Personal Info
Known For
Acting
Birthdate
1935-07-17
Day of Death
2019-10-04
Place of Birth
Bronx, New York, USA
Diahann Carroll
Biography
Diahann Carroll (born Carol Diahann Johnson; July 17, 1935 – October 4, 2019) was an American actress, singer and model. She rose to stardom in performances in some of the earliest major studio films to feature black casts, including Carmen Jones in 1954 and Porgy and Bess in 1959. In 1962, Carroll won a Tony Award for best actress, a first for a black woman, for her role in the Broadway musical No Strings. Her 1968 debut in Julia, the first series on American television to star a black woman in a nonstereotypical role, was a milestone both in her career and the medium. In the 1980s she played the role of an interracial diva in the primetime soap opera Dynasty. Carroll was the recipient of numerous stage and screen nominations and awards, including the Golden Globe Award for Best Actress In A Television Series in 1968. She received an Academy Award nomination for Best Actress for the 1974 film Claudine. She was also a breast cancer survivor and activist.
Filmography (54)
Sidney
2022
How It Feels to Be Free
2021
The Masked Saint
2016
Light Girls
2015
Peeples
2013
Martin Luther King and the March on Washington
2013
Sing Your Song
2012
The Front
2010
At Risk
2010
Diary of a Single Mom
2009
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
2004
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
2002
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
2000
