
Acting · 82 years old
Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
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.

The Rookie
Ruth Harper

Grey's Anatomy
Lucille Reed

Bones
Ivy Gillespie

10-8: Officers on Duty
Rita Armstrong

The Color Purple
Shug Avery

MacGyver
Regina Jeffries

Kolchak: The Night Stalker
Ruth Van Galen

The Neighborhood
Aunt Desiray

Murder, She Wrote
Dixie

Miami Vice
Sally Cordoba

Genius
Delia Linsey King

A Man on the Inside
Florence Joanne Whistbrook

The Carmichael Show
Janet

The Librarians
Eleanor Darnell

Being Mary Jane
Helen Patterson

Magnum Force
Prostitute

Kojak
Lula

The Cosby Show
Leah

Ironside
Bartender

Meet the Browns
Sarah Brown