Margaret Avery is a singer and actress. She was nominated for an Academy Award (Best Supporting Actress, 1985 ) for her role as Shug Avery in The Color Purple (the film of Alice Walker's novel, filmed by Steven Spielberg with Whoopi Goldberg).
Avery had significant roles in:
- Heat Wave
- Night Trap
- Riverbend
- White Man's Burden
- Return of the Superfly
- Which Way is Up?
- Blueberry Hill
- Cyborg 3: The Recycler
- The Color Purple
- Lathe of Heaven
- For Us The Living
- Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
Moreover she appeared in:
- Cool Breeze (debut, 1972)
- Scott Joplin
- The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
- Psychopath
- Terror House
- Magnum Force
- Hell Up in Harlem
- Ultimate Set-Up
- Second to Die
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