Obsada

• Whoopi Goldberg — Celie
• Rae Dawn Chong — Squeak
• Margaret Avery — Shug Avery
• Danny Glover — Albert
• Desreta Jackson — Young Celie Harris
• Adolph Caesar — Old Mister
• Dana Ivey — Miss Millie
• Leonard Jackson — Pa
• Bennet Guillory — Grady
• Jeris Poindexter — Jook Joint Patron
• Akosua Busia — Netti
• Oprah Winfrey — Sofia
• Willard E. Pugh — Harpo
• Carl Anderson — Reverend Samuel
• Susan Beaubian — Corrine
• Laurence Fishburne — Swain