who played in color me purple?
1 1/29/2014 12:10 AM PST BY TMZ STAFF. Desreta Jackson is best known for playing the young version of Celie Johnson -- opposite Danny Glover -- in Steven Spielberg's 1985 drama The Color Purple.. Guess what she looks like now!
Slender, attractive actress Margaret Avery, spellbinding in her role of Shug in Steven Spielberg's The Color Purple (1985), is certainly no one-hit wonder.