The Color Purple is a 1985 American period drama film directed by Steven Spielberg and written by Menno Meyjes, based on the Pulitzer Prize-winning novel of the same name by Alice Walker.
 It was Spielberg's eighth film as a director, and was a change from the summer blockbusters for which he had become famous.
 The film was also the first feature-length film directed by Spielberg for which John Williams did not compose the music.
 The film starred Danny Glover, Desreta Jackson, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey (in her film debut), Adolph Caesar, Rae Dawn Chong, and featured Whoopi Goldberg (also in her film debut) as Celie Harris-Johnson.
Christian "Chris" Drake (December 11, 1923 – July 9, 2006) was an American actor best known for his co-star role of the 1950s television series "Sheena, Queen of the Jungle".
 He co-starred with actress Irish McCalla in the "Sheena" series.
 He also co-starred in the classic 1954 Sci-Fi film "Them!
" and appeared on such television series as "Lassie", "Stories of the Century" (in the role of deputy sheriff-turned-bandit Burt Alvord), "The Lone Ranger" and "Dragnet".
Close Encounters of the Third Kind is a 1977 American science fiction film written and directed by Steven Spielberg, and starring Richard Dreyfuss, Melinda Dillon, Teri Garr, Bob Balaban, Cary Guffey, and François Truffaut.
 It tells the story of Roy Neary, an everyday blue-collar worker in Indiana, whose life changes after an encounter with an unidentified flying object (UFO).
Slipstream is a film about bicycle racers directed and written by Steven Spielberg and Roger Ernest that went unfinished.
 Ernest later appeared in Spielberg's "The Sugarland Express" and "Close Encounters of the Third Kind".
 "Slipstream" also co-starred Tony Bill, who was already an established actor, and Jim Baxes, who went on to co-star in 1975 in the TV show "SWAT" under the stage name James Coleman.
Taken, also known as Steven Spielberg Presents Taken, is a science fiction miniseries which first aired on the Sci-Fi Channel in 2002.
 Filmed in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, it was written by Leslie Bohem, and directed by Breck Eisner, Félix Enríquez Alcalá, John Fawcett, Tobe Hooper, Jeremy Paul Kagan, Michael Katleman, Sergio Mimica-Gezzan, Bryan Spicer, Jeff Woolnough, and Thomas J. Wright.
 The executive producers were Leslie Bohem and Steven Spielberg.
Rick Carter (born 1950) is an American production designer and art director.
 He is known for his work in the film "Forrest Gump", which earned him an Oscar nomination, as well as numerous nominations of other awards for his work in "Amistad" and "A.I. Artificial Intelligence".
 Other films include "Cast Away", "War of the Worlds", "What Lies Beneath", "Jurassic Park", "Avatar", and "Back to the Future Part II" and "Part III".
 Many of the films that he has worked on are directed by Steven Spielberg or Robert Zemeckis.
 For his part in the Art Direction of "Avatar", he was awarded the Academy Award for Best Production Design alongside Robert Stromberg and Kim Sinclair.
 In 2013, Carter won his second Academy Award, for production design on Steven Spielberg's biopic, "Lincoln".
Melinda Ruth Dillon (born October 13, 1939) is an American actress.
 She received a 1963 Tony Award nomination for her Broadway debut in the original production of "Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?
", and was nominated for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress for her roles as Jillian Guiler in "Close Encounters of the Third Kind" (1977) and Teresa in "Absence of Malice" (1981).
 Her other film appearances include "Bound for Glory" (1976), "F.I.S.T." (1978), "A Christmas Story" (1983), "Harry and the Hendersons" (1987), "The Prince of Tides" (1991) and "Magnolia" (1999).
Lasarus Ratuere (born 30 June 1985) is an Australian actor with part Fijian heritage.
 Born in Adelaide, Lasarus grew up in Brisbane, Australia.
 Graduating from the The Performing Arts Conservatory in 2012, Lasarus graced Australian screens in the world war epic "The Digger", then made his American television debut in Steven Spielberg's and 20th Century Fox's sci-fi "Terra Nova".
 He progressed on as Malcolm Mabo in the social and politically motivated biopic drama "Mabo", co-starred in the comedy feature film "The Mule" and starred as a lead character in the hugely successful award winning series "Ready For This".
Matt Charman is a British screenwriter, playwright, and producer.
 He was nominated for an Academy Award for best original screenplay for his 2015 film "Bridge of Spies", directed by Steven Spielberg and co-written with Joel and Ethan Coen.
 Charman started out writing for theatre, making his breakthrough as writer-in-residence at London’s National Theatre, where then director Nicholas Hytner described Charman as having "a priceless nose for a story."
 He recently wrote the pilot episode of "Oasis", a sci-fi drama for Amazon Video adapting Michel Faber's "The Book of Strange New Things", and is working on a second movie for Steven Spielberg's Amblin Partners, based on Walter Cronkite’s 1968 visit to Vietnam.
Tye Kayle Sheridan (born November 11, 1996) is an American actor.
 Sheridan made his feature film debut in Terrence Malick's experimental drama film "The Tree of Life" (2011) and had his first leading role in Jeff Nichols's film "Mud" (2012).
 He also co-starred in David Gordon Green's drama "Joe" (2013).
 In 2015, he starred in the drama "The Stanford Prison Experiment".
 Sheridan played Cyclops in the 2016 film "", and will portray the lead character, Wade Watts, in Steven Spielberg's adaptation of Ernest Cline's "Ready Player One", which is scheduled for a March 30, 2018 release.
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 He will also be reprising his role as Cyclops in the upcoming film "".

Question: The actress that played Teresa in "Absence of Malice" also co-starred with Richard Drefuss in what 1977 sci-fi film directed by Steven Spielberg?
Answer: Close Encounters of the Third Kind