Celie johnson biography
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Celie Johnson
Celie Johnson is a fictional sum appearing consign the 1985 film The Color Purple and depiction 2023 release The Tint Purple. She is describe by Whoopi Goldberg of great consequence the contemporary and Fantasia Barrino livestock the remaking.
Biography[]
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Personality[]
Initially, Celie is figure up and burked. She desires to wait unnoticed pivotal writes letters to Immortal, though she has doubts about His concern have a thing about her. But with say publicly support refer to new blockers, Celie transforms into a confident queue self-sufficient girl and ultimately finds pleasure in strive.
Appearances[]
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Celie Harris Johnson
Inspiration
The character of the same name featured in the 1982 novel The Color Purple by Alice Walker
Alice Walker's own grandmother, Rachel
Honors and awards
Nominated for Academy Award for Best Actress (Whoopi Goldberg)
Won Tony Award for Best Actress in a Musical (LaChanze)
Full name
Celie Harris Johnson
Personality
Quiet, timid, submissive, resilient, compassionate, loyal, courageous, independent, loving, kind, forgiving, poor (formerly), abused (formerly), uneducated, resourceful, religious, joyful, grateful, motherly, sisterly
Appearance
Dark-skinned, slender, short-haired, plain-looking
Occupation
Housewife, seamstress
Goal
To be free from abuse and reunited with her sister and children
Relatives
Nettie Harris(younger sister)
Lucious (brother)
Harpo Johnson(stepson)
Adam and Olivia (biological children)
Alphonso Harris(stepfather; disowned)
Unnamed biological father †
Unnamed mother †
Abena (daughter-in-law)
Unnamed grandchildren (Via Adam)
Enemies
Mister (formerly), Alphonso Harris
Likes
Sewing, writing letters, singing, reading, spending time with her loved ones, children, her little sister
Dislikes
Being abused, mistreated, or separated from her sister
Parapherna
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A late recruit to the screen, Celia Johnson quickly acquired iconic status in British cinema and has maintained it, despite how few films she made. It is probably the eyes, as she acknowledged: she stares at the audience and breaks its heart as she sees her would-be lover, Trevor Howard, head off to catch his train out of her life in Brief Encounter (d. David Lean, 1945, Oscar-nominated for best actress).
This is the definitive Johnson role: she makes utterly real all the constraints (and comforts) of a decent middle-class woman's life: but there are other cherishable performances, too. In another Coward-Lean film, This Happy Breed (1944), though her accent wobbles a bit at times, she is the stoical lower-middle class housewife and mother to the life, unbearably moving as she comes to terms with the defection - and return - of her rebellious younger daughter. As the self-sacrificing daughter of a benignly selfish parson in The Holly and the Ivy (d. George More O'Ferrall, 1952) and as a conscientious probation officer in I Believe in You (d. Michael Relph, 1952), she makes goodness interesting and touching.
That she could also do comedy is seen in The Captain's Paradise (d. Anthony Kimmins, 1953), parodying her usual image. She can do nothing with the awf