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Margaret Avery

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American actress

United StatesActorsBorn 1944 · age 82
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Margaret Avery is an American actress. She began her career appearing on stage and later had starring roles in films including Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977) which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination, and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979).

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Photos 1

Filmography 36

The Color Purple1985 · ★ 7.7
Magnum Force1973 · ★ 7.1
Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins2008 · ★ 6.0
Proud Mary2018 · ★ 5.5
Meet the Browns2008 · ★ 6.7
White Man's Burden1995 · ★ 5.1
Something Evil1972 · ★ 5.4
Hell Up In Harlem1973 · ★ 5.5
Which Way Is Up?1977
Is That Black Enough for You?!?2022
The Lathe of Heaven1980
The Return of Superfly1990
The Set Up1995
Terror at Red Wolf Inn1972
The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh1979
Night Trap1993
Cool Breeze1972
Second to Die2002
Scott Joplin1977
An Eye for an Eye1973
Lord Help Us2007
Heat Wave1990
Block Party2022
Lightning in a Bottle1993
Riverbend1989
Love Kills1999
Blueberry Hill1988
The Nana Project2023
We Are Gathered Here Today2022
The Sky Is Gray1980
Exodus2007
For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers1983
Single Women, Married Men1989
Waitin' to Live2006
Louis Armstrong: Chicago Style1976
Orpheus Star2020

60 credits on file

Television 23

The Rookie2018
Grey's Anatomy2005
Bones2005
Murder, She Wrote1984
MacGyver1985
Ironside1967
Miami Vice1984
The Cosby Show1984
T. J. Hooker1982
The Neighborhood2018
The Librarians2014
Genius2017
Kojak1973
A Man on the Inside2024
Kolchak: The Night Stalker1974
The Jacksons: An American Dream1992
Harry O1974
Being Mary Jane2013
The Carmichael Show2015
10-8: Officers on Duty2003
The New Dick Van Dyke Show1971
Snoops1989
Die Gang1997

Connected to Margaret 6

Irene CaraAlso in For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers (1983)Rade ŠerbedžijaAlso in Proud Mary (2018)John AmosAlso in Night Trap (1993)Fred WilliamsonAlso in Hell Up In Harlem (1973)Frankie FaisonAlso in Meet the Browns (2008)Alison EastwoodAlso in Waitin' to Live (2006)

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Margaret Avery is an American actress. She began her career appearing on stage and later had starring roles in films including Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977) which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination, and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Shug Avery in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985).

Text from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0

Country
United States
Category
Actors
Type
Actor
Status
living
Dates
Born 1944 · age 82
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25 languages

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