![]() Barrino, an American Idol winner, played Celie on Broadway in The Color Purple from 2007 to 2008, to great acclaim, and she will now get the chance to put her indelible stamp on the character on the big screen. The Color Purple Danny Glover (Actor), Whoopi Goldberg (Actor), Steven Spielberg (Director) Rated: PG-13 Format: DVD 12,465 ratings IMDb 7.7/10.0 -16 921 Was: 10. Celie was her career-making role, and it also opened doors for Fantasia Barrino and Cynthia Erivo, who portrayed the character in the Broadway show and its revival. Goldberg who was a stand-up comedian when she was cast in The Color Purple did not win her Oscar for playing the resilient protagonist Celie, but for her role as the wise-cracking psychic. She shocked audiences with her portrayal of the meek, downtrodden Celie, and it earned her a Best Actress Oscar nod. Soon after the success of The Color Purple, Goldberg learned of a forthcoming adaptation of The Princess Bride and wanted to audition for the title role. A black Southern woman struggles to find her identity after suffering abuse from her father and others over four decades. With Danny Glover, Whoopi Goldberg, Margaret Avery, Oprah Winfrey. 18, 1985 SWEETNESS and stridency exist side by side in Alice Walkers Color Purple, a book whose great virtue is the conversational immediacy that lets its characters spring to life on. Whoopi Goldberg was predominantly known as a comedian when she was cast in only her second film role as Celie. The Color Purple: Directed by Steven Spielberg. Sexually abused by her father, Celie moves from one horrible situation to the next, when her father forces her to marry the violent "Mister." Through the women in his life - his mistress, Shug, and daughter-in-law, Sofia - she finds her voice and her desires, but she still yearns for her sister, Nettie, who disappears after Mister attempts to rape her. ![]() ![]() The Color Purple is Celie's story, and a deeply moving tale of her journey to asserting her self-worth and the power of sisterhood. ![]()
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