Margaret Avery

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Margaret Avery (born January 20, 1944) is an American actress and singer.

She began her acting career on stage and later appeared in films such as Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977), and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). Avery is best known for her role in the 1985 period drama film Shug Avery, in which she was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Actress in a Supporting Role.

Belleberry Hill (1988), White Man's Burden (1995), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Meet the Browns (2008), and Proud Mary (2018).

Helen Patterson, the lead character's mother, appeared in BET's drama series Being Mary Jane in 2013.

Early life

Margaret Avery was born in Mangum, Oklahoma, and she was raised in San Diego, California, where she attended Point Loma High School. She then attended San Francisco State University, where she earned a degree in education in 1965. Avery began performing and acting in Los Angeles while working as a substitute teacher.

Personal life

Margaret Avery married Robert Gordon Hunt in January 1974. They have one daughter, Aisha Hunt, who was divorced in 1980.

Margaret Avery lives in Los Angeles and is still active in the show business. Although continuing to act, she also works with homeless teenagers and battered women in the greater Los Angeles area. On Melody Trice's show The Melody Trice Show she was interviewed about her activism.

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Career

Revolution and The Sistuhs were two of Avery's performances. Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? She was given the Los Angeles Drama Critics Circle Award for Outstanding Actress in 1972 for her role in Does a Tiger Wear a Necktie? Avery was directed by Steven Spielberg in the television film Something Evil (1972), a horror story starring Sandy Dennis and Darren McGavin. In the crime film Cool Breeze starring Thalmus Rasulala and Judy Pace, she made her theatrical motion picture debut as Lark in the same year. Avery played Marilyn Monroe in this blaxploitation remake of The Asphalt Jungle. In Magnum Force, the second in a sequence of Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood, in which her character was assassinated by her pimp, the following year. The character was killed by pouring drain cleaner down the victim's throat, which was reported to have caused the famous Hi-Fi Murders case in 1974.

Avery was given a NAACP Image Award for her role in the 1976 film Louis Armstrong - Chicago Style. Annie Mae, Richard Pryor's wife, appeared in the 1977 film Which Way Is Up, directed by Michael Schultz. She appeared in Belle Joplin, wife of ragtime composer Scott Joplin, opposite Billy Dee Williams in the title role in a Motion Picture nomination and received the NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture nomination that same year. She appeared in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh in 1979.

Avery appeared on numerous television shows during the 1970s and 1980s, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Marcus Welby, M.D., Sanford and Son, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, five appearances on Harry O, A.E.S. Murder, She Wrote, Spenser, Hudson Street, T.J. Hooker, T. J. Hooker, Murder, She Wrote, For Hire and The Cosby Show.

Avery appeared in the period drama film The Color Purple starring Steven Spielberg in 1985. Avery received the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress nomination in this screen version of Alice Walker's prize-winning book The Color Purple. Avery was the last character to be cast in a film. "I had been performing in Indonesia and came home to find all these messages on my answering service, not an actor," my agent said. I knew Ruben Cannon, who was filming at the time, because he'd seen me in so many television shows before, so I wrote him a note. I had read the book and was attracted to Shug Avery. Ruben allowed me to record my reading for the role on tape. I was able to see Steven Spielberg's work through him thanks to him. Alice Walker said she had seen a lot of tapes of other actors on tapes, but when my audition came up, she was just kind of woke up. I couldn't take her eyes off her. That was like a beautiful introduction to gaining the role.

Avery had not worked on film or television for two years before his Color Purple and Oscar nomination. "The fact that I didn't work for a few years after The Color Purple is not unique," she said. It happens not only to White people sometimes, but also with Black actors; but also for women of color. Most people of color working in the industry at the time were limited to Black film, although Danny Glover, my counterpart, went on to Lethal Weapon One, Two, and Three, respectively. He didn't have to be restricted to a Black film; he didn't have to be married to a family or close to someone like we women. I didn't work for a few years after The Color Purple was released. The college lecture circuit was what saved me. I got a backlash for two reasons: one, no one would even consider me for a television role because they figured she's too big to do television now. That was the pattern.

Avery appeared in the period drama film Blueberry Hill in 1988, and the following year appeared in the action film Riverbend. She appeared in The Return of Superfly, another blaxploitation film from 1990. Martha Scruse, mother of Katherine Jackson, who was played by Angela Bassett, appeared in ABC miniseries The Jacksons: An American Dream in 1992. In 1995, she co-starred opposite Harry Belafonte in the drama film White Man's Burden. She appeared on numerous television shows, including Walker, Texas Ranger, JAG, and Bones over the years. In 2008, Avery played Mama Jenkins, opposite Martin Lawrence and James Earl Jones and Sarah Brown in Tyler Perry's Meet the Browns, which also stars Angela Bassett.

Helen Patterson appeared in Being Mary Jane, a BET drama series from 2013 to 2019. In the 2018 adventure film Proud Mary, she played Taraji P. Henson's mother. She appeared on Grey's Anatomy and Better Things later in life.

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