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Diahann Carroll

Actor
Born July 17, 1935Died 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.
Movies & Shows on Plex
  • Eve's Bayou
  • Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
  • Twice in a Lifetime
  • The Sweetest Gift
  • TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Known For
  • White Collar
  • Claudine
  • Grey's Anatomy
  • Eve's Bayou
  • Paris Blues
  • The Five Heartbeats
  • The Split
  • Peeples
  • Julia
  • Hurry Sundown
  • Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
  • Porgy and Bess
  • A Different World
  • Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
  • The Masked Saint
  • The Courage to Love

Filmography

2016
The Masked Saint · as Ms. Edna
2013
Peeples · as Nana Peeples
2010
The Front · as Nana
2010
At Risk · as Nana
2009
White Collar (TV Series) · as June
2009
Diary of a Single Mom · as Therapist
2009
Diary of a Single Mom (TV Series) · as Therapist
2007
Back to You (TV Series) · as Sandra Jenkins
2005
Grey's Anatomy (TV Series) · as Jane Burke
2004
50 Most Wicked Women of Primetime · as Dominique Deveraux
2004
2003
Whoopi (TV Series) · as Viveca Rae
2002
Half & Half (TV Series) · as Grandma Ruth Thorne
2002
The Court (TV Series)
2001
The Legend of Tarzan (TV Series) · as Queen La (voice)
2000
2000
Strong Medicine (TV Series) · as Eve Morton
2000
Soul Food (TV Series) · as Aunt Ruthie
2000
2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal (TV Series) · as Betty Hemings
2000
The Courage to Love · as Pouponne
1999
Twice in a Lifetime (TV Series) · as Jael
1999
1998
The Sweetest Gift · as Mrs. Wilson
1997
1995
1994
Touched by an Angel (TV Series) · as Grace Willis
1994
Lonesome Dove: The Series (TV Series) · as Ida Grayson
1994
1994
Burke's Law (1994) (TV Series) · as Grace Gibson
1993
The Sinbad Show (TV Series) · as Mrs. Winters
1991
Preminger: Anatomy of a Filmmaker · as Vivian Thurlow (archive Footage) (uncredited)
1991
The Five Heartbeats · as Eleanor Potter
1990
Evening Shade (TV Series) · as Ginger
1990
Mo' Better Blues · as Jazz Club Singer (uncredited)
1990
Murder in Black and White · as Margo Stover
1989
1987
A Different World (TV Series) · as Marion Gilbert
1985
The Colbys (TV Series)
1982
Sister, Sister · as Carolyne Lovejoy
1981
Dynasty (TV Series) · as Dominique Devereaux
1979
1979
Roots: The Next Generations (TV Series) · as Zeona Haley
1978
1977
The Love Boat (TV Series) · as Roxy Blue
1977
ABC Weekend Special (TV Series) · as Narrator
1976
America at the Movies · as Claudine
1976
1975
Streetkill · as Betty May
1974
Claudine · as Claudine Price
1968
The Split · as Ellen "ellie" Kennedy
1968
Julia (TV Series) · as Julia Baker
1967
Hurry Sundown · as Vivian Thurlow
1962
The Eleventh Hour (TV Series) · as Stella Young
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)
1954
Carmen Jones · as Myrt
1953
General Electric Theater (TV Series) · as Anna

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