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Diahann Carroll
Actor
Died October 4, 2019 (84 years)
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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
| 2016 | The Masked Saint · as Ms. Edna |
| 2013 | Peeples · as Nana Peeples |
| 2011 | Reel Black Love · as actor |
| 2010 | The Front · as Nana |
| 2010 | At Risk · as Nana |
| 2010 | 1 a Minute · as Diahann Carroll |
| 2009 | Diary of a Single Mom · as Therapist |
| 2009 | White Collar (TV Series) · as June Ellington |
| 2007 | Back to You (TV Series) · as Sandra Jenkins |
| 2005 | Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Jane Burke |
| 2004 | TV in Black: The First Fifty Years · as Unknown |
| 2004 | 50 Most Wicked Women of Primetime · as Dominique Deveraux |
| 2002 | Half & Half (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 2001 | The Legend of Tarzan (TV Series) · as Queen La (voice) |
| 2000 | The Courage to Love · as Pouponne |
| 2000 | Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story · as Maria Cole |
| 2000 | Strong Medicine (TV Series) · as Eve Morton |
| 2000 | Soul Food (TV Series) · as Aunt Ruthie |
| 2000 | Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (TV Series) · as Betty Hemings |
| 1999 | Jackie's Back! · as Diahann Carroll |
| 1999 | Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years · as Sadie Delany |
| 1999 | Twice in a Lifetime (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1998 | The Sweetest Gift · as Mrs. Wilson |
| 1997 | Eve's Bayou · as Elzora |
| 1995 | Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child (TV Series) · as Crow (voice) |
| 1994 | A Perry Mason Mystery: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle · as Lydia Bishop |
| 1994 | Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Grace Willis |
| 1993 | The Sinbad Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Winters |
| 1991 | The Five Heartbeats · as Eleanor Potter |
| 1991 | Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · as Vivian Thurlow (archive footage) (uncredited) |
| 1990 | Mo' Better Blues · as Jazz Club Singer |
| 1990 | Evening Shade (TV Series) · as Ginger |
| 1987 | A Different World (TV Series) · as Marion Gilbert |
| 1985 | The Colbys (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1983 | Webster (TV Series) · as Diahann Carroll |
| 1982 | Night of 100 Stars · as Unknown |
| 1981 | Dynasty (TV Series) · as Dominique Devereaux |
| 1979 | Roots: The Next Generations (TV Series) · as Zeona Haley |
| 1978 | The Star Wars Holiday Special · as Mermeia Holographic Wow |
| 1977 | ABC Weekend Special (TV Series) · as Narrator |
| 1977 | The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Roxy Blue |
| 1976 | America at the Movies · as Claudine |
| 1974 | Claudine · as Claudine Price |
| 1970 | The Flip Wilson Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1968 | The Split · as Ellen "Ellie" Kennedy |
| 1968 | Francis Albert Sinatra Does His Thing · as Unknown |
| 1968 | Julia (TV Series) · as Julia Baker |
| 1967 | Hurry Sundown · as Vivian Thurlow |
| 1967 | The Carol Burnett Show (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1964 | The Hollywood Palace (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1961 | Paris Blues · as Connie Lampson |
| 1961 | Goodbye Again · as Nightclub Singer |
| 1959 | Porgy and Bess · as Clara |
| 1958 | Naked City (TV Series) · as Ruby Jay |
| 1958 | Peter Gunn (TV Series) · as Unknown |
| 1954 | Carmen Jones · as Myrt |
| 1953 | General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Anna |