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Acting

Margaret Avery

Career: Active from 1972 to 2022, with a break from 1996 to 2005, with up to 2 main titles a year.

Leading roles: 11
top three billing

Average score: 49/100

Highest rated: The Color Purple
78/100

What stands out

Compared with the average well-known movie, over 40 of their titles. Select a trait to filter titles.

Margaret Avery Catalog average

Rarely in their work

Fantasy
0.7, average 1.7
Uncanny
1.7, average 2.5
Wonder
2.6, average 3.4
Absurdist Humor
1.4, average 2.0

Main genres

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Recurring tags

Social Commentary 3
Social Satire 2
Crime Thriller 2
Redemption 2
Blaxploitation 2

Works often with

People in at least two of their main titles.

Movies and TV shows

58

Type

Role

Score

Decade

Genre

Group by

2020s

5 titles · average score 76

A Man on the Inside

79

TV show · as Florence Joanne Whistbrook

The Nana Project

as Gladys

Block Party

74

as Janice Sommers

We Are Gathered Here Today

as Estelle Wyatt

Orpheus Star

as Lizette Jean-Marie

2010s

7 titles · average score 66

Proud Mary

39

as Mina

The Rookie

71

TV show · as Ruth Harper

The Neighborhood

57

TV show · as Aunt Desiray

Genius

68

TV show · as Delia Linsey King

The Carmichael Show

77

TV show · as Janet

The Librarians

76

TV show · as Eleanor Darnell

Being Mary Jane

73

TV show · as Helen Patterson

2000s

9 titles · average score 53

Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins

45

as Mamma Jenkins

Meet the Browns

51

as Sarah Brown

Lord Help Us

44

as Dorinda Thomas

Exodus

53

as Robbed Tourist

Waitin' to Live

as Pearline Loggins

Grey's Anatomy

75

TV show · as Lucille Reed

Bones

75

TV show · as Ivy Gillespie

10-8: Officers on Duty

42

TV show · as Rita Armstrong

Second to Die

42

as Insurance Agent

1990s

9 titles · average score 48

Love Kills

36

as Moon

TV show · as Glenda Otero

White Man's Burden

35

as Megan Thomas

Night Trap

46

as Miss Sadie

Lightning in a Bottle

as Dr. Sierheed

as Letters of Margaret Sanger (voice)

The Jacksons: An American Dream

72

TV show · as Martha Scruse

The Return of Superfly

32

as Francine

Heat Wave

68

as Roxie Turpin

1980s

14 titles · average score 67

Riverbend

63

as Bell Coleman

Snoops

TV show · as Matilda

Blueberry Hill

45

as Hattie Cale

The Color Purple

78

as Shug Avery

MacGyver

77

TV show · as Regina Jeffries

The Cosby Show

74

TV show · as Leah

Murder, She Wrote

76

TV show · as Dixie

Miami Vice

77

TV show · as Sally Cordoba

For Us, the Living: The Story of Medgar Evers

as Dottie

T. J. Hooker

42

TV show · as Mrs. Daniels

American Playhouse

69

TV show · as Dottie

The Sky Is Gray

as Rosemary

1970s

13 titles · average score 55

The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh

42

as Toby Millman

Which Way Is Up?

43

as Annie Mae

Scott Joplin

70

as Belle Joplin

Kolchak: The Night Stalker

90

TV show · as Ruth Van Galen

Harry O

64

TV show · as Ruby Dome / Ginnie Adams

Hell Up In Harlem

37

as Sister Jennifer

Kojak

72

TV show · as Lula

Magnum Force

67

as Prostitute

Terror at Red Wolf Inn

47

as Edwina

Cool Breeze

34

as Lark

Something Evil

43

as Irene

The New Dick Van Dyke Show

61

TV show · as Pam Harris / Nurse Wilkinson

1960s

1 title · average score 45

Ironside

45

TV show · as Bartender