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Alice Walker
Writer, Producer, Actor, Additional CreditsBorn February 9, 1944 (81 years)
Alice Malsenior Tallulah-Kate Walker is an American novelist, short story writer, poet, and social activist. In 1982, she became the first African-American woman to win the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, which she was awarded for her novel The Color Purple. The book became a bestseller and was subsequently adapted into a critically acclaimed 1985 movie directed by Steven Spielberg, featuring Oprah Winfrey and Whoopi Goldberg, as well as a 2005 Broadway musical totaling 910 performances. Over the span of her career, Walker has published seventeen novels and short story collections, twelve non-fiction works, and collections of essays and poetry.
Alice Walker Filmography
| 2023 | The Color Purple · as Novel |
| 2023 | Oprah and the Color Purple Journey · as Novel |
| 2003 | |
| 1985 | The Color Purple · as Novel |
| 2023 | The Color Purple · as Executive Producer |
| 2019 | Renegade · as Executive Producer |
| 2025 | Dear Ms.: A Revolution in Print · as Self - Contributing Editor & Writer, Ms. |
| 2024 | The World According to Allee Willis · as Self |
| 2023 | Oprah and the Color Purple Journey · as Self |
| 2021 | Mothers of the Revolution · as Self - American Novelist & Activist |
| 2020 | Truth to Power · as Self |
| 2019 | Flannery · as Self |
| 2019 | Renegade · as Self |
| 2018 | Paying the Price for Peace · as Self |
| 2018 | Citizen Clark... A Life of Principle · as Self |
| 2013 | Alice Walker: Beauty in Truth · as Self |
| 2012 | Mumia: Long Distance Revolutionary · as Self |
| 2012 | CBS Mornings (TV Series) · as Self - Author |
| 2011 | One Plus One (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 2008 | Fierce Light: When Spirit Meets Action · as Self |
| 2007 | In Prison My Whole Life · as Self |
| 2006 | Legends Ball · as Self |
| 2004 | |
| 2004 | Tavis Smiley (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Democracy Now! (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2001 | Fidel · as Self |
| 1996 | The Rosie O'Donnell Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1991 | A Place of Rage · as Self |
| 1991 | Charlie Rose (TV Series) · as Self - Guest |
| 1990 | Intimate Portrait (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1989 | The Arsenio Hall Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1985 | American Masters (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1978 | The South Bank Show (TV Series) · as Self |
| 1967 | Omnibus (1967) (TV Series) · as Self |
| 2015 | The Dead Still Have a Name · as Cast |
| 2012 | Roadmap to Apartheid · as Cast |
| 1989 | Roller Blade Warriors: Taken by Force · as Assistant Costume Designer |
| 1977 | Diary of an African Nun · as Short Story |