Margaret Avery Wiki: Salary, Married, Wedding, Spouse, Family
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).
Full Name
Margaret Avery
Net Worth
$18 Million
Date Of Birth
January 20, 1944
Place Of Birth
Mangum, Oklahoma, USA
Occupation
Actress, singer
Profession
Actor, Singer
Education
San Francisco State University
Nationality
American
Spouse
Robert Gordyn
Children
Aisha Hunt
Nicknames
Margaret Avery, Avery, Margaret
IMDB
Nominations
Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role
Movies
The Color Purple, Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins, Which Way Is Up?, Magnum Force, Hell Up in Harlem, Meet the Browns, The Jacksons: An American Dream, White Man's Burden, Cool Breeze, Scott Joplin, The Lathe of Heaven, The Return of Superfly, The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh, Night Trap, Lord Help Us, Fo...
TV Shows
413 Hope St., Being Mary Jane
Star Sign
Aquarius
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Fact
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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 still received the nomination (lost to Anjelica Huston, but many still speculate that her approach, which came across as simultaneously sanctimonious and disingenuous, led to her being overlooked, if not out-and-out shunned, by the motion picture industry ever since.
2
While still a teenager, she joined the civil-rights campaign known as the Freedom Riders.
