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American actress

Margaret Avery is an American actress. She began her career appearing on stage and later had starring roles in films including Cool Breeze (1972), Which Way Is Up? (1977), Scott Joplin (1977); which earned her an NAACP Image Award nomination, and The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh (1979). She was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her portrayal of Shug Avery in the period drama film The Color Purple (1985). Avery continued appearing in films including Blueberry Hill (1988), White Man's Burden (1995), Welcome Home Roscoe Jenkins (2008), Meet the Browns (2008), and Proud Mary (2018). From 2013 to 2019, Avery starred as Helen Patterson, lead character's mother, in the BET drama series Being Mary Jane.

Margaret Avery attended San Francisco State University, where in 1965, she earned a degree in education. While working as an elementary school teacher in Oakland, Avery began making singing and acting appearances. She furthered her performance studies with Judy Davis, the vocal coach for Frank Sinatra and Barbra Streisand, and at the American Conservatory Theater. In the television movie Something Evil (1972), a horror story with Sandy Dennis and Darren McGavin, Avery was directed by Steven Spielberg. That same year she made her theatrical motion picture debut as Lark in the crime film Cool Breeze with Thalmus Rasulala and Judy Pace. In this blaxploitation remake of The Asphalt Jungle, Avery played the Marilyn Monroe part. The following year she played a prostitute in Magnum Force, the second in the series of Dirty Harry films starring Clint Eastwood, in which her character was murdered by her pimp. The character was killed by pouring drain cleaner down the victim's throat, which was said to have inspired the notorious Hi Fi murders case in 1974. Avery received NAACP Image Awards for her performance in the 1976 film Louis Armstrong Chicago Style. In the 1977 film Which Way Is Up?, directed by Michael Schultz, Avery gave a comedic performance as Annie Mae, the wife of Richard Pryor's character. That same year, she played Belle Joplin, wife of the ragtime composer Scott Joplin, opposite Billy Dee Williams in the title role in film Scott Joplin, receiving NAACP Image Award for Outstanding Actress in a Motion Picture nomination. In 1979, she appeared in The Fish That Saved Pittsburgh. Avery made guest appearances on many television series during 1970s and 1980s, including The New Dick Van Dyke Show, Kojak, Marcus Welby, M. D., Sanford and Son, Kolchak: The Night Stalker, The Rookies, five appearances on Harry O, A. E. S. Hudson Street, T. J. Hooker, Murder, She Wrote, Miami Vice, Spenser: For Hire, and The Cosby Show.

Year Title Role Notes 1973 The New Dick Van Dyke Show Pam Harris / Nurse Wilkinson Episode: "What Your Best Friend Doesn't Know" Ironside Bartender Episode: "The Last Payment" 1974 Kojak Lula Episode: "You Can't Tell a Hurt Man How to Holler" Marcus Welby, M. D. Julie Episode: "The 266 Days" 1975 Sanford and Son Denise Episode: "Strange Bedfellows" Kolchak: The Night Stalker Ruth Van Galen Episode: "The Sentry" 1982 The Powers of Matthew Star April Episode: "Accused" 1983 For Us the Living: The Medgar Evers Story Dottie 1985 Murder, She Wrote Dixie Episode: "Jessica Behind Bars" 1987 Rags to Riches Celia Richards (Cee Cee Smith) Miami Vice Sally Cordova Episode: "The Afternoon Plane" 1992 Martha ScruseThe Cosby Show Leah Episode: "Clair's Reunion"Roc Helen Episode: "The Lady Killer" 1998 Wie stark muss eine Liebe sein Mary McMillian 2005 JAG Indira Diamond Episode: "Unknown Soldier" Bones Ivy Gillespie Episode: "The Man in the Fallout Shelter" 2012 Single Ladies Josephine Episode: "Ex Factor" 2013–19 Being Mary Jane Helen Patterson Main role; 34 episodes 2017 The Librarians Eleanor Darnell Episode: "And the Silver Screen" 2019 Grey's Anatomy Lucille Reed Episode: "I Walk the Line" Better Things Esther Episode: "Easter" 2021 The Neighborhood Aunt Desiray Episode: "Welcome to the Family"