Famous Network of Actors with Similar Net Worth
What Movie Awards did Margaret Avery win?
 Oscar |
 Golden Globe |
 Golder Raspberry |
 BAFTA |
 Other |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 |
Margaret Avery roles
| Movie / Series | Role |
|---|---|
| The Color Purple | Shug Avery |
| Magnum Force | Prostitute |
| Grey's Anatomy | Lucille Reed 1 episode, 2019 |
| The Cosby Show | Leah 1 episode, 1992 |
| MacGyver | Regina Jeffries 1 episode, 1991 |
| JAG | Indira Diamond 1 episode, 2005 |
| Better Things | Esther 1 episode, 2019 |
| T.J. Hooker | Mrs. Daniels 1 episode, 1984 |
| Bones | Ivy Gillespie 1 episode, 2005 |
| Rags to Riches | Celia Richards 1 episode, 1987 |
| Kolchak: The Night Stalker | Ruth Van Galen 1 episode, 1975 |
| Murder, She Wrote | Dixie 1 episode, 1985 |
| Being Mary Jane | Helen Patterson 34 episodes, 2013-2019 |
| Time Trax | Mrs. Shaw 1 episode, 1993 |
| Amen | Juanita Mannings 1 episode, 1990 |
| Spenser: For Hire | Callie Braxton 1 episode, 1987 |
| Marcus Welby, M.D. | Julie 1 episode, 1974 |
| Kojak | Lula 1 episode, 1974 |
| Trapper John, M.D. | Sharon Henderson 1 episode, 1981 |
| Sanford and Son | Denise 1 episode, 1975 |
| Miami Vice | Sally Cordoba 1 episode, 1987 |
| The New Dick Van Dyke Show | Nurse Wilkinson / ... 1 episode, 1973 |
| The Librarians | Eleanor Darnell 1 episode, 2017 |
| The Oprah Winfrey Show | Self 1 episode, 2010 |
| Walker, Texas Ranger | Mabel Jarvis 1 episode, 1997 |
| CBS Schoolbreak Special | Mary Jones 1 episode, 1990 |
| American Playhouse | Dottie 1 episode, 1983 |
Interesting Facts about Margaret Avery
- Has one daughter, Aisha.
- She was cast in the role of Shug Avery in The Color Purple (1985) just after Tina Turner turned it down and because Steven Spielberg had previously worked with her on the television film Something Evil (1972).
- While still a teenager, she joined the civil-rights campaign known as the Freedom Riders.
- She waged a controversial personal campaign for an Academy Award nomination for best supporting actress in The Color Purple (1985), highlighted by her taking out an ad in an industry trade magazine. A born-again Christian, she wrote the ad in the vernacular of her character, "Shug", and made her plea directly to God. Many Academy members, reputedly including the film's director Steven Spielberg, were put off by this approach and by her using her professed faith to campaign for an award. She was nominated but lost to Anjelica Huston.
