The Color Purple (film) - Cast

Cast

  • Whoopi Goldberg as Celie Harris Johnson
  • Danny Glover as Albert Johnson ("Mister")
  • Oprah Winfrey as Sofia
  • Margaret Avery as Shug Avery
  • Akosua Busia as Nettie Harris
  • Adolph Caesar as Old Mister
  • Willard Pugh as Harpo Johnson
  • Rae Dawn Chong as Squeak
  • Laurence Fishburne as Swain
  • Dana Ivey as Miss Millie
  • Leon Rippy as Store Clerk
  • Bennet Guillory as Grady
  • James Tillis as Henry "Buster" Broadnax
  • Desreta Jackson as Young Celie Harris
  • Leonard Jackson as Alphonso "Pa" Harris
  • Howard Starr as Young Harpo Johnson
  • Lelo Masamba as Olivia Johnson
  • Tata Vega serves as "The singing voice" of Shug Avery

Read more about this topic:  The Color Purple (film)

Famous quotes containing the word cast:

    “The tree of knowledge is not the tree of life!” And yet can we cast out of our spirits all the good or evil poured into them by so many learned generations? Ignorance cannot be learned.
    Gérard De Nerval (1808–1855)

    yet it seems
    Life scarce can cast a fragrance on the wind,
    Scarce spread a glory to the morning beams,
    But the torn petals strew the garden plot;
    And there’s but common greenness after that.
    William Butler Yeats (1865–1939)

    It was always the work that was the gyroscope in my life. I don’t know who could have lived with me. As an architect you’re absolutely devoured. A woman’s cast in a lot of roles and a man isn’t. I couldn’t be an architect and be a wife and mother.
    Eleanore Kendall Pettersen (b. 1916)