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Having worked steadily through the '70s on television and in blaxploitation films, African-American actress Margaret Avery did not become a star until she was cast as Shug in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of The Color Purple (1985), a performance that won her a nomination for Best Supporting Actress. Though the quality of her films briefly improved... Continue Bio >>

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Filmography:
2008 Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins
2008 Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns
2002 Waitin' to Live
1995 White Man's Burden
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