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.

Filmography

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

Appearances as themselves (1)

• 2022Is That Black Enough for You?!? — Self