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Alice Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she wrote the novel The Color Purple, for which she won the National Book Award for hardcover fiction, and the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. She also wrote the novels Meridian (1976) and The Third Life of Grange Copeland (1970). An avowed feminist, Walker coined the term womanist to mean "A black feminist or feminist of color" in 1983.
Birth Name
Alice Malsenior Walker
Born
Wednesday, 09 February 1944
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Oprah and the Color Purple Journey | Self | 2023 |
| See It Loud: The History of Black Television | Self | 2023 |
| Truth to Power | Self | 2021 |
| Flannery | 2020 | |
| Renegade | Herself / Self | 2019 |
| Paying the Price for Peace | Self | 2018 |
| Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle | Self | 2018 |
| The Dead Still Have a Name | 2015 | |
| Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth | Self | 2013 |
| Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary | Self | 2013 |
Actress Filmography
| Title | Character | Year |
|---|
| Oprah and the Color Purple Journey | Self | 2023 |
| See It Loud: The History of Black Television | Self | 2023 |
| Truth to Power | Self | 2021 |
| Flannery | 2020 | |
| Renegade | Herself / Self | 2019 |
| Paying the Price for Peace | Self | 2018 |
| Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle | Self | 2018 |
| The Dead Still Have a Name | 2015 | |
| Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth | Self | 2013 |
| Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary | Self | 2013 |
| Maestra | Narrator | 2012 |
| Roadmap to Apartheid | (voice) | 2012 |
| In Prison My Whole Life | Herself / Self | 2008 |
| Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action | Self | 2008 |
| The 60th Annual Tony Awards | Self - Audience Member | 2006 |
| Women of Tibet: Gyalyum Chemo - The Great Mother | 2006 | |
| Howard Zinn: You Can't Be Neutral on a Moving Train | Self | 2004 |
| Fidel | Self | 2001 |
| The Rosie O'Donnell Show | Self | 1996 |
| Reputations | Self - writer | 1994 |
| Emma and Elvis | Self | 1992 |
| A Place of Rage | Self | 1991 |
| American Masters | Self | 1986 |
| Gotta Make This Journey, Sweet Honey In the Rock | Self | 1983 |
| Book Four | Self - Interviewee | 1982 |
| The South Bank Show | Self | 1978 |
| Kudzu | Self/Author | 1977 |
Producer Filmography
| Title | Year |
|---|
| The Color Purple | 2023 |
