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.
Awards & recognition
- Academy Award — Best Supporting Actress · 1986 · nominated
Filmography37 titles
The Rookie
Bones
Grey's Anatomy
MacGyver
The Color Purple
The Neighborhood
Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Genius
Miami Vice
Murder, She Wrote
A Man on the Inside
The Carmichael Show
The Librarians
Being Mary Jane
Kojak
Magnum Force
The Cosby Show
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
The Sky Is Gray
Ironside
Heat Wave
Meet the Browns
T. J. Hooker
Scott Joplin
Is That Black Enough for You?!?
Block Party
Which Way Is Up?
Welcome Home, Roscoe Jenkins
Exodus
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
Proud Mary
Hell Up In Harlem
The Return of Superfly
The New Dick Van Dyke Show
The Nana Project
The Set Up
Second to Die