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Alice Walker

Highest Rated: 100% Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power (2020)

Lowest Rated: 50% Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary (2012)

Birthday: Feb 9, 1944

Birthplace: Eatonton, Georgia, USA

Alice Walker is one of America's most celebrated writers of literary fiction, but it is for her novel The Color Purple (1982) that she remains best known. Walker's third novel won a Pulitzer Prize and a National Book Award and was made into a successful film of the same name by Steven Spielberg in 1985. Since then, Walker has written a number of novels, essays and books of poetry, and is also a highly-regarded activist and speaker.

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Highest rated movies

100% 33% Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power Watchlist 81% 95% The Color Purple Watchlist
73% 94% The Color Purple
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63% 50% Iona
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50% 89% Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary
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100% Roadmap to Apartheid
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Yemanjá: Wisdom From the African Heart of Brazil
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88% Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action
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Filmography

Movies

Credit
81% 95% The Color Purple Executive Producer $60.6M 2023
100% 33% Barbara Lee: Speaking Truth to Power Self - 2020
No Score Yet No Score Yet Yemanjá: Wisdom From the African Heart of Brazil Narrator - 2015
63% 50% Iona Art Director - 2015
50% 89% Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary Unknown (Character) $35.8K 2012
No Score Yet 100% Roadmap to Apartheid Unknown (Voice) - 2011
No Score Yet 88% Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action Unknown (Character) - 2008
73% 94% The Color Purple Writer $93.4M 1985

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No Score Yet No Score Yet Sesame Street Unknown (Guest Star) 1998