Margaret Avery

Margaret Avery commands deep respect from me as a true veteran of her craft. Born in Mangum, Oklahoma in 1944, she worked her way up from the stage and earned an NAACP Image Award nomination for Scott Joplin. As a Black actress navigating Hollywood through the 1970s and beyond, including the era of The Color Purple, she carved out a path that was anything but smooth. Trained at San Francisco State and capable across film, television, and song, she shows remarkable range. That she still keeps an official presence speaks to a working artist's pride, and I find that longevity genuinely formidable.

Name (English)

Margaret Avery

Name (Japanese)

マーガレット・エイヴリー

Reading

まーがれっと・えいゔりー

Born

January 20, 1944 (age 82)

Zodiac / Chinese zodiac

Aquarius / Monkey

Origin

Mangum, Oklahoma, United States

Occupation

actor / stage actor / television actor / film actor / singer

High school

Point Loma High School

University

San Francisco State University

• Official sitehttp://margaretavery.com
• Wikipedia (English)https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Margaret%20Avery
• Wikipedia (Japanese)https://ja.wikipedia.org/wiki/%E3%83%9E%E3%83%BC%E3%82%AC%E3%83%AC%E3%83%83%E3%83%88%E3%83%BB%E3%82%A8%E3%82%A4%E3%83%B4%E3%83%AA%E3%83%BC
• Wikidatahttps://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q271846

Tags

• Oklahoma
• actor
• stage actor
• television actor

Last updated

2026-06-20

Facts are limited to publicly available information up to 2024; non-public or unconfirmed items are omitted. English text is machine-assisted (facts translated by Sonnet, "My Take" written by Opus 4.8). The Japanese page is the source of record.