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Diahann Carroll
Bronx, New York, USA
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 earlies…
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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.
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2022
Sidney
Movie Self (archive footage)
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2021
How It Feels to Be Free
Movie Self (archival footage)
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2016
The Masked Saint
Movie Ms. Edna
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2015
Light Girls
Movie Self
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2013
Peeples
Movie Nana Peeples
- 2013
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2012
Sing Your Song
Movie Self
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2010
The Front
Movie Nana
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2010
At Risk
Movie Nana
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2009
White Collar
TV show June
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2009
Diary of a Single Mom
Movie Therapist
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2007
Back to You
TV show Sandra Jenkins
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2005
Grey's Anatomy
TV show Jane Burke
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2004
TV in Black: The First Fifty Years
Movie (archive footage)
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2003
Whoopi
TV show Viveca Rae
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2002
Half & Half
TV show Grandma Ruth Thorne
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2002
NBC 75th Anniversary Special
Movie Self
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2002
The Court
TV show
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2001
The Legend of Tarzan
TV show Queen La (voice)
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2000
Livin' for Love: The Natalie Cole Story
Movie Maria Cole
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2000
Strong Medicine
TV show Eve Morton
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2000
Soul Food
TV show Aunt Ruthie
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2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
Movie Betty Hemings
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2000
Sally Hemings: An American Scandal
TV show Betty Hemings
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2000
The Courage to Love
Movie Pouponne
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1999
Twice in a Lifetime
TV show Jael
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1999
Jackie's Back!
Movie Diahann Carroll
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1999
Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters' First 100 Years
Movie Sadie Delany
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1998
The Sweetest Gift
Movie Mrs. Wilson
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1998
Motown 40: The Music Is Forever
Movie Self
- 1998
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1997
Eve's Bayou
Movie Elzora
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1995
Happily Ever After: Fairy Tales for Every Child
TV show Crow (voice)
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1995
Jirimpimbira: An African Folk Tale
Movie Narrator
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1994
Touched by an Angel
TV show Grace Willis
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1994
Perry Mason: The Case of the Lethal Lifestyle
Movie Lydia Bishop
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1994
Ellen
TV show Diahann Carroll
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1994
Burke's Law
TV show Grace Gibson
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1993
Intimate Portrait
TV show Self
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1992
Color Adjustment
Movie Self
