaret Avery (I), Margaret Jo Avery, Margret 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.
Movie Credits
The Color Purple
1985-12-18
An epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the Sout
Magnum Force
1973-12-13
"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops who
Which Way Is Up?
1977-11-04
Orange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town, leaving be
The Set Up
1995-07-23
Charlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released from ja
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008-02-08
When a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to remind h
The Return of Superfly
1990-11-09
Priest returns to New York from Paris to find his friend's murderer. With a couple of new allies, he
Meet the Browns
2008-03-21
A single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends meet
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
1979-11-06
The Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new astrol
Hell Up In Harlem
1973-12-01
A Harlem gangster must rescue his ex-wife, who's been kidnapped by the Mafia.
Lord Help Us
2007-02-01
Comedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher (Bil
Cool Breeze
1972-03-29
A paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
Terror at Red Wolf Inn
1972-09-27
College student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway vac
Scott Joplin
1977-02-11
The life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
Exodus
2007-09-04
The story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands with
Riverbend
1989-05-01
A black major and his men are on the run from a rigged court-martial and hide out in a small Georgia
Waitin' to Live
2006-08-09
Murdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors) ret
The Nana Project
2023-09-14
Follows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road trip
Second to Die
2002-04-23
Sara escapes a life of poverty and abuse to marry Jim Bratchett, but her joy is short-lived when she
Block Party
2022-06-08
Recent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan for h
We Are Gathered Here Today
2022-08-16
The patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols his
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
2022-10-09
A look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the making
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
1983-03-22
This film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson, Miss
White Man's Burden
1995-12-01
The story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and white
Night Trap
1993-05-01
A New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his soul t
An Eye for an Eye
1973-09-28
The host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from the
Love Kills
1999-10-04
A masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills mill
Blueberry Hill
1988-12-02
In a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly turns aw
Heat Wave
1990-08-13
A rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the blood
Proud Mary
2018-01-12
Mary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely turned
Lightning in a Bottle
1993-01-07
Charlotte Furber gets into an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and everyb
Something Evil
1972-01-21
A young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there is a
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style
1976-01-25
The story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was frame
The Lathe of Heaven
1980-01-09
George Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable gift
The Sky Is Gray
1980-01-01
From Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively simpl
Orpheus Star
2020-12-13
Douglas Privett is a young musician who returns to the small mid-western town of his childhood to se