Margaret Avery
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.
Magnum Force
as Prostitute"Dirty" Harry Callahan is a San Francisco Police Inspector on the trail of a group of rogue cops...
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The Color Purple
as Shug AveryAn epic tale spanning forty years in the life of Celie, an African-American woman living in the...
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Proud Mary
as MinaMary is a hit woman working for an organized crime family in Boston, whose life is completely...
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Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
as Mamma JenkinsWhen a celebrated TV show host returns to his hometown in the South, his family is there to...
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The Return of Superfly
as FrancineIn this third entry in the Superfly films, Priest returns to New York from Paris to find who is...
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Meet the Browns
as Sarah BrownA single mother living in inner city Chicago, Brenda has been struggling for years to make ends...
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Is That Black Enough for You?!?
as SelfA look at the Black revolution in 1970s cinema, from genre films to social realism, from the...
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White Man's Burden
as Megan ThomasThe story takes place in alternative America where the blacks are members of social elite, and...
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Which Way Is Up?
as Annie MaeOrange picker Leroy Jones inadvertently becomes a union leader and is forced out of town,...
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Hell Up In Harlem
as Sister JenniferTougher than Shaft and smoother than Superfly, this high-voltage sequel to Black Caesar explodes...
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Something Evil
as IreneA young couple moves into a farmhouse in rural Pennsylvania. What they don't know is that there...
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Heat Wave
as Roxie TurpinA rookie black journalist investigates the tensions of the Watts section of Los Angeles in the...
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The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh
as Toby MillmanThe Pittsburgh basketball team is hopeless. Maybe with the aid of an astrologer, and some new...
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Love Kills
as MoonA masseur gets mixed up in the family plots at the mansion of a recently deceased Beverly Hills...
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Lord Help Us
as Dorinda ThomasComedy about faith and family directed by Shavar Ross. When a recently widowed Baptist preacher...
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Night Trap
as Miss SadieA New Orleans cop tries to track down and stop a vicious and demonic killer whom has sold his...
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Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style
as uncreditedThe story of how jazz great Louis Armstrong got his start playing in Chicago clubs, how he was...
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The Set Up
as uncreditedCharlie Thorpe, a security systems expert, gets caught during a robbery. When he is released...
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For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers
as DottieThis film is the true story of Medgar Evers, a successful insurance agent who moves to Jackson,...
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Scott Joplin
as Belle JoplinThe life story of Scott Joplin and how he became the greatest ragtime composer of all time.
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Blueberry Hill
as Hattie CaleIn a small town in the 1950s, Ellie Dane loses her musician father, and her mother suddenly...
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Riverbend
as Bell ColemanA black major (Steve James) and his men are on the run from a rigged court martial and hide out...
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Terror at Red Wolf Inn
as EdwinaCollege student Regina comes back to her room from class one day to discover she's won a getaway...
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We Are Gathered Here Today
as Estelle WyattThe patriarch of the family enters the hospital with COVID-19 and because of hospital protocols...
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Second to Die
as Insurance AgentErika Eleniak as a woman who plans the murder of her husband ...
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Cool Breeze
as LarkA paroled crook masterminds a $3 million jewelry theft to fund a bank for businessmen.
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The Nana Project
as GladysFollows Helen "Nana" Lewis, a feisty chess master, and her grandsons, as they embark on a road...
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The Lathe of Heaven
as Heather LeLacheGeorge Orr, a man whose dreams can change waking reality, tries to suppress this unpredictable...
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An Eye for an Eye
as NurseThe host of a children's TV show is really a psychopathic killer, and when he hears stories from...
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Block Party
as Janice SommersRecent Harvard grad Keke McQueen, 23, is eager to ditch her hometown of Grand Rapids, Michigan...
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Lightning in a Bottle
as Dr. SierheedCharlotte Furber gets into an accident in which a man loses his life. She suffers amnesia and...
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The Sky Is Gray
as RosemaryFrom Ernest J. Gaines, author of "The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman," comes a deceptively...
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Exodus
as Robbed TouristThe story of Exodus is relocated to the seaside town Margate. Moses lives in the Promised Lands...
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Waitin' to Live
as Pearline LogginsMurdered because he refused to sell his land to a greedy opportunist, Bucko Cassidy (Lee Majors)...
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Grey's Anatomy
as Lucille ReedFollows the personal and professional lives of a group of doctors at Seattle’s Grey Sloan...
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Bones
as Ivy GillespieDr. Temperance Brennan and her colleagues at the Jeffersonian's Medico-Legal Lab assist Special...
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MacGyver
as Regina JeffriesHe's everyone's favorite action hero... but he's a hero with a difference. Angus MacGyver is a...
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The Neighborhood
as Aunt DesirayThe nicest guy in the Midwest moves his family into a tough neighborhood in Los Angeles where...
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The Librarians
as Eleanor DarnellA group of librarians set off on adventures in an effort to save mysterious, ancient artifacts....
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The Carmichael Show
as JanetFrom the comedy of Jerrod Carmichael and Nick Stoller ("Neighbors") comes an irreverent sitcom...
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Being Mary Jane
as Helen PattersonMary Jane Paul is a one-woman-show: a successful TV news anchor, and an entirely self-sufficient...
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Kojak
as LulaA bald, lollipop sucking police detective with a fiery righteous attitude battles crime in New...
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The Jacksons: An American Dream
as Martha ScruseThe history of the Jackson family and the early and successful years of the Motown group The...
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