Where Are They Now: The Cast of the Color Purple

The film's stars 30 years later.

Rae Dawn Chong - Playing the role of Squeak in the film saw this Canadian-American actress shine in her own right. Following the success of The Color Purple, she went on to star in other high profile movies and television shows, including Rude Awakening and Wild Card. However, what really resparked the world's interest in the actress is her 2013 rant against her The Color Puple co-star Oprah Winfrey, where she called the queen of all media the n-word.(Photo: Ben Gabbe/Getty Images for the 2014 Tribeca Film Festival)
Adolph Caesar - Who could forget Old Mister? Adolph Caesar, the iconic actor who played this role, gave literally the performance of a lifetime as he passed a year after The Color Purple premiered. While he was working on the set of the 1986 film Tough Guys, he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 52.(Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)
Quincy Jones - Though Quincy Jones did not act in The Color Purple, his presence was massive as he wrote the original score for the film. Following the movie's success, he continued producing music for high-profile artists and was even, most recently, inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame as the winner of the Ahmet Ertegün Award. He was also named TIME magazine's most influential jazz musician of the 20th century.(Photo: Angela Weiss/Getty Images)
Laurence Fishburne - Since his portrayal of Swain in the 1985 film, Laurence Fishburne has stayed booked. He went on to become the first African-American to play Shakespeare's Othello in a motion picture and, most notably, starred as Ike Turner in the iconic biopic What's Love Got to Do with It. Today, he stars as Pops in the new blockbuster ABC series Black-ish alongside Anthony Anderson and Tracee Ellis-Ross.(Photo: Mark Davis/Getty Images)74843104CG003_AMPAS_Great_T

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Adolph Caesar - Who could forget Old Mister? Adolph Caesar, the iconic actor who played this role, gave literally the performance of a lifetime as he passed a year after The Color Purple premiered. While he was working on the set of the 1986 film Tough Guys, he suffered a fatal heart attack. He was 52.(Photo: Ron Galella, Ltd./WireImage)

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